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EDUCATION

2017
MFA Photography, Video & Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2014
BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2017
Jury Award, Shared Sight International Short Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Alumni Scholarship Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2016
Department Assistantship, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Juror Mention (Jurors: Kelly Sears & Ben Balcom), Haverhill Film Festival, Haverhill, MA

2015
Alice Beck-Odette Scholarship, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
New York State Council on the Arts Community Arts Grant, Albany, NY

2014
Hoffberger-Rosenberg Scholarship, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

2012
Bennington College Student Conference Grant, Orphans 8 Film Symposium, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Ransom: Exploring the Edges of Appropriation, Chases Garage, York, ME
All-Staff Art Show, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY
Representing Feminism(s), Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
Frame & Frequency IV, VisArts, Rockville, MD
Deep Trash Romance, CUNTemporary, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London, England

2017
For Irma, For Maria: Silent Auction Fundraiser, SVA BFA Photography and Video, New York, NY
Murmurs from the Planet Earth, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Thesis Show, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
Game Face, Sweet 'Art Gallery, London, England
Pop Up Summore, Highland, Brooklyn, NY
Wish You Were Here 16, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Everything is Political: The Politics of Gaming, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2016
Endless Biennial, Endless Editions, New York, NY
Re:Re:Re:Re Art Show, 630 Flushing Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
Glitch: A One-Night-Only Art Installation, Portland Community Media, Portland, OR
Altered States, Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Hastings, England

2014
Obsolescence, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Because Art Residency Exhibit, AnySquared Projects, Chicago, IL
Things Have Changed Between Us: Senior Art Show, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Practice Product Practice: Spring Series, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

SELECTED SCREENINGS & FILM FESTIVALS

2019
Born Digital: Raised by the Internet, British Film Institute, London, England
Selections from Queer Moving Image Review, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
FLEXFest: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL
Shared Sight Throw Back, Shared Sight International Short Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2018
Process, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Terms and Conditions, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
QueerTech.io = ART (URL,IRL), Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Arcade, Colliding Lines, London, England
Strangelove Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
Between Shadow and Soul, Lease Agreement Gallery, Hunstville, TX

2017
The Unforseseen International Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Shared Sight International Short Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Yoni Fest, Los Angeles, CA
Meconio, Muestra de Nuevos Cineastas, Madrid, Spain
In Time Film Festival, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
SF Indiefest, San Francisco, CA
Art Games Demos, Vault Virgo, Marseille, France

2016
Berlin Experimental Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Tahoe Underground Film Festival, Incline Village, NV
UNEXPOSED Microcinema, Durham, NC
ULTRACinema Jornadas de Reapropriacion, La Joya, Mexico
The Projection Room, The Unstitute, Online
Writ Large, B4BEL4B Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
Writ Large, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI

2015
Another Experiment by Women Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
An Evening of Films, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY
FLEXFest: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL

2014
MTV: Momentum Technology Videos, Online at Rutgers Institute for Women and Art

SELECTED ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

2019
Hazel Eye Film Festival, hazeleyefilmfestival.com

2018
Queer Moving Image Review, queermovingimage.com
QueerTech.io = ART (URL,IRL), queertech.io

2017
Sign On/Sign Off, Acre TV, www.acretv.org
There Are No Girls on the Internet (curator: Melissa Spitz), Local Host Gallery, localhost.gallery

2016
Glitch, Peripheral Forms, glitch.peripheralforms.com
Online Show, Poor Image Art Center, www.poorimageart.com

RESIDENCIES

2018
#Idyllic: A Social Media Residency Program, Peripheral Forms

TEACHING

Present
Instructor, Video II, BFA Photography and Video, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Museum Educator, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY

2016
TA, Introduction to Video, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, New York, NY
TA, Sophomore Seminar, BFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2015
Instructor, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

2014
TA, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL

SELECTED PRESS

"The Game of Sisyphus," Metropolis M, August 2017: https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/31506_games_nieuwe_vide

"External Memory Devices: Art Project Questions DNA Digital Data Storage," SVA Features, April 2017: http://www.sva.edu/features/external-memory-devices-art-project-questions-dna-digital-data-storage"

Matteo Bittani, “Interview: Alex Hovet Reinvents Machinima,” GameScenes, February 2017: http://www.gamescenes.org/2017/02/interview-alex-hovet-.html

Michael Anthony Farley, "Re:Re:Re:Re: and Fatter IRL," ArtFCity, October 2016: http://artfcity.com/2016/10/10/this-weeks-must- see-art-events-manicures-for-the-post-apocalypse/.

Matteo Bittani, "Game Art: Alex Hovet's (Hohum)…It’s Gonna Be A Looong Game," GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames, October 2016: http://www.gamescenes.org/2016/10/game-art-alex-hovets-hohumits- Gonna-be-a-looong-game-2015-excerpt.html.

Matteo Bittani, "Game Art: Alex Hovet’s Counter-Charge (2015)," GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames, October 2016: http://www.gamescenes.org/2016/10/game-art-alex-hovets-counter-charge-2015.html

"October's Cyber-Screening @ The Unstitute + Open Submissions" Rhizome, October 2016: http://rhizome.org/community/46398/

Karen Tararache, "The (incredibly inclusive) Rejection Project," The Coop Scoop, July 2016, Issue #407

"The Rejection Project 518 at Albany Barn," Time Warner Cable News, July 2015: http://www.twcnews.com/nys /capital-region/close-up/2015/07/9/albany-barn-rejection-project.html

Reece T. Williams, "'Rejection' spotlights common experience," Times Union, July 2015: http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-features /article/Rejection-spotlights-common-experience-6374134.php

"The Rejection Project announces shows, tickets on sale," Keep Albany Boring, June 2015: http://www.keepalbanyboring.com/2015/the-rejection-project-announces-shows-tickets-on-sale/.

Mike Everleth, "Another Experiment By Women Film Festival: The Spiritual Machine & Dancing Through," Underground Film Journal, June 2015: http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/another-experiment-by-women-film-festival- the-spiritual-machine-dancing-through/

"Alex Hovet: In Recovery," Chicago Artists Resource, August 2014: http://chicagoartistsresource.tumblr.com/post/ 93988583343/in-recovery-video-scanned-photographs-manipulated.

PUBLICATIONS

2019
Is This a Game to You?, Lost Futures, London, England: https://issuu.com/lostfutures/docs/lost_futures_5_zine_a5_-_final

2017
The Visual Opinion, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2016
The Vassar Review, Vassar College, Poughkepsie, NY

2014
Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Videofocus 8, Stigmart10 Press
The Silo, Bennington College, Bennington, VT