Anton Perich is an American Filmmaker, photographer and video artist, born in Du

brovnik (Croatia) in 1945. He lives and works in New York since 1970.
From 1965 to 1970, he lived in Paris and became closed to Lettrist Group (lettri
sm) : (Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître), but also with French film underground mili
eu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder, Raphaël Bassan, Slobodan Pajic, Pierre Clémenti).
For that period, he changed his name and became Antoine Perich, because Anton wa
s not familiar a name in France.[2][3] He was among the first activists to prese
nt, every week, programs of avant-garde and underground films in the American Ce
nter in Paris.
He moved to New York in 1970, became friends with Andy Warhol and contributed as
a photographer to Warhol s Interview. He also worked as a busboy at the legendary
Max's Kansas City, where he photographed the scene as an ongoing art performanc
e every night, along with exhibiting the photos on the walls.
In 1977-78, he designed and build an electric panting machine, an early predeces
sor of the inkjet printer. The development of this machine made Anton a pioneer
of electric-digital-computer art.[4]
In 1978, he founded NIGHT as a interactive "gallery space" for his photography a
nd the nightly activities at places such as Studio 54. In 2006, had a video retr
ospective at the Anthology Film Archives, in New York.
I was born near Dubrovnik, Croatia. From 1965 to 1970 I lived in Paris, I was ac
tive for several years with the Lettrist Group, as a painter, poet and filmmaker
. From 1967 to 1969 I created and ran an international underground film program
at American Center on Boulevard Raspail in Paris. I have shown films by Heliczer
, Iimura, Mekas, Warhol, Lemaitre, Bassan, Auder etc. I moved to New York in 197
0.
In the early Seventies I was a contributing photographer for Andy Warhol's INTER
VIEW Magazine. A selection of my photographs is now in the collection of the War
hol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Warhol Foundation, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Fou
ndation in New York.
In January 1972 I had my first photography show at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery
in New York My photographs are published in many periodicals and books, and show
n in the galleries worldwide.
In 1973 I produced and directed my television program on Manhattan Cable TV. The
show was controversial because it introduced characters and materials that were
challenging and foreign to the television content of the day. It was the first
Underground show on American television, and it was censored during the broadcas
t, causing a serious scandal and radical changes in the cable TV. I was an early
pioneer of the video art and cable television.
In 1972 my video tapes were shown at the Kitchen. In 1975 German Television pres
ented 1 hour Anton Perich Show on West 3 channel. Segments of my video works are
often shown on network and cable television in the USA, Europe and Japan.
In 1977-78 I designed and built an electric painting machine (an early predecess
or of the ink jet printer/scanner) and in 1979 I had my first show of electric p
aintings at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York. I was an early pioneer of ele
ctric/digital/computer art.
In 1978 I started publishing NIGHT Magazine. NIGHT is still published intermitte
ntly and features painting, photography, poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, et
c. I was an early pioneer of the underground magazine publishing.
Currently, I am painting, doing photography and video, producing and directing a
half hour weekly cable TV show and publishing Night Magazine.