About Me
I was born near Dubrovnik, Croatia.
From 1965 to 1970 I lived in Paris, I was active 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 1970.In the early Seventies I was a contributing photographer for Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine. A selection of my photographs is now in the collection of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Warhol Foundation, and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 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 shown 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 broadcast, 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 presented 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 predecessor of the ink jet printer/scanner) and in 1979 I had my first show of electric paintings at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York. I was an early pioneer of electric/digital/computer art.In 1978 I started publishing NIGHT Magazine. NIGHT is still published intermittently and features painting, photography, poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, etc. 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.
