Peter Hudson, a self described autodidact (read uneducated), is a San Francisco visual artist who channels his technical and set design experience, childlike curiosity, and creative passion into life-size stroboscopic zoetropes.

In 2000, Peter debuted his first major installation, Playa Swimmers at Burning Man, the world-renown weeklong annual art festival in the Nevada desert. The Swimmers engaged festival participants to interact and experience the art on a variety of personal levels. In addition to being featured in a Time Magazine article about the art of Burning Man, Playa Swimmers captured the attention of filmmaker Renea Roberts who interviewed Peter for her award-winning documentary, Gifting It.

The following year, Peter introduced his own idea of mobile art to the citizens of Black Rock City. Possession, a collection of six hands strategically placed on a model, traveled the playa, along with running commentary from the artist himself. In addition to the buzz it received on the playa, Possession garnered international attention for Peter when it was featured on the cover of the Italian Rolling Stone Magazine. That same year, Peter also installed his first manageable art piece, Four Way Stoplight (also in Gifting It) at the intersection of Out There and Where-Am-I.

2002 ushered in the large scale, stroboscopic zoetropes for which Peter has become known. Sisyphish mesmerized festival participants and was featured in the Bill Breithaupt film Aqua Burn, putting Peter on the radar of the international art festival scene. In addition to Burning Man, Sisyphish, which depicts strobe-lighted swimmers in motion, has been installed in San Francisco, Nelson Canada for the Shambhala music festival as well as the Big Chill festival in Malvern England. It also has the distinct honor of introducing the audience to Gone Off Deep Production’s Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock

At Burning Man 2004, under extremely grueling conditions, Peter unveiled his third major installation, Deeper, which was featured in Breithaupt’s film AstroBlaze. Despite the very arduous nature of Deeper’s installation Peter continues to push the boundaries of kinetic sculpture.

Behind the scenes.

For the past 20 years, Peter's day jobs have spanned the gamut from being a stage carpenter at the San Francisco Opera, featured in the 1991 documentary Sing Faster, to dressing sets for the cheesy crime drama, Nash Bridges, to designing a plethora of sets for the adult entertainment industry. Other memorable gigs include set work on the Robin Williams films What Dreams May Come, Flubber, and Patch Adams, where his most memorable challenge was trying to fill a swimming pool with cooked spaghetti (remarkably underwhelming).

While at the New York Film Academy in 1999 peter tried his hand at filmmaking by adapting his brother Andrew’s short story, Apartment, into a short film with a longer name, Apartment Shortage.

What’s next?

Peter’s next project “homouroboros” will debut at Black Rock City, NV in August 2007.

For more info, visit www.hudzo.com