Perry Hoberman (born 1954), is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media.

His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division.

Bar Code Hotel recycles the ubiquitous symbols found on every consumer product to create a multi-user interface to an unruly virtual environment.

The installation makes use of a number of strategies to create a casual, social, multi-person interface.

The public simultaneously influences and interacts with computer-generated objects in an oversized three-dimensional projection, scanning and transmitting printed bar code information instantaneously into the computer system.