Biography
Hugo Heyrman was born in Antwerp, where he lives and works.
Originally, Heyrman opted for a musical education, but transferred to the visual arts. He graduated from the Royal Academy and became a laureate of the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp. In addition, he studied nuclear physics during one year at the State Higher Institute for Nuclear Energy in Mol. He received a Ph.D. in art sciences, magna cum laude, from the Universidad de La Laguna, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with a thesis on Art & Computers: an exploratory investigation on the digital transformation of art. In 1995 he coined the terms 'tele-synaesthesia' and 'post-ego'. Since 1993 he is a working member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels. Founder of the Belgian Synesthesia Association (1995). As of 2006 he was a professor at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp.
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