James Hoff is an artist, editor, and art curator living in New York City. He works in a variety of mediums including painting, sound, and performance. Recent publications include How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away (PAN Records, 2011), Topten (No Input Books), Memoires (No Input Books), and Endless Nameless (No Input Books). His Inventory Arousal lecture performance has been presented at Centre Pompidou, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Academy of Art, Oslo, Norway, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder and editor of Primary Information, a non-profit publisher devoted to printing artists' books and multiples by artists. With Primary Information he has edited publications and multiples by John Cage, the Art Workers' Coalition, DISBAND, Dan Graham, Robert Filliou, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Lee Lozano, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Seth Siegelaub, and Emmett Williams, among many others.

“With all the images blacked out--a sly nod to Marcel Broodthaers's 1969 piece Un Coup de des ... --the written word becomes more like oral history, and you wonder, Shouldn't people write the way they speak?”
Bob Nickas, Artforum
On Hoff’s publication TOPTEN: 1998-2008