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John Wild is an artist, anarchitect, and psychogeographical explorer of dataspace. He studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art (MA) and received a 1st class BA honours degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design. He received an ARTSADMIN early career artist’s bursary for his live art work, was selected to participate in East End Collaboration 6 where he received mentoring by Franco B and he has participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and events including Late at the Tate (Tate Britain) and the Sonic Arts Expo.
John Wild first emerged as a graffiti artist in the strike torn South Yorkshire of the 1980. After studying Computer Science at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education he became a COBOL programmer working on VAX mainframes where he would fight the boredom by writing code to produce elaborate ASCII art headers on stock reports. John returned to South Yorkshire in 1992 to work for Rotherham Council, and in the role of a NALGO representative engaged in solidarity work against pit closures.
In 1994 John moved to London where he working in the emergent field of web development for the STICERD research centre at the London School of Economics. A dialogue between Art and Politics, and a collaborative DIY ethos are Central to John's practice. John has collaborated with the Space Hijackers, We Are Bad and the Savage Messiah Collective.
John works with traditional object making, performance, intervention, and sonic art to exploring a diverse area of interests including architecture and urbanism, the relationship between physical and virtual space, communications networks, surveillance, paranoia and social control. John’s current research interests include capitalism, schizophrenia, office work, and the creation of structures for dataSPACE.
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Sounds from the Perimeter Fence
Composition ffoooo for Office Blocks
The Conduit – ‘Semper Occultus’
Regeneration = Class Cleansing
Heathrow Drift 20 . 8 . 2007 - Laura Oldfield Ford, John Wild, Robin Bale
Self-portrait using backscatter radiation
‘At War with the Mystics’, 5th May 2007, Francis Hair Fashions Gallery.
Invisible Geographies 50MHz-6000MHz
Bus Camera Action
The Fingerprint Duplication Archive
map of cctv cameras on Oxford Street London
Anarchitectural Study of Tenbury Place
A few moments of Chaotic pirate sound
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johnwild.blogspot.com - is the blog of John Wild; artist, activist, anarchitect, and psychogeographical explorer of dataspace.
JOHNWILD100 - YouTube BROADCAST CHANNEL
Savage Messiah Zine - the cult London zine by artist Laura Oldfield Ford.
WE ARE BAD - the blog of the Counter-Cultural Activists 'We Are Bad'
Network Research - is a weblog, created by Garrett Lynch, for gathering and archiving information concerning the use of networks in new media / contemporary art.
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