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  1. Biography
  2. Selected Works
  3. Archive
  4. Blog
  5. News
  6. Links

John Wild .Biography

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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John Wild . Archive

Sounds from the Perimeter Fence

Office Works

Composition ffoooo for Office Blocks

The Conduit – ‘Semper Occultus’

Why Be You

Red Wine Traces

We Are Bad :: Bronze Graffiti

We Are Bad :: Mute Poster

Regeneration = Class Cleansing

dataPHILE :: Kings X Drift

Sculpture for Airports

Open Ear :: Networks

dataPHILE (Child 1)

Listen to the Towers of Babel

Heathrow Drift 20 . 8 . 2007 - Laura Oldfield Ford, John Wild, Robin Bale

Blackout

Self-portrait using backscatter radiation

Terminal 4

The conduit

‘At War with the Mystics’, 5th May 2007, Francis Hair Fashions Gallery.

The messenger

Invisible Geographies  50MHz-6000MHz

Digital Babble

Dictyostelium DISCOideum

Anarchitecture Week 2005

Rotherhithe Tunnel Drift

Bus Camera Action

anatomicalcity diagram

Tube Trin Trapeze

Faulty Camera Action

The Fingerprint Duplication Archive

Reverse Pick pocketing

map of cctv cameras on Oxford Street London

Total Disturbance Radio

Circles on the Champs-Elysées

Future Picnic NoW!

Anarchitectural Study of Tenbury Place

vandalism

A few moments of Chaotic pirate sound

Momentary Sculpture 5

Momentary Sculpture 4

Momentary Sculpture 2

Momentary Sculpture 1

Mask Up

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John Wild .Links

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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