John Klima (born 1965 in
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach (Spanish for ) is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area. It is one of three adjacent beach cities along the southern portion of Santa Mo ...
, United States) is an American new media artist, who uses hand-built electronics, computer hardware and software to create online and in gallery artworks.
Received his BFA from State University of New York in 1987
He has had solo exhibitions at
Postmasters Gallery
Postmasters is a contemporary art gallery located in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, owned and directed by Magda Sawon and Tamas Banovich.
The Postmasters gallery opened in East Village in December 1984, moved to SoHo in 1989, and was relocat ...
and the Whitney Museum's
Artport in New York City, and the Bank Gallery in Los Angeles
For a period in 1993 Klima worked as a coder for Microsoft developing Microsoft's internal PowerPoint slides, to create the illusion of a presentation on screen.
In 1996 he worked for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, his work with the company included the design of a learning game that was later distributed to the sales representatives of the company for the launch of Zyrtec.
In 2014 John founded Scratchbuilt Studios in Lisbon, Portugal. The studio is used for music and experimental sound projects.
In 2018 he was invited to The New Art Fest, an art and technology festival based in Lisbon and exhibited at the
National Museum of Natural History and Science (Lisbon).
He lives and works in Brooklyn and is currently adjunct professor at the
Rhode Island School of Design
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...
and
Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Klima was a resident at
Eyebeam.
Works
1997: Cartesian Theater
1999: Serbian Skylight
1999: gb AI
1999: pmg
2000: glasbead
2001: Go-Fish
2001: ecosystm
2001: EARTH
2002: Terrain Machine
2002: Speedo-Mat
2002: The Great Game, Epilogue
2002: The Great Game
2002: Context Breeder
2002: American Cinema
2002: Jack and Jill
2002: Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain
2002: EARTH, Discrete Terrains
2003: Time Machine
2003: The Great Game: Iraq Expansion Pack
2004: TERRAIN
2005: TRAIN
2006: RAPUNSEL
Further reading
Brown University open source)
References
External links
Primary website of John Klima* http://we-make-money-not-art.com/_whats_your_bac_1/
1965 births
Living people
American digital artists
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Rhode Island School of Design faculty