John Wild is a London-based artist who works across performance, sound, text, code, electronics and machine learning to research the futures imminent within digital technology.



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John Wild is a London-based artist who works across performance, sound, text, code, electronics and machine learning to research the futures imminent within digital technology.



︎︎︎ News
︎︎︎ Selected Projects
︎︎︎ Email
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ Bandcamp



ANA-CARTOGRAPHY
2023



Opening 6 Sep Wed 6–9pm
Ana-Cartography: brings together recent work of artists investigating alternative manifestations and interpretations of artificial and distributed intelligence systems, and the roles that narrative plays in the design and critique of AI and algorithmic decision making systems.

Artists

Sonia Bernac, Jonathan Boyd, Johnny Golding, Jeremy Keenan, Matt Lewis, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Maggie Roberts, Tom Simmons, Dario Srbic, Shira Wachsmann, John Wild

September 6th-10th, 2023

Opening 6 Sep Wed 6–9pm

Cromwell Place
4 Cromwell Place,
London,
SW7 2JE,
United Kingdom (Map)

Events and Workshops

Thursday 7 Sep  - Ana-Cartography Workshops

2–4pm Sonic Knowing - Listening Workshop with Matt Lewis

6–8pm Interference Spores || Becoming Octopus: - Rethinking AI though mycelium networks and meditations on becoming Octopus. Workshop with Shira Wachsmann, John Wild, and Maggie Roberts 0rphan Drift


Friday 8 Sep Fri - Ana-Cartography and its Provocations Day 1

1–4pm Provocation 1 - Ana-cartographing the unknown
chaired by Johnny  Golding (philosopher/poeisis)
Provocateurs:
  • Jane and Louise Wilson (Faking the Fakes- getting beyond identity artists/filmmakers/profs at Newcastle);
  • Ling Tan and Usman Haque, (Umbrellium; architects/designers re-wilding the public through Ai);
  • Martin Reinhart (engineer/artist and inventor TX transform, Angewandte and 
  • Angewandte and and Tanja Traxler (experimental physicist, topologies of matter and Ai)


Saturday 9 Sep Sat Ana-Cartograpy and its Provocations Day 2

1–4pm Provocation 2: Ana-cartographing the unstable
chaired by John Wild (artist/sonic intelligence/mycelium futures).
Provocateurs:
  • Mozilla.ai, Sam Griffin (Future Casts [web3/net blockchain]),
  • Elliott Higgs (Memetics and Hyperstitions. Curator, Tate Modern)
  • George Simms (Collaborating with AI, networked intelligence. Plymouth Uni) 

6–7pm Listening Structures x Just One Word After Another
  • Collaborative workshop by Yasmine Boudiaf & Mukul Patel

7–9pm Music/Screenings / drinks


Image credit: (detail) Maggie Roberts, Becoming Octopus Meditation 8, 2020.