John Wild is a London-based artist who works across sculpture, performance, sound, video, electronics and machine learning to research the futures imminent within digital technology.
John Wild is a London-based artist who works across sculpture, performance, sound, video, electronics and machine learning to research the futures imminent within digital technology.
All Red Line is a sonically augmented walk tracing the underground fibre-optic cables, mapping key nodes in the UK’s internet infrastructure. Each data centre is accompanied by a geo-located audio composition.
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2025
Forest – an augmented wander through dense, 1000-year-old forests, where the symbiotic intelligence of fungi, birds, and the entangled visual, sonic, and sensuous relationships between the geosphere, atmosphere, and electronic Noosphere come to life. Forest explores the symbiotic relationship between multispecies co-evolution within situated ecologies.
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2025
All Red Line is an immersive sound and visual installation — Viewers are drawn into the paranoid, claustrophobic environment of data centres — the physical infrastructure underpinning the internet.
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2025
Internal mycelium communication signals sending disruptive interference waves into the WIFI network.
Showcased as part of the Radical Matter exhibition at Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) in Vienna.
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2024
Field recordings of AI servers merged with real-time data streams, accompanied by live, improvised dance by Ciar Wild and Violet Savage (V+C).
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2023
Rethinking AI though mycelium networks and meditations on becoming Octopus.
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2024
Interference Spores is an augmented mycelium network that amplifies its internal electrical communications using its neural-like spikes in electrical activity to black out attached lights and broadcast signals on the same frequency as WIFI networks.
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2023
Live noise performance at Iklectik.
Intimacy Of Mutation places the audiences inside the planetary communications machine - resonating their bodies with the live sonic frequencies, pulses and rhythms of AI computer processors rendering photorealist images of flesh.
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2023
Live noise performance at nnnnn x telegrafia.
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2023
Intimacy of Mutation explores the algorithmic gaze of machine learning to investigate how ‘the digital’ unfolds within bodies.
Originally printed in Radical Matter Journal
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2022
Machinic Dreamings focus on the Limehouse Foreshore just below the towers of Canary Wharf. They bring together multiple conflicting systems: the tides of the Thames, machine learning algorithms used for high-speed trading, the growth patterns of green algae and electrical signals produced by the brain while daydreaming.
Machinic Dreamings are the research output of John Wild's year-long Art + Tech Residency at SPACE
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2021
The Machine Dreams the Future into Being is an experimental short film animated using machine learning, trained on an original dataset. The visuals are layered with a speculative narrative exploring how machine-learning algorithms are instrumental in mining—and ultimately reshaping—the future through automated high-frequency trading. The film concludes by calling for resistance to reclaim the future before workers become the abandoned residue of Capital-human meat, surplus to requirements as sea levels rise.
Selected for CRASSH’s ‘Breaking the Frame’ film festival 2022.
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2021
An overview of five radio interventions carried out over twenty + years.
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2004 ->
Under the streets of East London runs a network of dark fibre.
John Wild will lead a Dark Fibre Network Drift – walking the rout of underground fibre-optic cables linking seven of the core data centres that form the London Internet Exchange.
Organised by RCA Walkative Society.
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2021
Sonic Cartography maps the psychic terrain of the city through sound works that bring together the felt experience, political ambience and hidden infrastructures of place.
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2021
Invisible Geographies 50-6000MHz is an evolving performance that explores the invisible terrain of machine to machine communications. The material infrastructure of the electronic noosphere.
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2004
A dysfunctional network of devices, creating an invisible geography of wireless communications, as devices try and fail to establish contact, calling out to each other through unanswered electromagnetic signals.
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2016
An image of 10 Rushton Close - a house buried by traumatic events - is decomposing.
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2011