John ‘Feeshy’ Walker is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, designer, and researcher primarily working with new media, video, generative programs, sculpture, and performance art. Across disciplines, his work generally explores issues of technocapitalism, human-computer interactions, and the concept of ‘users.’
John is currently an M.A. Candidate in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University where he is researching contemporary, digital, and new media art and online visual culture. Drawing heavily from theories of human-computer interaction and frameworks of user-experience (UX) design, his current research focuses on critiquing the design-thinking systems present within the contemporary experience of art. Through this research, he is seeking to unpack the power dynamics between users (visitors) of art spaces and the systems (museums, galleries) that control user behavior.
John holds a BFA in Art + Technology from the University of Florida where he was the recipient of the Jerry Uelsmann scholarship. His work has been featured internationally including exhibitions at Taman Ismail Marzuki (Jakarta, Indonesia), Satellite Art Show at Art Basel (Miami, Florida), Happy Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), after / time (Portland, Oregon), and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea). His work has been written about in BMore Art, Dinner + No Show, and archived in the University of Florida’s Digital Collections. In 2021, he was awarded the Innovative Artist Project Grant to pursue a web-based curatorial project as a part of his larger curatorial alias, POG Gallery of Contemporary & New Media Art.
John has held positions as a Digital Fabrication Assistant at the University of Florida's Design, Construction, and Planning Fab Lab, Multimedia Specialist at the University of Florida’s Center for Online Innovation & Production, Lead Media Specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Technical Director at the non-profit art and community space, Moisturizer Gallery. He currently works as a Designer at ______________.
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