Quick Facts
Biography
John Klima (born 1965 in Redondo Beach, United States) is an American new media artist, who uses hand-built electronics, computer hardware and software to create online and in gallery artworks.
He has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery 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.
He lives and works in Brooklyn and is currently adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design 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