Ca. 1980, Brooklyn-based
artist John Klima (b. 1965) attempted to code
a 3D maze on a TRS-80 with 4k RAM and failed miserably, but
has been obsessed with 3D graphics ever since. Contracting for
companies such as Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting, and Dun &
Bradstreet from 1993 to 1998, Klima honed his programming skills
while continuing to make art within the flexible schedule that
free-lance programming provided. In 1998, Klima discontinued
activities as a commercial programmer to focus solely on the
creation of art software.
He has shown frequently in New York,
mounting his first solo exhibition in February 2001 at Postmasters
Gallery. His work has been shown at European festivals, such
as VIPER (Switzerland) and EMAF (Germany). His work glasbead
was included in the "New Media New Face" exhibit at the ICC
in Tokyo, Japan (1999) and received the Golden Lasso Award for
Art in the Web3DRoundup at SIGGRAPH 2000 in New Orleans. His
work ecosystm, commissioned by Zurich Capital Markets, was
shown at the Whitney Museum as part of the exhibition BitStreams
(2001). Klima's latest work, EARTH--previewed at the National
Library of Medicine on May 21, 2001, and at SIGGRAPH 2001
in Los Angeles--was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In
2002, he received a grant from the Langlois Foundation for his
project Terrain Machine. Information about his work is available
at www.cityarts.com
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