John Holder is a Virtual Reality specialist and digital installation artist who focus is on experiential, reactive, immersive art.  He’s a university lecturer of Digital Art & Virtual Environments, with a background in engineering, art and design. He gained a Master of Arts in ‘96, and Master of Science in ‘99, and is completing his professional doctorate in Fine Art.

His most recent installation inter-kors’ explores various aspects of relationships through poetic discourse using giant virtual human actors and synthetic voices. It gained extensive press coverage in Athens, January 2009 and was previously chosen to launch the 'Electronic Visualisation & the Arts' conference in London. Holder’s work often explores complex language to describe our current situations and post-human future in a playful manner. See John Holder’s website here.

Forthcoming Events

John Holder will be exhibiting a new work as part of the e-MobiLArt Project, in Katowice, Poland opening on 28th October 2009. The piece entited “The Emergence of Consciousness” is a collaboration with Anna Dumitriu, Blay Whitby and Pia Tikka.

John will be presenting a paper entitled “Enactive Dialectics: Inter-subjective Emotional FeedbackThrough an Embodied Approach” at ISEA 2009. The paper is co-authored by the collaborating team.

News

Another of John’s collaborative projects was also recently shown in Thessaloniki at The State Museum of Contemporary Art Warehouse B1 from May 20th - June 10th see here as part of the  e-MobiLArt exhibtion.