Heath Bunting

Heath Bunting
Heath Bunting at Transmediale, Berlin, 4 February 2011
Born1966 (age 57–58)
OccupationArtist
Years active1980s-present
StyleConceptual art, net.art, culture jamming, tactical media
Websitehttp://irational.org

Heath Bunting (born 1966) is a British contemporary artist. Based in Bristol, he is a co-founder of the website irational.org,[1] and was one of the early practitioners in the 1990s of Net.art.[2] Bunting's work is based on creating open and democratic systems by modifying communications technologies and social systems.[3] His work often explores the porosity of borders, both in physical space and online.[4] In 1997, his online work Visitors Guide to London[5][6] was included in the 10th documenta[7] curated by Swiss curator Simon Lamunière.[8] An activist, he created a dummy site for the European Lab for Network Collision (CERN).[9]

  1. ^ "Between the Net and the Street | Rhizome". 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 12 April 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  2. ^ Sean Dodson (29 July 1999). "Fine art of browsing". The Guardian. London.
  3. ^ Media Art Net – Bunting, Heath: Biography Mediakunstnetz.de. (2010)
  4. ^ BorderXing Guide Irational.org. (2001).
  5. ^ <nettime> Interview with Heath Bunting Nettime. (1998). Tilman Baumgaertel.
  6. ^ Intro to Web-Based Art: Visitor's Guide to London by Heath Bunting Hdelacruzstevens.blogspot.com. (2009).
  7. ^ documenta X – Exhibition of contemporary art Documenta12.de. (2009).
  8. ^ Joly, Françoise; Barth, Cornelia; Buness, Jutta; Holmes, Brian, eds. (1997). documenta X short guide. Cantz Verlag. ISBN 3-89322-938-8.
  9. ^ European Lab for Network Collision Irational.org. (1995).