James Bloom
Year of birth, place
1975
London
United Kingdom
Role at the ZKM
- Artist of the Collection
Biography
James Bloom is a London-based artist who uses technological innovation as a method to generate perceptual problems.
His online artworks connect their participants in real-time but have utility and functionality engineered out, upending the structure of the networks they exist within and revealing possibilities for autonomy. He takes deliberately complex code-based and material production techniques and combines them in unintended ways, often to the point of failure, triggering new states.