John ‘Feeshy’ Walker is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher primarily working with new media, video, generative programs, sculpture, and performance art. Through character/world-building processes, his work explores issues of capitalistic technologies, (re)circulated media aesthetics/images, and Christianity's connection to violence.
John is currently a Lead Media Specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University where he is also pursuing a MA in Art History and researching contemporary, digital, and new media art to contemplate issues of human-computer interactions and network ecosystems. He previously received his BFA in Art + Technology from the University of Florida where he was the recipient of the Jerry Uelsmann scholarship. His work has been featured internationally including exhibitions at Taman Ismail Marzuki (Jakarta, Indonesia), Satellite Art Show at Art Basel (Miami, Florida), and Happy Gallery (Chicago, Illinois). His work has been written about in BMore Art, Dinner + No Show, and archived in the University of Florida’s Digital Collections. In 2021, John was awarded the Innovative Artist Project Grant to pursue a web-based curatorial project as a part of his larger curatorial alias, POG Gallery of Contemporary & New Media Art. John has held positions as the Curatorial Assistant at 4Most Gallery, Digital Fabrication Assistant at the UFDCP Fab Lab, Multimedia Specialist at the University of Florida’s Center for Online Innovation & Production, and Technical Director at Moisturizer Gallery.
