Heath Bunting
Heath Bunting has exhibited, performed and taught internationally for over 32 years.
As a young adult, he undertook a three year apprenticeship in stained glass.
http://www.irational.org/heath/stained_glass/
After this, Heath spent several years roaming both Bristol and London as a street artist as-well as distributing thousands of art-works via postal and fax networks.
http://irational.org/heath/fly_poster_graffiti/
During the rise of the internet, he was a key participant of the net.art movement. Within this time he founded irational.org.
http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html
He has setup and run multiple radio transmission and listening stations internationally.
He has worked as staff at The Banff Centre for the Arts (three years) and The Cube Cinema (eight years).
In his main work, The Status Project, he uses artificial intelligence to search for artificial life in both societal and natural systems.
Heath regularly runs artist's training workshops in resilience.
http://irational.org/heath/out-door_survival/
and to the broader public.
- Publications
- Artist’s Diary 2003, [2003].
- How to Build a New Legal Identity, eds. Katerina Gkoutziouli, Marianna Christofi and Maria Varela, Athens: Frown Publishing, 2014, [52] pp.
- Interviews
- Josephine Bosma, "Street Artist, Political Net Artist or Playful Trickster? Interview with Heath Bunting", 17 Aug 1997.
- Josephine Bosma, "Ljubljana interview with Heath Bunting", Nettime, Jun 1997.
- Tilman Baumgärtel, "Interview with Heath Bunting", Nettime, Aug 1997.
- Matthew Fuller, "Interview: Rachel Baker & Heath Bunting", Art for Networks, c.2002.
- Literature
- Michael Connor, "Between the Net and the Street. Rachel Baker discusses the network experiments of Heath Bunting", Rhizome, Apr 2017.
- See also
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