Heath Bunting

Born 1966 in Wood Green, London. Artist. Lives in Bristol. Emerged from the 1980s committed to building open/democratic communication systems and social contexts. Came from the street up, passing through and often revisiting graphity, performance, intervention, pirate radio, fax/mail art and BBS systems to become an active participant in the explosion of the Internet. Between 1994 and 1997 produced many Internet projects, which can be accessed at the server Irational.org set-up by himself.

Literature

• Josephine Bosma, "Street Artist, Political Net Artist or Playful Trickster? Interview with Heath Bunting", 17 August 1997.
• Josephine Bosma, "Ljubljana interview with Heath Bunting", 1997.
• Tilman Baumgärtel, "Interview with Heath Bunting", 1997.
• Matthew Fuller, "Interview: Rachel Baker & Heath Bunting", 2000. http://www.ambulantscience.org/legacy_projects/art_for_networks/artfornetworks/interviews/baker_bunting01.shtml
• Heath Bunting, How to Build a New Legal Identity, eds. Katerina Gkoutziouli, Marianna Christofi and Maria Varela, Athens: Frown, 2014.

Links

• http://www.irational.org/heath/