John Klima (born 1965 in Redondo Beach, United States) is an American new media artist, who uses hand-built electronics, computer hardware and software to create online and in gallery artworks. Received his BFA from State University of New York in 1987 He has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery and the Whitney Museum's Artport in New York City, and the Bank Gallery in Los Angeles For a period in 1993 Klima worked as a coder for Microsoft developing Microsoft's internal PowerPoint slides, to create the illusion of a presentation on screen. In 1996 he worked for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, his work with the company included the design of a learning game that was later distributed to the sales representatives of the company for the launch of Zyrtec. In 2014 John founded Scratchbuilt Studios in Lisbon, Portugal. The studio is used for music and experimental sound projects. In 2018 he was invited to The New Art Fest, an art and technology festival based in Lisbon and exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (Lisbon). He lives and works in Brooklyn and is currently adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Klima was a resident at Eyebeam.

Works

1997: Cartesian Theater 1999: Serbian Skylight 1999: gb AI 1999: pmg 2000: glasbead 2001: Go-Fish 2001: ecosystm 2001: EARTH 2002: Terrain Machine 2002: Speedo-Mat 2002: The Great Game, Epilogue 2002: The Great Game 2002: Context Breeder 2002: American Cinema 2002: Jack and Jill 2002: Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain 2002: EARTH, Discrete Terrains 2003: Time Machine 2003: The Great Game: Iraq Expansion Pack 2004: TERRAIN 2005: TRAIN 2006: RAPUNSEL