Art Jam - Oblivion Ball

John Warwicker

16 hour installation/performance at the entrance of the Underworld concert at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo in front of 30,000 visitors. Curation, participant. Other artists: Jason Kedgely (tomato), Simon Taylor (tomato), Karl Hyde (Underworld), Naomi Troski, Toru Yoshikawa.

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    John Warwicker, Australia (2019)

    In 1981 Warwicker was awarded MA (Distinction) for his 'Research into Electronic Interactive Media’, from Birmingham Polytechnic. In 1991 he co-founded the multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary, creative studio, Tomato. He has...

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    16 hour installation/performance at the entrance of the Underworld concert at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo in front of 30,000 visitors. Curation, participant. Other artists: Jason Kedgely (tomato), Simon Taylor (tomato), Karl Hyde (Underworld), Naomi Troski, Toru Yoshikawa.

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    In 1981 Warwicker was awarded MA (Distinction) for his 'Research into Electronic Interactive Media’, from Birmingham Polytechnic. In 1991 he co-founded the multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary, creative studio, Tomato. He has also authored 6 books including ‘The Floating World’ - winner of the Tokyo TDC Special Prize (2010). His work has been featured in hundreds of publications around the world and has lectured in over 40 counties. In 2017 he became Professor of Design at the VCA, University of Melbourne and is visiting Professor at Zokei University and Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo. His work embraces: Typography, Graphic Design, Photography, Publication Design, Strategy, Architectural Design, Drawing, Painting, Film Direction, Writing, Industrial/Furniture Design and Interactive Design… either as separate disciplines or in alchemic combinations. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Tokyo Type Directors Club. Warwicker considers himself an 'Amateur', journeying without boundaries: Thought into Form, by means of Language, in any medium (or combination of media); placed, strategically/poetically, at any scale or duration, into the world. Alchemy not Science.

    Education

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    Professor

    • Undergraduate,  
    • Postgraduate

    2017 – today

    • University of Melbourne (Australia)

    Professor of Graphic Design

      2017 – today

      • (Australia)

      Agencies

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      • DaGama

        1981 – 1984

      • A&M Records, London

        1986 – 1988

      • Vivid I.D.

        1988 – 1991