John Holmes is an artist, creative technologist, and community organizer based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work blends immersive media, systems theory, and critical technology to create transformative experiences.

Drawing from disciplines such as cybernetics, mysticism, and design, he treats art as an experiential technology—less a form of representation than a tool for shifting perception, identity, and belief.

His installations often use real-time data, sensors, and interactive systems to prompt reflection on the structures we inhabit and the roles we perform.

As founder and executive director of New Media Nashville, Holmes leads a cultural R&D studio building post-capitalist creative infrastructure—offering alternatives to extraction and spectacle through participatory systems, symbolic interfaces, and collective technological agency.

IG: @JohnTheShaman

john@newmedianashville.com