John Kim is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. A theorist and practitioner of new media, he has published widely, including a book Rupture of the Virtual (2016), journal articles, and other print publications. John has also exhibited interactive art, sculpture, video games, and software in galleries and festivals around the world, including MassMOCA, Massachusetts; Dia Center for the Arts, New York City; the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Istanbul; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Northern Spark arts festival, St. Paul. With his art design group, Futures North, John has created work at the intersection of environmental representation and data spatialization. Futures North recently created a public art sculpture about the anthropogenic history of the Mississippi River. John was involved in the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project (2018-2019) and was fortunate to have the opportunity to canoe from the headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico.