Stockholm’s Johannes Heldén creates “interactive poetry” that blurs the lines between artist and audience mixing text with digital images as well as sculpture. He’s published eight volumes of poetry, likes to create sculptures that mix text and electronics, and lectures about “digital poetics.” He has exhibited in Norway, his native Sweden, Scotland, The Netherlands, and The United Kingdom among others. “I’m looking to mix three-dimensional stuff with digital content,” he says, explaining that he likes developing digital video art that asks the viewer to interact with it in order to reveal his poetry. “Sometimes the text comes first, sometimes the other art comes first,” he said, explaining his creative process. “I’m interested in telling a story, but not in a traditional way.”
Heldén received his master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004.
