# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-duncan-q5625499
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:20.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-duncan-q5625499"
name: "John Duncan"
slug: "john-duncan-q5625499"
description: "John Duncan is an American artist whose body of work includes performance art, installations, contemporary music, video art and experimental film, often involving the extensive use of recorded sound. His music is composed mainly of recordings from shortwave radio, field recordings and voice. His events and installations are often confrontational in nature. Duncan currently lives in and operates out of Bologna, Italy."
tagline: "American performance and sound artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Duncan.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.63
  momentum:             25
  historical:           7.085392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/john.duncan.9235"
    handle:    "john.duncan.9235"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnduncan.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/60364"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون دونكان (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "جون دونكان (فنان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Duncan_(American_artist)"
    title: "John Duncan (American artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Duncan_(artista_1953)"
    title: "John Duncan (artista 1953)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Дункан, Джон (художник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Duncan"
    title: "John Duncan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/623d49ac-f6f1-4e46-9232-ad497c67c628"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5625499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump