John Lundberg (born 5 December 1968) is an English artist and documentary filmmaker. His work is concerned with ostension. Underpinning all of his work is an interest in how myth and artifice can shape and alter reality, especially regarding crop circles, UFOlogy, and other examples of urban legends and the paranormal.
He was born in London and studied fine art, interactive design, and the creative use of the Internet at Middlesex University (1988–1991), the Slade School of Fine Art (1991–1992) and the University of Westminster (1996–1997). In the early 1990s he founded Circlemakers, an arts collective dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of crop circles and the role of deception in the process of artistic creation. Lundberg and his collaborators - including Rod Dickinson, Gavin Turk, Simon Bill, Wil Russell and Rob Irving - followed after Doug Bower and Dave Chorley in anonymously creating their own crop circles at night. Sometimes treated as not only authentic but as "significant" by paranormalists, Lundberg and the Circlemaker's work has been the subject of a BBC documentary and been commissioned by various clients, including the rock band Korn.
In 1995 Lundberg created the circlemakers.org website to document his group's activities. He also coauthored the 2006 book The Field Guide: The Art, History and Philosophy of Crop Circle Making with Rob Irving.
Lundberg and Dickinson have been accused of being behind the Alien Autopsy footage, a charge they deny (although Lundberg is a fan of the film). Circlemakers' activities have also led to Lundberg and his collaborators being threatened with violence and accused of being MI5 recruits.
Lundberg graduated from the National Film and Television School's Documentary Direction program in 2004, and his graduation film The Mythologist, about UFOlogist Habib Azadehdel, won the Jerwood First Cuts Documentary Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, was shortlisted for the Grierson Awards in the best newcomer category, and was shown on BBC4. As of 2012 he is at work on the feature-length documentary Mirage Men, about UFO mythology and US military disinformation. Mark Pilkington's book about the project, also called Mirage Men, was published in 2010 by Constable & Robinson.
Besides his Circlemakers and film activities, Lundberg has also been involved with gallery-based art in collaboration with UFOlogists, and was reported to have been enlisted by graffiti artist Banksy to stealth-promote the latter's film Exit Through the Gift Shop.