[14] Wylde claims her early influences to be artists Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, Cindy Sherman, Ann Hamilton, Christine Tamblyn, and studying with Rupert Garcia at San Jose State University.
[15][17] She often includes audience participatory elements in her projects which allow participants to contribute to the works in meaningful and permanent ways.
[29][30] Notable projects Manske and Wylde have worked together on include Foodies,[31] Meaning Maker,[32] Preserves,[33] and You are the Tree.
[1][42] Wylde began working in interactive multimedia in 1994 while studying at Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design.
[44] Carolyn Guertin writes about Wylde's electronic flipbooks, Arrested, Belief Manifesto and haikU, “Drawing from three different data streams, these texts recombine them to create instant works of art from a community experience.
Arrested works along similar lines but more closely shows a genealogy with text-based experiments by feminist artists like Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger.
Combining racial and ethnic groups with the politics of everyday activities, the texts consistently test our assumptions and challenges us to rethink them.
Moreover, she continues to cleverly play with viewer expectations for she does not allow the headlines to run consistent with the newspaper format headings.
These ideas closely mimic Wylde's underlying theme of how the media controls/manipulates information and only disseminates information they think should be important to the masses.” Joe continues, "It is also important to note Wylde’s tactic with respect to further addressing the idea that the media only distributes one-way communication to its viewers.
Exhibitions Wylde has curated include Eco Echo at WORKS San Jose[47] and Gallery Route One in Pt.
[52] She creates publications featuring other artists' work in the form of exhibition catalogs and an annual anthology titled Entanglements.
[33] Curator Gregory Flood says of the social practice project Preserves, "Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde created a large-scale participatory piece.