John Toth
Hypermedia and the Sublime.
WORD WAR / intermedia installation proposal
Pintings and sculptures Symbols, numbers and infinate complexity
Surreal Numbers Recent Paintings
Paintings based on Fibonacci sequesnces and ocult symbols
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Musical thought experiment. What if beauty existed in a micro-moment. Rorschach Rhythm, 3:22. 2014
Willson Theater, Juilliard School, New York, NY
A Multimedia Production of Terry Riley's Iconic Work.
Ed Billous, Esme Boyce, Langdon Crawford, Kevin DeYoe, Willie Fastenow, Sarah Outhewaite, John Toth and Britanny Vicars
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
TIME INTERVAL. "Score for Indeterminate Sequences of Video and Audio." 11:12, 2013
Real time mathematical measurements of atmosphere, time and other natural phenonama transform both the video and audio playback.
An extended performance of HPSCHD (John Cage and LeJaren Hiller - 1969) by the Wesleyan New Music Alliance in Fayerweather Beckham Hall. Brian Parks, Jason Jia and Neely Bruce will be playing harpsichord. Visuals designed by John Toth.
I discovered my medium as an artist early in life. As a child, I crawled under the quilting frame of my grandmother’s sewing circle. With my back to the cool basement floor, I watched as the sewing needles poked through the tightly stretched fabric. A bright light above the quilt illuminated the salvaged remnants of shirts and clothing that were transformed into brightly colored geometric patterns that bedazzled my eyes.
Intermedia artist John Toth identifies with Charles Burchfield’s love of nature as an entry point for rethinking the American regional landscape as an ‘ecstasy in flux’. Using multiple data projectors, Toth transforms the once familiar paintings of Charles Burchfield into animated specters of transforming color, light and form.
Albright-Knox Art GalleryWish You Were Here Celebration
The East Buffalo Media Association unites on stage for a performance of “Mars.” This unique piece combines elements of poetry, art, and music, and demonstrates the EBMA’s mission of bringing together art and technology through content-based collaborations between artists and computer technology.
Mulitiple Points of Entry: Carrugi March 24, 2012,
The Center For The Arts, SUNY Buffalo. Amherst, NY. Choreography: Doug Varone, Video: John Toth, Music: Wolfgang A. Mozart, Libretto: Metastasio; Lighting: Lilly Fossner, Costume design: Liz Prince
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY.The installation of Widow Dance uses three video projectors to layer images of light, shape, color anfragmentedd sound onto sculpted layers of semi-transparent fabric. Video images of texts and symbols from a Metastasio libretto seem to spray from the projectors onto the fabric as if words could dissolve through the page.
Flickinger Theater, Buffalo, NY.
Nichols School: How Do Choreographers and Artists Collaborate? A week long residency between choreogrpher Doug Varone and Intermedia artist John Toth guide dance and art students into the process of creating interdisciplinary collaborations.
Preview Sketches
Artpark: 1974-1984 Sep 25 - Dec 18 2010
UB ART GALLERY
Artpark: 1974–1984 chronicles the seminal years of this innovative residency program located in Lewiston, New York, just north of Niagara Falls, in which artists spent summers creating temporary artworks outdoors.
Last One To The Top Jun. 7, 1978 — Sun., Jun. 11, 1978
Constructive Landscape July 1982
Chance Chants for John Cage January 23 – February 14, 2010
John Toth,1:05
Composed by John Toth.
Speaker, amplifier, microphone, and one die.
Realized by John Malinowski, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Lecture on the Weather: John Cage in Buffalo
The Nurse's Back Choreographer Holly Fairbank and media installation artist John Toth.
Lincoln Center / Samuels Studio
Godwin-Ternbach MuseumQueens College
Dali Today: Dance and Beyond
Spring 2010
RIVER: Hudson River Intermedia Installation Project
Joan Grossman & John Toth
Filmaker Joan Grossman and video installation artist John Toth canoe the Hudson River with HD cameras clamped to the gunnels. Dark tributaries and abandonded hazzards lie beside beautiful vistas. This media installation is structured around evocative themes such as “Journeys,” “Frontiers,” “Encounters,” “Detours,” “Landings.” The installation is a visually compelling experience. With remote devices viewers activate images that ripple across multiple video projections.
HOMEcoming November 7 - December 5, 2008
John Toth
Andrew Topolski
Bob Gulley
Lisa Toth
The New Perception:
Hypermediating Interdisciplinary Cultures Through Aesthetic Eduction
Oxford Round Table - July 8-13, 2007
Balancing The two Cultures: Critical ChoicesPresentation: July 11th,2007
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In The Mix July 21, 2007
Karlos Carcamo, Peter Cody, Alejandro Dron, Nancy Hull Kearing, Joan Lesikin, D. Dominick Lombardi, Franc Palaia, TODT, John Toth, Eleanor White, and Michael Zansky.
The inaugural exhibition “In The Mix” will be held from 6-9 pm featuring 11 artists living in Orange County and the Hudson Valley region. This exhibition will remain on view through July 21, 2007 at the Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY.
John Toth, "Disney Meets Duchamp," 2005, frame from 3-D animation, 3-D Studio Max, 72"x115", ink on glossy vinyl.
Announcement - John Toth artworks -
Washington and Lafayette: A Nous Deux (between us)
The Teacher as Cultural Curator: Building Multiple Literacies through Collaborations in the Art
THESIS - BIBLIOGRAPHY - TIMELINE - ACTIVITY -
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rossiter and Mignot
Podcast: Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon
Podcast transcript - Transcript
Hypermedia Man: Hypermediating Art and Technology
John Toth, Guest Artist: presentation
The University of Iowa
The School of Art and Art History
150 Art Building West
October 9th, 2006, 8:00pm... an aesthetic approach to the arts plays an important role in opening connections between the arts and sciences thereby restoring a balance between theory and practice.
Web page design by John Toth. Collaboration with Joan Grossman and Pinball Films for Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media. This Media Policy web site site provides significant content and media to assist grant makers who require the most up to date understanding of leading issues in media policy.
... grassroots media activism ...
The Space of Creativity: Hypermediating the Beautiful and the Sublime
Dissertation presented to the European Graduate School on Dec. 20, 2005
Hypermedia Map
Abstract - Dissertation -
Media Project Overview - Light & Shadow
Timeline - Creativity & the Sublime - Video Preview -
Cork Gallery, New York, NY. Dec 2nd - 27th, 2005
Avery Fischer Hall / Lincoln Center
John Toth, 30" x 40" - 3-D Studio Max - digital print.... an abject science fictioning of truth.
Fabric installation for James Emery and Drew Gress jazz performance at the Port-of-Call Gallery in Warwick, NY. Fabric installation by John Toth.
The Death of Word: Photographic Content, 2004, Digital Print
Photo Vision 2004
University Council for Art Education / Annual Show
The Camera Club - http://www.cameraclubofnewyork.org/
853 Broadway, 2nd floor at Union Square
New York, NY
May 1st - May 15
X Media
Experiments in the space between text and image: hypermedia.
Word Webs: Body Spirit Mind Game
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Thu., May. 15, 2003
Co-sponsored/co-presented by: The Burchfield Penney Arts Center
The Intermedia performance of Crash Test was originally performed in Buffalo New York and fused music, concrete poetry, crash test film footage, slide projections and sculptural environments. Performed again at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York on May 15th, 2003. Don Metz; composition, Jim Perone; composition, Michael Basinski; text, John Toth; projected computer animations and 3-D virtual reality.
The intermedia premiere of X Word Play was at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York on May 15th, 2003. Three dimensional word processing, like Apollinaire's Calligrammes tumble through space as computer animations that use words as sculptural material projected into a fabric environment by John Toth, with poet, Michael Basinski and composer, Don Metz.
THINk huMAN, May 15, 2003. John Toth's collaboration with Veridian rethinks the crash test industry as an aesthetic web of multiple technologies woven into layers of collaborating agencies that make SMART cars.
This artwork was created using the language, material and icons of the crash test industry (seat belts, airbags, safety technology). The Burchfield Penney Art Center, through Don Metz, negotiated a collaboration, for their Art On Wheels project, between Veridian Technologies (crash test study) and intermedia artist John Toth.
Concurrent with the this project is an EBMA performance on the twenty year anniversary of the first performance of Crash Test at Hallwalls on May 15, 2003
collaboration between art and education.
John Toth and Diane Ramo from Lincoln Center Institute collaborate with Hunter College professor Herb Perr. Our idea was to look at an artsits "choice of materials" as being a lens for discovering something about personal identity. We looked at artworks by Gehry, Friedman, Krohn andBoym. From the exhibition US Design 1975-2000 at the Museum of Arts and Design.
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Jean Taylor "reflects" in Beckett's Act Without Words
Sam Beckett's play interacts with a projected virtual reality set within in a fabric set by John Toth. Directed by Shelley Wyant and portrayed by Alan Nebalthal and Jean Taylor. Eight performances were presented at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York, NY. on May 2,3,9,10,16, 17th, 2003.
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By looking and selecting artworks from US Design 1975-2000 (Kruger, Hoefler, Bierut, Trice, Friedman) what can you learn about personal and collective choices through the transformation of everyday items? A collaboration between art and education.
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Apollinaire's Calligrammes and John Burrows' Cut-ups are but two alternative ways of rethinking poetry's relation to the potencies of visual form. Concrete poetry.
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How is the partnering of Teaching Artist, John Toth (aesthetics) with Art Specialists, David McGreevy (curriculum) affected by the relationship of skills, context and aesthetics?
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The centennial anniversary of the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo at the Burchfield Penney Art Center presents an opportunity for an intermedia installation by John Toth in collaboration with Margaret Foster and John Valentino of Arts in Education of Western New York.
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Peter Greenaway presents his films as a faculty member at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
The summer of 2001 offered courses with renown faculty members that included Jacques Derrida, philosophy; Jean-Luc Nancy, philosophy; Avital Ronell, philosophy; Peter Greenaway, film; John Waters, film; Martin Hielscher, literature; Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosophy; Sandy Stone, mew media; Gregory Ulmer, electracy.
A internet based artwork is played and projected into a live performance with EBMA. Text by Mike Basinski, Music Composition by Don Metz,
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The with John Waters, Martin Hielscher, Peter Greenaway, Jon Luc Nancy, Avital Ronnel, Jacque Derrida, Yve-Alain Bois, Slavoj Zizek, Gregory Ulmer, Giorgio Agamben, Pierre Aubenque, Wolfgang Schirmacher and Fred Ulfers.
Longing
for Home + Pain = Nostalgia
Anton Chekhov's play merges with a projected virtual reality set within in a fabric environment by John Toth. Directed by Francesca Arkus and portrayed by Jean Taylor at Access Theater, Soho, New York.
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Fabric and light installation by John Toth designed for the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England.
Convergence, 3 fabric units 30'x40"x50' with light and video projections
Confluence, 6 fabric units each 10'x10'x10' with light and video projections
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Intermedia performance at Audart Gallery, New York Dance: Lynn Brown & Lynn Marie Ruse, Music: Composer; Don Metz, "Turbulence", Sculpture Installation: John Toth, Video: John Toth
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The Inner Eye is an internet based, intermedia project dedicated to collaborations with artists, educators, choreographers, dancers, poets, writers, actors, directors, composers, musicians and a variety of people who celebrate ideas between multiple disciplines and media.
Artists Rikki Asher, Michael Basinski, Jerry James, Chris Mahoney, John Toth, Nancy Galeota-Wozny and Laura Young were asked to link visual art works with a favorite work of literature.
Computer animation and digital prints at Audart gallery in New York, NY.
Audio sample from DVD.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Sat., Mar. 25, 1995.
Intermedia performance that premiered at the Hallwalls theater in Buffalo, New York. Michael Colquhoun creates a cult praising android Gort. John Toth computer animations are layered into a fabric environments with video projectors that construct a creative space for poetry by Michael Basinski and music by Don Metz. Based on the fiftieth anniversary of the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. Featuring Craig Bove; John Bacon Jr.; Michael Basinski; Michael Colquhoun; Louis DeCarlo; Don Metz; and introducing Dan Rigney
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Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls
The Burchfield-Penny Art Center in Buffalo New York hosts its 20th Anniversary of Hallwalls Art Center with curator Elizabeth Licatta.
Fri., Apr. 7, 1995.
Co-sponsored/co-presented by: The Lannan Foundation, The Museum Program of The National Endowment for The Arts, Independent Health, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, The Arts Council of Buffalo and Erie County, M & T Bank.John Toth, installation of Satellites.
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A solo showing of paintings and sculptures by John Toth at the Barbara Schuller Gallery, Buffalo, NY. April 30 - June 12, 1993
Festival Of The Moons
Bridgewater's / South Street Seaport, New York, NY. 1994
John Toth fabric installation
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The Return of the Cadavre Exquis
The Drawing Center in New York City, curated by L. Titzer and I. Schaffner, revisits an idea started by the Dada artists at the turn of the century. This show traveled to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Fundacion para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA and at the Forum For Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO. Collaborators John Toth, Ed Sobola and Ray Rapp pioneer digital media to an analog method.
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Computer Art: An Ohio
Perspective
"Exploring the digital aesthetic arena" is the goal of curator Jud Yalkut and Tom Baggs in a show of pioneers in digital media. The Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio. April 13-May 16, 1993.
Artworks by: Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Schier, John Toth
Presented at: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Sat., Mar. 27, 1993
David Hatchett (songwriter), Lill Luboya (vocalist), with John Toth (artist/composer/percussionist), Kenny Lienhardt (guitarist), and Christopher Wynter (violinist).
The EBMA presents an Intermedia performance at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. with Mike Basinski: poetry, Don Metz; music, Ed Sobola; slide projections and John Toth fabric sculpture, projected slides and film. John Toth premiere of Graylines, a computer generated image that acts as a interface for a solo musical instrument.
In a commissioned performance of “THE RED STUDIO," I collaborated with Tom Aprile and Laura Young at Montclair State College and brought Matisse's studio in Issy to life using projected computer animation to create a moving set with fabric sculpture, film, dance, and music, where the past and Future was revealed in the moment.
Video of "The Red Studio", 1992, 45:00, color, sound.
Paintings, sculptures and computer works at Asage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
P Marimba, 5:17, Yamaha midi-sequencer sound composition, 1990. © John Toth 1990(Proposal) (Artworks) (Reviews)
Working
in Brooklyn / Installations: Coresamples
Charlotta Kotik is the curator for the Brooklyn Museum's Working in Brooklyn biannual in Brooklyn, New York. John Toth presents Coresamples, based on archeological methods for uncovering dinosaur bones.
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Premiered in 1989 at the Lincoln Center "Out-Of-Doors Festival" in New York with Ruby Shang Dance Company and theater performance directed by Gilbert T'sai with music composition by Carman Moore and fabric structures by John Toth.
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At the City Gallery in New York, a site-specific installation of Plexiglas dinosaur bones with fabric and cable by John Toth becomes an instrument for an Intermedia performance with the EBMA members Mike Basinski: poetry and Jim Perone; composition, synthesizer.
NORTH AMERICAN NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Presented at: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Sun., Mar. 13, 1988The East Buffalo Media Association's, consisting of Michael Basinski, Louis De Carlo, Don Metz, James Perone, Edward Sobala, and John Toth, premiere of SAURS, with music by Don Metz and text by Michael Basinski. SAURS features JURASSIC GYMNOSPERM JUNGES, DINOSAURS WHISPERING IN MY EAR, BEEFHEART BOP, LAURASIA/RIFTING AND THE DRIFT, and IRRIDATION.
Bethlehem Steel Mill, Lakawanna, NY.
Mytho-poetic performance Intermedia unfolds in one of the first steel mills in the United States. EBMA presents Intermedia at the Bethlehem Steel Mill with Mike Basinski (poetry), John Toth (fabric installation, projected slides and film), Don Metz (composer), Ed Sobola (slides).
Citibank Headquarter
Rochester, New York, NY
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Prelude / dinoSAURS
Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY.
A Post-Jurrasaic Intermedia performance installation.
John Toth, sculpture installation.
A work by Jack Kerouac becomes subject matter for Intermedia discovery; sonic vocabulary, a fabric sea and patches of dappled light make an environment that puts you under the sea. At Media Study / Buffalo with Mike Basinski: poetry, Don Metz; music, Ed Sobola; slide projections and John Toth fabric sculpture, projected slides and film.
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Buscaglia-Castillani Art Museum,
Lewiston, NY. 1983.
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Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, OH.Pam Houk curates artists who work in fabric including Christo, Lucas Samaras, John Toth.
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Artpark, Lewiston, NY., July 1982
John Toth, Painted wood sculpture (arrtist in residence)
Color Light and Mass: Ten Sculptors
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Fri., Feb. 6, 1981 — Tue., Mar. 3, 1981
Co-sponsored/co-presented by: The National Endowment for The Arts, The New York State Council on The Arts and Artists Space
Hallwalls' first all sculpture show. Exhibition of works by artists featuring: Nancy Arlen (cast polyester); Gary Burnley (INSTALLATION VIEW, 1979, Della Robia glaze on hydrostone); Tom Butter (S.T., 1980, fiberglass and polyester resin); R.M. Fischer (showing ROCKER LAMPS, and SALON LAMP); Skip Koebbeman (from Louisville, NY, showing ENERGIES AND SYNERGIES, 1979-1980, painted wood); Tom Rankin (polyvinyl chloride pipe); F.L. Schroder (enamel on welded aluminum); Gib Smith (LEISURE SATELLITE II, 1908, aluminum); Taro Suzuki (WILD WEASALS, 1980, mirrors, Plexiglas, and light); and John Toth (from Buffalo, NY showing GATESCAPE NO. 1, painted wood), and (S-S 1, 1980, painted wood). Curated by G. Roger Denson
Presented at: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY Sat., Feb. 7, 1981
Co-sponsored/co-presented by: The Committee for Visual Arts Inc., Artists' Space
In conjunction with the COLOR, LIGHT, AND MASS: TEN SCULPTORS exhibition, a lecture featuring artists who will show slides and discuss their work including: Nancy Arlen; R.M. Fischer; Skip Koebbeman; F.L. Shroder; Taro Suzuki; John Toth.
JOHN TOTH
On view in the Matrix Room: collage and reliefs by John Toth.
The Creative Associates presented its final farewell performance at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N. Y. with a John Cage and LeJaren Hiller composition from the 1960's , "HPSCHD", with harpsichordists: Aki Takahishi, David Tudor, David Fuller, Yvar Mikhasoff and Neely Bruce. Visual artist John Toth collaborates with Cage and Hiller by creating a large fabric environment to receive 40 slide projectors, 16 film projectors and 8 super-eight film projections
Hallwalls
Buffalo, NY.1980Magnetic Reversal,
John Toth, Sculptural sound installation. For 4 amplified aquarium bubbles and Teac 4 track audio tape player.
HALLWALLS: GROUP SHOW FIVE YEARS, Mon., Nov. 5, 1979 — Thu., Nov. 15, 1979 Presented at: Upton Gallery (Buffalo State College)
and Presented at The New Museum, New York, NY.
Co-sponsored/co-presented by: University at Buffalo, Department of Art Education, The National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts
The premiere of the traveling exhibition representing Hallwalls artists from 1974-present. Featuring artists Diane Bertolo, Ellen Carey, Charles Clough, Tony Conrad, William Currie, Tom Damrauer, G. Roger Denson, Nancy Dwyer, Biff Henrich, George Howell, Joseph Hryvniak, Debra Jenks, Kate Kennedy, David Kulik, Violet Lee, Robert Longo, Larry Lundy, John Maggiotto, Laurie Neaman, Linda Neaman, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Robert Risman, Ann Rosen, Scott Rucker, Cindy Sherman, Stephanie Taddeo, John Toth, Anne Turyn, Michael Zwack.
Artists' Gallery, Buffalo, NY. , May, 1979
John Toth, fabric environment.
HALLWALLS AT ARTPARK
Artpark, Lewiston, NY., Wed., Jun. 7, 1978 — Sun., Jun. 11, 1978Five days of exhibitions, performances, and presentations at the state park in Lewiston, N.Y. by Carol Busch; Richard Gustin; Ladd Kessler; Kate Kennedy; David Kulik; Larry Lundy; John Maggiotto; Laurie Neaman; Sue Sapienza; Armand Saiia; Kim Teirlynk; John Toth; Peggy Yunque
SUMMERSPACE
Presented at: Hallwalls, Fri., Jul. 21, 1978 — Wed., Aug. 2, 1978Stephen Condon, John Gasper, and John Toth; fabric and bent poplar.
Stienburg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO., May 1977
Electronic sound to light interface. University of Missouri, Rolla, MO.
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