Gort:
NY SEEINGS

Gort: NY Seeings is an Intermedia performance, premeired at Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York. John Toth projects computer animations into a fabric sculpture with poet Michael Basinski and composer / musician Don Metz. 1995

  Performance concept

In the 1951 science fiction epic "The Day the Earth Stood Still a large powerful metal robot named Gort neutralizes the most powerful of human weapons. The alien Klaatu makes a promise that Gort will return to Earth in 50 years to see if the inhabitants of Earth had complied with their demand for world peace and put an end to the use of nuclear weapons.

1995, six years to go before Gort returns. While the end of the cold war seemed to hint at the possibility of nuculear peace, the bombing of the parking garage in the north tower of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 shatters the illusion of safety. Peace?

FLYBY INTO HISTORY
The year 2001 marks the fiftieth year after the making of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," which aptly fits as a title to a post 9/11 New York City. The day our earth stood still was filled with images pressed into our minds.

 

The False Demoiselle

Anti matter meets matter of fact

The layering of news media and original art work causes us to rethink our history.

DIGITAL projection onto fabric.

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Martin Luther King, John Chancellor and Bill Clinton

Multiple layers of media splatter across the screen in a Jackson Pollock like flung gesture.  Joey Buttafucco, Alyssa Milano, Bill Clinton, Elaine Bobbitt, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein,, Adolph Hitler, Colin Ferguson and Mother Teresa are but a few of the visiting cast that make a 50 year comentary on human experience since The Day The Earth Stood Still.

NY SEEINGS, 1995, 18:00 min, single frame computer animation and digital video. Signed video or DVD; $50.00 US. john@innereye.net

Truth in Journalism

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