John Toth
Intermedia. Hypermedia and the Sublime.

1977

John Toth, CALCULATING SPACE, welded steel. 72" x 96" x 96"

 

The life unreflected is not worth living. Plato

 

Significant Intersections. Toth, Bi-Planar Deconstruction, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase. Museum of Modern Art

Duchamp understood something about four dimensional theories on space/time through conversations he had with his close friend Maurice Princet, a mathematics theorist.

What is the philosophy of Space-Time?

Picasso and Poincaire

Einstein's Clocks, measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations.

Poincaré's Maps, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents.

LOCATING YOURSELF

David, The Death of Socrates, oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art

In regards to creativity and art, Plato placed more importance on the idea or form rather than how well an image was represented.

What is representation?

 

MAPPING
SPACE
TIME

X

Y

Z

 

John Toth, GRASSHOPPER, welded steel 48" x 24" x 12"

LOGIC STRUCTURES

John Toth, CONVERGENCE. tricot fabric, 3 units; each 9' x 9' x 9

'THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND TELEVISION, Bradford, England

COGNITION & IMAGINATION

John Toth, EIDETIC IMAGE, welded steel, 12" x 12"

 

John Toth, NEW RIUNS, maquette and installation

John Toth, NEW RIUNS, maquette and installation

John Toth, HOMAGE TO ROTHKO, 8 fabric units. Tricot, 16' x 12' - 8' x 4'

Mark Rothko, NO. 13 (WHITE, RED ON YELLOW), oil on canvas,

 

John Toth, SCREEN SCAPE TWO, (for installation),pastel, paint and mixed media. 30" x 30 "

John Toth, HOMAGE TO ROTHKO, 8 fabric units. Tricot, 16' x 12' - 8' x 4'

John Toth, SCREENSCAPE, (for installation),pastel, paint and mixed media. 10" x 14"

An empty space for reflection...

Sensing the parts

John Toth, VESTMENT, mixed media, 20" x 28"

MAPPING SPACE

John Toth, VESTAGE, Acrylic on wood, 24" x 24" (left)

John Toth, VESTMENT, Acrylic on wood, 24" x 36" (right)

Sensing the parts and the whole...

MONOPLEX
Intersecting Singularities

EMERGENT FIGURES

Jean-Luc Nancy

INTERMEDIA

John Toth, PIANO FINGERS, piano keys and wood.

INTERSECTING
KNOWLEDGE
MODALITIES

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.

 

John Toth, NOSTALGIA, Virtual reality props and scenery projected into a fabric set.

Access Theater, New York, NY

John Toth, CONVERGENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION, Bradford England

SLIDESHOW

John Toth, CONVERGENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION, Bradford England

John Toth, CRASH TEST, video and fabric installation at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

 

John Toth, BED OF WORDS, virtual reality concrete poem, file size up tp 96" x 72"

THE DEATH OF WORD

EMERGENCE
framed beliefs

EMERGENCE
SLIDESHOW