The INNER EYEis an internet based, intermedia project that I began
in 1995 dedicated to collaborations I have had with artists, educators,
choreographers, dancers, poets, writers, actors, directors, composers, musicians and a
variety of people who celebrate ideas between multiple disciplines and media.John Toth
IN THE MIX 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 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY 12550. Please call Virginia Walsh at 845-562.6940 X 119 with any further questions.
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 -
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 has the ability to play an important role in opening connections between the arts and sciences thereby restoring a balance between theory and practice.
2006
Media Policy
Web page design by John Toth in collaboration with Joan Grossman and Pinball Films for Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media. The 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.
Rhythm & Form
Fabric installation for James Emery and Drew Gress jazz performance at the Port-of-Call Gallery in Warwick, NY. Fabric installation by John Toth.
CRASH TEST / 2003 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.
X Word Play
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.
THINk
huMAN
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
Material Identity
Hunter College Professor Herb Perr collaborates with Diane Ramo and John Toth from Lincoln
Center Institute exploring "choice
of materials" as a lens for identity, through artworks by Frank
Gehry, Friedman, Krohn, Boym from the exhibition US Design 1975-2000 at the Museum of Arts and Design. A collaboration
between art and education.
How do the artists from US Design 1975-2000 (Gehry, Friedman, Krohn, Boym) design / transform everyday items (chairs) into extraordinary items by choosing materials that challenge our expectations?
A Sense of Identity and
Place
Bank Street College Professor, Roberta Altman and John Toth
collaborated with museum studies students in an LCI workshop looking for connections
between identity and place as
portrayed through visual artists, Velazques, David, Ringgold and director Anna Deveer
Smith. A
collaboration between art and education.
Jean Taylor "reflects" in Beckett's Act Without Words
Act
Without Words Sam Beckett's play interacts with a projected virtual reality set within in a fabric stage
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 and 17th, 2003.
Curating Visual Art
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.
Spatial Poetry 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.
pARTnering 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?
Light
& Shadow
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.
Peter Greenaway presents his films as a faculty member at the European Graduate Schoolin Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
The summer of 2000 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.
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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In A
Circle
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
Inner Eye 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.
Gort: NY Seeings
Intermedia performance that premiered at the Hallwalls theater in Buffalo, New York. John Toth's 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.
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.
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.
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.
Conversations
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.
The Red Studio 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.
$50.00
Saurs: Head and Torso
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.
Magarac: Sheet Metal 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
Don Metz; music, Ed Sobola; slide projections and J fabric sculpture, projected slides and film.
Sea
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.
HPSCHD
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
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