User:Johnstoth/John Toth

John Toth is an international intermedia artist who uses computer technology as an instrument for layering video, text, sculpture, painting, music, theater and dance. His intermedia fabric installation Convergence was presented at The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, England in 1999. Other international shows include Psychosis at Ringacker Hall in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; The Return of the Cadavre Exquis at Fundacion para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City and “A” Space, Toronto, Ontario.

In the United States his intermedia installations have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Lincoln Center "Out-Of-Doors Festival” (with Ruby Shang Dance Company), The New Museum, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, The Camera Club Gallery, 78th Street Theater Lab (with Jean Taylor and Alan Nebelthau), Access Theater, City Gallery, Asage Gallery, C.B.G.B.’s, SOHO Photo Gallery and Audart Gallery.

Toth’s ongoing commitment and support of the Western New York art scene includes shows at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (with John Cage and LeJaren Hiller), the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Hallwalls, Artpark, Artists’ Gallery, Buscaglia-Castellani Art Museum, Villa Art Gallery, and Barbara Schuller Gallery. Toth has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Meet The Composer, New York Council on the Humanities and a BOCES / Special project award. Since 2004 Toth has being teaching the arts at Hunter College in New York. He has also worked extensively as a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute, The Museum of Modern Art, The Juilliard School, Symphony Space, Bank Street College, Bard College and Lehman College. He has presented papers at the Oxford Round Table (Oxford, England), the American Education Research Association and a chapter interview in George Szekely’s “Video Art for the Classroom.”

http://www.JohnToth.net

Publications:

Toth, J. (2008). The New Perception: Hypermediating Interdisciplinary Cultures through Aesthetic Education. Forum on Public Policy Online: A Forum of the Oxford Roundtable. Urbana, IL.

Toth, J., Szekely, G., Szekely, I. (2005). Video Art for the Classroom, Published by National Art Education Association. ISBN 189016027X, 9781890160272

Toth, J. Korn, C. 1997 The Place of the Arts in Teacher Education. Paper: Tools and Techne: Reclaiming the Language of Art in Education. Presentation to: American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.