Nurse's Back, Holly Fairbank and John Toth, 2009, dance media installation

Nurse's Back
second nature

Lecture on the Weather:
John Cage in Buffalo

January 23 – February 14, 2010

Chance Chants for John CageJohn Toth, 1984-2010. 1:05
Composed by John Toth.
Realized by John Malinowski, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Speaker, amplifier, microphone, and one die.

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John Toth and Joan Grossman
"River Installation 4" 2009, video and fabric installation and sound composition. 3:20

This permutation of the River video installation is designed for four HD video streams projected from a central point with each projector facing towards a north/ east/south/west orientation.

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John Toth and Joan Grossman
"River Virtual Installation," 2009, video and fabric installation and sound composition. 3:03

This video uses a virtual reality model of a fabric installation for a museum proposal.

Video sequences surround viewers and draw them into rich encounters – some are purely experiential; others draw on passages from diary accounts that documented Hudson's journey (observations of abundant wildlife – now gone – and encounters both friendly and violent with local "savages"); and still other sequences explore aspects of a word or phrase (the flow of time, the flow of water, the flow of people).

Joan Grossman and John Toth
"River" Diary (Demo), 2009, video and fabric installation and sound composition. 7:36

A virtual camera sequence hoovers over the River, a video installation designed for four HD video streams projected from a central point with each projector facing towards a north/ east/south/west orientation.

John Toth
"Rock Rose" 2009, animated stills and sound composition for fabric installation. 2:05 min

Rock Rose is a video sketch that explores the process of suspended time. Hovering over the surface of an object of nature. Finding new meaning between the micro and macro views that blur the line between near and far.

Creating a backdrop for a performance installation, the projected video would move at the pace of the dance and the rhythm of the sound.

John Toth
"Media Eyes," 2008, 3D animation and soundscape :21 sec.

John Toth
"Disney Meets Duchamp," 2006, 3D animation :10 sec.

June 9, 2007, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY.

John Toth
"Light & Shadow," 2001, fabric sculpture installation with 45:00 min DVD and 3 video projectors. Buffalo, NY. Music composition by Mario Davidovitch as played by counter)induction; Jessica Meyer, Benjamin Fingland, Douglas Boyce, Kyle Bartlett.

Computer animation for multiple video projections within a fabric sculpture installation focusing on The Pan American Exposition 1901-2001 at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York.

Three inter-related video DVD's were projected onto a 360 degree fabric installation that allowed floating images to move across 3-dimensional space. Four channels of music and sound floated with the virtual objects across the vaporous surface a  sheer fabric installation.

John Toth and Ruby Shang
"Tales of Exile," 1989 premiere, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

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.

John Toth
"Hiland / Loland," 2000, 3:56 mins.

video animation and piano composition. Reflection on avisit to Scotland pubs, played on Louis Decarlo's piano.

John Toth
"Coresamples"
Based on archeological methods for uncovering dinosaur bones.

Working in Brooklyn / Installations: Coresamples

Charlotta Kotik is the curator for the Brooklyn Museum's Working in Brooklyn Biannual in Brooklyn, NY

John Toth
"Coresamples"

Video of installation, Asage Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

John Toth
"Magnetic Reversal," 1984 4:07, restaged in Nov 2009.

Conceived after attending a performance by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns and David Tudor at Center Theater in Buffalo, NY in 1984.

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John Toth
"Gort: NY Seeings" based on The Day The Earth Stood Still,

1995, video installation,Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY