Birth Date: Oct 21, 1958 Birth Place: Germany Nationality: USA Education 1984 MFA, California Institute of the Arts 1981-82 University of California, San Diego 1981 BFA Summa Cum Laude, Northern Illinois University Awards and Honors 1998 Alpert Award in the Arts 1998-1999 nominee 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Art Matters grant 1988 LACE Grant for Interdisciplinary Artists from the Rockefeller Foundation and the NEA 1983 Lew and Edie Wasserman Scholarship recipient Exhibitions 2006 "The Way of Light" solo exhibition at Four Seasons Hotel, Bangkok 2005 "Sacred Path" solo exhibition at Bolivar Gallery, Santa Monica 2005 "The Way of Light" two-man show with photographer Ed Heckerman at Bolivar Gallery, Santa Monica "Sacred Realm" solo exhibition at the Four Seasons, Bangkok 2004 "Very Thai Images" with Philip-Cornwel-Smith at the Jim Thompson House, Bangkok 1993 "Flowing Forest, Burning Hearts" with Tan Peng at Substation, Singapore 1989 "Rapture Stations in the Virual Funhouse" with Richard Zvonar and Allen Pulner at Santa Monica Museum of Art 1986 "Personal Artifice" solo exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles Performances 1992 HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica 1990 HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 1989 "Rags to Riches" Los Angeles HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA 1987 Randolf Street Gallery, Chicago 1986 Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA Kinetikos' 7th Annual Choreographer's Showcase, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Downtown Dance Center, Los Angeles 1985 Fringe Theater Festival, Downtown Dance Center, Los Angeles Lhasa Club, Los Angeles Foundation for Art Resouces, Los Angeles Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA A Different Light, Los Angeles 1984 Sushi, San Diego Morgan Wixson Theater, Santa Monica California Institute of the Arts 1983 Randolf Street Gallery, Chicago "Neofest" Sushi, San Diego California Institute of the Arts 1982 Sushi, San Diego Selected Video Screenings 1993 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rutgers University Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles 7th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 1992 "Japan: Outside Looking In" Artists Space, New York Goethe Memorial Museum Tokyo (permanent collection) "Putting the *TV Back in TV" LACE, Los Angeles Institut d'Estudis Nord-Americans, Barcelona Stedelijk Museum Collection, Amsterdam Hong Kong Arts Centre Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard College Yale University Ryerson Polytechnical Institute University of Illinois University of Califoria, San Diego Columbia College, Chicago "L.A. Freewaves" Los Angeles University of Alberta California Institute of the Arts "The Reality Channel" Club Lower Links, Chicago Festival Cinema et Homosexualities, Belgium Melbourne International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Film Festival & Video Festival Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg Maine Gay and Lesbian Festival Northwest International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, WA San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival The LA International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video festival 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Columbia College, Chicago University of Southern California, School of Cinema University of New Mexico Duke University "Tele-Visions" Long Beach Museum of Art Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN Cornell Cinema, Ithaca City College of San Francisco Stichting International Lesbian & Gay Filmfestival, Holland "Schwules Kino in Asien" Berlin "Lookout '91" DCTV, New York Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival Melbourne International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Amarillo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, TX 1990 Images '90 Festival, Toronto Institute of Contemporary Art, London VIPER Festival, Berlin Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C. Institute for Contemporary Photography, NY Paradiso, Amsterdam Banff Center The National Gallery of Canada Vancouver Art Gallery Kansas City Art Institute Columbia College, Chicago University of Illinois, Urbana Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN Whitney Museum of Modern Art, NY American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY "Laughing Matters" Long Beach Museum of Art "Feeling the Faults" Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY The New Festival, NY "Raging at the Visible" L.A. Minicipal Art GAllery "Sodom North" Video In, Vancouver Southern California Institute of Architecture The Adam Baran Honolulu Gay Video/Film Festival 1989 "How Do I Look" Anthology Film Archives, NY "Mocking Media, Part II" International Center of Photography, NY Hong Kong Arts Centre "Erotophobia" Simon Watson Gallery, NY San Francisco Museum of Art Walker Arts Center, MN International AIDS Conference, Montreal "About TV" Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery "Video Witnesses" Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY "AIDS: The Artists' Response" Ohia State University "Seducing the Censors" Randolf Street Art Gallery, Chicago "L.A. Freewaves" Los Angeles DC TV, NY The Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Group Material Exhibition, San Francisco The LA International Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival "AIDS: The Community Responds" Otis Parsons, LA San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Columbia College, Chicago "ProFormArt" Emergence Dance Center, IL Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University 1988 "Degrees of Fact/Degrees of Fiction" Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley EZTV, Los Angeles Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival Cal State University Northridge Viacom Cable 1987 "No-TV" Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester AFI National Video Festival, Los Angeles The Berlin Film Festival "Visual Evidence" Video In, Vancouver Viacom Cable The LA International Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival Lhasa Club, Los Angeles San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 1986 The New Museum, NY The American Film Institute Lhasa Club, Los Angeles The Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland Stichting International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Holland The Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Viacom Cable Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles 1985 The American Film Institute 1984 Paper Tiger Television cablecast, NY Campus Networks US national cablecast 1983 KCET-TV, PBS broadcast, Los Angeles The AFI National Video Festival, Los Angeles "The Artist and Computer" Long Beach Museum of Art 1981 Minneapolis College of Art and Design New York University Anthology Film Archives, NY Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Erlangen, Germany Chicago Editing Center SIGGRAPH '81, Dallas Special Effects Programming and Design 1994-present Aladdinland, Shanghai Woozland, Taiwan Seacon Square, Bangkok 1988-93 Neil Diamond Luxor, Las Vegas Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas Salon internazionale delle Attrezzature e Technologie per Discoteche e Locali da Ballo, Rimini, Italy Nasa 3D Pavilion, Sendai Japan Haw Par Villa, Singapore Cola, Bangkok EXPO '93, Korea 1987-88 George Michael concert tour effects Disneyland, Anaheim Expo '88 1984-87 Expo '86 Rush concert effects Deep Purple concert effects Mattel Buick Disneyland Sea World, San Diego Selected Publications Sacred Asia, Nov-Dec, 2006, "Fah Thai" pages 74-82. "October" number 43. "The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies and the Dykes" by Alexander Doty, "Camera Obscura" number 25-26, page 125. "Wild Life: Collaborative Process and Gay Identity" by Gabriel Gomez, "Jump Cut" number 37, pages 82-87. "Entropy, History, Space and Speeding Cars" by Erika Suderburg, "Los Angeles", Editions Autrement, Paris, 1993. "Life in the Media World" by Greg Schneider, "Artweek" Volume 22, number 17, May 2, 1991, page 17. "Youthful Persuasions: John Goss Speaks Out" by Gabriel Gomez, "Afterimage" November 1990, page 9. "John Goss: Forbidden Planet" by Lance Carlson, "High Performance" Summer 1990, page 61 "Performance Art as Political Activism" by Lance Carlson, "Artweek Focus" May 3, 1990, page 23. "Sex and Technology" by Jacki Apple, "Artweek" March 15, 1990, page 17. "Virtual Art, Virtual Fun" by Jan Breslauer, "LA Weekly" July 21-July 27, 1989, page 39. "Funhouse Explores Mortal Passageways" by Zan Dubin, "Los Angeles Times" Calendar, Sunday, July 9, 1989. "John Goss/John Greyson" by Jamitre Trott, "New Art Examiner" December, 1987. Visiting Artist/Panels 1995 University of California, Riverside 1994 "Changing Channels: Media Arts in the '90s" Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities/Filmforum, Los Angeles 1993 City College of San Fransicso 1992 Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival VIVA! Lesbian & Gay Latino Arts Organization 1990 "Artists as Producers" LACE, Los Angeles Cal State University Northridge 1989 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles "AIDS Art Activism" Ohio State University California Institute of the Arts Art Center College of Design, Pasedena 1987 Hawaii Board of Education 1985 The Oakwood School, North Hollywood 1984 University of California, Irvine I Sung My Body Electric Some Philharmonic (backing vocals on the first album) Tua Glom (vocals and English lyrics on "Friends") Warner Music, Thailand. The Native Shrubs of the Santa Monics Mountains (backing vocals on culminating gyre in "Sadness") Kind Friends Along the Way Forrest J Ackerman Diamonda Galas Sadao Hasegawa Alex Kerr Shigeko Kubota Kermit Love Susan Mogul Audrey Wells Ogre (left) and John, Sept '03. photo: Joe Moe Celebrities I Have Met Jon Anderson (in the demo room at Laser Media) Laurie Anderson (backstage at Royce Hall) Kenneth Anger (in his underwear at the Ackermansion) Robert Ashley (in the hallway at NIU's School of Music) Ray Bradbury (at Forrest J Ackerman's 89th and 90th b'day party and home) Neil Diamond (while I programmed his concert tour opening spectacle) Robert Fripp (outside his concert) Buckmister Fuller (we had a flat tire together) Whoopi Goldberg (at Sushi performance space) Todd Haynes (at Millies and at his family and friends screening of The Karne Carpenter Story) Alger Hiss (at dinner) Christopher Isherwood (at dinner) George Kuchar (walking to have Chinese food in DeKalb) John Landis (at the Acker Mini-mansion, etc.) Madonna (while programming effects for her Blond Ambition tour) George Michael (to discuss special effects for his Faith tour) Richard O'Brian (while touring Laser Media) Vincent Price (buying lemons at the Farmer's Market) Ravi Shankar (post concert party) Celebrities I Asked for Autographs Angelyne (at a photo printing shop) William S. Burroughs (at A Different Light bookstore) Divine (in the lobby of a Westwood theater) John Waters (in the lobby of a Westwood theater)

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