John Goto

John Goto is a British artist best known for his photo-digital artwork. He come to attention with his "high summer" section of his Ukadia series. Throughout his career he has worked with historical, social and political subjects. In the latte 1960s he studied fine arts at St. Martins school of art, London where he became interested in narrative forms of european cinema and literature and led him to the medium of photography. In the 1980s he then worked on work that combined paintings and drawings in his photography which he later did on the computer. He first did "Terezin" which told the story of Bauhaus trained artist interned in the Nazi transit camp of Theresienstadt. Also "The Scar" which was made in response to the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989. He started to use computers in his work in the early 1990s with a series called "The Commissar of Space" which was made in Russia which was about the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era. His exhibition "The Framer’s Collection" was also made of a series of short stories attached to digitally manipulated pictures, paintings, and documentary photographs. His account of the contemporary world continued with "John Goto’s New World Circus" which was on the occupation of Iraq set within a traveling circus. His attention then turned to the issue of climate change with "Floodscapes" and cultural history in "Dance to the Muzik of Time". Which he did because of the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces (27 December 2008 - 21 January 2009), He has also made "Mosaic", a series of apparently abstract images.