Bruce Tovsky

bruce tovsky is a visual artist, video designer, sound artist and composer. trained as a painter/printmaker, in graduate school he began to work with film, video, audio, installation and performance. attending rutgers university, he received his mfa degree in multimedia in 1979. moving to nyc in 1978 he created and showed video and performance works at the kitchen, mudd club, danceteria and a variety of other galleries and alternative spaces in the usa and europe. after the move to the city, he began producing, mixing and doing sound design and videos for downtown bands, including sonic youth, the model citizens, liquid liquid, dog eat dog, y pants and the del byzanteens. as a film/video sound designer and editor he worked with a cross-section of the downtown film scene and was involved in projects with richard kern, beth and scott b, eric mitchell, and many others. in 1982 he created a short videoart work titled "invaded" which went on to tour extensively throughout the usa, europe and japan, and was featured at the 1984 world's fair. "invaded" is in the collection of the kitchen and the donnell film library. in the late 80's he began focussing more on music composition, doing film and video scores and working extensively with choreographers. he composed dance pieces for cydney wilkes, muna tseng, charles dennis, betsy hulton, mary seidman and others. his dance scores have been performed at lincoln center, joyce theater, the kitchen, ps122 and in spaces across the usa and europe. with two partners he opened a recording studio, producing and engineering material for tommy boy, sleeping bag, lydia lunch, foetus, karen finley and bernie worrell, to name a few. during this period he also began working as a commercial video editor, and spent the next decade editing documentaries, commercials, music videos and long form television. some highlights of this period were music videos for live, public image, big audio dynamite and junior reid. bruce has recently been creating live video improvisations, collaborating with sound artist john hudak on performances at diapason and experimental intermedia. he is currently working on a multichannel video installation work titled "spectrum" and doing live electronic improvisational performances with composer dominic cramp.

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