John C. Goss (born October 21, 1958, in Landstuhl, Germany) is an American artist and author and has lived most of his life in the Asia/Pacific region (Hawaii, California, Thailand).
An early innovator in computer art, he created queer selfies using the Apple II in the late 70s and the first gay-themed hyper text novel, Devil's Lava Lamp Now, in 1992 on the Amiga.
Some of those early experimental self-portraits from the video, Digital Reflections (a collaboration with Frank Deitrich and Deborah Gorchos), were exhibited at the Computer Culture Art Show at SIGGRAPH 1981.
[1] In 1989, Goss collaborated with artists' Alan Pulner and Richard Zvonar to create Rapture Stations in the Virtual Funhouse, an interactive, computer-manipulated environment, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Altaira Morbius, lead character from the sci-fi classic, Forbidden Planet, resumes her story after arriving on Earth in the midst of an epidemic and social upheaval.
[10] Swank Modern's inaugural exhibition, The Sensual World, featured photographs by Goss shot in Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.
In Feb, 2020, Goss confirmed his biological father, Grant Mitchell Salzman, through DNA testing and is also related to Harry Saltzman, producer of the early James Bond films.