Tony Martin (1937 – March 24, 2021) was an American painter and new media artist known for his groundbreaking light art and viewer interactive sculptures and installations, and the paintings associated with those works.
[1] Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1937, he attended the University of Michigan and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the City College of New York.
Some of Martin's works include: Theater For Walkers, Talkers, Touchers (1962), collaborations with David Tudor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and a piece for the E.A.T.
[3] In Light Pendulum ‘09, and other interactive installations, Martin distributed variable thematic content through switching systems and optics activated by the viewers.
A NEA grant helped him to develop Vector Image Wall, a constantly evolving electronically produced drawing made of spatial and moving lines of light, shown at PS#1 in New York.
Artfair Miami-Basel, Mills Music Festival, and The Art Students League have hosted new works, including Sound.