Gordon Monro - GommoG

is a name used by Australian electronic artist Gordon Monro for artistic activities. To Gordon Monro's main page.

Buy a T-shirt!

If anyone should actually want a GommoG T-shirt: you can buy one here (from e-t-shirts.com, an Australian company).

I don't make any money from this, but I wanted one of these for myself, and it turns out that the e-t-shirts.com website normally makes the designs openly available.

Why a name?

When I started to make animations, I needed a short name to put on the movies. I am on the fringe of two worlds in which artists seem to need "artist names": one is movies ("a GommoG production") and the other is live electronic music.

Why GommoG?

It is short.
It is nicely symmetric.
It is related to my real name (derived from the first two letters of "Gordon" and the first two letters of "Monro").
It doesn't seem to mean anything in any language.
People often misspell the "Monro" part of my name, and so have trouble finding me.
The domain name www.gommog.com was available.

And all the other names I could think of were already in use. The only problem with "GommoG" is that it sounds a bit more aggressive and death-metal-ish than my art work generally is.

Other Gommogs

When I started using the name there weren't any others, as far as I could find out. Now I have come across two, one on Russian-language websites and one in England. I don't have any connection with either of them. In case of confusion, I live in Australia, and here is some biographical information.