curt cloninger
Since the beginning
Works in Canton, North Carolina United States of America

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BIO
Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor of New Media at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His art undermines language as a system of meaning in order to reveal it as an embodied force in the world. His art work has been featured in the New York Times and at festivals and galleries from Korea to Brazil. Exhibition venues include Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Granoff Center for The Creative Arts (Brown University), Digital Art Museum [DAM] (Berlin), Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and the internet. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including commissions for the creation of new artwork from the National Endowment for the Arts (via Turbulence.org) and Austin Peay State University's Terminal Award.

Cloninger has written on a wide range of topics, including new media and internet art, installation and performance art, experimental graphic design, popular music, network culture, and continental philosophy. His articles have appeared in Intelligent Agent, Mute, Paste, Tekka, Rhizome Digest, A List Apart, and on ABC World News. He is also the author of eight books, most recently One Per Year (Link Editions). He maintains lab404.com, playdamage.org , and deepyoung.org in hopes of facilitating a more lively remote dialogue with the Sundry Contagions of Wonder.
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Re: Thanks :)


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Re: Re: Please support Turbulence


Hi Jess,

Not to put too fine a point on it (and somebody correct me if I'm wrong), but most of Turbulence's funding doesn't go to global works, but to artists in New York and Minneapolis, due to the requirements of their funding organizations.

from http://turbulence.org/guidelines.html :
"Because of the geographic focus of our funders, commissions are most often made to artists who reside in the city of New York or in the state of Minnesota."

The guest curators that turbulence selects are indeed free to focus on art made by artists outside of those two areas, but having your work featured by a Turbulence guest curator doesn't get you any grant money (unless I'm missing something).

I'm not saying turbulence is not worth supporting (even though they refused to let me deep link Corey Arcangel's Data Diaries!) I actuly take credit for pointing Yoshi Sodeoka in their direction. (And while we're on the subject, I also take credit for pointing Joshua Davis in the direction of Ars Electronica.) But enough about me and my mad meta-curatorial sub-radar hook up skillz. This post is not about me, nor about my bling-ability (which I assure you is well above 380 degreez), nor about the lack of sleep I've gotten in the last two days, and least of all about the ways in which sleep deprivation dramatically affects my writing style, skewing it toward the rambling and inane, as if I'm only writing to amuse myself, often doing great violence to the topic at hand, to say nothing of my readers, to whom I probably also offhandedly do a modicum of violence (albeit metaphorical), which some might consider just plain stupid, and like, I totally, like 100% agree.

sincerely,
the mascara snake

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Jess wrote:
That funding does not go towards supporting Turbulence as an organisation but to the
artists commissioned and supported. If we, as artists do not try to support Turbulence
during this time we are biting one of the the few hands that feed us.

Some of the recent cynical comments to their appeal have been disgraceful, particularly
when a major reoccurring theme on this list is how little support there is for artists.

Turbulence supports new, global and diverse works through providing space, promotion
and commissioning. They have a wonderful open curatorial policy: where any artist at
any stage can be supported and which is not constrained by physical location, gender,
'fame' or thematics . If we sit and let them go under because they have prioritised their
time gaining funding for artists and not themselves, we will lose one of the most valuable
resources available to digital artists.

Please give something back, no matter how small..


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Re: Re: john peel


The syd barrett and olivia tremor control sessions are both fragile
psychedelic classics. Soft Machine actually plays on the syd barrett
sessions.

At 8:59 AM +0000 10/27/04, Pall Thayer wrote:
>I have the Softmachine sessions and they're some of the Softmachines
>best stuff. Really great. That CD is my "Christmas music" since I
>bought it around Christmas 1993.
>
>curt cloninger wrote:
>>I just went through all the peel sessions I could find, many still
>>available on CD, and culled a few favorite bands. Diverse and
>>era-spanning as this list is, it's still heavily abridged:
>>
>>birthday party
>>breeders
>>jesus and mary chain
>>new order
>>syd barrett
>>stereolab
>>sonic youth
>>olivia tremor control
>>clouddead
>>explosions in the sky
>>mum
>>will oldham
>>white stripes
>>captain beefheart
>>cat power
>>dinosaur jr.
>>flying saucer attack
>>future sound of london
>>godspeed you black emperor
>>half japanese
>>hurricane #1
>>t.rex
>>mercury rev
>>mogwai
>>pavement
>>jim o'rourke
>>scrawl
>>sigur ros
>>spiritualized
>>neil young
>>orbital
>>cocteau twins
>>cure
>>bongwater
>>flaming lips
>>soft machine
>>buzzcocks
>>adam ant
>>joy division
>>jimi hedrix
>>the Jam
>>
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>>
>>neil jenkins wrote:
>>
>>one of our greatest curators gone thanks john x
>>+
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Re: john peel


I just went through all the peel sessions I could find, many still available on CD, and culled a few favorite bands. Diverse and era-spanning as this list is, it's still heavily abridged:

birthday party
breeders
jesus and mary chain
new order
syd barrett
stereolab
sonic youth
olivia tremor control
clouddead
explosions in the sky
mum
will oldham
white stripes
captain beefheart
cat power
dinosaur jr.
flying saucer attack
future sound of london
godspeed you black emperor
half japanese
hurricane #1
t.rex
mercury rev
mogwai
pavement
jim o'rourke
scrawl
sigur ros
spiritualized
neil young
orbital
cocteau twins
cure
bongwater
flaming lips
soft machine
buzzcocks
adam ant
joy division
jimi hedrix
the Jam

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neil jenkins wrote:

one of our greatest curators
gone
thanks john
x