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

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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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Yes, a generative art practice that occasionally produces new meaning.

Now for a generative critical practice that occasionally produces new criteria for recognizing "meaning."

If we continue to subscribe to the same old criteria for evaluating meaning/signal/beauty/truth/radicality/critique/resistance/etc, then any truly new/emergent ("virtual become actual" is Bergson's term, taken up by Deleuze, then Massumi) art will always already be subject to reterritorialization, reduction, (mis)interpretation, and exclusion according to old, pre-existing critical criteria.

"I am for art that is put on and taken off, like pants, which develops holes, like socks, which is eaten, like a piece of pie, or abandoned with great contempt, like a piece of shit" (Claes Oldenburg, 1961).

"I got remote control and a color TV / I don't change channels so they must change me" (Billy Joel, 1980)

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