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: Re: Re: Re: [0100101110110101.ORG] FOR SALE


I'm just glad to be able to do my part in helping this thread get really long. It's already been linked twice from the front page. Let's go for three times, and then the thread itself could constitute a sort of performative meta-criticism (provided we spoof its URL). Zounds!

At least duchamp's readymades got press because people were outraged by them. In this case, the work gets my press because of its monumental banality. The medium is the valium.

http://www.acne.se/film/showreel/SoNetFeaver_QT04.mov

there, that's better.

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yasir husain wrote:

>
>
> Simply: deconstructing data delusions as practice
>
> --
>
> From: curt cloninger
>
> it's "work" like this that makes me proud to call myself a net
> artiste.
> Near-hidden moments of such mind-numbing scatalogical irrelevance so
> derivatively context-dependent that the in-joke almost slips past
> those
> on the inside. Shazam! I can't wait for the thrilling coverage in
> net
> art news in which the commercial recontextualizers get a taste of
> their
> own recontextualizin' medicine as pointed out by some terribly
> insightful scene-aware scoop hound!
>
> Ah, bartleby! Ah, humanity!
>
> Whatever we do, PLEASE don't let this be the last post on the topic.
> As
> always, with back-slappin' "work" like this, if we don't spread it
> 'round the water cooler, it just as soon not have happened (which
> would
> be a darned shame since a klever.koncept is a terrible thing to
> waste)!
>
> beat-the-knave-into-a-twiggen-bottle,
> curt
>
> _
>
> k-hello.org wrote:
>
> > The "art" website is HTTP://0100101110101101.ORG and it works,
> the
> > "false" website is HTTP://0100101110110101.ORG
> >
> > You can see that the two urls are different.
> +
>

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Re: Re: Re: Re: [0100101110110101.ORG] FOR SALE


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irony

on an entirely unrelated topic,your work just came up in my pleasure reading:
http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/12.228.185.206/html/wordsinimages/unstablerels.html

rock & roll ain't no pollution,
curt

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Eduardo Navas wrote:

> > As always, with back-slappin' "work" like this, if we don't spread
> it
> 'round the water cooler, it just as soon not have happened (which
> would be a
> darned shame since a klever.koncept is a terrible thing to waste)!
> >
> > beat-the-knave-into-a-twiggen-bottle,
> > curt
>
> Not to bring an old dialogue back to life, but I find your above
> statement
> to be in contradiction with your stance against priveleging conceptual
> oriented art over more process oriented material... I like the work
> for its
> conceptual grounding -- but you know very well where I stand on
> conceptual
> art, as we already discussed this. Great stuff it is -- really good
> conceptual art.
>
> Best,
>
> Eduardo Navas
> ;)
>
>

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[0100101110110101.ORG] FOR SALE really!


it's "work" like this that makes me proud to call myself a net artiste. Near-hidden moments of such mind-numbing scatalogical irrelevance so derivatively context-dependent that the in-joke almost slips past those on the inside. Shazam! I can't wait for the thrilling coverage in net art news in which the commercial recontextualizers get a taste of their own recontextualizin' medicine as pointed out by some terribly insightful scene-aware scoop hound!

Ah, bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Whatever we do, PLEASE don't let this be the last post on the topic. As always, with back-slappin' "work" like this, if we don't spread it 'round the water cooler, it just as soon not have happened (which would be a darned shame since a klever.koncept is a terrible thing to waste)!

beat-the-knave-into-a-twiggen-bottle,
curt

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k-hello.org wrote:

> The "art" website is HTTP://0100101110101101.ORG and it works,
> the "false" website is HTTP://0100101110110101.ORG
>
> You can see that the two urls are different.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Cremaster web site


I agree. When I finally got around to seeing the Aronofsky film, it paled in comparison to the web site.

more:
http://www.otnemem.com

http://www.spunthemovie.com/spun/valley/spun.html

http://www.trailerparkboys.com/shit/instruct.html

and
http://www.titler.com
ironically culls much source material from this documentary:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586640054/

instead of web sites promoting movies and movies based on comic books & video games, what about a movie based on a web site? Miramax Films and Amblin Entertainment present "Superbad, The Movie," directed by Spike Jonze and starring Billy Bob Thornton as Uncle Jay.
http://superbad.com/1/turkey/turkey.html

curt
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Christopher Fahey wrote:

> What's so great about the Cremaster web site? Looks like it has a lot
> of
> nice movie stills and some videos from the films, and it's certainly
> well designed, but it's only documentation of the films. It's not a
> unique work like the "Artificial Intelligence" and "Requiem for a
> Dream"
> movie web sites. Nor, honestly, does it look like it cost very much to
> make.
>
> http://www.requiemforadream.com/
> http://dontcloseyoureyes.warnerbros.com/
> http://www.donniedarko.com/
> http://cloudmakers.org
>
> I like film web sites that are *better* than the films they are
> intended
> to promote.
>
> -Cf
>
> [christopher eli fahey]
> art: http://www.graphpaper.com
> sci: http://www.askrom.com
> biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com
>
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Does Barney Wear Nikes?


Hi Ryan,

This seems kind of weird. You're dissing Barney because of his lack of pop distribution, and you're holding the nikeplatz prank up as an example of well-executed pop distribution? The Cremasater Cycle is regularly held-over at art theaters all over the place, where students and punks and the merely curious show up and check it out.

There are even verifiable philistine discussions of it at the internet movie database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321781/usercomments

And the nikeplatz prank is discussed by 010101's lawyers, Nike's lawyers, rhizome readers, anti-globalization trendies, and who else? Perhaps if John Grisham wrote a screenplay about the resultant court case, with Tom Cruise as Luther Blissett, then maybe.

Until then, 9 out of 10 philistines prefer amazing visuals to anti-advertising faux happenings.

peace,
curt

ryan griffis wrote:

Barney is just creating esoteric and insular narratives
> (could vaseline be a better metonym?) with amazing visuals (not unlike
> the fashion world art is ever so connected with) in a format that is
> isolated and hermetic by nature - they're not even distributed in a
> way that larger audiences could see them, that way us sophisticated
> artists can have our own celebrity encrusted spectacle to applaud
> alongside T3 without worrying about the philistines making too much
> noise with their popcorn and jujyfruits.