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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DISCUSSION

chan marshall was my pat benatar


pick us up out of a line up
stranded and strange
just as innocent as kids
the found are leaving and they're trying to forget
the old world, the whole world is
going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)

http://images.google.com/images?&safe=off&q=%22chan+marshall%22
http://www.matadorrecords.com/rams/cat_power/nude_as_the_news.ram
http://www.matadorrecords.com/rams/cat_power/cross_bones_style.ram

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to attest to the mystery [signal_through_noise remix]


An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that
such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in
another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth
century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say
that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be
believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos
that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to
half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy,
not upon the clock or the century. If a man believes in unalterable
natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age. If a man
believes in a will behind law, he can believe in any miracle in any
age... It is simply a matter of a man's theory of things. Therefore
in dealing with any historical answer, the point is not whether it
was given in our time, but whether it was given in answer to our
question."
- chesterton, 1908

http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/scott/fixing_a_hole.mp3

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DISCUSSION

yahoo launches soul-search engine


http://onion.com/news/index.php?issue@14&n=1

Users can set their search to plumb their souls at varying depths,
to make shallow discoveries or life-changing ones. They can also
adjust their security preferences to protect themselves from the
dangers of baring their naked souls to the world, and parental
controls can be enabled in order to prevent children from looking
inside themselves.

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dys.koncept.ual_kontest winners announced


To Those for Whom the Caged Bird Sings,

Deep/Young Anodyne Laboratories is pleased to feature the six winners
of its first semi-biennial dys.koncept.ual_kontest (with a list of
honourable mentions appended thereto):
http://www.deepyoung.org/current/dyskonceptual/

The artists who created the winning pieces are:
glasgowland (Alex Heatherington, et al.)
Geoff Lillemon
John Beagles & Graham Ramsay
Marcello Mercado & Daniel Mang
Geert Dekkers
Xavier Pehuet

Each will receive an original, custom made, hand-sewn object/garment
conceptually derived from the nature of their winning piece.

Thanks to all who participated.

Be Seeing You,
Archive Registrar

DISCUSSION

net art project linked from fourth grade computer resource links page


Net Art Project Linked from Fourth Grade Computer Resource Links Page
March 24, 2004

(Wayne County, North Carolina)

For the second day in a row, an internet art project known simply as
"a digital quilt project" ( http://playdamage.org/quilt/ ), has
received a handful of web visitors from Grantham School 's "Fourth
Grade Computer Resource Links" page (
http://www.waynecountyschools.org/336/Grade%204.htm ). According to
Curt Cloninger, curator and host of the online quilt project, "The
[Grantham School] URL just showed up in my referrer logs out of the
blue a couple of days ago."

Cloninger noted a marked decline in the number of discrete visits
(down from a high of 6 on Tuesday to just 3 on Wednesday), but said
he was still enthusiastic about his site's inclusion in the Grade
Four links list. "I live in North Carolina too, but I've never even
heard of Wayne County, much less Grantham School," Cloninger
confided. "How they even discovered [the quilt project] is beyond
me. Sure, they link to the Mt. Olive Pickles site; no surprise
there. Whatever the explanation, I'm just thrilled to be in there at
all."

Several other links on Grantham School's Computer Resource Links page
are actually images with hyperlink tags surrounding them, whereas the
link to Cloninger's quilt project is merely a plain hypertext link.
But Cloninger is quick to point out that the digital quilt link
(which reads simply "Digital Quilt") appears third from the top of
the page, beneath links to "Waynesborough Historic Village" and
"Minerology 4 Kids," respectively. Regarding the link's hierarchical
location, Cloninger figures, "that's got to be worth something right
there. I mean, Waynesborough Historic Village is probably like their
last field trip, so give it up. And Minerology, I mean, what fourth
grader doesn't dig minerals? Plus, when they use the number '4'
instead of the word 'for,' that's a dirty trick. Who stands a chance
against such rogue tactics? Anyway, [the digital quilt link] is WAY
above a link to a .pdf file about striped bass, so now who's
laughing? What? I can't hear you. Yeah, that's what I thought,"
Cloninger challenged.

When asked about the digital quilt's utter lack of inclusion on the
adjacent "Grade 6" and "Exploring Life Skills" pages, Cloninger
refused to comment.

Grantham School is "Home of the Bulldogs," according to their web
site home page:
http://www.waynecountyschools.org/336/
The barking bulldog audio and shifty-eyed bulldog "gif" both serve to
reinforce the "online presence" of the school's "frisky" canine
mascot. The Grantham School home page further reveals the school's
mission, "To develop self-confident students who are knowledgeable
and demonstrate a passion to succeed. We will accomplish this by
providing a challenging curriculum, delivered by dedicated and
innovative staff in a secure and stimulating environment.