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

Pop Mantra


http://deepyoung.org/radio/

Hi all. Here is documentation of recent performance pieces.

4 pop songs. 1 short fragment selected from each song. Each fragment repeatedly performed live for between 42-50 minutes. 3 total hours.

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[technical note: if you're on a mac and it will only play the first song in iTunes, drag the downloaded playlist file (.m3u) into any (non-smart) iTunes playlist, then it will play the rest of the songs.]

DISCUSSION

Selected Departments That Have Used my Art or Writing in their Curricula


At 12:37 PM -0500 12/30/07, Lee Wells wrote:
>That's impressive.
>And you are telling everyone.... Why?

To impress them!

Also because...

1.
I like it when people reveal their referer logs (cf:
http://lab404.com/data/ ). In the back of Stefan Sagmeister's
designer monograph, he lists how many hours he spend on each project,
how much he got paid, and then he rates the projects on a scale from
1-5. It's like a career suicide thing to do, but he doesn't care and
it makes for interesting reading.

2.
The names of the departments seem somehow instructional (at least to
me because I'm me, and potentially to other people somewhat like me).
They seem to represent a kind of creeping vine through academia (like
new media kudzu). I would be curious to see Brian Massumi's list, or
Stelarc's list (although they might be so long as to be relatively
meaningless).

3.
Some of the departments listed are represented by Rhizomy folks
(Eduardo Navas, the McCoys, Michael Mandiberg, Trebor Scholz, Ryan
Griffis, David Clark, etc.) So posting the list fosters a sense of
global collegiality? (Rhizome-Has-An-Academic-Posse World Wide
Domination Tour 2008?)

4.
In my research and archiving, I noted that several of these
attributions and usages could be traced directly to my activity on
Rhizome. So although merely posting to Rhizome probably won't get
you Chelsea gallery representation, it may get you marginally
referenced in the week 7 lecture of the 2002 "Audio Production &
Contemporary Culture" course in the Multimedia Studies department at
Central Queensland University in Australia. Now how much would you
pay? But wait, there's more!

5.
It seems curious that a person would be able to accumulate such a
list at all. It is notable that athe medium which allows me to track
these things is also the medium that played a large part in me being
able to disseminate my work. Such lists are still not common
academic currency on a CV, but perhaps one day they will be.

6.
Sleep deprivation. Between my browser bookmarks, whois.sc, google,
several online translation engines, and archive.org...

7.
I'm intercontinental and I eat French toast.

there may be two or three apples I didn't pick upon some bough / but
I am done with apple-picking now,
Curt

Well, OK, three more -- groovy organizations that have taught my art
or writing but aren't undergraduate or graduate programs:
http://www.goldrausch-kuenstlerinnen.de
http://www.constantvzw.com
http://www.palindrome.de

DISCUSSION

open studio - fall 2007


some demos of current work (based on Genesis 1:3):
http://lab404.com/video/genesis/diptych_prototype.mov (2 channel,
4-minute video loop)
http://lab404.com/video/genesis/jar_demo.mov (interactive installation)
http://lab404.com/video/genesis/table/ (semi-generative animation)

DISCUSSION

Selected Departments That Have Used my Art or Writing in their Curricula


Because I'm just nerdy enough to maintain a list. (Before the
interweb, who could have known such things?)

[Graduate]
Illinois Institute of Technology: MS Marketing Communication
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MS Comparative Media Studies
Monash University (Australia): Master of Multimedia Design
New Jersey City University: MA Education Technology
North Carolina State University: M. Ed. Adult and Higher Education
Parsons School of Design: MFA Design & Technology
Pratt Institute: MS Communications Design
Pratt Institute: MFA Computer Graphics
San Francisco State University: MA Education (Concentration in
Instructional Technologies)
School of Visual Arts: MFA Computer Art
Trinity College Dublin (UK): M. Sc. Technology and Learning
University of Denver: MA Digital Media Studies
University of Washington: Master of Library & Information Science
University of Washington: Master of Communication in Digital Media
University of Western Ontario (Canada): Master of Library and
Information Science

[Undergraduate (US)]
Bard College: Film and Electronic Arts
Bard College: Literature
Brooklyn College CUNY: Digital Arts
Brown University: Modern Culture and Media
Cal Poly Pomona: Digital Media
California State University Sacramento: Design
City College of New York CUNY: Electronic Design & Multimedia
College of Staten Island CUNY: Media Culture
Columbia College Chicago: Photography
Concordia University: Centre for Digital Arts
George Mason University: Art History
George Mason University: Art and Visual Technology
Hunter College CUNY: Film and Media Studies
Marist College: Multimedia Technology
Maryville University: Art & Design
Missouri State University: Art and Design
New School University: Media Studies and Film
New York City College of Technology CUNY: Advertising Design and Graphic Arts
New York University: Art and Art Professions
Ohio University: College Of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology: School of Design
San Diego State University: School of Art, Design, and Art History
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Text and Image Arts
Smith College: Computer Science
SUNY Albany: Studio Art
SUNY Buffalo: Media Study
Temple University: Computer and Information Science
Temple University: Film and Media Arts
Temple University: New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration
UCLA: Design | Media Arts
University of California San Diego: Visual Arts
University of California Santa Barbara: English
University of Colorado at Boulder: Fine Art
University Of Colorado at Denver: Multimedia Studies
University of Denver: Library Information Science Program
University of Florida: Studio Art
University of Georgia: Digital Media
University of Illinois at Chicago: School of Art and Design
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: School of Art and Design
University of Louisville: Studio Art
University of Texas at San Antonio: Communication
University of Texas at Austin: Science, Technology, and Society
University of Washington: Digital Arts and Experimental Media
University of Washington: English
University of Washington: Informatics
Wake Forest University: Digital Media
Washington State University: Broadcasting
Washington State University: English
Washington State University Vancouver: Digital Technology and Culture
Wentworth Institute of Technology: Industrial Design

[Undergraduate (International)]
Aarhus Universitet (Denmark): Multimedia
Central Queensland University (Australia): Multimedia Studies
Concordia University (Canada): Communication Studies
Concordia University (Canada): Design & Computation Arts
Emily Carr Institute (Canada): Digital Visual Arts
Emily Carr Institute (Canada): Design Essentials
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy)
IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark): Design, Communication, and Media
Malaspina University-College (Canada): English
Malaspina University-College (Canada): Media Studies
Mount Royal College (Canada): Applied Communications
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore): School of Communication
& Information
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (Canada): Media Art
Open Cyber University (Korea): School of Contents & Design
Queensland University of Technology (Australia): School Of Cultural
And Language Studies In Education
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia): Creative Media
Universit