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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Conference Report: NET.ART (SECOND EPOCH)


Hi Marisa (and all),

I still think your movement needs another moniker, since the artists doing the pro surfing aren't really "professionals." AmSurfer? AmSumer? (You could host an event called "The TransAm Summer of AmSurfer Consumption." I'm just thinking out loud here.) I use the term "artistic surfing" in the paper I presented, but it's not all that catchy. I love Vijay's Surf Clubbin', but it has obvious derogatory overtones (plus it's so 2008!).

It is a happy accident in English that "surfer" and "surface" are homonymic, but they don't derive from the same root. Otherwise some Roland Barthes type could have made a big deal about it in a paper.

Bisou,
Curt (facebook member since March 10, 2009)



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Epic Net Art: The (Pre)Coda


t. wrote:
net art is uniquely situated to encompass the two poles he describes (if they are poles...).

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Maybe one pole is time (of whatever duration) and the other pole is space.

"Strategies are actions which... priviledge spatial relationships... Tactics are procedures that gain validity in relation to the pertinence they lend to time... The two ways of acting can be distinguished according to whether they bet on place or time" (Michel de Certeau, 1980).

Regarding history, I've taught this course [ http://lab404.com/330 ] for five years. Every year we read that Ross list, along with:
http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/10/essay.php?essay=6
http://www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/Texts/dietzwhyhavether.html
http://www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/Texts/broggernetart,we.html
None of them were written after 2002, yet they all remain pretty useful starting points.

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Epic Net Art: The (Pre)Coda


Ross here meaning "epic" in the Brechtian sense (unspectacular, it is what it is), not "epic" in the Wagnerian sense.

Then there's epic in the Beastie Boysean sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g

Not to be confused with epic (fail) in the Joseph Beuysean sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TjHIyKzWVw