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.
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.
see.feel.touch.heal
Movies and books, music and even architecture have for all of us
been part of important emotional moments. The same is going to
happen with the new media. To work at a highly responsive computer
display screen, for instance, can be deeply exciting, like flying an
airplane through a canyon, or talking to somebody brilliant. This is
as it should be. ('The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave
to the emotions.' - Bertrand Russel.)
In the design of our future media and systems, we should not shrink
from this emotional aspect as a legitimate part of our fantic design.
The substratum of technicalities and the midn-bending, gut-slamming
effects they produce, are two sides of the same coin; and to
understand the one is not necessarily to be alienated from the other.
Thus it is for the Wholiness of the human spirit, that we must design."
- Ted Nelson, 1974
http://www.flight404.com
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been part of important emotional moments. The same is going to
happen with the new media. To work at a highly responsive computer
display screen, for instance, can be deeply exciting, like flying an
airplane through a canyon, or talking to somebody brilliant. This is
as it should be. ('The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave
to the emotions.' - Bertrand Russel.)
In the design of our future media and systems, we should not shrink
from this emotional aspect as a legitimate part of our fantic design.
The substratum of technicalities and the midn-bending, gut-slamming
effects they produce, are two sides of the same coin; and to
understand the one is not necessarily to be alienated from the other.
Thus it is for the Wholiness of the human spirit, that we must design."
- Ted Nelson, 1974
http://www.flight404.com
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words, words, words [honeycomb_roadmap remix]
http://levitated.net/daily/levEmotionFractalFS.html (keep refreshing)
http://capitolrecords.com/radiohead/player/ (click "+" and "?" / drag)
http://www.ateaseweb.com/extra/kida-booklet/ (view)
http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_q001.html (be honest)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~atease/questionnaire.html (submit)
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http://capitolrecords.com/radiohead/player/ (click "+" and "?" / drag)
http://www.ateaseweb.com/extra/kida-booklet/ (view)
http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_q001.html (be honest)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~atease/questionnaire.html (submit)
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Re: If I'm already drowning in banality, why do I need more of it (N.C. Mountain Fair)
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/sop/
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>Ivan
>I think that although here you do deploy Curt's quote
>quite effectively against him, there is a third
>alternative which is neither irony nor banality and
>that is that none of us who make work do it entirely
>with our conscious minds and that all sorts of weird
>and wonderful stuff makes its way in there eventually
>at some remove.
>In a way your web cam pieces,Ivan, are about
>transforming the banal into the extraordinary.
>I seem to have spent my entire life so far raising
>kids, with concomitant restrictions on my freedom of
>movement and other activities , so for a five year
>period in the not too distant past I hardly went
>anywhere except to shop, feed ducks and see Disney
>films.
>Equally since my mother's death last year I've become
>quite gripped by bits of paper that surface in my
>Dad's house -letters from the Methodist Church my Mum
>went to, shopping lists, utter trivia.
>At some point and in some way I think this experience
>surfaces in the things I make and what I do
>*consciously* want is to be neither ironic or
>sentimental about it.
>Now you could reply with justification that this is
>fair enough, but that I don't post extracts from the
>Harlow Citizen small ads on Rhizome.
>True - but the above leads me to understand why
>without a particle of irony, or feeling that it is
>banal, or without some horrible "tell us the good news
>about real folk" feeling, the offending article
>represents a bit of found art which I personally found
>more engaging than at least some of the posts which
>find their way onto the list purporting to be 'about'
>art.
>Lenin wrote a thing once which is both blindingly
>obvious and profound -"Everything is connected"
>I think this is true and that artists should be able
>to extract a wider meaning from even the most marginal
>and insignificant thing.
>best
>michael
>
>--- Ivan Pope <ivan@ivanpope.com> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: N.C. Mountain State Fair
> > to Celebrate 10th
> > Birthday in 2003
> >
> >
> > > "You have not studied Joyce or Baudelaire yet, or
> > you would have no
> > > problems in understanding my procedure. I have no
> > theories whatever
> > > about anything. I make observations by way of
> > discovering contours,
> > > lines of force, and pressures. I satirize at all
> > times, and my
> > > hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events
> > to which they refer."
> > >
> > > - Marshall Mathers McLuhan
> > >
> > >
> >
>http://k10k.net/wulffmorgenthaler/large/370_carpet_covers_hal.gif
> > >
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:24 PM
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: towards a more ambient art
> >
> > > Not that everything has to be Tolstoy. But when
> > so few things even
> > > attempt to be Tolstoy and so many things are
> > content to be Bazooka
> > > Joe Bubble Gum Cartoons, it gets kind of boring
> > for ye olde art
> > > patron. The Cliff's Notes artist would say, "I'm
> > just echoing the
> > > meaninglessness and frivolity of our post-modern
> > culture." Well why
> > > on earth would you want to do that? If I'm
> > already drowning in
> > > banality, why do I need more of it?
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> > out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at
>http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
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>Ivan
>I think that although here you do deploy Curt's quote
>quite effectively against him, there is a third
>alternative which is neither irony nor banality and
>that is that none of us who make work do it entirely
>with our conscious minds and that all sorts of weird
>and wonderful stuff makes its way in there eventually
>at some remove.
>In a way your web cam pieces,Ivan, are about
>transforming the banal into the extraordinary.
>I seem to have spent my entire life so far raising
>kids, with concomitant restrictions on my freedom of
>movement and other activities , so for a five year
>period in the not too distant past I hardly went
>anywhere except to shop, feed ducks and see Disney
>films.
>Equally since my mother's death last year I've become
>quite gripped by bits of paper that surface in my
>Dad's house -letters from the Methodist Church my Mum
>went to, shopping lists, utter trivia.
>At some point and in some way I think this experience
>surfaces in the things I make and what I do
>*consciously* want is to be neither ironic or
>sentimental about it.
>Now you could reply with justification that this is
>fair enough, but that I don't post extracts from the
>Harlow Citizen small ads on Rhizome.
>True - but the above leads me to understand why
>without a particle of irony, or feeling that it is
>banal, or without some horrible "tell us the good news
>about real folk" feeling, the offending article
>represents a bit of found art which I personally found
>more engaging than at least some of the posts which
>find their way onto the list purporting to be 'about'
>art.
>Lenin wrote a thing once which is both blindingly
>obvious and profound -"Everything is connected"
>I think this is true and that artists should be able
>to extract a wider meaning from even the most marginal
>and insignificant thing.
>best
>michael
>
>--- Ivan Pope <ivan@ivanpope.com> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: N.C. Mountain State Fair
> > to Celebrate 10th
> > Birthday in 2003
> >
> >
> > > "You have not studied Joyce or Baudelaire yet, or
> > you would have no
> > > problems in understanding my procedure. I have no
> > theories whatever
> > > about anything. I make observations by way of
> > discovering contours,
> > > lines of force, and pressures. I satirize at all
> > times, and my
> > > hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events
> > to which they refer."
> > >
> > > - Marshall Mathers McLuhan
> > >
> > >
> >
>http://k10k.net/wulffmorgenthaler/large/370_carpet_covers_hal.gif
> > >
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:24 PM
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: towards a more ambient art
> >
> > > Not that everything has to be Tolstoy. But when
> > so few things even
> > > attempt to be Tolstoy and so many things are
> > content to be Bazooka
> > > Joe Bubble Gum Cartoons, it gets kind of boring
> > for ye olde art
> > > patron. The Cliff's Notes artist would say, "I'm
> > just echoing the
> > > meaninglessness and frivolity of our post-modern
> > culture." Well why
> > > on earth would you want to do that? If I'm
> > already drowning in
> > > banality, why do I need more of it?
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> > out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at
>http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
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