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

open call to make cool stuff


PRESS RELEASE: 5/30/03

Existence is sponsoring an open call to make cool stuff. There is no
deadline, and the show will run from now until forever. Artists and
even regular people are invited to make cool stuff out of physical
materials or bits. The stuff can be 2D, 3D, animated, linear,
non-linear, reactive, interactive, autogenerative, static, networked,
online, offline, or sitting on cinder blocks in your back yard.

No prizes, grants, or residencies will be awarded; no gallery space
will be allotted; no festival will be held. No publication will
accompany the show, nor will it have a name, so you won't be able to
put it on your CV, resume, business card, faculty record, book flap,
or the back of your 4X10 black & white glossy. No wine or cheese
will be served at the opening. DJ Spooky will not be on the
turntables. Press coverage will be provided by neither Mathew
Mirapaul nor Josephine Bosma. No art school interns will point at
you and ask "is that he/she?"

No reply is necessary.

For further details, visit http://www.at.org

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DISCUSSION

Re: the onion is funny


the turner prize is even funnier:

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/29/uturner.xml

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t.whid wrote:

> Magical Gallery Transforms Dull Objects Into Art
> NEW YORK-A magical New York art gallery has the power to turn dull,
> everyday items into brilliant works of art, sources reported Monday.
> "Seth Clayton's devastating Untitled No. 7 captures the despair of
> urban ennui in a way that's post-ironic yet somehow pre-pomo," said
> David E. Sherry, owner of the David E. Sherry Gallery, while admiring
> a rusty bucket and tattered boot lying on the gallery floor. "Its
> eloquence is truly heartbreaking."
>
> ++
>
> hahahahaha
> --
> <twhid>
> http://www.mteww.com
> </twhid>

DISCUSSION

shining 89 [sky_water remix]


I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us
I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us

In this garden
This lovely garden
I build a temple of love
Walk with the Father
Won't be a bother
To touch the Earth as it was
We'll farm the land each day
And in the sunshine we will play
Glory glory for the day He came
Our tears had gone away
We'll make love in the shade
And in the ocean we will bathe
Little fishies in the sea
Say hooray

I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us
I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us

In this garden
Our children will grow
Darling this is a must
We'll be so happy
Our little family
So full of love and trust
And darling when we're old
We'll close the gates and lock the door
Our love will never fade away
When it's pure it forever last
And darling when you're cold
I'll hold you tight and keep you warm
Little darlin' gonna make it through the storm
You'll never be alone

I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us
I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us

In this garden
There'll be no war
No racial prejudice
You'll be my brother
Of any color
You'll just be okay with us
We'll live each day in peace
In hope that we will one day reach
The rest of the world
When they are ready to be teached
The kingdom will come
Thy will will be done
On Earth as it is in heaven
I build this garden
I build this garden for us
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us
I build this garden for us, I build this garden for us

l.k., 1989

http://www.typevsm.com/kopernik.html
http://www.artmuseum.net/viola2/dhtml/content/viola_gallery/BV13.html
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/memory/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/norham-castle.jpg

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DISCUSSION

Re: graffiti


Thanks Ryan,

I'm really just a graf writer wanna-be, ever since "Beat Street." Spit was the antagonist who wrote over everybody's work because he was no good to begin with. "Man, somebody needs to break his hands."

This particular exchange from the film still rocks my world:

Ramo:
Hey, you see them? Their tags are little black letters on little white cards of paper. My tags are running in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens right now, in every burrough on every line. It's eight feet high and it's beautiful.

Double K:
But what about tomorrow?

Ramo:
Tomorrow's a long way off, man. When I'm writing trains or when your mixing sounds, making people dance, that's everything. We're alive.

ryan griffis wrote:

> thought Curt and maybe others would be interested in
> this. Portland film maker Matt McCormick made a short
> video called "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti
> Removal" that's pretty cool (IMO). it creates a
> hilarious, yet semi-serious, thesis that graffiti
> removal is a subconscious expression of the aesthetic
> desires of the ruling class, connecting it to abstract
> expressionism and suprematism within the context of
> strict anti-graffiti legislation in portland. anyway,
> his other work might be of interest too.
> http://www.rodeofilmco.com/rfc/graffitiremoval.php
> ryan

DISCUSSION

do not seek the treasure


we had a pirate band
a tear for every grain of sand
and i was fighting with my hands
over you
beautiful thing
you are the most
beautiful thing
flower of life
bird of spring
you are the most
beautiful thing

http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/blake.html
http://www.playdamage.org/23.html
http://images.google.com/images?q