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.
commodify yr consumption
Thanks for taking the time to read it Vijay.
That chans mistake is vague grammar on my part. It doesn't actually say the chans are invitation-only, but I see how that can be inferred from the way I've structured those two sentences. As an aside, I don't think Marisa lists the chans as an inspiration at all. But as you observed here earlier, the two practices seem related. I could clarify all that in a footnote, but there is a fine line between minutiae and scatology (cf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8IrZ4sKLQw ).
That chans mistake is vague grammar on my part. It doesn't actually say the chans are invitation-only, but I see how that can be inferred from the way I've structured those two sentences. As an aside, I don't think Marisa lists the chans as an inspiration at all. But as you observed here earlier, the two practices seem related. I could clarify all that in a footnote, but there is a fine line between minutiae and scatology (cf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8IrZ4sKLQw ).
the intersection of yesterday's desires + my content
Google search phrases that led people to a page at one of my domains ( http://lab404.com , http://deepyoung.org , http://playdamage.org ), yesterday, may 14, 2009. Unabridged.
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New Discussion Section Policy
Our merry Montaigne is a garruolus and gullible old man, neither safe nor scientific."
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blindman/2/05.htm
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blindman/2/05.htm
commodify yr consumption
Hi Everyone,
Here a paper I wrote on "artistic surfing" --
http://lab404.com/articles/commodify_your_consumption.pdf
Love,
Curt
Here a paper I wrote on "artistic surfing" --
http://lab404.com/articles/commodify_your_consumption.pdf
Love,
Curt
New Discussion Section Policy
Hi Nick,
Following Derrida, it is worth noting what is being implicitly preferenced here (as opposed to what is being explicitly subordinated):
"on-topic" posts
"non-commercial" posts
"authentic" links (no rickrolling?)
"desirable" unspamming
And what is being implicitly subordinated (as opposed to what is being explicitly preferenced):
uncritical, uncreative non-engagement
The means by which one distinguishes "authentic creative" non-sequitir absurdity from "bogus uncreative" opportunistic spamming might be worth a bit of "critical engagement." According to Barthes, artistic tactics that try to evade the mythologizing of language (tactics like dadaist/surrealist absurdity, essentialist poetry, or precise mathematical language) eventually wind up getting mythologized whole cloth ("E=MC2" as a myth of math itself, "the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" as a myth of absurdity itself). The critical efficacy of these tactics is diluted once they are thus mythologized.
So absurdist jodi.org ascii text passes the filters as approved neo-dada (authentic, desirable, critical, [safe, mythologizable, art-world contextualizable]), but not-quite-on-topic spam is filtered as unapproved commercialism (bogus, undesirable, uncritical, [dangerous, having-already-been-recouped, art-world uncontextualizable]).
The initial 1917 filtering of R. Mutt's "Fountain" was justified (in part) because it was a mass-produced, utilitarian, overtly commercial object.
For great deals on fountains, shop home depot!
Patiently,
Curt
Following Derrida, it is worth noting what is being implicitly preferenced here (as opposed to what is being explicitly subordinated):
"on-topic" posts
"non-commercial" posts
"authentic" links (no rickrolling?)
"desirable" unspamming
And what is being implicitly subordinated (as opposed to what is being explicitly preferenced):
uncritical, uncreative non-engagement
The means by which one distinguishes "authentic creative" non-sequitir absurdity from "bogus uncreative" opportunistic spamming might be worth a bit of "critical engagement." According to Barthes, artistic tactics that try to evade the mythologizing of language (tactics like dadaist/surrealist absurdity, essentialist poetry, or precise mathematical language) eventually wind up getting mythologized whole cloth ("E=MC2" as a myth of math itself, "the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" as a myth of absurdity itself). The critical efficacy of these tactics is diluted once they are thus mythologized.
So absurdist jodi.org ascii text passes the filters as approved neo-dada (authentic, desirable, critical, [safe, mythologizable, art-world contextualizable]), but not-quite-on-topic spam is filtered as unapproved commercialism (bogus, undesirable, uncritical, [dangerous, having-already-been-recouped, art-world uncontextualizable]).
The initial 1917 filtering of R. Mutt's "Fountain" was justified (in part) because it was a mass-produced, utilitarian, overtly commercial object.
For great deals on fountains, shop home depot!
Patiently,
Curt