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

DISCUSSION

a tale of two grids [ds9_is_sexy remix]


////////// gridmaking:
William Morris
HAMMERSMITH
Arthur Mackmurdo
GLASGOW
Frances McDonald
James MacNair
Margaret McDonald
Charles Rennie Macintosh
Frank Lloyd Right
Peter Behrens
Kohlman Moser
Josef Maria Olbrich
J.L. Mathieu Lauweriks
Theo van Doesburg
El Lissitsky
WEIMAR
Walter Gropius
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Herbert Bayer
Jan Tschichold
Max Bill
ZURICH
Josef Muller-Brockmann
Wim Crouwel
Paul Rand
Massimo Vignelli

//////////gridbreaking:
Hugo Ball
ZURICH
Trstan Tzara
Jean Arp
Marcel Duchamp
Filippo Marinetti
Stephane Mallarme
Guillaume Appolinaire
Charles Pierce
Ferdinand de Saussure
BERLIN
Hanna Hoch
Raoul Hausemann
Kurt Schwitters
El Lissitsky
WEIMAR
Johannes Itten
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Piet Zwart
BASEL
Armin Hofmann
Emil Ruder
Wolfgang Weingart
April Greiman
Willi Kinz
CRANBROOK
Catherine McCoy
Robert Venturi & Dennis Scott-Brown
Ed Fella
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
Robert Nakata

DISCUSSION

self-references


Hi everybody,

I'm doing a graduate school residency this summer in Maine. I will
rent a room from a family there. I talked with the wife on the
phone, and they required a reference, which I supplied. They also
asked if I could send them something that would act as a
self-reference. I immediately thought of this John Ruskin quote:

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the
book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their
art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two
others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last."

It got me thinking about mediated identity, which has so much to do
with net art. Not that all net art need be autobiographical, but I r
ealized that merely sending them a link to one of my analytical
essays or to one of my experimental artworks would not necessarily
assure them that I was a safe bet to sleep in the same house with
their daughter.

In an era where the idea of "true self" has been systematically
discredited, a lot of net art ostensibly about identity is actually
about in-identity. I could see me telling this couple, "Yeah, I did
this net art project a while back where I posted online as 'Jennifer'
even though my name is really 'Alan', just to see how it would make
me feel."

Here's what I sent them:
http://www.lab404.com/video/where_are_your_eyes.html
http://www.lab404.com/audio/no_one_knows/your_beauty_fills_my_eyes.mp3
http://pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_idx3

I'd be curious to see other people's best guess mediated
representations of what they consider to be their true selves. Don't
pretend you're trying to get work into an eastern eurpoean exhibit on
the telematic embrace of the simulacrum. Pretend you're trying to
convince a family who doesn't know you to let you live in their house
for the summer.

This is your mission, should you choose to accept it.

yours truly,
curt

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: funding and rhizome comissions


Edmund Goubert wrote:

> Is it only money that's the obstacle here? Spent right, a few million
> dollars could set up a huge publicity machine to promote a few
> Netartists - I mean shoot them into the stratosphere.

Again, there are all sorts of inherent attributes of the network as an artistic medium that are diametrically opposed to the old "top artist as vanguard posterboy/hero" model.

cf: http://www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/Texts/dietzwhyhavether.html