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.
i'm seeing objects
reaching
http://www.anatomyofhope.net/one/
http://www.destroyevil.com/
falling
http://one38.org/pavu/space.html
http://www.titler.com/38.html
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000C2BV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
hooked_on_phonics
http://meta.am/flux/scade/
http://punkassbitch.org/self.interview.video/
http://www.m9ndfukc.com/b5c98/13.gif
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http://www.anatomyofhope.net/one/
http://www.destroyevil.com/
falling
http://one38.org/pavu/space.html
http://www.titler.com/38.html
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000C2BV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
hooked_on_phonics
http://meta.am/flux/scade/
http://punkassbitch.org/self.interview.video/
http://www.m9ndfukc.com/b5c98/13.gif
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shine on you crazy diamond
There's a very thin line between "professional" design and good
"amateur" design, and the line is getting thinner all the time.
Those who spent the cash and time on a design education feel
themselves to be on the "professional" side of the line, and are
obliged to make a great deal about the line, lest their elitism be
diminished. So they are constantly puffing up the mystique of their
secret knowledge/skill by dogging those whom they perceive to be on
the other side of the line.
The line between professional and amateur in the contemporary art
world is thinner yet, so even more huffing and puffing (and several
more degrees, grants, endowments, etc.) by insiders is required to
maintain the line. Insiders will even go so far as to assimilate
outsiders when they become too inarguably popular or troublesome. If
you can't beat 'em, give 'em a free membership.
In both cases, it's always more about the scene and the line around
the scene than it is about any actual design or art. Which is why I
prefer rock & roll.
http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~brianm/lancelockarm/
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"amateur" design, and the line is getting thinner all the time.
Those who spent the cash and time on a design education feel
themselves to be on the "professional" side of the line, and are
obliged to make a great deal about the line, lest their elitism be
diminished. So they are constantly puffing up the mystique of their
secret knowledge/skill by dogging those whom they perceive to be on
the other side of the line.
The line between professional and amateur in the contemporary art
world is thinner yet, so even more huffing and puffing (and several
more degrees, grants, endowments, etc.) by insiders is required to
maintain the line. Insiders will even go so far as to assimilate
outsiders when they become too inarguably popular or troublesome. If
you can't beat 'em, give 'em a free membership.
In both cases, it's always more about the scene and the line around
the scene than it is about any actual design or art. Which is why I
prefer rock & roll.
http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~brianm/lancelockarm/
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tracy emin + eminem: is there a connection?
http://www.trueistrue.com/tt3/imgdoc/artwork_00025f.jpg
tracy emin + eminem. yeah! it's like, "thanks for sharing," but I
can hear more engrossing revelations at an AA meeting for free, or
from Dr. Evil for a nominal movie rental fee.
as kids (sense the welling angst):
http://www.whitecube.com/images/prog/archive/wcds/tre/tre_invt.jpg
http://www.eminem.com/gallery_kid_7.html
regarding their mothers:
http://www.whitecube.com/images/prog/wc/past/tre/tre_010l.gif
http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~brianm/lancelockarm/Lockarm_Closetsitter.mp3
[audio by Soft Cell]
the snide, tortured defiance:
http://www.eminem.com/gallery_new_1.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news_comment/artistsinprofile/images/emin.jpg
man, i'm glad we live in a culture where they are both so critically acclaimed.
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tracy emin + eminem. yeah! it's like, "thanks for sharing," but I
can hear more engrossing revelations at an AA meeting for free, or
from Dr. Evil for a nominal movie rental fee.
as kids (sense the welling angst):
http://www.whitecube.com/images/prog/archive/wcds/tre/tre_invt.jpg
http://www.eminem.com/gallery_kid_7.html
regarding their mothers:
http://www.whitecube.com/images/prog/wc/past/tre/tre_010l.gif
http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~brianm/lancelockarm/Lockarm_Closetsitter.mp3
[audio by Soft Cell]
the snide, tortured defiance:
http://www.eminem.com/gallery_new_1.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news_comment/artistsinprofile/images/emin.jpg
man, i'm glad we live in a culture where they are both so critically acclaimed.
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rock [son_house remix]
dont let em tell you the future's electric
cause gasoline's not measured in metric
http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/MTAA/websiteunseen1/ram.html
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/
http://www.whitestripes.com/art/images/jackmeg2.jpg
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cause gasoline's not measured in metric
http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/MTAA/websiteunseen1/ram.html
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/
http://www.whitestripes.com/art/images/jackmeg2.jpg
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