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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Host This Concept: I Rock America and America Rocks Me


ha! this is just the kind of parochialism that the piece "foregrounds." None of it will matter because all I'll see is the inside of a room.

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t.whid wrote:

> Plasma Studii wrote:
>
> > >Anyway, our studio's in Brooklyn, which all the Manhattan snobs
> will
> > >remind you IS NOT New York City. It's Brooklyn damnit!
> >
> >
> > brooklyn's ok. but williamsburg (a neighborhood in it, that smells
> > really toxic and is populated by kids who try to be
> > too-kool-for-skool artists) is NASTEEEE! steer clear at all costs.
> > no one deserves to get such an awful impression of this town.
>
> Hey! Billsburg ain't nasteee! It's the bomb! That's where our studio
> is and I love it. N. 6th st, ahhhh, what a beautiful place. Y, there
> are lots of posers, so what! I always said I'd never complain about
> bburg gentrification (or hipsterification) since I was part of the
> problem anyway. I ain't gonna start now :-)
>
> Seriously tho. I lived in bburg and greenpoint for over 10 years and I
> have a real soft spot in my heart for that part of brooklyn. Before i
> moved to another part of BKLYN, I mentioned to Kevin McCoy that I
> lived on Grand St. btw Bedford and Berry. His reply? "Ah. Right on
> campus." hahahahahahaha

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Host This Concept: I Rock America and America Rocks Me


I don't mean that New York City is not American; I just mean that it is by no means representative of all America, as so many non-Americans think it is. Like meeting folks in San Juan with relatives in New York City, and they assume that since you are from the US you must be intimately familiar with the layout of New York City. "They live on such and such a street. You know, it's right there next to that little bakery with the red awning." As if New York City is to the US as San Juan is to Puerto Rico (or Tel Aviv is to Israel, or London is to England, etc.).

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t.whid wrote:

> Haha. Ya know? It's true. Thankfully. We NYers always say that, "new
> york isn't really america," but it's strange to hear someone from the
> "real" america say it.
>
> Tell me, why do you say that? Just curious.

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Re: Re: Host This Concept: I Rock America and America Rocks Me


Thanks Tim,

Beastie Beuys. To the 5 Buroughs. Brooklyn is New York City to me, and that's enough as far as the concept goes. New York City isn't really America, but it was America to Beuys in the piece. And he didn't actually see any of New York City. He just hung out with a coyote inside a warehouse and then flew home. He just as soon have been in any city, which I think was part of his point.

Staying true to that "singular space" aspect of his concept, I have to sleep and eat in the same space where I'm playing, and it should probably have electricity (electric guitar, rock, and all that). I do have a battery operated pignose amplifier, but it devours batteries and 5 days is a long time. A bathroom would also be nice. I'm not averse to street musicianship, and sleeping in the subway would surely be more hardcore than sleeping with a coyote or pretending to be a dog, but I want the "hardcore" emphasis to be more on the endurance of the continual playing and less on the danger of the performance environment.

peace,
curt

t.whid wrote:

> Hi curt,
>
> MTAA wishes they could help out, but sleeping isn't allowed in our
> studio. Plus, when signing the lease they explicitly told us that we
> couldn't shoot porn videos there either. Kind of a strange clause, but
> it didn't stop us from peeing in a bucket for 1YPV. I guess that's not
> porn though.
>
> Anyway, our studio's in Brooklyn, which all the Manhattan snobs will
> remind you IS NOT New York City. It's Brooklyn damnit!
>
> A small suggestion, if you truly wish to attain hardcore-ness
> (hardcore-itude?), you could come to NYC, play on the corner in front
> of a blue-chip Chelsea (57th st. is another option of course) gallery
> of your choice, and stay at the YMCA.
>
> Or better yet, play in the subway for change. In August in NYC that
> would be pretty hardcore because you'd probably die of heat exhaustion
> without a few gallons of water. Unless you did it on the actual
> trains, they're air conditioned. But the cops might bust you for that.
>
> This reminds me of the mennonites (at least I assume they were
> mennonites) that would preach on the corner of Broad and High St. in
> Columbus, OH when I was in college. They were so cute. They preached
> as a whole family and they had a boy, probably around 12 or 13. They
> would stay pressed against the wall in single file, but take turns
> stepping into the sidewalk with bible held high and yell verses at the
> passersby. I remember seeing the young kid do it, the smile on his
> face after he did it. It looked to me like he was so happy and proud
> -- like he was shy, but he worked up the courage to scream some truth
> (as he perceived it) to the infidels streaming by in the Big City.

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Re: Re: Host This Concept: I Rock America and America Rocks Me


I'm game, but the airfare would probably be cost prohibitive.

Has your shirt ( http://deepyoung.org/current/dyskonceptual/nznl.html ) arrived yet?

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Geert Dekkers wrote:

> Amsterdam?

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RHIZOME_RAW: Re: eh?


Hi all,

Here is a more comprehensive 50 worst and 50 best list:
http://www.isi.org/journals/ir/50best_worst/index.html

The short synopses of the works are just that -- short synopses. They are unapolagetically belligerent because the judges are picking a fight which they hope will lead to a reconsideration of "the canon."

Neither set of judges are dummies. I'm sure they are conversant with these texts and could readily delineate the impact these texts have had on western culture from their perspectives. They just fundamentally disagree with the boilerplate "progressive/enlightened" liberal world view we've inherited and are unwilling to accept it as beneficially progressive.

Might someone clearly understand the nuances of your world view and still choose not to subscribe to it (yea, even take some pot shots at it) without being rotely dismissed as a small-minded, barely literate simpleton? Is such an outcome possible?

peace,
curt

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Pall Thayer wrote:

> http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?idu91
>
> Are these people for real?!?
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