curt cloninger
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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

Untitled Document


http://deepyoung.org/current/blank/untitle.html

untitle this concept: untitledocument
A new pre-conceptual meta-project from the "_ this concept series"

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When making a web page with Dreamweaver, The default <title> tag is "Untitled Document." So any newbie who makes a page without realizing this will have a page which gets indexed by Google as "Untitled Document." You can see where this is leading...

First you have to purchase a URL specifically for this project, because heaven forbid you have a conceptual net art project without its own dedicated conceptual URL. All variations of UntitledDocument.com/net/org are taken, but http://untitledocument.org [sic] is still available. The merged and misspelled words only add chachet to the net.pop dorkiness, I mean hipness. Purchase this URL quickly while it is still available.

Then you just make a frameset page called index.html and title it "Untitled Document". Have that frameset page call another page that returns the results of a google search for "Untitled Document" ( http://bit.ly/8uI3GI ).

Note that currently (November 21, 2009) the second highest ranking for a page titled "Untitled Document" is http://jeffkoons.com. Did Koons just get sloppy and hire some newbie intern to make his splash page, or is there some conceptual purpose to this gaffe? No matter. Koons doesn't really make anything, and neither does this project, so they are a perfect conceptual match. You meant to do that. Make sure you say so in your artist statement.

I hope you have as much fun implementing this project as I had conceiving it. Work hard, and perhaps your project will be included in an online group show curated by one of your friends.

i'm not here / this isn't happening,
curt

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for more pre-conceptual meta-projects, visit http://deepyoung.org/current/blank/

EVENT

Double Blind (Love)


Dates:
Sun Nov 29, 2009 00:00 - Tue Nov 10, 2009

One day (what will have happened?), a far-seer will abandon his or her segment and start walking across a narrow overpass above the dark abyss, will break his or her telescope and depart on a line of flight to meet a blind Double approaching from the other side.
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

By repetition you can increase the chance that your choice will sound as far as the borders of the network, but you also risk toppling over the landscape (previously filled with surprises) into a monotonous desert.
Annie Abrahams, http://bram.org/info/presentation/texte.htm

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Double Blind (Love)
Telepresence performance
Annie Abrahams. Living Room, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from 6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open until 23:30PM).
Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina, US. Sunday November 29, from noon until the end of the performance.

Annie Abrahams and Curt Cloninger will present a telepresence performance, Sunday, November 29. Annie Abrahams (from the Living Room in Montpellier, France) and Curt Cloninger (from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, US) will repeatedly sing "love, love, love" (a short excerpt from a pop song*) as a kind of duet, in real time/space and online.

In order to isolate them from their surroundings and make them more attentive to the other, they will both be blindfolded. While singing they hope to evolve, mutating the original song excerpt, collaborating and communicating in a space/time of alterity. The artists have never met each other in the flesh.

There is no set duration. They will sing until the first one of them decides to stop. In both places a space will be reserved for the live performance and another for the video and audio projection. A camera will be fixed on each of their faces singing to each other. This live video of both faces will be projected both in the Living Room space and in the Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center space. The performance will also be visible on the web at http://selfworld.net .

* U2’s Until the End of the World. http://lab404.com/misc/untiltheendoftheworld.mp3

Full Press Release: http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/doubleblindlove_dossierpressebr2.pdf


DISCUSSION

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http://rhizome.org/discuss/ and http://www.bookofcommonprayer.net/daily_office.php are the only web pages I ever visit, and I surf them via Lynx running in a mac command line Terminal window using an audible screen reader for the blind. Other times I simply pray the Book of Common Prayer from rote memory and intuit what will be posted at Rhizome based on an emergent formula perpetually derived from the unpublished writings of various second rate continental philosophers, college students, conceptual artists intimate with Cosey Fanni Tutti, and the spirit of Roky Erickson circa 1971. I post via binary telekinesis. Look in my eye.


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