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.
no one sees and no one knows
http://www.whitestripes.com/discs/ecd5.html
http://www.playdamage.org/42.html
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a08000/6a08100/6a08125r.jpg
http://www.stockmail.ru/~simon/lyrics-show.asp?rene
http://www.lab404.com/front/piano.jpg
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/memory/home/kentucky.jpg
http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkaty.html#track3
http://www.playdamage.org/3.html
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http://www.playdamage.org/42.html
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a08000/6a08100/6a08125r.jpg
http://www.stockmail.ru/~simon/lyrics-show.asp?rene
http://www.lab404.com/front/piano.jpg
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/memory/home/kentucky.jpg
http://www.steelydan.com/lyrkaty.html#track3
http://www.playdamage.org/3.html
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open source [paschal remix]
you did not have a home
there were places you visited frequently
you took off your shoes and scratched your feet
'cause you knew that the whole world belongs to the meek
but you did not have a home
no, you did not have a home
and you did not take a wife
there were pretty maids all in a row
who lined up to touch the hem of your robe
but you had no place to take them, so
you did not take a wife
no, you did not take a wife
birds have nests, foxes have dens
but the hope of the whole world rests
on the shoulders of a homeless man
you had the shoulders of a homeless man
no, you did not have a home
well you had no stones to throw
you came without an ax to grind
you did not tow the party line
no wonder sight came to the blind
you had no stones to throw
you had no stones to throw
and you rode and ass' foal
they spread their coats and cut down palms
For you and your donkey to walk upon
but the world won't find what it thinks it wants
on the back of an ass' foal
so i guess you had to get sold
'cause the world can't stand what it can't own
and it can't own you 'cause you did not have a home
birds have nests, foxes have dens
but the hope of the whole world rests
on the shoulders of a homeless man
you had the shoulders of a homeless man
and the world can't stand what it can't own
and it can't own you
'cause you did not have a home
- rich mullins
http://www.playdamage.org/45.html
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there were places you visited frequently
you took off your shoes and scratched your feet
'cause you knew that the whole world belongs to the meek
but you did not have a home
no, you did not have a home
and you did not take a wife
there were pretty maids all in a row
who lined up to touch the hem of your robe
but you had no place to take them, so
you did not take a wife
no, you did not take a wife
birds have nests, foxes have dens
but the hope of the whole world rests
on the shoulders of a homeless man
you had the shoulders of a homeless man
no, you did not have a home
well you had no stones to throw
you came without an ax to grind
you did not tow the party line
no wonder sight came to the blind
you had no stones to throw
you had no stones to throw
and you rode and ass' foal
they spread their coats and cut down palms
For you and your donkey to walk upon
but the world won't find what it thinks it wants
on the back of an ass' foal
so i guess you had to get sold
'cause the world can't stand what it can't own
and it can't own you 'cause you did not have a home
birds have nests, foxes have dens
but the hope of the whole world rests
on the shoulders of a homeless man
you had the shoulders of a homeless man
and the world can't stand what it can't own
and it can't own you
'cause you did not have a home
- rich mullins
http://www.playdamage.org/45.html
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Re: further question on the "rublinda" correspondance
this piece seems somehow pertinent:
http://www.WatchMeDance.com/war/
i realize it's merely a remix of his earlier work:
http://www.watchmedance.com/episode7/episode7qt.mov
and not as provocative/gender-ambivalent as his mid-era work:
http://www.watchmedance.com/episode14/episode14qt.mov
still, i think it raises some important issues.
curt
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> >Hi Ivan & Michael,
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> >But if we do not question our own actions when making art, whether it
> be for
> >a cause or not, who is?
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> everybody else?
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> <twhid>
> http://www.mteww.com
> </twhid>
http://www.WatchMeDance.com/war/
i realize it's merely a remix of his earlier work:
http://www.watchmedance.com/episode7/episode7qt.mov
and not as provocative/gender-ambivalent as his mid-era work:
http://www.watchmedance.com/episode14/episode14qt.mov
still, i think it raises some important issues.
curt
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> >Hi Ivan & Michael,
>
> >
> >But if we do not question our own actions when making art, whether it
> be for
> >a cause or not, who is?
> >
>
>
> everybody else?
> --
> <twhid>
> http://www.mteww.com
> </twhid>
raisin' issues
portrait of the conceptual artists as frustrated advertising executive:
http://fp.ignatz.plus.com/roadtonowhere.htm
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http://fp.ignatz.plus.com/roadtonowhere.htm
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shining 71 [sweater_weather remix]
I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want - do you want - do you want
To dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause - life is our cause
When I think of your kisses
My mind see-saws
Do you see - do you see - do you see
How you hurt me baby
So I hurt you too
Then we both get so blue
I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It's the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be
I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun
I want to be the one that you want to see
I want to knit you a sweater
Want to write you a love letter
I want to make you feel better
I want to make you feel free
Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm,
Want to make you feel free
I want to make you feel free
- joni mitchell, 1971
http://www.redsmoke.com/TIOTR/
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ugo/other/poetry/thomas.html
http://www.designforfreedom.com/substitud/Movies/typevsm_small.html
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Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want - do you want - do you want
To dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause - life is our cause
When I think of your kisses
My mind see-saws
Do you see - do you see - do you see
How you hurt me baby
So I hurt you too
Then we both get so blue
I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It's the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be
I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun
I want to be the one that you want to see
I want to knit you a sweater
Want to write you a love letter
I want to make you feel better
I want to make you feel free
Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm,
Want to make you feel free
I want to make you feel free
- joni mitchell, 1971
http://www.redsmoke.com/TIOTR/
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ugo/other/poetry/thomas.html
http://www.designforfreedom.com/substitud/Movies/typevsm_small.html
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