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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the power of your intense fragility [these_go_to_eleven remix]


You must experiment with all kinds of gear before claiming your own
patch of dirt. Here are a few ideas to kick around.

For a cool shred setup:
* Use extra-light strings (.009-.042) to facilitate legato fretting
ad tapping techniques, and to reduce string resistance when sweeping
and consecutive picking.
* Use a high-gain preamp to generate compression and tons of sustain.
* Play through low-gain pickups to maintain note articulation.
* If your amp offers them, select pentode, full power, and
high-dampened options. These settings will further enhance
articulation.
* Choose high-power speakers for their fast response time and
increased fidelity. Over-rate them, relative to amp output. For
example, try driving four 50- or 75-watt 12s with a 100-watt head.
* Play through a closed-back cabinet.
* Rule of thumb: Keep your transducers (pickups and speakers) clean;
get your mondo grunge in the middle of the chain.

Conversely, for a singing blues tone:
* Run a low-watt, non-master volume tube amp wide open -- or darned
close to it.
* Use heavier strings and relatively hot pick-ups to kick the amp's
input into overdrive.
* On large, modern amps, select half-power, triode, and low-damped
settings; these options invite a loose, open tone.
* control distortion from your guitar's volume knob and with picking dynamics.
* Choose low-wattage speakers that your amp can distort. Of course,
you risk blowing a few voice coils for that golden tone.
* Use an open-backed cabinet.
* Rule of thumb: Keep the front end of the chain (pickups, effects,
and preamp) reasonably clean; push the tail end (power tubes,
transformer, and speakers) hard.

- Andy Widders-Ellis, 1992

http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07040170
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/eno.html
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol3_No1_reviews_netart_cloninger.html
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol3_No2_radical_cloninger.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005NHL/

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Re: where is 2003 net art links?


the full list just cropped up here:
http://www.electrokin.com/netart_links.htm

l.d. love-church wrote:

> does anyone know what happened to 2003 net art links? it seems to have
> disappeared. indeed, a real resource.
>
> sadiq bey

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outsider.net.art: lawn-sculpting the noosphere


http://deepyoung.org/current/outsider/

outsider.net.art: lawn-sculpting the noosphere

Deep/Young Anodyne Laboratories is pleased to announce its newest
ethereal exhibit -- "outsider.net.art: lawn-sculpting the noosphere",
currently housed & viewable at Deep/Young Ethereal Archive via the
aforementioned URL.

"outsider.net.art" focuses on people who make net.art for themselves
or their immediate communities, often without recognizing themselves
as artists until some collector or expert comes along to inform them
that what they are doing is making art.

Artists include:
* Nick Neighbors
* Cold Bacon
* Max Herman
* Daniel Johnston
* Nikola Tosic
* Ben Watson
* Ze Frank

Brief critical commentary is provided by sundry colourful
contributors to the urban dictionary.

As You Wish,
Curt Cloninger
Archive Registrar
Deep/Young Ethereal Archive
http://www.deepyoung.org


DISCUSSION

Re: where is 2003 net art links?


appears to have been intentionally removed:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm
information wants to be epehemeral.

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l.d. love-church wrote:

> does anyone know what happened to 2003 net art links? it seems to have
> disappeared. indeed, a real resource.
>
> sadiq bey