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.
Re: Re: miles davis and new media
the last of the rock stars
when hip-hop drove the big cars
in the time when new media
was the big idea
- u2 (2000)
truly wonderful are these bill laswell dub "translations" of Miles' electric era:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000062GA/
and these remixes of those translations:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J2PC/
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> --- eduardo@navasse.net wrote:
>
>
But I amnot sure why you
> place him in opposition to new media. Miles
> wasactually very interested in what was going on in
> contemporaryculture. His last album from 1991, which
> you may alreadyknow, explored the relationship of Hip
> Hop with Be-Bop. He named the Album Doo-Bop. Check
> the word:
> http://www.sweeting.org/mark/mp3/Miles_Davis/Doo-Bop.html
> It was produced with Kool-Mo-Be. It is a remarkable
> synthesisbetween loops, samples and improvizational
> jazz, including twotracks produced posthumously around
> his sampled trumpet solos, andwhich are
> indistinguishable from his other compositions,which
> where improvised in the studio. Miles embraced
> whathis culture offered him at the same time that he
> contributed to enhanceit by making material for the
> future with what was new inhis own time. He embraced
> the new, just like any othercreative cat would and
> should do. So let's not put himon a pedestal in
> opposition to theoriticians or emergingtechnologies.
>
> Best,
>
> Eduardo
when hip-hop drove the big cars
in the time when new media
was the big idea
- u2 (2000)
truly wonderful are these bill laswell dub "translations" of Miles' electric era:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000062GA/
and these remixes of those translations:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J2PC/
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> --- eduardo@navasse.net wrote:
>
>
But I amnot sure why you
> place him in opposition to new media. Miles
> wasactually very interested in what was going on in
> contemporaryculture. His last album from 1991, which
> you may alreadyknow, explored the relationship of Hip
> Hop with Be-Bop. He named the Album Doo-Bop. Check
> the word:
> http://www.sweeting.org/mark/mp3/Miles_Davis/Doo-Bop.html
> It was produced with Kool-Mo-Be. It is a remarkable
> synthesisbetween loops, samples and improvizational
> jazz, including twotracks produced posthumously around
> his sampled trumpet solos, andwhich are
> indistinguishable from his other compositions,which
> where improvised in the studio. Miles embraced
> whathis culture offered him at the same time that he
> contributed to enhanceit by making material for the
> future with what was new inhis own time. He embraced
> the new, just like any othercreative cat would and
> should do. So let's not put himon a pedestal in
> opposition to theoriticians or emergingtechnologies.
>
> Best,
>
> Eduardo
Re: Re: 9 out of 10 muslim anarchists agree...
c.c:
i'd make a distinction. nobody ever thought they were going to upload their soul into a book. the book was always a sign pointing to an extra-textual place of spiritual transcendence. (whether that extra-textual place actually exists or not is an ontological question.) but these days some folks think the network is itself a place of "actual" spiritual transcendence. like the sign to mt. rushmore = mt. rushmore. like going to a restaurant and eating the menu.
m.k:
and before the computer "false transcendence" was provided by a book.
h.b:
> >this type of thinking lead to what
> > I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
> > body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
> > immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved.
>
>
>
> curt cloninger wrote:
>
> > People think that society is the creation of technology, not that
> > technology is the creation of society, and in this sense the
> computer
> > and the net and cyberspace and all this type of thinking lead to
> what
> > I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
> > body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
> > immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved. I know
> > that your familiar with these sort of people, extropians,
> > cybernetfreaks and technomaniacs who truly believe, in a true
> > religious sense, that the computer is the final frontier of human
> > consciousness. I'm just not convinced, I don't see any way the body
> > is being transcended, it is still sitting in front of the keyboard,
> > the eyes are still looking at the screen. William Gibson has a
> > wonderful image of the hacker plugged in to the computer and dying
> > while his consciousness is still living on in cyberspace.
> >
> > This is the fantasy that we can download consciousness and somehow
> > achieve immortality inside the machine - at best I would say that
> > this is a very hypothetical supposition, at worst it could turn out
> > to be a total falsehood. If it is a total falsehood, then what we
> are
> > looking at here is a bad parody of religion, a parodic
> consciousness
> > or a conciseness which is simply a parody of itself, this I think
> is
> > where the danger lies.
> >
> > - peter lamborn wilson/hakim bey (1995)
i'd make a distinction. nobody ever thought they were going to upload their soul into a book. the book was always a sign pointing to an extra-textual place of spiritual transcendence. (whether that extra-textual place actually exists or not is an ontological question.) but these days some folks think the network is itself a place of "actual" spiritual transcendence. like the sign to mt. rushmore = mt. rushmore. like going to a restaurant and eating the menu.
m.k:
and before the computer "false transcendence" was provided by a book.
h.b:
> >this type of thinking lead to what
> > I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
> > body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
> > immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved.
>
>
>
> curt cloninger wrote:
>
> > People think that society is the creation of technology, not that
> > technology is the creation of society, and in this sense the
> computer
> > and the net and cyberspace and all this type of thinking lead to
> what
> > I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
> > body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
> > immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved. I know
> > that your familiar with these sort of people, extropians,
> > cybernetfreaks and technomaniacs who truly believe, in a true
> > religious sense, that the computer is the final frontier of human
> > consciousness. I'm just not convinced, I don't see any way the body
> > is being transcended, it is still sitting in front of the keyboard,
> > the eyes are still looking at the screen. William Gibson has a
> > wonderful image of the hacker plugged in to the computer and dying
> > while his consciousness is still living on in cyberspace.
> >
> > This is the fantasy that we can download consciousness and somehow
> > achieve immortality inside the machine - at best I would say that
> > this is a very hypothetical supposition, at worst it could turn out
> > to be a total falsehood. If it is a total falsehood, then what we
> are
> > looking at here is a bad parody of religion, a parodic
> consciousness
> > or a conciseness which is simply a parody of itself, this I think
> is
> > where the danger lies.
> >
> > - peter lamborn wilson/hakim bey (1995)
9 out of 10 muslim anarchists agree...
People think that society is the creation of technology, not that
technology is the creation of society, and in this sense the computer
and the net and cyberspace and all this type of thinking lead to what
I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved. I know
that your familiar with these sort of people, extropians,
cybernetfreaks and technomaniacs who truly believe, in a true
religious sense, that the computer is the final frontier of human
consciousness. I'm just not convinced, I don't see any way the body
is being transcended, it is still sitting in front of the keyboard,
the eyes are still looking at the screen. William Gibson has a
wonderful image of the hacker plugged in to the computer and dying
while his consciousness is still living on in cyberspace.
This is the fantasy that we can download consciousness and somehow
achieve immortality inside the machine - at best I would say that
this is a very hypothetical supposition, at worst it could turn out
to be a total falsehood. If it is a total falsehood, then what we are
looking at here is a bad parody of religion, a parodic consciousness
or a conciseness which is simply a parody of itself, this I think is
where the danger lies.
- peter lamborn wilson/hakim bey (1995)
technology is the creation of society, and in this sense the computer
and the net and cyberspace and all this type of thinking lead to what
I call a false transcendence - the idea that we will transcend the
body, we will arrive at a heaven of pure information in which
immortality essentially of consciousness will be achieved. I know
that your familiar with these sort of people, extropians,
cybernetfreaks and technomaniacs who truly believe, in a true
religious sense, that the computer is the final frontier of human
consciousness. I'm just not convinced, I don't see any way the body
is being transcended, it is still sitting in front of the keyboard,
the eyes are still looking at the screen. William Gibson has a
wonderful image of the hacker plugged in to the computer and dying
while his consciousness is still living on in cyberspace.
This is the fantasy that we can download consciousness and somehow
achieve immortality inside the machine - at best I would say that
this is a very hypothetical supposition, at worst it could turn out
to be a total falsehood. If it is a total falsehood, then what we are
looking at here is a bad parody of religion, a parodic consciousness
or a conciseness which is simply a parody of itself, this I think is
where the danger lies.
- peter lamborn wilson/hakim bey (1995)
i have a crush on so many girls
http://lifelongfriendshipsociety.com/sketches/_0034_Layer%208.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/038_35A.JPG
http://www.majortomiberica.com/maxalot/toys/toy2r_total_anim.gif
http://www.theantimattersalon.com/images/balaclava3.jpg
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/mediawork/titles/utopian/utopian_webtake/ue-04/slices/ue-04_03b1.jpg
http://www.21cmagazine.com/issue2/cory_images/cloudsscroll.gif
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/love/vanstone.php
http://www.researchpubs.com/images/books_cov_prank.jpg
http://www.creativearson.com/danielson/assets/clips/DFMpreview.mov
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/scott/mona_bone_jakon.mp3
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http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/038_35A.JPG
http://www.majortomiberica.com/maxalot/toys/toy2r_total_anim.gif
http://www.theantimattersalon.com/images/balaclava3.jpg
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/mediawork/titles/utopian/utopian_webtake/ue-04/slices/ue-04_03b1.jpg
http://www.21cmagazine.com/issue2/cory_images/cloudsscroll.gif
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/love/vanstone.php
http://www.researchpubs.com/images/books_cov_prank.jpg
http://www.creativearson.com/danielson/assets/clips/DFMpreview.mov
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/scott/mona_bone_jakon.mp3
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Set 4: The Brakhage Pack
The fourth set of Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards is now available:
http://computerfinearts.com/collection/cloninger/bubblegum/brakhage/
Source visuals by Stan Brakhage
Source audio by Sigur Ros
Previous sets may be gotten at:
http://computerfinearts.com/collection/cloninger/bubblegum/
peace,
curt
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http://computerfinearts.com/collection/cloninger/bubblegum/brakhage/
Source visuals by Stan Brakhage
Source audio by Sigur Ros
Previous sets may be gotten at:
http://computerfinearts.com/collection/cloninger/bubblegum/
peace,
curt
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