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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DISCUSSION

Re: If I'm already drowning in banality, why do I need more of it (N.C. Mountain Fair)


http://www.kidbrothers.net/guitar/tcg.html

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At 3:19 AM -0400 7/16/03, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/07/20030715_b_main.asp
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>-e.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ivan Pope" <ivan@ivanpope.com>
>To: <list@rhizome.org>; "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 5:55 PM
>Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: If I'm already drowning in banality, why do I need
>more of it (N.C. Mountain Fair)
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th
> > Birthday in 2003
> >
> >
> > > "You have not studied Joyce or Baudelaire yet, or you would have no
> > > problems in understanding my procedure. I have no theories whatever
> > > about anything. I make observations by way of discovering contours,
> > > lines of force, and pressures. I satirize at all times, and my
> > > hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer."
> > >
> > > - Marshall Mathers McLuhan
> > >
> > > http://k10k.net/wulffmorgenthaler/large/370_carpet_covers_hal.gif
> > >
> > From: "Curt Cloninger" <curt@lab404.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:24 PM
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: towards a more ambient art
> >
> > > Not that everything has to be Tolstoy. But when so few things even
> > > attempt to be Tolstoy and so many things are content to be Bazooka
> > > Joe Bubble Gum Cartoons, it gets kind of boring for ye olde art
> > > patron. The Cliff's Notes artist would say, "I'm just echoing the
> > > meaninglessness and frivolity of our post-modern culture." Well why
> > > on earth would you want to do that? If I'm already drowning in
> > > banality, why do I need more of it?
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >

DISCUSSION

Re: N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th Birthday in 2003


You have not studied Joyce or Baudelaire yet, or you would have no
problems in understanding my procedure. I have no theories whatever
about anything. I make observations by way of discovering contours,
lines of force, and pressures. I satirize at all times, and my
hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer."

- Marshall Mathers McLuhan

http://k10k.net/wulffmorgenthaler/large/370_carpet_covers_hal.gif

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At 11:10 PM +0100 7/15/03, Ivan Pope wrote:
>Sorry, did I miss something there? I mean, I read the whole release and
>looked at the pictures and everything. I considered irony, spoof, conceptual
>net art.
>But I just dont see it: Rhizome/North Carolina Mountain State Fair.
>I am just not fucking interested.
>Cheers,
>Ivan
>
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th
>Birthday in
> > 2003
> >
> > http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/sitemap.htm
> > http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/images/spongebob.jpg
> >
> > N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th Birthday in 2003
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> > WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2003
> >
> > CONTACT: Bill Edmondson, Manager
> > (828) 687-1414 x201
> >
> > FLETCHER-The 10th edition of the N.C. Mountain State Fair will run
> > Sept. 5-14 at the Western N.C. Ag Center in Fletcher, and plans are
> > shaping up for a record-breaking fair. A combination of great food,
> > rides, entertainment and more await fairgoers coming to the annual
> > event.
> >
> > "We have a good mix of new entertainment plus all the favorites we've
> > come to love during the first nine years of the fair," says manager
> > Bill Edmondson. "Folks will find all their favorite foods, rides,
> > exhibits and livestock, and we've added even more for 2003. We'll
> > feature two nights of monster truck racing, have lumberjacks
> > performing daily and we've brought back the popular Mooternity Ward."
> >
> > Competition categories are increased for 2003, with even more prize
> > money available. More than $78,000 in premium money was paid out in
> > 2002, the highest amount ever.
> >
> > Entertainment in the McGough Arena will include the monster trucks,
> > the Mountain State Fair Clogging Championship, two days of gospel
> > singing competition and premium concerts by Avalon with opening act
> > Everyday Sunday, Ty Herndon and John Anderson.
> >
> > Musical entertainment will be available on the fairgrounds each day
> > at the Mountain Music Festival, the gospel stage and on the
> > hospitality stage. Special musical guests will be the U.S. Navy
> > Country Current Band performing on the first weekend.
> >
> > Ticket prices remain $5 for adults, $2 for seniors and children 6-12,
> > and kids five and under get in free. Discounted advance ticket sales
> > will begin August 4 at area Ingles Stores, at the WNC Farmers' Market
> > and the WNC Ag Center.
> >
> > Tickets may also be purchased in advance at the fair website
> > www.mountainfair.org. Half price ride tickets can also be purchased
> > at the same locations prior to the start of the fair. A complete
> > daily schedule of the 10th N.C. Mountain State Fair is also available
> > at the website, or call (828) 687-1414.
> >
> > The WNC Ag Center is located in Fletcher, NC, at exit 9 from
> > Interstate 26. This is the Asheville Airport exit, and is about
> > halfway between Asheville and Hendersonville.
> >
> > http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/sitemap.htm
> > http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/images/spongebob.jpg
> >
> > _
> > _
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >

DISCUSSION

N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th Birthday in 2003


http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/sitemap.htm
http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/images/spongebob.jpg

N.C. Mountain State Fair to Celebrate 10th Birthday in 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2003

CONTACT: Bill Edmondson, Manager
(828) 687-1414 x201

FLETCHER-The 10th edition of the N.C. Mountain State Fair will run
Sept. 5-14 at the Western N.C. Ag Center in Fletcher, and plans are
shaping up for a record-breaking fair. A combination of great food,
rides, entertainment and more await fairgoers coming to the annual
event.

"We have a good mix of new entertainment plus all the favorites we've
come to love during the first nine years of the fair," says manager
Bill Edmondson. "Folks will find all their favorite foods, rides,
exhibits and livestock, and we've added even more for 2003. We'll
feature two nights of monster truck racing, have lumberjacks
performing daily and we've brought back the popular Mooternity Ward."

Competition categories are increased for 2003, with even more prize
money available. More than $78,000 in premium money was paid out in
2002, the highest amount ever.

Entertainment in the McGough Arena will include the monster trucks,
the Mountain State Fair Clogging Championship, two days of gospel
singing competition and premium concerts by Avalon with opening act
Everyday Sunday, Ty Herndon and John Anderson.

Musical entertainment will be available on the fairgrounds each day
at the Mountain Music Festival, the gospel stage and on the
hospitality stage. Special musical guests will be the U.S. Navy
Country Current Band performing on the first weekend.

Ticket prices remain $5 for adults, $2 for seniors and children 6-12,
and kids five and under get in free. Discounted advance ticket sales
will begin August 4 at area Ingles Stores, at the WNC Farmers' Market
and the WNC Ag Center.

Tickets may also be purchased in advance at the fair website
www.mountainfair.org. Half price ride tickets can also be purchased
at the same locations prior to the start of the fair. A complete
daily schedule of the 10th N.C. Mountain State Fair is also available
at the website, or call (828) 687-1414.

The WNC Ag Center is located in Fletcher, NC, at exit 9 from
Interstate 26. This is the Asheville Airport exit, and is about
halfway between Asheville and Hendersonville.

http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/sitemap.htm
http://www.ncagr.com/markets/fairs/mtnfair/images/spongebob.jpg

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: I promise...


Where else [but in the United States] can we see the unbelievable
but frequent phenomenon of succesful radicals becoming "fast friends"
with succesful academicians, united only by a common success and
deliberately insensitive to the fundamental issues their different
values imply? I wonder where else but here can be found that
shutting of the eyes to the question of purpose. Perhaps in the
United States such a question could not ever before exist, so
pervasive has been the amoral mush.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it
conditions its response -- a response the critic articulates for the
patron, who in turns acts upon it. Melodrama, I think, is central to
all this."

- Allan Kaprow, 1961

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Michael Szpakowski wrote:

> What occured to me after reading Eryk's account of the
> faiure of his 'conceptual' application is that maybe
> there is a real cultural gap here between the UK and
> the US -I suspect that the conceptual is not only not
> a disadvantage here but that it's difficult to be
> taken at all seriously without a nod in its direction,
> given the hegemony of the YBAs, Saatchi and Serota.

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: I promise...


Your grant application itself could constitute your conceptual art.
The application spells out your concept, after all. And "words that
proceed from ideas about art are art," as the man says. Why then
would they need to fund something that's already been handed to them
gratis? Problem solved.

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Eryk Salvaggio wrote:

>
>
> My most recent grant rejection was almost entirely conceptual art. It
> has
> proven to me: Conceptual art is not a good foundation for a grant
> application.
>
> As a conceptual artist, could I write a proposal to a grant committee
> that
> says my piece is based on thier rejection of my application, and that
> payment is to be expected in full if they reject said application?
> They
> would then have no choice but to accept, and pay me anyway. It may be
> weak
> ideologically, but it might just get me paid, and I owe money on a new
> Hyundai.
>
> Ultimately, this is the value of performance art, yeah?