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.
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Johnny's out cruising down the fast food strip
He rides the high-wheeler Ford
He's down here every evening since the school let out
An ordinary man would be bored
But Johnny's got the hunger of a high school heart
And a tank full of minimum-wage
So it's six lights down, six lights back
Pacing like a lion in a cage
He's running on a tether
Tearing at the ground
Trying to find a way to break the chain
This howling in the distance
It's a captivating sound
Can't tell if it's ecstasy or pain
Saturday they'll all be back again
All those engines pulling all night long
Still makes a slow moving train
They can scream out their freedom
When the light turns green
But they're bound to come 'round again
Standing at a distance there's the dark haired girl
Johnny doesn't know her name
He howls his engine like a big, black dog
Choking on his collar by his chain
It's lonely, like hunger
Driven to the same old place
Rumble like thunder
Don't you think that Angels hear
The passion of this Human Race
- David Wilcox, Asheville NC, 1989
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He rides the high-wheeler Ford
He's down here every evening since the school let out
An ordinary man would be bored
But Johnny's got the hunger of a high school heart
And a tank full of minimum-wage
So it's six lights down, six lights back
Pacing like a lion in a cage
He's running on a tether
Tearing at the ground
Trying to find a way to break the chain
This howling in the distance
It's a captivating sound
Can't tell if it's ecstasy or pain
Saturday they'll all be back again
All those engines pulling all night long
Still makes a slow moving train
They can scream out their freedom
When the light turns green
But they're bound to come 'round again
Standing at a distance there's the dark haired girl
Johnny doesn't know her name
He howls his engine like a big, black dog
Choking on his collar by his chain
It's lonely, like hunger
Driven to the same old place
Rumble like thunder
Don't you think that Angels hear
The passion of this Human Race
- David Wilcox, Asheville NC, 1989
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Re: PDPal and the continual nature of digital art
T: as to curt's example above, I don't see his point. is he agreeing or disagreeing with dyske?
DEREK: Well, it's not a very pleasant story... but, he died... he choked on... the official explanation was he choked on vomit.
DAVID: He passed away.
NIGEL: It was actually someone else's vomit. It's not....
DAVID: It's ugly.
NIGEL: You know. There's no real....
DEREK: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
DAVID: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph...
NIGEL: You can't really dust for vomit.
DEREK: Well, it's not a very pleasant story... but, he died... he choked on... the official explanation was he choked on vomit.
DAVID: He passed away.
NIGEL: It was actually someone else's vomit. It's not....
DAVID: It's ugly.
NIGEL: You know. There's no real....
DEREK: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
DAVID: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph...
NIGEL: You can't really dust for vomit.
Re: PDPal and the continual nature of digital art
dyske:
Digital works of art can be neither finished nor unfinished. The notion of "finished" is not relevant here.
curt:
this faux dichotomy is nowhere more apparent than in "Teen Grrrl Sqaud!!"
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs2.html
the author clearly states "its over" [sic] and yet there is the curious (if not downright paradoxical) presence of the "again" button.
Digital works of art can be neither finished nor unfinished. The notion of "finished" is not relevant here.
curt:
this faux dichotomy is nowhere more apparent than in "Teen Grrrl Sqaud!!"
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs2.html
the author clearly states "its over" [sic] and yet there is the curious (if not downright paradoxical) presence of the "again" button.
Re: the upgrade
Hi T.,
i too appreciate your recent wave of paparazzi pictures. aside from the copious fashion tips, the pics are humanizing, which is GOOD. i just went to a BD4D conference in atlanta and met some designer friends face to face for the first time. I found the experience very rewarding, much moreso than I though I would.
As net.werkerz, the "in real life thing" is supposed to be inconsequential (or at worst, detrimental). But it ain't, because {we = body + soul + spirit}, and (like it or hack it) 1/3 of that equation is body.
keep on w/ the force (don't stop),
curt
> Here are some photos of last weekend's Upgrade brunch:
http://www.mteww.com/upgrade_brunch/
i too appreciate your recent wave of paparazzi pictures. aside from the copious fashion tips, the pics are humanizing, which is GOOD. i just went to a BD4D conference in atlanta and met some designer friends face to face for the first time. I found the experience very rewarding, much moreso than I though I would.
As net.werkerz, the "in real life thing" is supposed to be inconsequential (or at worst, detrimental). But it ain't, because {we = body + soul + spirit}, and (like it or hack it) 1/3 of that equation is body.
keep on w/ the force (don't stop),
curt
> Here are some photos of last weekend's Upgrade brunch:
http://www.mteww.com/upgrade_brunch/
Re: Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders, and Future Artists
Past Curator:
Art history education
Ties to wealthy patrons of art
Urban Metropolis-located
Navigates bureaucracy and institutions well
Art as Commodity
Stays within Art Community
http://www.turbulence.org/
Future Filter Feeder:
Pop culture criticism, Tech history
Ties to other Filter Feeders and artists
Dispersed locations
Flows around and avoids institutions
Ephemera, Extreme preservation challenges
Infiltrates, subverts other communities
http://www.deepyoung.org/
"it starts with the greed and then goes all wrong
that's why we can't all just get along"
- beastie boys
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> A new text from Anne-Marie Schleiner...
"Artists of the future may not know that they are artists."
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol3_No1_curation_schleiner.html
Art history education
Ties to wealthy patrons of art
Urban Metropolis-located
Navigates bureaucracy and institutions well
Art as Commodity
Stays within Art Community
http://www.turbulence.org/
Future Filter Feeder:
Pop culture criticism, Tech history
Ties to other Filter Feeders and artists
Dispersed locations
Flows around and avoids institutions
Ephemera, Extreme preservation challenges
Infiltrates, subverts other communities
http://www.deepyoung.org/
"it starts with the greed and then goes all wrong
that's why we can't all just get along"
- beastie boys
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> A new text from Anne-Marie Schleiner...
"Artists of the future may not know that they are artists."
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol3_No1_curation_schleiner.html