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: burning man (tm)


I was organizing this boss techno-art project called 'Off The Grid.'
We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the
playa and have people use them. Then we'd feed the binary data from
those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA
software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would
be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended
online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand
painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on
the playa. But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up
this 'Pam's Country Crafts' web site I'm working on. I really need
the money."

http://www.theonion.com/previous_top_story.html

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DISCUSSION

tiptoe round [light_foot reprise]


The conceptual artist, to his credit, is rarely less than well read
and culturally informed. He is, therefore, painfully aware of what
has already been done and by whom. He's also aware of how
interpretations can change with mainstream assimilation and the
benefit of hindsight. Consequently, the artist is wary of being
earnest or bold, or of showing overt sentiment -just in case such
unambiguous commitment should seem naive or cheesily melodramatic at
some point in the future. He is, at best, 'playful'."

- david thompson, 2002

http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/rta/flowchart/images/landmines.gif
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$misc?clips/LIGHTFOOTF.mov
http://www.lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/apmec/
http://www.radiohead.com/page6.html

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DISCUSSION

[re]birth of a [procrasti]nation (thread transplant)


is the following thread:
a. an accurate indictment of they overhype of new media?
b. sour grapes from the avante garde cinema set?
c. a critique of mr. miller's "dialectics"?
d. a critique of mr. spooky's "skillz"?
e. sponsored by the guy debord memorial fund?
f. a, c, and e?
g. utah?

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the bait:
1. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0411.html
2. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0491.html
3. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0500.html

the hate:
4. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0498.html
5. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0504.html
6. http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw23/0508.html

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cf:
http://www.animalcharm.com/trash.htm
http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/marclay.christian/discog.html

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