Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
TRACEPLACESPACE
New audio by Cary Peppermint, check it out…
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TRACEPLACESPACE
seven audio works .mp3 - Cary Peppermint 2007
The audio works of TRACEPLACESPACE were formed loosely in response to ever-accelerating technological developments, passing time, urgent ecological issues, and remarkable events of our globally connected system in process long before but brought to the forefront since the latter part of the year 2001. The works of TRACEPLACESPACE are components of a digital, multi-media, network-infused performance of the same title.
I like to perform this work in small community venues, outdoor gatherings, art-spaces, and galleries where everyone is welcome and can sit on the floor, talk to one another, and drink green tea. However I will perform TRACEPLACESPACE approximately anywhere.
Filming Outside the Cinema
I have to admit that I'd not given much thought to film outside the cinema, web film or live video, or anything like that, but I've spent lots of time here hanging out with Peter Horvath and I'm impressed.
Peter makes very beautiful films for the web, and you can check them all out online. Today he showed us The Presence of Absence, which was comissioned for the Whitney Museum's Artport in 2003, and then Tenderly Yours from 2005, which "resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous..." Gorgeous.
Cut Piece - Yoko Ono
Cut Piece (2006, 36.5MB, 9 min)
“Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan,
and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience
to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts
at the moment of unbosoming.”
from Bedazzled .
Conglomco Media Network announces http://meta-cc.net live
Conglomco Media Network is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC] video engine at http://meta-cc.net.
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system is adaptable for use with any cable or broadcast television network.
We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.
Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
http://meta-cc.net
Open Call for Sound Works : WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
Cary Peppermint:
WILD INFORMATION NETWORK
The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology
Open Call for Sound Works In Mp3 Format - Deadline April 1, 2006
http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods
If we encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the woods, in the “natural
more on PAM
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On a somewhat lighter note, consider this takedown of the Pentagon's
loony (and now inoperative) Policy Analysis Market scheme, delivered by
an astute reader named Henry:
"Once you have a futures market, you have derivative instruments and
people selling them and speculating on them ... Scenario: Some rich
clown doesn't like Tony Blair -- so he puts $1 million on Blair getting
offed in six months. After three months, he doubles [the bet]. People
notice and jump on the bandwagon. Pretty soon, people are blowing
millions on the idea that Blair's dead meat.
"When it appears that it isn't going to happen because the seed money
was [bet] by someone who had no intention of offing Blair -- but now
there are millions riding on it -- some asshole is going to figure:
'Hey, it's [been] five months, and I don't see or hear any movement on
the Blair thing -- I'm going to lose my shirt!'
"So, he hires some sleazy hit man to perforate Tony. Not even a
terrorist -- but someone doing the work for the terrorists at the
behest of the logic of a market-speculation instrument ... Now the
original options were placed for peanuts, so the originator gets filthy
rich, and he never had anything to do with Blair's death.
"And all these people who invested early in derivatives based on the
future options get rich. Their investment forced an assassination. It's
like these [Pentagon] people never heard of Heisenberg ... That was the
evil of this whole thing."
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twhid:
I must admit. I don't see the whole PAM thing as being totally evil or
wrongheaded. It's intriguing in a way. yes, betting on deaths seems
gruesome. but gaming the system seems like the real danger. but backers
of the plan have this to say about gaming the system, from wired news:
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<...> according to Pennock, the market academic.
"The very fact of the terrorist doing that (investing money in an
attack) would reveal his hand," he said. Prices would rise as the
terrorist invested his cash, and that would tip leaders off to the
potential for a strike.
"The market would know something is going to happen that people never
would have known otherwise," Pennock added.
There are problems with the PAM system, Pennock conceded. The market
only allows for speculating on preconceived ideas. Innovative terror
plots wouldn't make it to the PAM trading floor before they were put
into action. It seems unlikely, therefore, that PAM traders would have
foreseen al Qaeda's use of airplanes as missiles before the terror
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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twhid:
If we had a futures market on African nation civil war deaths and
gov'ts willing to act on the resulting information, it may be a good
thing. for example, if everyone is betting on a civil war in country x
then the UN and it's nation members could concentrate diplomacy in that
area before the war broke out and hopefully divert bloodshed. of course
you would have a financial incentive for those betting on the bloodshed
to scuttle any diplomacy by whatever means at their disposal...
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
Re: Re: Re: Death Bets
and yes. Dada led to eventually to conceptual art and there is indeed
ample reason for a comeback of the absurd.
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Mark River wrote:
> -- Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't believe in mutual exclusives; I am laughing
>> with you and at it and
>> also thinking about what it means in a broader
>> scope.
>>
>
> Yup, I think we are in agreement here. Is this a first
> for Rhizome this month?
>
> Along a this line, twhid and others have pointed out
> to me that DADA was one of the more interesting
> reactions to WWII, as in; 'if this is the way the
> world works, I
Salon.com Technology | Prowling the ruins of ancient software
hi everyone,
this is an interesting article regarding archiving software, relevant
to net, web, software, new media art.
you need to be a salon subscriber or sit through the ad to get a day pass.
cya
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
Re: Re: Re: calling dr. galloway/ pentagon's new net art
first, the congressional report on 9/11 that that wizard of pomo Dick
Cheney turned into a conceptualist masterpiece and now this!
maybe Bush isn't as much of a cretin as we thought.
maybe it's all been a carefully orchestrated performance.
maybe He's calling it "International Cowboy Conceptualist Crowd
Control (AKA Empires-Is-Us)"
At 15:43 -0400 7/29/03, M. River wrote:
>Okay, one last post and then I'll stop. I promise...
>
>The PAM site seems to be blank now.
>http://www.policyanalysismarket.org/
>
>It looks like they got my email about a HCCA comeback.
>http://tinjail.com/promise.html
>
>M. River wrote:
>
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
conceptual art making a comeback
did anyone see the hilarious bit last night on the Daily Show (USA
cable network show
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/)
where their 'correspondent' Stephen Colbert reviewed the redacted
congressional report on 9/11 as if it was conceptual art?
it was funny.
can't find a transcript or video online however. my apologies
(grumble, lousy *old* media, grumble, grumble..)
At 5:48 -0700 7/29/03, Mark River wrote:
>On a bright note for the genre, the Pentagon seems to
>have jumped into the net art game...
>
>"The Pentagon office that proposed spying
>electronically on Americans to monitor potential
>terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online
>futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in
>which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting
>terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups."
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?hp
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
