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
browser wars 2
hello everybody,
fairly long article aimed at web developers but relevant to our
recent browser discussions.
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
Manual Zoom Mirage CC license
http://www.tinjail.com/manual_zoom_mirage/
at above URL are versions of the images from Manual Zoom Mirage
released under a Creative Commons license.
There are low resolution JPEGs, high resolution JPEGs, and the file
used for output of the gallery piece in Adobe Illustrator format.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
re: MTAA tonight in Brooklyn, NY, USA reminder and press release
the opening is tonight from 7 - 9PM...
the press release states 7 - 10PM
sorry.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
MTAA tonight in Brooklyn, NY, USA reminder and press release
A reminder to those in the area and a press release for those who
aren't :-)
We'll be releasing the images from this piece with a Creative Commons
license. We'll post the URL tomorrow after the official opening but
those who poke around mteww.com might find them today.
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ROME Arts
103 Havemeyer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 388-2009
ROMEarts@yahoo.com
Presents:
MTAA's "In Preparation For The Summer Air In Brooklyn To Rise From The
Concrete In A Manner That Distorts One's Ability To Judge Distance And
Meaning (AKA Manual Zoom Mirage)"
July 12 - August 10, 2003
Opening reception: Saturday, July 12th, 7-10 PM
ROME Arts is pleased to present a solo show by the artist collaborative
MTAA entitled, "In Preparation For The Summer Air In Brooklyn To Rise
From The Concrete In A Manner That Distorts One's Ability To Judge
Distance And Meaning (AKA Manual Zoom Mirage)."
The site-specific artwork has 4 components:
1. A postcard announcement that is a 1:8 scale replica of the "actual
artwork" (1);
2. The "actual artwork";
3. A prediction of the hottest temperature ever recorded in the US to
take place in Brooklyn during the summer of 2003;
4. The hot summer air of Brooklyn.
The components constitute a work that touches on several themes. First,
MTAA explores the plasticity of information. Presenting the information
in two distinct sizes and formats the artists create a hierarchy in
their audience between those with access to the physical (or "actual")
artwork, those with access only to the postcard version o`f it, and
those with access to both. Second, MTAA touches on the disorienting
effect of looking through these different layers of information overlap
by comparing it to heat waves coming off pavement. Third, the artists
transform the gesture of the "prediction" into an artistic gesture.
Inevitably the prediction will fail. The concept of failure is often
the "background music" to MTAA's work.
MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) is a Brooklyn, New York-based
conceptual and net art collaboration. Their examinations of networked
culture, the economics of art, digital materials, and the institutional
art world take the form of web sites, installations, sculptures, and
photographic prints. Their work has been commissioned by The
Alternative Museum, Creative Time, and The Whitney Museum of American
Art's Artport web site and has been exhibited by PS1 Art Center, The
Walker Art Center and Eyebeam Atelier.
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(1) "Actual artwork" being in quotes as the "really" actual artwork is
the sum of the components listed.
Re: The end of Premiere for Mac
>
>>> What is your solution? Take IE away from Microsoft and give it to a
>>> different company? Make it
>>> open source?
>>
>> It seems to me that OS manufacturers should not be allowed to develop
>> browsers (in which case IE could be taken by another company) or at
>> least the portion that interacts with the rest of the network should
>> be
>> required to be open AND standards based. In Apples case, the GUI and
>> interface functions are proprietary, but the portion that integrates
>> with the network (the rendering engine) is open source and standards
>> based. That model could work for MS as well, in lieu of
>> selling/giving
>> up IE.
>
> So you're saying Apple has implemented a responsible solution to this
> situation? Is that your
> position also, T.whid?
well, the least MS could do is follow the W3C standards (to be fair
their standards support is ok) and drop their proprietary tags and
behaviors. If they were to open source their rendering engine I think
it would be very helpful for the OS and it's developers yes. I'm sure
developers would take IE's rendering engine and run with it. Windows
users wouldn't be waiting until 2005 for new browser tech if they did
that, that's for sure.
the MS monopoly case used the browser wars as an example is my
understanding. they DOJ wasn't trying to 'fix' the browser problem,
they were trying to fix the MS problem which was illustrated by the
browser problem. if MS had been broken up into a few separate companies
or been forced to allow other companies to review their source code
(which is sort of happening
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59534,00.html ) then we might
not be headed towards a two browser world: MSIE and Safari/KHTML.
>
> I don't understand some of the distinctions you make. You say "the GUI
> and interface functions
> are proprietary, but the portion that integrates with the network (the
> rendering engine) is open
> source and standards based."
>
> So, I take it, for instance, that the DOM (Document Object Model) is
> in some sense open source
> and standards based. The standards would be W3C standards, but are you
> saying the implementation
> of the DOM is open source so that, for instance, one could inspect the
> code implementation of,
> say, the window.open method? What do you mean by the GUI and interface
> functions?
btw:
this is the model that OSX is built on too. the kernel of the OS,
Darwin, is open source and based on a version of unix called BSD. It
even runs on intel machines. the graphics layer (the software that
draws the windows and stuff) called Quartz, is proprietary. You can
even run another windowing system on OSX called X11 (using this you can
run apps built for unix/x11, like openoffice.org). So, you can see that
Apple is providing a level of openness that MS would never even
contemplate.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
