MTAA
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Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

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BIO

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.

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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 Horvath, Tenderly YoursPeter 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.

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Cut Piece - Yoko Ono


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 .

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Conglomco Media Network announces http://meta-cc.net live


cmn

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

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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

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: dream7 piece


i'll dis flash in Toto.

Toto should not eat flash :-)

>On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:46 America/New_York, curt cloninger wrote:
>
>> To dis Flash en toto seems too tool-specific a critique.
>
>just a quick reply:
>
>NONONONONONONONONONO!
>

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Steve Dietz Out at Walker Art Center


fwd w/out permission.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Murphy <murphy@thing.net>
>
>> Walker Art Center announced the layoffs of 5 percent of its staff
>> Wednesday
>> afternoon, becoming the latest local arts organization forced to
>> downsize in
>> difficult economic times.
>> The Minneapolis museum said it would lay off seven members of its
>> staff of 149
>> full- and part-time workers. The cuts came at all levels and included
>> Steve
>> Dietz, the center's director of New Media Initiatives. The Walker was
>> one of
>> the first art centers in the country to have a curatorial position in
>> the
>> nascent artistic field of new media.
>
> http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/entertainment/5809781.htm
>
>
>
> Part of the problem is that the article calls new media a "nascent
> artistic
> field". That's a pretty old baby -- 40, maybe 50 years old? I would
> date its
> inception from the founding of the concept of Cybernetics. Perhaps the
> real
> problem is that the Walker had invested its endowment in "new media
> stock"
> and took a bath and so took revenge. I would think with such grand
> building
> plans they would pay someone like Dietz to stick around and advise
> them on
> how to incorporate new media forms into the construction of the
> building.
>
> murph
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Website Unseen correction


This morning's post regarding MTAA's "Website Unseen"
(http://www.mteww.com/websiteunseen/index2.html) contained a factual
error.

In the list of collectors, Mark Napier is listed as a collector. Mark
Napier is not a collector of MTAA's "Website Unseen" and has never
commissioned work from MTAA.

That's all.
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Website Unseen *special*


x-posting, bah!
please forward, post widely and wildly:

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WEBSITE UNSEEN OPPORTUNITY RE-OPENED FOR A LIMITED TIME
<http://www.mteww.com/websiteunseen/index2.html>

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MTAA make a desperate ploy for the net art audience's ATTENTION

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WILL THESE SENSATIONALIST TACTICS WORK?

We sure hope so.

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BACKGROUND
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On August 16, 1999 MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) launched
their online project "Website Unseen"
<http://www.mteww.com/websiteunseen/index2.html>. The project offered
one hundred titles for art web sites that MTAA promised to build for
$US 100.00 per website. On August 06, 2001, after 15 commissions
resulting from the original "Website Unseen" opportunity, MTAA
withdrew the offer. Since the close, one new site has been
commissioned by special agreement. This brings the total number of
completed "Website Unseen" commissions to sixteen.

To celebrate the Fourth Anniversary of "Website Unseen," MTAA is
offering one more project for sale under the "classic offer", that
is, it'll only cost you one hundred bucks.

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WHAT DOES A WEBSITE UNSEEN LOOK LIKE?
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See all the completed commissions linked from the "Title List"
<http://www.mteww.com/websiteunseen/list100.html>. When you
commission a "Website Unseen" you get all the files comprising the
artwork on CD-ROM with a signed certificate of authenticity and a
"collector's page". All links to your project go through the
"collector's page" which lists your name, date of commission and
other details concerning your "Website Unseen".

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CONTACT MTAA TO PARTICIPATE
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Contact MTAA at mriver@mteww.com or twhid@mteww.com and tell us in
which title you're interested. Consult the "Website Unseen Title
List" <http://www.mteww.com/websiteunseen/list100.html> to pick your
title. When you contact MTAA please provide:

1. Your full name
2. The Website Unseen Title you would like to commission
3. An email address
4. A physical address

MTAA will complete only one title under this new offer. How will we
decide who to choose from the overwhelming response we're
anticipating? We won't divulge the process but each petition will be
sufficiently vetted, you have our assurance.

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WHY MTAA?
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Other people and institutions who have commissioned work from MTAA:
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Alternative Museum
Mark Napier, artist
Yael Kanarek, artist
Doran Golan, artist and collector, computerfinearts.com
Mark Tribe, creator of Rhizome.org
Carol Stakenas, Creative Time Deputy Director & Curator
Rheinhold Grether, the legendary toy.WARRIOR

For more information regarding "Website Unseen" please see these links:
http://kultur.orf.at/orfon/kultur/000816-4008/4009txt_story.html
and
http://www.bard.edu/ccs/projects/protocol/mtaa2.html

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We'll contact our new patron before June 15th and launch the title on
August 16, 2003, the Four Year Anniversary.
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[permanent archive of this post at:
http://www.mteww.com/cgi/mtaa-rr.pl/twhid/wu_2003.html]

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