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
Forget Your Troubles And ROCK!!!
Attended the book release party for "Sound of The
Beast"(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006052362X/
qid%3D1049659810/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dsr_2_1/002-4251878-2558441) last night
at Club Luxx in my home neighborhood of Williamsburg. "Sound of The
Beast" is a history of Heavy Metal written by Ian Christie. The band
Boulder (http://www.bouldersragers.com/) rocked the house to the ground.
Check out the action pics here: http://www.mteww.com/heavy_metal/
btw, new White Stripes CD, Elephant, released on April 1st. It rocks as
well.
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Dia article in NYTimes Mag
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The Dia Generation
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/magazine/06DIA.html
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It was nice to see an art story on the cover of the NYTime's Magazine
this week though we're all very troubled about the war and the Bush
administration's imperial ambitions (see this article for a great
overview:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0304.marshall.html).
The article covers the history of The Dia center from it's inception in
the early 70s to the opening of a major new museum in upstate NY, Dia:
Beacon, which focuses on 60s/70s minimalism, conceptualism, Earth Art
and etc.
The article was a bit dry with the history of the infighting and
whatnot, but what's interesting is how the early Dia acted like
Renaissance patrons.
from the article:
'Friedrich compared what he was doing -- now with his wife's fortune --
to the Medicis. ''Dia didn't tap something new; it tapped something
old,'' he said at the time. ''Our values are as powerful as those in
the Renaissance.'' For emphasis, he added that Dan Flavin ''is as
important as Michelangelo.'''
They handpicked a few artists and supported them extravagantly for some
years giving them everything they needed to create work with no
constraints of economy, time, or space.
I wonder what our contemporary net, web, and new media artists could do
with the money, time, and space that were given to the Dia's lucky
chosen few.
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Re: Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland
i'm def from going to a little heavy metal concert in my 'hood in
support of the new book 'Sound of The Beast' by Ian Christie (an old
time williamsburger).
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006052362X/
qid49605727/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-2129068-
5284968?v=glance&s=books&nP784
But I'll try to carry on.
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 04:06 PM, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>
>> Michael is right, it's antiwar art.
>
> Then why does it reward the impulse for violence?
>
>>
>> I don't think it's very good antiwar art, but the piece is definitely
>> intended to be antiwar. IMO it's not arguable that the piece is
>> INTENDED to be antiwar, perhaps it could be viewed otherwise.
>
>
> If you want to say that whatever an artist "intends the piece to be"
> is what
> the piece "is" then that's fine, but at that level you would have no
> right
> to ever make commentary on any work, there would be no basis for
> criticism
> and essentially, artists would be infallible.
Eryk,
seriously? the subject or content of a piece that an artist intends is
much different then what an artist qualitatively intends, no?
>
> All of my work is a social revolution- or at least masterpieces on par
> with
> Picasso or Pollack. If I " intend" them to be, are they?
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Re: Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Szpakowski" <szpako@yahoo.com>
>
>
>> Eryk
>> I must admit I'm slightly mystified by your virulent
>> reaction to Joseph's two recent pieces
>
>
>
>> So personally until something comes along to change
>> my mind I'll accept the pieces on face value as
>> shocking (yes) but nevertheless perfectly legitimate
>> pieces of anti war art in a long satirical tradition.
>
>
eryk wrote:
> This is not anti war art. This is pro war art pretending to be anti
> war art.
> I think that people should start looking at art on a level beyond face
> value- to look at art means more than a surface reading of what the
> artists
> wants you to believe about it. Also, lets not fall into the trap of
> saying
> "If it has been done before and accepted, then its perfectly fine."
> Someone
> had said that there is no end to where art ends and begins- that
> exploitation, murder, and rape can constitute art if the artists
> choose it
> to. So I guess I am deciding to view this work from the standpoint of a
> human being, and not an "artist." Fine.
Michael is right, it's antiwar art.
I don't think it's very good antiwar art, but the piece is definitely
intended to be antiwar. IMO it's not arguable that the piece is
INTENDED to be antiwar, perhaps it could be viewed otherwise. It uses
the a very simple and overdone method of juxtaposing USA pop imagery
with the horrors of war. It's been done again and again and Joseph's
done it once again. No offense Eryk, but IMO your energy could be
better used elsewhere, like writing a piece about 'Starship Troopers'
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Re: yi zhou
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 12:47 AM, Lewis LaCook wrote:
> http://www.yi-yo.net/html/html2/virtualgallery.html
>
> y'know, it's very pretty, but....
>
> any other comments?
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