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
snowy bklyn
here are some snow pics for those that aren't here to enjoy it.
btw, people are taking back the streets again as it's much easier to
walk in a plowed street than an unshoveled sidewalk (the corners are
esp bad).
take care.
pics:
http://www.mteww.com/snowday/upgrand.jpg
http://www.mteww.com/snowday/koolman.jpg
http://www.mteww.com/snowday/downgrand.jpg
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
report on the nyc protest
so, there were tons of people and it was a great show of citizenship.
It was hard to get to the actual 'legit' rally but my cohorts and I
made it eventually.
I met some people at the New York Public Library at 42nd St. and 5th
Ave. at around 11:30AM. We headed out for 49th St. and 1st Ave at
around noon.
Problems started at about 42nd and 3rd, we're weren't allowed to cross
the avenue and were directed to start uptown on 3rd. As we headed
uptown in kept getting more and more crowded and the police wouldn't
allow people to cross the avenue at all. We finally crossed the avenue
at around 51st but got caught in a big crowd. Everyone was supposed to
stay on the sidewalk, but people wanted to move and after 51st the
avenue became filled with people.
We were stuck between 51st and 53rd for a long time. At one point
mounted police attempted to force people back onto the sidewalk but
there was just way to many people and the police seemed to realize that
with all the different people in the crowd including young children in
strollers, older folks, and people in wheel chairs that it was to
dangerous to treat the crowd roughly.
After that the police seemed to just want to keep the cross streets
clear but were content to let people march up the avenue between
blocks. Some cars and trucks had gotten caught by the crowd and were
patiently waiting for the crowd to clear.
At 62nd we were allowed to go over to 2nd Ave. then they stopped us
from going over to 1st so we kept heading uptown. Word on the street
was that they were allowing people over on 72nd st. We got fed up at
68th and there were only 2 police manning the barricade. They tried to
stop people from going through, but once you made it across they didn't
seem to care so we snuck through. After we got through a big crowd
pushed through behind us and filled 68th St. between 2nd and 1st.
Now we had made it! But at every cross street they had barricades up.
At 66th we just hopped over it. Once you were over the police didn't
pay any attention to you. At 65th people kept opening them up and
stepping through and the police would close them up after a few people
would slip through. My cohorts slipped through and I got stuck on the
other side. Eventually people opened up the barricades and we all
pushed through, as I went through I pulled it wide open and it felt
good to let all the people out but then a girl came up to me and told
me to be more careful she got hit in the stomach when I had pulled it
open. I apologized and felt guilty about it for a while.
By this point I'm feeling pretty crappy as I've been sick all week and
am taking antibiotics so I only hung around for a few speakers and left.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
review of netartreview.net
>featuring daily net-art recommendations and net art criticism. We
>would like to invite everyone to visit and contribute URLs whenever
>possible: http://www.netartreview.net
i don't want to sound like a dick, but:
this site is promising but the interface is horrible. please fix it.
make it easier to read for crying out loud!
no matter how good the writing might be i will never use this site
until it's got a more user friendly graphic design. those links on
the side? what's in there? i don't know because i wouldn't take the
time to crawl into that thicket of text.
some of us have fairly large displays, i need to make my fonts very
large to read comfortably. your site is designed so that i can fit
like 5 words on a line and two of those would be 'a' and 'the'.
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
deck or fin?
after reading this perhaps we could all pass the 'are you a hipster quiz'
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also, what does it mean that i live in one of the hippest
neighborhoods in the land and have never heard any of these terms?
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
Re: Sue de Beer at Postmasters opens on February 15
one of the greatest artworks of all time imo :-) cool thing is, it's
portable too! it's just as effective online as it is in the gallery
and vice versa.
yee ha!
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>We are also pleased to let you know that "Accept" - an exhibition of
>PERRY HOBERMAN which just concluded at the gallery has now been
>moved into virtual realm:
>http://www.perryhoberman.com/accept/
>3-D glasses are recommended but not necessary
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<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>
