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
Re: The Art Happens Here
The credit for MTAA was wrong on the first version of this release,
please use the following for any publishing or reblogging!
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Opens 15 June @ 21h30, Croatian time
Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik Croatia
Simulcast to Annenberg Island in SL, 12h30 PDT
Second Life
The Art Happens Here is a contemporary art exhibition and presentation
at the iCommons Summit 2007, resulting from an ongoing artist in
residence programme. Six international artists and a critic were
invited to produce physical and virtual work that engages with fair
use, copyright, re-mixing, piracy and/or collaboration on some level -
whether directly or indirectly.
Works on show will include, but not be limited to, art books, murals,
net.art, sculpture, public performance, video and installation -- all
conceptually linked by their engagement with the Commons, by the
artists' time spent in Dubrovnik.
Participants include: Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn
Smith (South Africa), Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa), MTAA,
(Mike Sarff & Tim Whidden, USA), Jaka Zeleznikar (Slovenia) and
blog-critic Paddy Johnson (of artfagcity, USA). There will also be a
special appearance in the SL exhibition by Patrick Lichty, aka Man
Michinaga (USA).
Artist Discussion Panel on Creative Commons and its potential uses and
effects in professional arts practice will be a part of the iCommons
main programme in Dubrovnik, 15h00 Croatian time.
More information: http://iCommons.org
M.River wins KDM100 Champion!
me) title of Karaoke DeathMatch 100 Champion (
http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/mriver-is-the-kdm100-champion/). By visiting the
previous URL, you can view the victory and defeat songs and comment if you
like.
It was a rough and grueling championship consisting of 50 rounds of karaoke
while the competitors got progressively more drunk. It was an endurance
competition and M.River seems to have endured better over the long haul.
M.River's victory speech consisted entirely of the following: "Blow me Tim.
I won. Fuck you. Ha!"
There will be no rematch (unless, perhaps, we can get funding for it).
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<twhid>www.MTAA.net</twhid>
KDM100 Final Round
Check it out...
http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/round/50/
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<twhid>www.MTAA.net</twhid>
vote T.Whid KDM100 Champion! http://mteww.com/kdm100/
KDM100 obsessive/compulsive
I for one can't wait for the Karaoke DeathMatch 100 to be over. It's
exploited my compulsive tendencies to the max. It's not fun refreshing a
goddamn web site dozens of times an hour hoping to see more votes. I'm
literally like the mythological coked-up rhesus monkey frantically hitting
the lever over and over looking for his next hit.
It's really sad.
And please don't remind me that that is some pathetic behavior. No one knows
more than myself how pathetic it is.
Love,
T.Whid
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<twhid>www.MTAA.net</twhid>
Vote T.Whid @ http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/
KDM100 -- T.Whid needs your help
I know that you've always loved T.Whid better than you've loved M.River.
It's time to prove your love.
M.River has deployed a sophisticated botnet called "His GF's MySpace
Buddies" in order to steal the Karaoke DeathMatch Championship away from the
rightful champion yours truly.
Please show these MySpace sissies that Rhizome packs more of punch by going
to http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/ and voting for T.Whid.
Thank you for your time.
Love,
T.Whid
PS
Only 3 more rounds after today! Holy shit!
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<twhid>www.MTAA.net</twhid>
Vote T.Whid @ http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/
