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
MTAA At The Art Opening [part 4]
<http://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/news/twhid/mtaa_at_the_art_opening_part_4.html>
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Re: How the rest of the net views net art...
Your take is very humorous. That commenter was extremely ignorant and
not really a good example of most of the comments.
Isn't being viewed outside an art context both the bane and privilege
of net art? Is it helpful to read comments from folks coming at it
with no context? Or is it simply blatherings of ignorants?
Personally I don't usually find it instructive. Most of the time,
people are looking for cultural objects that fit a pre-subscribed
template. When something original (like Jodi) comes along which
doesn't fit these pre-built templates, the rabble generally finds it
confusing and are too intellectually lazy to try to adapt.
Does that sound elitist? hahahahahahahahahaha
On 10/30/06, Pall Thayer <p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Well, when you try to judge a work of art as something other than a
> work of art, it becomes pretty silly. But of course, trying to judge
> a work of art as something other than a work of art is pretty silly
> and makes the person doing it look pretty silly.
>
> Here's my take on the guy who posted that comment:
>
> He's never been into a gallery or art museum in his life. Or if he
> has, his parents subsequently had his art teacher fired because their
> son saw a marble penis on the museum field trip. His favorite painter
> is the guy his parents got to paint the garage a couple of summers
> ago. His favorite sculptor is the guy who stacks the oranges at his
> local grocery (the guy's just amazing). He thinks pan-pipe versions
> of 80's hits are cool. When he hears someone talk about Jazz, he
> says, "Oh yeah, like Kenny G?" He's never been outside of his county.
> He thinks "culture" can only be found in yoghurt. He voted for Bush,
> twice.
>
> On 30.10.2006, at 09:21, T.Whid wrote:
>
> > JODI makes it to the front of Digg...
> >
> > "The Weirdest website you'll ever see"
> > <http://digg.com/software/The_Weirdest_website_you_ll_ever_see>
> >
> > One choice comment:
> >
> > +++
> > Option 1 - You are impressed by this website and think it's l33t. You
> > are an idiot.
> > Option 2 - You think this is a huge waste of time, and there are much
> > more impressive things out there, but you laugh at all the 14 year
> > olds who think this is cool.
> >
> > By the way, how is this a weird site? It's just some stupid kid who
> > tried to copy some ASCII art onto his webpage, and forgot to enclose
> > it with PRE tags. For god's sake, he's using the BLINK tag...THE BLINK
> > TAG!!!!! Yeah, real l33t man.
> >
> > This is how the page looked when the kid made it using either MS
> > Frontpage or Microsoft Word Export-To-HTML:
> > http://bbhosts.net/files/lame.php
> > "But it looks right on my computer, that means it should work for
> > everyone!"
> >
> > Yes I read the Wikipedia article, and I firmly believe this page
> > should have been deleted years ago.
> > +++
> >
> > --
> > <twhid>www.mteww.com</twhid>
> > +
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/
> > subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/
> > 29.php
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Pall Thayer
> p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca
> http://www.this.is/pallit
>
>
>
>
>
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How the rest of the net views net art...
"The Weirdest website you'll ever see"
<http://digg.com/software/The_Weirdest_website_you_ll_ever_see>
One choice comment:
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Option 1 - You are impressed by this website and think it's l33t. You
are an idiot.
Option 2 - You think this is a huge waste of time, and there are much
more impressive things out there, but you laugh at all the 14 year
olds who think this is cool.
By the way, how is this a weird site? It's just some stupid kid who
tried to copy some ASCII art onto his webpage, and forgot to enclose
it with PRE tags. For god's sake, he's using the BLINK tag...THE BLINK
TAG!!!!! Yeah, real l33t man.
This is how the page looked when the kid made it using either MS
Frontpage or Microsoft Word Export-To-HTML:
http://bbhosts.net/files/lame.php
"But it looks right on my computer, that means it should work for everyone!"
Yes I read the Wikipedia article, and I firmly believe this page
should have been deleted years ago.
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Re: Blogosphericy?
I've been thinking about this topic since we started the MTAA-RR
(MTAA's blog) back in 2003.
Some of my thoughts are here in this interview:
http://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/news/twhid/art_blogs.html
excerpted below:
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Since it's very easy to update the site I just post things there all
the time that I might email to either my collaborator M.River or post
to a discussion list like Rhizome. I was very active on the Rhizome
list for many years but I like the blog better. Discussions started on
the blog are less likely to devolve into flame wars and it's less
aggressive. If people want to read my opinions and thoughts the site
is passively waiting for them to visit, my ideas don't wind up in
people's in-boxes. Plus, after Rhizome switched to a fee-based
membership I decided that any extended writings of mine needed to be
freely accessible via the Internet.
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When Rhiz was behind the membership wall, it became very important to
not let your ideas become locked-up behind that.
BTW, if Lauren or Marisa is reading this... what is the current state
of membership? Wasn't Rhiz only going to be open for your first year
of membership or something like that? Thanks for any update.
Perhaps a network of blogs (paid? very cheap?) would help the
discussions on Rhiz and part of the bottom line? Wordpress just
released Wordpress MU (multi-user) which looks like it makes it very
easy to administer a vast # of blogs on one domain...
On 10/29/06, Jason Van Anden <jason@smileproject.com> wrote:
> Is it just me or does it seem super weird when bloggers interview each other on each other's blogs? If conspiracy is latin for "breathing the same air" - is this a "blogosphericy"?
>
> I recently stumbled upon a really thoughtful review of Cory Archangel's recent show at Team (still up until the 4th) on artfagcity.com, a really super blog written by a Paddy Johnson. The funny thing is that Paddy seemed motivated to write the review (on her blog) because she was upset about the dearth of discussion about new media here at Rhizome (this is mentioned in another thread on her blog). Before I go on about this - just so its not lost in the sauce - the link to the review is at the end of this post.
>
> I sent her an email this morning because I was motivated to point out the irony of the situation. The most relevant part is re-emailed below :
>
> Regarding your commentary on Rhizome becoming less of a resource for discussion - I have noticed lately that a lot more seems to be discussed about new media on individual sites such as your own ... at the expense of boards such as RAW. I suspect that blogs have created a "content brain drain" of sorts - as far as boards go.
>
> Why did you post your CA review on your own blog instead of on RAW?
>
> I get the feeling that people feel it is safer to post on their own blogs than in an open system such as a board - and it kind of is - but at the expense of community.
>
> --- end of re-email
>
> I post this in hopes that this might be discussed further, here.
>
> Here is the Cory Review:
> http://artfagcity.blogspot.com/2006/10/cory-arcangels-latest-exhibition-at.html
>
>
> Best,
> Jason Van Anden
> www.smileproject.com
> +
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> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
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2bl2 -- it's hot
This is a reminder that MTAA's "To Be Listened To..."
(http://mtaa.net/2bl2/) web site is open and seeks any and all audio
files for the feeds therein. Upload audio files (10MB max.), subscribe
to feeds and listen to audio.
We are beginning to post in different parts, the Rhizome 2005-2006
Commissions reception of last week.
Download the first part here:
<http://mtaa.net/audio/2bl2/2bl2_Rhizome_Reception_part_1.mp3>
We're calling these podcast episodes, collectively, "MTAA At The Art
Opening." The first part has a short chat with Peter Horvath and to
come are chats with G.H. Hovagimyan, Marisa Olson, Lauren Cornell, a
guy named Steve, tinydiva (Margaret Jameson) and perhaps some
others...
Best,
T.Whid
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