MTAA
Since the beginning
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: hardcore conceptual digital art


thanks for everyone's responses :-)

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: hardcore conceptual digital art


On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:26 PM, curt cloninger wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Not exactly the same, but Josh Davis of Praystation fame writes
> generative software that cranks out stuff like this:
> http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com
>
> Josh mentioned in San Diego last year that he got tired of sitting
> there hitting refresh and having to personally assess which iterations
> he liked and which he didn't. So he was working on a separate
> program, teaching it to harvest the iterations that he would be most
> likely to choose. So he runs the first software to autogenerate the
> art, then he runs the second software which simulates his particular
> tastes to observe the first software, choose which iterations Josh
> might like, store them in a folder, and discard the rest.
>
> Then I presume Josh would look through the folder himself at the
> iterations which made the cut and pick the ones he likes. Or he could
> write a third program to look through the folder and choose the ones
> he might like, etc. etc.

LOL

Thanks Curt.

It is very similar in process, but the subject is different. He wants
people to focus on the abstract form of his 2d compositions, whereas
this computer to computer art idea is meant to focus folks on the idea
of art creation and appreciation as the subject.

It's interesting that two almost opposite motivations could have a
similar process.

Take care,

>
> peace,
> curt
>
>
> t.whid wrote:
>
>> Hi Rhizome,
>>
>> Had this idea and posted it to the mtaa blog today, but it sounds
>> familiar... anyone can direct me to something similar? Thanks.
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>>
>> AIOTD: Art By Computers, For Computers
>> posted at 14:25 by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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>> Two software programs are created. Program A creates �art data�
>> which
>>
>> is transmitted to program B. Program B is programed in such a way that
>>
>> it has aesthetic criteria with which it evaluates Program A�s art
>> data
>>
>> transmissions. The human witness doesn�t view the art data, but
>> Program
>> B responds to the art data in a way that is discernible by the human
>> witness.
>>
>> Oh! I almost forgot. This is hardcore conceptual digital art.
>>
>> ++++
>>
>> read M and me discussing it here:
>>
>> http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/
>> aiotd_art_by_computers_for_computers.html

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DISCUSSION

hardcore conceptual digital art


Hi Rhizome,

Had this idea and posted it to the mtaa blog today, but it sounds
familiar... anyone can direct me to something similar? Thanks.

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AIOTD: Art By Computers, For Computers
posted at 14:25 by T.Whid in /news/twhid

Two software programs are created. Program A creates art data which is transmitted to program B. Program B is programed in such a way that it has aesthetic criteria with which it evaluates Program As art data transmissions. The human witness doesnt view the art data, but Program B responds to the art data in a way that is discernible by the human witness.

Oh! I almost forgot. This is hardcore conceptual digital art.

DISCUSSION

http://www.softwareartspace.com/


http://www.softwareartspace.com/

the web site looks a bit like a microsoft ad....

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: adobe acquires macromedia


More on this whole deal here:

http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_04.html#a000516

This thing really has the web dev world going bezerk...

little faq from Adobe.. in pdf of course..

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/AdobeMacromediaFAQ.pdf

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