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: Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
http://nytimes.com/2004/06/18/arts/design/18COTT.html
On Jun 18, 2004, at 5:00 PM, liza sabater wrote:
> Where is it from?
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> On Friday, Jun 18, 2004, at 16:29 America/New_York, t.whid wrote:
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>> This article discusses public.exe (but gets the name wrong)
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>> Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
>> By HOLLAND COTTER
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<twhid>http://www.mteww.com</twhid>
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Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
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Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
By HOLLAND COTTER
Rudely, crudely put, political art is bad art; in fact, it isn't art at
all. It's preaching in a fancy form. Conversely, art about art, about
craft and transcendence and Beauty with capital B, is just so much
cultural junk food, empty calories for empty-headed people, nothing
more.
These two views have faced off in opposing corners of the art world
boxing ring for the better part of a century, ever since Marcel
Duchamp, the Muhammad Ali of Western modernism, came floating and
stinging onto the scene and messed with the protocols and the
expectations of the game. And whether the resulting standoff is billed
as politics versus pleasure, or ideas versus objects, it is almost
always seen as a bout between Progressive and Conservative.
Pleasure and objects, the old faithfuls of aestheticism, are currently
ascendant in New York art, thanks to recent strenuous campaigning on
their behalf. And what are the champions of traditional values trying
to conserve? Among other things, the golden, olden, pre-postmodern
days, when art meant Fine Art and was made, admired and acquired by a
discriminating few.
Those were the days before the Conceptualism of the late 1960's, one of
postmodernism's utopian main events, thoroughly scrambled the
definition of art as we knew it. They were also the days before digital
technology
MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/open_studio_june18_2004.html ]
http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/open_studio_june18_2004.html
When: Friday, June 18th, 6-9PM
coinciding with WGA extended gallery hours
Where: 60 N. 6th St. 2nd floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(directions: next door to NorthSix (http://www.northsix.com/shows.htm))
Yes, MTAA have a studio and it's going to be open to the public.
Come see the set for our new net art work commissioned by Turbulence.
The set will be fully dressed by our set dresser M.River.
Come see the first public screening of Pirated Movie (to be officially
released at Postmasters summer show opening June 19th so, if you do the
math, this means that YOU can see it ONE WHOLE DAY early).
Come see paintings! Yes, paintings! by M.River. (Solid pigment is
suspended in a liquid vehicle (like linseed oil or an artificial
polymer) and smeared on a canvas stretched over a wood frame.)
Come see other things able to be hung on walls.
We'll also provide guided tours of MTEWW.com.
BYOB
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>
testing ISP Censorship
"As part of a research project, Christian Ahlert ran an interesting
experiment. He posted John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which is clearly
in the public domain, on different ISPs. He then sent the ISPs phony
copyright violation notices. The results are troubling, with ISPs
"acting as judge, jury and private investigator at the same time."
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA553.htm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid/06/10/1750232
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Re: Secretary to Address Armed Artists of America in NY
MTAA, bodyatomic and tinydiva are preparing a DVD-Video entitled "DC
9/11: The Evil-Doers Remix" which remixes and reconfigures the Bush
propaganda film "DC 9/11, A Time of Crisis"
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353042/) that aired on the Showtime cable
channel in 2003.
We have scheduled the release to coincide with the RNC and are
setting-up screenings in NYC.
screening venues and dates TBA....
On Jun 7, 2004, at 9:44 AM, US Department of Art & Technology wrote:
> US Department of Art & Technology
> http://www.usdat.us
> press@usdat.us
> Washington, DC
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> Press Secretary
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> For Immediate Release
> Office of the Press Secretary
> June 7, 2004
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> Secretary Packer to Address Armed Artists of America in NY
> Announcing 10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation
> at the 2004 Republican National Convention
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> At the invitation of Army Veteran Lee Wells, curator of Active Duty,
> the Secretary will call on
