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

Subway images


Hi Rhizome,

I came across this piece on the NYTime's website this morning (reg
requ):

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/03/28/nyregion/
20040327_SUBWAY_FEATURE_02.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx80485403-
rxHO1Os8+JZ1wF7tnw+Cwg

It's an interview and slide show (flash) with the photographer Bruce
Davidson regarding his late 70s/early 80s photographs of and in the NYC
subway system.

It reminded me of David Crawford's 'Stop Motion Studies' series:
http://www.stopmotionstudies.net/

As some may know, MTAA is interested in 'updates'
(http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/on-line_art/update_series.html) of older
art work and it's interesting to read Crawford's work as an update of
Davidson (though I'm certain that Crawford didn't intend it to be).

If you compare Davidson's photos to Crawford's animations both formally
(still photo as opposed to sorta-still) and you compare how the subject
has changed over the intervening years, you will see a greater
narrative develop which neither of the two projects could achieve on
their own.

Don't misunderstand, both projects are brilliantly executed on their
own, but the comparison creates a historical arc that adds another
fascinating layer.

(http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/Subway_images.html)

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<t.whid>
http://www.mteww.com
</t.whid>

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The_1st_Annual_Drinkin'_&_Drawin'_Championship_


Hello NYC Rhizomers,

A reminder. One more is to come...

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M.River & T.Whid Art Assoc. (MTAA) and Bar Matchless present:

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// The 1st Annual
// DRINKIN' & DRAWIN'
// CHAMPIONSHIP
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http://www.tinjail.com/drinkAndDraw

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GRAND PRIZE:
$100 bar tab
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*What?
A one-night-only contest to crown the 2004 Drinkin' & Drawin' Champion.

*When?
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8PM - 11PM. No pre-registration necessary;
free drawin' materials will be provided.

*Where?
Bar Matchless, corner of Driggs and Manhattan Aves., Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, NYC (directions at the bottom of this message)

*Who?
Open to all professional and amateur artist, designers, architects,
curators, craft-persons and barflies. No entry fee, all comers welcome.

*Celebrity Judges?
Magda Sawon & Tamas Banovitch of Postmasters Gallery and Heather
Stephens of 31Grand Gallery will crown the champion. Judging begins at
11PM SHARP!

*DJ?
tinydiva

*Why?
It might be interesting if an art idea conceived in a bar could use a
bar as a site and context for said art idea plus, it's been a long hard
winter.

*More?
Contestants are provided with sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper and a #2 pencil.
Or BYOM (bring your own media, must be paper!)

!bar snacks

!drink specials

http://www.tinjail.com/drinkAndDraw

For more info: mriver@mteww.com
For more info on the promoters, MTAA: http://www.mteww.com
For more info on the venue: http://www.BARMATCHLESS.COM

*Directions:
*From Manhattan:
Take the L train to Bedford Ave. North on Driggs Ave. (past McCarren
Park) to Manhattan Ave.
*From Brooklyn or Queens:
Take G train to Nassau. Walk one block east on Manhattan Ave. to Driggs
Ave.
*map:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?
country=US&addtohistory=&addressU7%2Bmanhattan%2Bave.&city=brooklyn&st
ate=ny&zipcode222&homesubmit=Get%2BMap

Who will be the 2004 Drinkin' & Drawin' Champion?

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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
</t.whid>

DISCUSSION

Re: Commission Voting: final round


Explain how to rank again..

1 to (number of finalists) with 1 being best or worst?

thx

On Mar 22, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Francis Hwang wrote:

> Friends, Romans, Plumbers:
>
> We're now in the second (final) phase of voting. Out of 48 entrants,
> we're down to these 25 finalists:
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> Agonistics: A Language Game
> artistgame.com (tentative)
> Average Shoveler
> Continuous Asteroids
> Ctrl-Shift
> Darkness and Daylight: the Bowery Treasure Hunt
> DG-Cabin
> Endgames
> Farklempt
> hOn?-|<ong s?ng C:omputer (OR TWO NET.ARTISTS PLAY PING PONG IN HONG
> KONG)
> Infinite Game
> InnerCity
> Linkhunters.Net
> Listening (tentative)
> Misplaced Reliquary
> Oodlala
> outlandernet
> oversaturation/ available space
> Pac-Mondrian
> Psychosis and Death of the Author-Algorythm YU03/04.13
> The Zone
> TRUE MOUSE
> Virtual Demolition Derby Rhizome Gallery in Sinners world
> web Fl?neur
> WTO World Take Over
>
> Please pitch in by voting in the ranking phase here:
> http://rhizome.org/commissions/voting/ranking/ . You have two weeks to
> vote on the finalists: We close the ballot boxes on April 5 or shortly
> thereafter.
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> As always, comments, complaints, and bug reports can be sent to me or
> to the list.
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Wavexpress, Inc.
phone: 917-339-9043

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