Curt Cloninger
Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and designer living in western North Carolina, US. His art undermines language as a system of meaning in order to reveal it as an embodied force in the world. His materials are spoken words, sounds, hand-written words, lines, objects coupled with words, objects as words, light, and time. He orchestrate these materials using video, software, performances, installations, and networks.
WORKS
1.
title: Breathing in B Flat (net art remix)
year of production: 2007
used technology: audio, synesthetic projection, animated Gif, HTML, JavaScript
short work description:
A live performer’s voice controls the mix of six pre-recorded voices and images. Sculpting sound and light to explore an ecstatic space of unsaying. For the net art remix, each click reloads a new collaged animation and audio. The animations and audio are generative, so each iteration is slightly different.
2.
Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards
year of production: 2003-present (ongoing)
used technology: HTML, JavaScript, digital photography, digital design, audio
short work description:
Generative collage. Each card continually remixes itself after a few seconds, drawing from a database of prepared source images.
3.
playdamage
year of production: 2000-present (ongoing)
used technology: HTML, JavaScript, Flash, Director, animated Gif, digital imagery, audio
short work description: Multimedia journal. Linear navigation (each piece links to the next piece). 70+ screens. All screens have audio and most are animated loops.
4.
title: plotfracture
year of production: 2002-present (ongoing)
used technology: HTML, JavaScript, animated Gif, digital imagery, audio, text, Internet
short work description: Non-linear, fugal narrative. Loops, forks, dead-ends, short-cuts, randomly generated situations. Very large.
5.
title: a digital quilt project
year of production: 2000-present (ongoing)
used technology: animated Gif, Internet
short work description: Open international collaborative quilt project. Each quilt is based on a theme, and each square is created by various individuals across the web. The squares are animated, and each square links to the web site of its creator. We are on our fifteenth quilt.
