Curt Cloninger
Curriculum Vitae
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Professional Experience:

Lecturer (2002-present)
Multimedia Arts & Sciences
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina

Freelance Web Designer and Writer (2001-present)
web site design and development // view portfolio >
design, art, & media criticism and instruction
Asheville, North Carolina

Internet Administrator (1998-2001)
large-scale site architecture, design, implementation, management
Integrity Music
Mobile, Alabama



Education:

Maine College of Art. Portland, Maine.
Currently MFA candidate in Studio Arts, 2006-2008.

The University of the South. Sewanee, Tennessee.
BA (Cum Laude), 1991.
English major with a concentration in studio art



Selected Publications:

ARTICLE: "2,305-Words on 'Sweet Child o' Mine.'" Paste Magazine. Issue #26. November 2006, pp. 70-73.

BOOK: Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers. Berkeley, California. New Riders. 10/2006.

ARTICLE: "Eternity in an Instant: The Moving Images of David Crawford." Sequences, The Projection Box Publishers. Hastings, UK. Spring 2006. Paul St George, ed.

ARTICLE: "Geeks Inadvertently Making Net Art." Intelligent Agent. Vol. 5, No. 2. Winter 2005. Christiane Paul, ed.

ARTICLE: "Making the (Fantasy) Band." Paste Magazine. Issue #18. October/November 2005, pp. 101-105.

ARTICLE: "Music Lessons: A Life Spent Listening." Paste Magazine. Issue #11. August/September 2004, pp. 74-77.

REVIEW: "even better than the [ethe]real thing." Protocol (Alexander R. Galloway). Rhizome Digest. 7/2004. Kevin McGarry, ed.

ARTICLE: "Heirs to the Throne." Paste Magazine. Issue #8. February/March 2004, pp. 66-69.

REVIEW: "A More Exciting Delirium." Rhythm Science (Paul D. Miller). Rhizome Digest. 3/2004. Kevin McGarry, ed.

ARTICLE: "On Archiving, Ephemera, and Analog Distortion." Intelligent Agent. Vol. 3, No. 2. Summer/Fall 2003. Christiane Paul, ed.

REVIEW: "How I Stopped Hierarchizing and Learned to Love the Whole." The New Media Reader (Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort, eds.) and Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality (Packer and Jordan, eds.). Tekka. Vol. 1, No. 3. Summer 2003. Mark Bernstein, ed.

ARTICLE: "Yoshi Sodeoka: The Interface is the Massage." Intelligent Agent. Vol. 3, No. 1. Winter/Spring 2003. Christiane Paul, ed.

ARTICLE: "The Web Vs. Other Media." Co-Authors: Steven Caddy, Karen Ingram. Impress Web Design Magazine (Korea). 10/2001. pp. 68-70.

ARTICLE: "Head to Head on Usability." Co-Author: Bo McFarland. Mute Magazine (UK). Issue 21. 9/2001, pp. 14-15.

BOOK: Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground. Indianapolis, Indiana. New Riders. 8/2001.

ARTICLE: "A Case for Web Storytelling." A List Apart, Issue No. 92. 12/2000. Jeffrey Zeldman, ed.

ARTICLE: "Usability Experts are from Mars. Graphic Designers are from Venus." Design Matters: Society for Technical Communication Information Design Special Interest Group. Beth Mazur, ed. 10/2000.

ARTICLE: "Sometimes Nothing Is a Real Cool Hand." The Best of Pif Magazine Off-Line, Fusion Press. London. 4/2000. Camille Renshaw, ed.



Solo Exhibitions:

"St. Frank and the Wolf" (performance/installation: audio, synesthetic projection, fabric):
Flood Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina. February 2007.

"The Unbearable Being of Lightness" (animated collage projection, mixed media drawing, improvisational piano composition, fruits & vegetables). Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. July 2006.



Group Exhibitions:

"St. Frank and the Wolf" (performance: audio, synesthetic projection, fabric):
r4wb1t5 micro.Fest. The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee. January 2007.

"Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards" (HTML, JavaScript, digital imagery, audio), "reBranding" (logo design, internet):
[DAM] Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 11/10/2006-12/5/2006.

"Playdamage" (mixed digital media):
Seoul Net Festival. Coex Building, Seoul, Korea. 5-9/2005.

"Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards" (HTML, JavaScript, digital imagery, audio):
FILE (Electronic Language International Festival). Galeria De Arte Do SESI, São Paulo, Brazil. 11/2004.

"Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards" (HTML, JavaScript, digital imagery, audio), "reBranding" (logo design, internet):
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Cornell University Library. Ithaca, New York. Timothy Murray, curator.

"The Market-O-Matic [Fine Arts Version 1.0]" (DHTML, text):
L'artiste portatif. L'Instituto de México à Paris, Paris, France. 2/2003-5/2003. Daniela Franco, curator.

"The Grace Engine" (Flash, DHTML, audio):
FILE (Electronic Language International Festival). Paco Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil. 8/2002.

"A Digital Quilt Project" (animated Gif, Internet):
Seol Net Festival. Coex Building, Seoul, Korea. 11/2001.

"Playdamage" (mixed digital media):
FILE (Electronic Language International Festival). Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil. 8/2001.



Online Exhibitions:

"Synesthetic Bubble Gum Cards" (HTML, JavaScript, digital imagery, audio), "reBranding" (logo design, internet):
Computer Fine Arts Collection, 2003-present. Doron Golan, curator.

"The Market-O-Matic [Fine Arts Version 1.0]" (DHTML, text):
Runme.org Repository. 2003. Alexei Shulgin, curator.

"A Digital Quilt Project" (animated Gif, Internet), mouchette-has-a-posse (DHTML, BBS, Internet, digital imagery), "Playdamage" (mixed digital media), "plotFracture" (mixed digital media, internet), "The Shine of Your Japan" (audio, video, photography, HTML), "The Grace Engine" (Flash, DHTML, audio):
Rhizome Artbase. 2001-2003.

"plotFracture" (mixed diital media, internet):
Whalelane Journal, No. 7, 2003.

"The Grace Engine" (Flash, DHTML, audio):
Drunken Boat, Vol. 5, 2002.

"MetaBiennial" (internet):
Free Manifesta. 2002. Sal Randolph, curator.

"Flamehead" (DHTML, digital animation, audio):
Themepark Magazine, Vol. 4, 2001.

P.O.E. (HTML, digital animation, audio):
Kubrick Project. 2000.



Invited Lecture Presentations:

University of South Carolina Art Department. Columbia, South Carolina. 10/2005.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Snowmass Village, Colorado. 8/2005.
Applied Visualization Conference. Asheville, North Carolina. 4/2005.
South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Austin, Texas. 3/2005, 3/2006.
Israel Internet Association Conference. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2/2005. [full day tutorial]
FILE Symposium. São Paulo, Brazil. 11/2004.
dotUnion. Calgary, Canada. 11/2004.
Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center. Asheville, North Carolina. 9/2004.
HOW Design. San Diego, California. 5/2004.
Web Design World. Seattle, Washington 7/2003
Web Builder. Las Vegas, Nevada. 9/2002.
Gospelcom. Chicago, Ill. 9/2002.
Southern Illinois University Art Department. Edwardsville, Ill. 4/2002.
Web Builder. New Orleans, La. 11/2001 [keynote address], 12/2000.



Selected Bibliography/Citations:

Frost, Charlotte. "The Anti-Nike". Rhizome Net Art News. 8/8/2005.

Mooth, Bryn. "The WOW Factor". HOW Magazine. 8/2004, pp. 64-93.

Gerdie, Claudia. "Design Trends 2004" (cover story). Page Magazine (Germany). 1/2004, p. 32.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Sightings. 10/2003.

Ludovico, Alessandro. "Renga, net art distribuita". Neural (Italy). 6/2003.

Gallagher, David F. "Don't Mourn, Yet. These Obits Were Only Designs". New York Times. 4/21/2003.

Ludovico, Alessandro. "REbranding, corporate image ribaltata". Neural (Italy). 3/2003.

Ludovico, Alessandro. "The Market-O-Matic (1.0), testi critici automatici". Neural (Italy). 12/2002.

Heagney, Din. "Lookee Hear: Visual Sound in an Electronic World". Desktop Magazine (Australia). 8/2002, pp. 58-61.

Ludovico, Alessandro. "Traffic Report, rendere pubblici i propri traffici di dati". Neural (Italy). 1/2002.

Fresh Styles for Web Designers reviewed in I.D. Magazine, 1/2002.

King, Andrew. "Curt Cloninger on Web Design." Web Reference. 9/2001.

Ludovico, Alessandro. "Playdamage". Neural (Italy). 4/2001.



Editorships:

Preliminary Editor: Digital Art Studio (book). Krause, Lhotka, Schminke. New York, NY. Watson-Guptill. Spring 2004.

Editor: One (book & CD-ROM). Cina, Young. Minneapolis, Minnesota. You Work For Them Press. Summer 2003.

Technical Editor: Building Accessible Web Sites (book & CD-ROM). Clark. Indianapolis, Indiana. New Riders. 10/2001.



Jury Memberships:

Identi-T Graphic Design Competition. Tel Aviv, Israel. January 2005.
HOW Magazine. Interactive Design Competition. Cincinati, Ohio. August 2004.
Some Dancers and Musicians. Internet art competition. UK. Fall 2002.
Zambonia Currency Design Competition. Atlanta, Georgia. 9/2002.
Genius 2000. Internet art competition. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 9/2001.


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