[NetBehaviour] Turbulence.org Commission: "The Xanadu Hijack" by Curt Cloninger

[New Radio and Performing Arts Inc.]

June 3, 2015

Turbulence.org Commission: "The Xanadu Hijack" by Curt Cloninger

http://turbulence.org/commissions/xanadu/



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Curt and Jordan Cloninger have created a logo that will hijack the proper
noun "Xanadu" in Google Images; so that a Google Images search for "Xanadu"
returns a tiled collage of Xanadu Hijack logos. At the Xanadu Hijack
website, various versions of the Xanadu logo are available for participants
to download, manipulate, watermark, tag, and upload. Or, they can simply
use the social media buttons to tag and repost the logos. Curt has also
provided several pre-watermarked, Xanadu-related images -- Olivia Newton
John, Kubla Khan, Citizen Kane, Ted Nelson, the New Jersey Mall -- which
can be reposted and tagged as well. If you want to hijack Cloninger's
hijack by associating the logo with cats or unicorns that would be
wonderful. Participants who demonstrate a lot of network influence or just
have clever ideas will be paid, until the money runs out.



"The Xanadu Hijack" is a 2015 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts,
Inc. for its Turbulence.org website. It was made possible with funding from
the National Endowment for the Arts.



BIOGRAPHY



Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Assistant Professor of New Media
at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His art undermines language
as a system of meaning in order to reveal it as an embodied force in the
world. By layering, restructuring, hashing, eroding, exhausting, and
(dis)splaying language, he causes language to perform itself until its
"meaning" has less to do with what it denotes and more to do with how it
behaves. Cloninger's work has been featured in the New York Times and at
festivals and galleries from Korea to Brazil. Exhibition venues include
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Granoff Center for The Creative Arts
(Brown University), Digital Art Museum [DAM] (Berlin), Ukrainian Institute
of Modern Art (Chicago), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
(Asheville), and the internet.



Curt has been published on a wide range of topics, including new media and
internet art, installation and performance art, experimental graphic
design, popular music, network culture, and continental philosophy. Recent
topics have included glitch art, the "new aesthetic," electronic voice
phenomena, bodily affect, object oriented ontology, process philosophy, and
artistic lying. His articles have appeared in Intelligent Agent, Mute,
Paste, Tekka, Rhizome Digest, A List Apart, and on ABC World News. He is
the author of four books, most recently a collection of his essays spanning
14-years, (aptly) titled One Per Year.



He maintains lab404.com, playdamage.org, and deepyoung.org in hopes of
facilitating a more lively remote dialogue with the Sundry Contagions of
Wonder.



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Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green, Co-Directors
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