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Dec 08, 2016
YDKWYTA, 2010
posted at 01:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 26, 2016
MTAA - Music 4 Music 4 Airports, 2015
posted at 12:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
One day in the mid-1970s, Brian Eno was waylaid in the Cologne Bonn Airport. Annoyed by the airports soundscape, Eno develops a plan to build a sound installation for the space. Eno works out the framework for the installation in his groundbreaking 1978 album - Ambient 1 - Music for Airports. Eno built the album, consisting of only 4 tracks, by manipulating phasing tape loops. The resulting work moves between music, soundscape, and audio wallpaper.
Some time has passed since the 70s. Tape loops have been replaced by computer algorithms. Our airports now function under the watchful eyes of the TSA. Although travel has changed, being stuck in an airport today might be the same drag as it was in the 70s, but with slightly better coffee. As technology skips happily along and our air travel becoming both trauma inducing and mind numbly dull, 2015 felt like a good moment to revisit Eno’s score.
In the work, I live captures four session of online surfing to combine Eno’s tracks (via youTube) with explorations of two European airports - Paris Orly, Cologne Bonn and two American airports - LGA, JFK. Each of the track/ airports is surfed on the internet using a different default web search method. Track 1 / 1 explores Paris Orly by Google street view, 1 / 2 looks at Cologne Bonn’s via the airports live webcam, Tack 2 /1 works with image searches of LGA and Track 2 / 2 sees JKF within You Tube.
The work joins with and pushes against the passive sounds of a bygone ideal for world travel. It plays with and against the sounds not only in the subject of what airports have become decades later but with the medium of the web in which the site and sounds are performed. permanent link to this post
Sep 22, 2016
Frankenstein Admire a Flower
posted at 12:41 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Further and Further Away from the Flock Slowly Spinning Slightly Hovering, 2016
Stay Frosty Stay (The New Sprit of Capitalism), 2016 permanent link to this post
Sep 18, 2016
MTAA made some mail art
posted at 11:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Academic in LIC
September 2- 24, 2016
curated by Emily Peterson Dunne
At the opening a friend who I had not seen in some years noted that MTAA does not make art anymore. This is almost true. MTAA does not make art anymore except when it does. permanent link to this post
Sep 03, 2016
Update on onKawaraUpdate
posted at 13:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 05, 2016
Untitled Dummy Image, 2016
posted at 02:09 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Untitled Dummy Image, 2016
website generated 600x 400 jpeg
http://dummyimage.com/600x400/000/fff.jpg&text=MTAA+2016
embedded here via Flickr at 320x213
Untitled Dummy Image’s pubic Google Doc page permanent link to this post
Apr 23, 2016
MTAA’s Unmade Cassette Tapes, 2016
posted at 13:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 12, 2016
untitled ( the days of this society is numbered/ December 7, 2012), 2016
posted at 12:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
untitled ( the days of this society is numbered/ December 7, 2012), 2016
7 web generated images from signgenerator.org in the catagory of PEOPLE PROTESTING/RALLY SIGN GENERATORS on public google doc page with text based on Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled ( the days of this society is numbered/ December 7, 2012) permanent link to this post
Mar 21, 2016
my_tombstone
posted at 12:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 20, 2016
MTAA - Some Recent Net Art x10 (a very very solo show on the internet)
posted at 14:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The result to distinct adopts ambiguous net arts as a legibility of intertextual text syntheses. It is at this point that the result to adopt re-defines the anonymous net art. The text is cross-sectioned through a text ‘s text. The sceptical, intertextual text legitimises and adopts the provocative text. The source of intertextual accomplishments adopts and forces the anonymous, ambivalent net arts. The result is an imperceptible simulation of intertextual synergies that adopts beyond the ambivalent spectrum of databases. These anthropological genres cross-fade texts and net arts to adopt a database in an ambivalent, anonymous agglomeration. Texts adopt the simulation of facsimiles, while the ambiguous, intertextual database inverts and deploys the agglomeration. The text synthesis adopts the ambiguous and unique net art. Ambiguous and anonymous databases verify the absence of ambivalent manipulations, while the intertextual, post-structuralistic text releases and synthesises the result to oscillate.
Introduction text generated via www.art-words.net (Eva Beierheimer and Miriam Laussegger)
Some Recent Net Art x10 (a very very solo show on the internet), 2016
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page
gifmaker in makeagif, 2016
online animated gif
Hi - my name is Joel, and I work at Artsy, 2016
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page
Untitled Morse Code With Fonts x10, 2016
text on public Google doc page
DP721W, 2016
found online stock photo
50 Painters + Image Searches in No Particular Order, 2016
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page
Defaults, 2015
embedded Vimeo video on WIX site
Music 4 Music 4 Airports, 2015
embedded Vimeo video on WIX site
MoMA Dust Windows, 2014
unofficial Facebook fan page
MTAA’s Notes on Being Net Artist in relation to Olia LiaLina’s Notes on Being Net Artist, 2014
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page
Mark River (°1967, Iowa City , United States) makes conceptual artworks and media art. With a subtle minimalistic approach, River tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
His conceptual artworks question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. With a conceptual approach, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of conceptual art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. Mark River currently lives and works in Brooklyn .
Artist statement generated via 500 Letters (Jasper Rigole) permanent link to this post
Mar 10, 2016
gifmaker in makeagif, 2016
posted at 13:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 09, 2016
Hi - my name is Joel, and I work at Arts
posted at 12:09 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page permanent link to this post
Mar 08, 2016
Untitled Morse Code With Fonts x10
posted at 12:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 07, 2016
DP721W, 2016
posted at 12:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 06, 2016
50 Painters + Image Searches in No Particular Order, 2016
posted at 13:05 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page permanent link to this post
Defaults, 2015
Mar 04, 2016
Music 4 Music 4 Airports
posted at 12:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 03, 2016
MoMA Dust Windows, 2014
posted at 12:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 02, 2016
on Being Net Artist in relation to Olia LiaLina’s Notes on Being Net Artist
posted at 12:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
text with hyperlinks on public Google doc page permanent link to this post
Jan 04, 2016
AFC best of 2015 - a brief history of the simple net art diagram
posted at 00:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver