{"id":10530,"date":"2013-03-26T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:34:49","slug":"curt-cloninger-remixes-acconci-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"Curt Cloninger <em>Blindness<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2013\/blindness.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/blindness.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2013\/blindness.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Blindness (1971\/1991\/2011\/2012, 37MB, 3:18 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of Curt Cloninger&#8217;s work, especially his virtuosic but often profoundly moving ( and how often do you hear <strong>that<\/strong> word in connection with new media*?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playdamage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Playdamage<\/a> sequence. <\/p>\n<p>Here he simply mashes up a section of a 1971 Acconci video with a Jack White cover of a U2 song.<br \/>\nActually to say mashes up is making it more complex than it is which is &#8211; visuals &#8211; Acconci; sound &#8211; U2 through White. Genius &#8211; Cloninger.<\/p>\n<p>*except of course for the ridiculous Bill Viola, where it&#8217;s so clearly used by the very easily pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blindness (1971\/1991\/2011\/2012, 37MB, 3:18 min) I&#8217;m a huge fan of Curt Cloninger&#8217;s work, especially his virtuosic but often profoundly moving ( and how often do you hear that word in connection with new media*?) Playdamage sequence. Here he simply mashes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,14,59,29,35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-conceptual","category-experimental","category-newmediaart","category-performance","category-remix","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11388,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/11388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}