Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor of New Media at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His art work has been featured in the New York Times and at festivals and galleries from Korea to Brazil. Exhibition venues include Pompidou Center (Paris), Whitney Museum (New York), and the internet. He is currently writing his fifth book, Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art. Curt maintains lab404.com, playdamage.org, and deepyoung.org in hopes of facilitating a more lively remote dialogue with the Sundry Contagions of Wonder.