For anybody that was attending TO or Montreal techno jams around 2000-2003 they may remember that Greg Smith (aka ether.mann) and Neil Wiernik (aka naw) did a series of events under the name clonk. Now that we are both back in TO again we've decided to revive the project out of stasis and mutated clonk into not only an event promotion entity, but a new online digital arts journal vagueterrain.net
Vague terrain will be a quarterly web-journal showcasing work from various Canadian and International artists, musicians, and writers. Our intent is to stake a unique claim which will sample the focus and methodologies of academic and art journals while commissioning parallel excursions into the sonic realm. Content will consist of a mixture of visual art, audio, and text curated by Neil-Wiernik and Greg Smith. On occasion guest curators will be invited to select content for vague terrain. The first version of vagueterrain.net will be launched in the fall of 2005. As a homage to our origins as one of the first Canadian promotional outfits pushing glitch techno our first issue will be dedicated to an exploration of digital detritus. The digital refuse and artifacts we find ourselves immersed in at the dawn of this new century will serve as both the content and the means of production for a handful of invited artists. Anticipated themes include feedback, decay, (mis)translation, and fragmentation. We will also be promoting a few small events in the coming months in TO go to link for more info about that. www.vagueterrain.net For anybody that wasn't around TO or Montreal when we were promoting as clonk: Over the course of 2000-2003 clonk hosted events in Toronto and Montreal promoting a diverse range of artists including Akufen, Crackhaus, Deadbeat, Jeff Milligan, Monolake, Kero, Kit Clayton, Rechenzenstrum, Scion & Tikiman, Sutekh, and Tomas Jirku as well as countless other significant Canadian producers & DJ's.