Untitled (Clear Evening After Rain), 2004, HTML, 365 x 550 pixels, from Look, See, Chris Ashley's weblog. A CD-ROM was recently published of the HTML drawings that appear daily on the blog. I continue to be intrigued and impressed with Ashley's use of the weblog as a medium for abstract art made in the same language as the medium. It's transparency in every good sense of the word.
Hey Tom- when I looked at your weblog today I thought I had mistakenly gone to my own, and wondered why this drawing made several days ago was at the top of the page. Thanks for the mention and the kind words.
A coincidence, really, because I had a thought I haven't formed very well about the Rhizome Blogging and Arts Panel you'll be on: there are lots of (visual) art weblogs running now, and they fall into a few obvious categories, or several at once:
- running commentary on one's work, a peek into studio practice
- art world commentary: news, gossip
- reviews
- criticism, theory, history
- networking, social scene
- collecting
- the weblog as a place to make, show work
I'm sure there are others. But my point- besides photoblogs, and possibly audio- and videoblogs, I'm not seeing many artist's weblogs that treat the medium itself- HTML, the browser, scripting, the diary or serial nature of weblogging, archiving and linking- as the part of the art practice. I'm pretty clear where my weblog falls, but maybe I'm missing where all the other artblogs are.
Have fun on the panel.
Oh, forgot... your wrote:
"One afterthought: the panel lists me as "artist and critic" but I prefer "artist who writes" (or better, just "artist")... "
Maybe this is why, from the "post-hypnotic" catalog:
"Moody, one of the artists in post-hypnotic, is also an art critic for Artforum and other publications. In 1998, he organized "Op at UP," a five-person exhibition at UP & CO in New York dealing with "abject Op" in the 90s."
Now, why didn't they call you a "curator" too?
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Untitled (Clear Evening After Rain), 2004, HTML, 365 x 550 pixels, from Look, See, Chris Ashley's weblog. A CD-ROM was recently published of the HTML drawings that appear daily on the blog. I continue to be intrigued and impressed with Ashley's use of the weblog as a medium for abstract art made in the same language as the medium. It's transparency in every good sense of the word.
- tom moody 11-16-2004 8:06 pm
Hey Tom- when I looked at your weblog today I thought I had mistakenly gone to my own, and wondered why this drawing made several days ago was at the top of the page. Thanks for the mention and the kind words.
A coincidence, really, because I had a thought I haven't formed very well about the Rhizome Blogging and Arts Panel you'll be on: there are lots of (visual) art weblogs running now, and they fall into a few obvious categories, or several at once:
- running commentary on one's work, a peek into studio practice
- art world commentary: news, gossip
- reviews
- criticism, theory, history
- networking, social scene
- collecting
- the weblog as a place to make, show work
I'm sure there are others. But my point- besides photoblogs, and possibly audio- and videoblogs, I'm not seeing many artist's weblogs that treat the medium itself- HTML, the browser, scripting, the diary or serial nature of weblogging, archiving and linking- as the part of the art practice. I'm pretty clear where my weblog falls, but maybe I'm missing where all the other artblogs are.
Have fun on the panel.
- chrisashley (guest) 11-17-2004 3:40 am
Oh, forgot... your wrote:
"One afterthought: the panel lists me as "artist and critic" but I prefer "artist who writes" (or better, just "artist")... "
Maybe this is why, from the "post-hypnotic" catalog:
"Moody, one of the artists in post-hypnotic, is also an art critic for Artforum and other publications. In 1998, he organized "Op at UP," a five-person exhibition at UP & CO in New York dealing with "abject Op" in the 90s."
Now, why didn't they call you a "curator" too?
- chrisashley (guest) 11-17-2004 3:47 am