More from Robert Huffman a couple of posts back:
The difference between gallery and net, as I see it? The work is created to exist, interact within, deconstruct its enviroment, whether we are talking about Richard Jackson or jimpunk. I would say Tom's push-pin pieces do an admirable job in the gallery, mechanisms are reflexively revealed as I believe he intended. But as we have seen in recent posts, Tom has had some trouble reconcilling gallery vs. net for his gifs. He has mentioned technical issues and quality of image, even posted images of the gifs as frame stills; but I am addressing the more conceptual issue Tom raised, that being truth to materials.
I don't think you can really say I've "had some trouble reconcilling gallery vs. net for his gifs" without seeing the show. Most of the "lack of reconciliation" I've complained about is that the Net is inadequate to document art that exists independently in physical space.

As for "technical issues and quality of image"-- I believe I've used the "problems" proactively by transferring the GIFs to video and showing them on tube TVs (or projecting them). They're not as "pristine" as they are on the computer but they're not trying to be. It's a translation, or regression, of media, with inevitable errors that are part of the work.

One of the dangers of discussing process or a learning curve on the blog is it gives a lingering impression of "unresolved issues." Anything I obsessed about on the blog got resolved at the gallery stage. At least that was the feedback I heard.

- tom moody 6-13-2006 3:31 am





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