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





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