Thanks to Robert Huffman at the Modern Theory & Contemporary Criticism forum on Myspace for his photo- and gif-annotated version of the Rhizome.org interview [dead link--see below] Cory Arcangel did with me. Robert also reBlogged the item on his blog SPACEprogram. A couple of late corrections to the interview:
Digital Media Tree is the brainchild of Jim Bassett, who wrote the
software and has been the low-key, creative, officially-unofficial webmaster
since 2000 1999. It is a blog collective and quite active, with all of us
commenting on each other's pages and posting to public and private group
pages. My invitation to join the group came from artist Bill Schwarz, who
has a page at www.digitalmediatree.com/schwarz/. There are features
at the Tree at I haven't found in other blog packages, such as the ease of
configuring pages with "use your own html" options, and the ability to spin
off an infinite series of customized pages, as blogs or fixed pages. I'm too
lazy to learn CSS, but actually prefer my page's under-designed html look. I said 2000 in the interview; I knew that Jim, drat fink, and some other Tree-ers started blogging earlier (in the first Blogger era) but couldn't find any '99 posts until Alex Wilson reminded me that his Arboretum, covering his travels in the Central Park outback (among many other things), started in December of that year. Another minor bug in the interview was this paragraph:
In my college DJ years I was
airing Can, Ralf and Florian, Tony Williams Lifetime, Iggy Pop's The Idiot,
etc. My jaw dropped, in the early '90s, when I first heard [that] breakbeat
'ardkore rave stuff. I couldn't believe how good it was--it was like all my
influences grew up (and sped up). I left out the "that."
Update: New Link to Cory's interview with me.
Wow. Thanks for name checking my little forum. I am guessing Paul Slocum brought it to your attention? I also posted that to my rinky dink artblog blog.myspace.com/spaceprogram. Yeah, thanks again.
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Thanks to Robert Huffman at the Modern Theory & Contemporary Criticism forum on Myspace for his photo- and gif-annotated version of the Rhizome.org interview [dead link--see below] Cory Arcangel did with me. Robert also reBlogged the item on his blog SPACEprogram. A couple of late corrections to the interview: I said 2000 in the interview; I knew that Jim, drat fink, and some other Tree-ers started blogging earlier (in the first Blogger era) but couldn't find any '99 posts until Alex Wilson reminded me that his Arboretum, covering his travels in the Central Park outback (among many other things), started in December of that year. Another minor bug in the interview was this paragraph:I left out the "that."
Update: New Link to Cory's interview with me.
- tom moody 11-06-2005 8:43 pm
Wow. Thanks for name checking my little forum. I am guessing Paul Slocum brought it to your attention? I also posted that to my rinky dink artblog blog.myspace.com/spaceprogram. Yeah, thanks again.
- Robert Huffmann (guest) 11-08-2005 2:44 am