Blog about the Blog on Blog Art
Published by Christy Dena August 15th, 2005 in blogs, Text Art, Fictionality.I’ve seen blogs that are used to deliver blog fiction, and I’ve seen blogs that discuss art, but I haven’t seen blogs that display art. I think this would have to be the first exhibition of blog art, the first exhibition on a blog (?) and the first exhibition of blog art on a blog: Blog Art by Abe W. Linkoln and Marisa S. Olsen (who is now the Editor and Curator-at-Large for Rhizome, and has her own blog). You can offer suggestions of other blog sites through a comment on the post citing the blog.
I’ve got a listing of blog fiction here too.
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This looks like an interesting and useful service with some good entries! I’m definitely adding it to my watch-list.
Obviously, any post with claims about “first” anything is going to call for some serious definition of terms - especially with as recent and slippery a term as “blog.”
I’m inclined to agree with mez’s “bah” (”blog art historicizing”? “blogart already hypertextificated”?) - and even consider forwarding as candidates even earlier pieces in the blog timeline, such as the original NCSA “What’s New” list (1993) or perhaps Slashdot (1997) - the tech news blog constantly covered net art, including blog art, although it has kept art as a topic rather than a formal category. So much depends on what counts as art, and whether only exclusive listings count - I need to think a lot more about this, and perhaps do a followup post.
Still in the spirit of clarifying terms:
I’m not sure about the terms “exhibition” and “curate” to describe a project of ongoing inclusive aggregation - it seems to imply a limited space with a rotating set of features which are hosted, presented, and cared for (hence curated), like a museum floor or a gallery, when in fact blogrolls are collections more like a periodical and its archive - the primary responsibility is initial selection, not presentation and rotation.
If the word “archivist” seems to under-emphasize the work involved in filtering a high volume of potential submissions, perhaps “editor”…?
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Great site Gus. I’ve added it to our IE Software list too. I love the transmission interruption effect!