this is it!

i’ve been contemplating this blog project for some time now, since November 2004 to be precise.

the story goes that i started ‘normalblog’ with a MoveableType(MT) install, in November 2004. then i was hit by a car that month and left with a wrist fracture that seriously impeded my blogging potential. i deleted my MT install, knowing that i couldn’t actually dedicate any time to it. over the past 19 months i’ve attempted a few other installs of ‘normalblog’, eventually migrating to WordPress, frustrated with the closed architecture of MT and inspired by the community development that revolves around WordPress.

with the release of WordPress 2.0 i started to notice (through some test installs) that the software developed in the vector i would request or require of it: lots of backend control, the ability to highly manipulate how the blog displays itself (not only aesthetically, but how concept -> form -> display (of information)), while maintaining room for future growth and development, both within the software itself, as well as by external developers, the comments and desires of bloggers, etc.

And so, as an artist, I have set about to launch my weblog.

My interests lie in ‘what is a weblog to an artist’? Why are artists drawn to weblogs and contemporary forms of information-exchange? Do weblogs facilitate dialogue, or are they merely for bloating, or both? And increasingly importantly, are there ways or methods to question the nature of the weblog under the control of an artist (actually the notion of control is very important here: so often artists are secondary to the form of communication display, and weblogs put that control back in the arena of the artist/s)? In other words, what is a blog, why even invest time in one, and is it art? These questions and many many more will be my pursuit for as long as this weblog lasts. And since data is easily stored in database tables, I can move the information around endlessly, and everything can always be accessed (also important).

As such, there is not much to look at now, but everything will be developed, input, expanded, collapsed, questioned, re-coded, and especially hacked into and out of existence, over time.