blog art: artists' blogs
Despite rapid growth and mainstream acceptance in recent years, blogs are relatively underutilized as an art medium. This is an ongoing catalogue of blog art and related websites.
•blog art examples
Frozen Niki (Nikolaj's personal blog)
A stream of primitive computer graphics and snippets of text. Presented as a transcription of the brain activity of a cosmonaut, Nikolaj's blog stars Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina (as Nikolaj Osinin and Olga Kovaleva).
Look, See: Chris Ashley
Digital artist Chris Ashley posts daily "HTML drawings" on his blog. In particular, see his interview with Laura Lancaster.
PostSecret
A collaborative blog compiled by Frank Warren, consisting of postcards with collaged secrets and confessions. PostSecret has also been published as a series of books.
Diary of a Star
"A critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from The Andy Warhol Diaries", by artist Eduardo Navas (see artist's statement). See also The Blogger As Producer, by Navas.
On Kawara is not Dead
"As of 16 September 2006 I'm checking the obituaries in the newspaper to see if On Kawara is still alive."
Peter Baldes: Hypertemporality Animations
See netdotart for more by Peter Baldes (including lonely karaoke).
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A blog by jodi.org (see Wikipedia). Try the list of links on the right of the page for more projects.
______dis[ap]posable_
A blog by mez / Mary-Ann Breeze (see Wikipedia). See also _[e]Ven.t.rickle__ and netwurker.
Thinking
"This blog will hold videos of me thinking. Thinking about things, things that i like, things that I don’t like, things that I see on t.v." By Matthew Williamson.
muteblog
"Muteblog replaces the text usually found on a blog with images. Thin pixel slices, about the same height as a line of text, visually hint at the content they describe." By Christina Ray. Most of the links no longer work.
•news
May 31, 2007
Blog Art: Artists' Blogs has been cancelled due to low registration numbers. I'll still be maintaining this catalogue for my own research purposes.
March 12, 2007
Blog Art: Artists' Blogs will be offered as ARTS 3130 C at NSCAD University, Fall 2007. NSCAD students can consult the Fall 2007 timetable located here.
February 17, 2007
Call for proposals: art + blog = blogart? JavaMuseum invites artists to submit an art project using blogging technology. Deadline July 2, 2007.
•tools
Blogger
A free blogging service hosted by Google, Blogger offers powerful and easy-to-use blogging tools and allows HTML editing and integration of blogs into existing websites.
Other popular blog publishing systems include Moveable Type and Wordpress.
Technorati
A powerful blog search engine and widely-recognized index, Technorati tracks almost 70 million blogs as of February 2007.
Wikipedia
A collaborative online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a useful source of information about blogging and web culture due to its quickly-updated nature and multitude of links.
photoblogs.org
An index and community of photoblogs (blogs primarily using photography).
•blog art links
blog.art at Glowlab
An online resource for blog.art maintained by Christina Ray. Unfortunately the site has been "on hold" since late 2004, and most of the blog projects mentioned are no longer active.
blog-art.blogspot.com
A list of blog art links, curated by Marisa Olson and Abe Linkoln.
•art blogs & net.art
We Feel Fine
"An exploration of human emotion, in six movements." By Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Created with Processing.
A Painting a Day
Duane Keiser makes a postcard-sized oil painting each day (or slightly less frequently). The work is then sold on eBay.
stretch daily: creative exercise
"I present this exercise online to increase personal accountability, and to share this concept with you."
Screw Asylum
"All the patients are as they were when they were plucked from the box. They have not been medically treated or tortured for your curiosity and amusement in any way...."