the place








As an artist trained primarily in photograhy, I was accustomed to working at the intersection of art and technology, so it seemed natural that I would be curious about how artists might appropriate the world wide web. 

I approached my experiments with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. I was finding that what at the time went by the name of ‘computer art’ was too slick and cold for my taste. I wondered if it was possible to create art – work with heart and heat – from machines that spoke only the rigid language of code.

Out of this the place was born in September of 1994.

Offered here, as if frozen in amber, is a version of the place as it existed in 1999.

If you choose to enter, please be kind and gentle. Try to imagine the technology of the web in that year – HTML 1.0, etc. Some parts of the project no longer function, some links don’t work. It is a relic, an artifact, but still – to me – like a favored child, and possibly a memorable part of that early history.

the place – 1999