I\u2019ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I haven\u2019t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think.\u00a0 It probably has more to do with my art past and how I saw this site as my online database of ideas, creations, and influences.\u00a0 For me, blogging began as an evolution of art-web experiments I was already doing.<\/p>\n
In 1996, I started a personal site\/art site called ADD (analog digital diary) which was essentially an early hand-made HTML version of a blog.\u00a0 The site was based on a grid calendar that contained dates with links to view the photos, words, graphics, ideas or sculptures I was working on every day; a listing page with the most current post at the top; ways to view by category (sculpture, multimedia, scan, recording, text) or view by date, theme, or any other views that I wanted to include.\u00a0 The main page was minimal – the latest post and side links to the various ways to view.\u00a0 Navigation was also pared down to \u201cview by date\u201d, \u201cview by media type\u201d, \u201cview by theme\u201d, and an archives and calendar link.\u00a0 The design was equally reduced and mostly HTML text or links with the actual content of the piece as the central focus.\u00a0 When I use the current version of flickr<\/a>, I\u2019m reminded of what I was trying to make in many ways, particularly with the calendar view<\/a> option in interestingness.<\/p>\n The purpose of the site was to give myself a place to post anything and everything that I was doing while an art student in graduate school and to create a website like none that I had seen or used.\u00a0 Whether I drew a large viewership wasn\u2019t really a concern or a goal, and as far as feedback, I was getting plenty of daily feedback and critique in grad school (to say the least!).<\/p>\n When blogging came around, it was mostly the tools that invigorated me at first.\u00a0 Suddenly, here were flexible, free, and extensible web-based systems that did everything I wanted to do with a database-driven site but didn\u2019t have the time or know-how to write myself.\u00a0 But the next wave of excitement was the speed with which blogs erupted online.\u00a0 Suddenly, everyone was a writer, photographer, documentarian, journalist, thought leader, critic, artist – blogger.\u00a0 People posting opinions, reviews, photos, art, intimate details of our lives, carefully crafted HTML worlds of how we each want to be perceived.\u00a0 From an artistic perspective, that has been a thrill to see.<\/p>\n For the most part with my blog, it\u2019s been one-way communication: me exhibiting and broadcasting to all of you.\u00a0 I\u2019ve turned comments on with lots of anticipation.\u00a0 Hope we have some good conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I haven\u2019t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think.\u00a0 It probably has more to do with my art past and how I saw this site as my online database of ideas, creations, and influences.\u00a0 For me, blogging began…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,360],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-conversation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}