Pall Thayer

Member Since January 1, 1996

Website:pallthayer.dyndns.org/

Pall Thayer is an artist.http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
March 21 2014 01:45 on The Commenter: A Lament
Rhizome has long held on to this belief that the discussion gravitated away due to the emergence of social sites but that's not right. I remember when I first discovered ...
Dec. 16 2013 09:55 on 48 Artists (and Rhizome) remember when...
1992. Picked up the "connectivity" packet at the University of Minnesota and installed it on the only computer at work (Kinko's) that had a modem (it was the one that ...
Aug. 17 2009 14:28 on Call For Work
I don't agree with #2. It's impossible to add pedagogical value to such a restrictive mode of creation. The restrictions force people to apply advanced methods to keep their code ...
July 9 2009 06:29 on On Tour
" (I am not saying Brian's piece should be removed or censored but I think there could be some compromise such as allowing Nikola to post a brief, polite rebuttal ...
July 6 2009 19:49 on On Tour
It's really none of my business but I think you must be misinterpreting parts of the article, Nikola. It's all good and positive. A writer who writes about someone's artwork ...
April 30 2009 21:44 on The Pirate Google Sets Sail
This could have been a thoughtful article on the conceptual implications of the Pirate Google website but the first line destroys the whole thing. Flaunting the assumption that the new ...
March 25 2009 09:43 on Rhizome Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day
Makes you wonder, eh?
Feb. 22 2009 15:04 on Wikipedia Art
I have to admit that it hadn't occurred to me to compare GWEI and Wikipedia Art. What I thought was interesting about the Wikipedia Art concept was the idea of ...
Feb. 17 2009 16:56 on Wikipedia Art
I think it's pretty generally accepted by now that knowledge is not fixed and that's why wikipedia will accept anything that can be backed up with citations. Based on the ...
Feb. 12 2009 09:07 on Interview with Mellotron Documentary Filmmaker Dianna Dilworth
John Medeski is arguably one of the best current Melotron players out there. It's very prominent on the MMW album "End of the World Party" (for instance, but you hear ...
Jan. 30 2009 10:57 on average photographs study (2008) - kitschpatrol
Ah.. like Alfred North Whitehead's "precepts".
Jan. 13 2009 17:22 on Forever (2008) - Universal Everything
Browsing around the Universal Everything site, I bumped into this: http://everyoneforever.com/content/2008-12-15/minako_abe/

Some might think, "…but it's just a bunch of 'shopping" but I think they're ...
Nov. 21 2008 04:50 on Radio Astronomy (2004) - r a d i o q u a l i a
God forbid that any artist should ever inject any of their own creativity into their work. I mean, we ARE looking for the truth, right? We've had enough of these ...
Sept. 19 2008 13:35 on How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML code (2006) - LUNK
Here's another more modern version. The SVG version. Again, this is fully valid SVG 1.1


<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C ...
Sept. 19 2008 11:07 on How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML code (2006) - LUNK
If you replace the instances of Transitional and transitional to Strict and strict in the DOCTYPE, this will validate as XHTML 1.0 strict. So there.

Sept. 18 2008 13:33 on How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML code (2006) - LUNK
I see this is a bit dated. Here's a modern version. Fully valid XHTML 1.0 Tranistional.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
" ...
April 5 2008 21:58 on The Rematerialization of Art
Ed, I really have to wonder about your statement that "A significant part of that larger trend is that the gallery world today is overwhelming for-profit rather than non." ...
April 4 2008 12:07 on The Rematerialization of Art
"Immateriality, when talking about the immateriality of NMA it seems that everyone is skirting around the term conceptual art, Sol Lewitt is mentioned but that is as far as anyone ...
April 4 2008 07:11 on The Rematerialization of Art
The only thing I find annoying about this whole issue is that it sends a message that the immateriality of new media art is a negative thing whereas I feel ...
April 3 2008 17:53 on The Rematerialization of Art
In the case of computer-programmed art, labour is invested towards an idea. Once the software is finished it becomes a product that keeps on communicating the idea, long after the ...
April 3 2008 14:06 on The Rematerialization of Art
"Rather than a show about packaging/marketing, it would seem better to pair new media sphere artists with non, and not make a big deal about what you're doing." ...
April 2 2008 13:28 on The Rematerialization of Art
I have to say that the title, "The Rematerialization of Art" has an interesting ring to it. However, if this becomes a trend it has to be considered a bit ...
March 28 2008 14:57 on Out of Office AutoReply
I have to agree with Tom that the idea of using second-hand computers and "maintaining" the original owner's identity, sounds like it was a pretty strong conceptual component of the ...