<nettime> re: Tilman-RFC #1: net art history 1993 - 1996

[Dooley Le Cappellaine <dooley@thing.net>]

I responded to Tilman's request for information regarding art on line projects
between 1993-1996.

I was shocked by his innapropriately arrogant and pugnacious response:

Here it is:

Dooley Le Cappellaine responds to Tillman's request:

 I made some trail sites during 1995 and put one up early/mid 1996.


>At 15:12 15.11.99 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Hello Tillman,
>>I am an artist and curator.
>>From 1988-94 I ran a gallery of cutting edge contemporary art in SoHo New
>York.
>>During 1994 I got very interested in new media and decided to close my
>>galley in order to focus on my work in this new medium.
>>From late 1994 through September 1996 I worked on a CD Rom and website.
>>The CD Rom was titled "Technophobia" and is an interactive exhibition of
>>artists making artworks in New Media. I thought at the time I would produce
>>CD Rom exhibitions the way I had presented real exhibitions in a gallery.
>>I saw a few really Horrible on-line gallery sites and decided to
>>concentrate on work that used New Media as an Art Medium rather than an
>>archival or electronic catalog.
>>Learning the progammes and buying the hardware that were necessary to
>>realize MY plans and to realize the  artists' projects for CD Rom, was a
>>huge investment of time and money.
>>Also the website had to be totally made from scratch as the material from
>>the CD Rom was far too high in file size to present on the web.
>>So the website: Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery; became an exhibtion site for
>>the artists on "Technophobia".
>>It was the first exhibition on the site and has been remade/upgraded
>>countless times as my skills and the possibilities of the web expanded.
>
>So when did that go online exactly?
>
>>
>>In late 1995 I met Wolfgang Staehle of "The Thing". I knew he'd exhibited a
>>version of "the thing' as an art work at TZ Gallery in New York (through
>>Tom Zollner) and I was intrigued.
>>I think it can accurately be said that Wolfgang was the the first person in
>>the "artworld" in New York at that time to be seriously exploring what for
>>the moment is being called "New Media".
>
>I know all that.
>
>>However at that time it was shockingly primative; just people exchanging
>>typed- out text messages: not much more that a crystal radio set.
>>
>>When I was inviting artists to participate in "Technophobia" I talked to
>>Wolfgang again; "The thing" had really morphed from an artwork into a
>>business.
>>"the Thing" became the ISP for my gallery at http://www.thing.net/dooley.
>
>As I said, i need the date.
>
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My Response: I sent Tillman an approximate date : early 1996.

 Also I telephoned my server: Thing.net to get the exact date my site went
on line and received no reply.



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My Response:

I recall the approximate time I put my first announced site up to be early
1996.
and e-mail Tilman, with the information it can be corabborated by records
at Thing .net.
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No response from Tilman,
but his posting at nettime eliminating me from his survey, appears on this
list.
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I go through my American Express accounts and find I was paying for my
site/space from March 1996.
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Dooley Le Cappellaine
http:www.thing.net/dooley

http://www.thing.net/dooley
Phone and Fax (212) 966-3046


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