I was heartbroken to hear that artist, musician, and writer Tom Moody passed away this weekend from Covid complications. He was the first show at And/Or Gallery in 2006, and we exhibited and sold editions of his blog posts and GIFs, 8 years before the first NFT was created...
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Tom's blog that was influential in the ongoing dialogue about digital and internet art started just two years after Google, and ran for over 20 years...
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He was an influential member of the online digital art collectives Nasty Nets, Computers Club, and dump.fm. His sharp commentary and totally unique artistic output will be missed. <3
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Links to the GIFs I posted without Twitter compression: digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41365 digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41003 digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?31077
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Oh no! That is extremely sad. Tom was one of the first people on the web I talked to about digital and media arts. Remembered very fondly.
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Oh I am very sad to hear this. I remember seeing about that show online. Tom was also the first show for the Distributed Gallery (2008, after Telic lost its gallery). i loved seeing his animated GIFs on TVs installed around Chinatown.
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This is incredibly sad. Tom was the first person to call the animated gifs I was making for dump.fm “art.” He is probably more responsible for my pursuing online animation than almost anyone else. I will miss him deeply.
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