about linkinglog


The original concept of the linking log project was to create a diary wherein each word was linked to a found image or website (thereby adding layers of meaning to the text). The project was active from March 11th, 2006 to January 15th, 2012, when I decided to discontinue further updates in order to move on to other pursuits.

In retrospect, I believe that this project highlights both the ephemeral nature of Internet pages, and the ever-present disconnect between artist and viewer. Each time I visited the site, about a dozen of the over 400 links on the page were down, redirected, or broken. Initially, I painstakingly searched to reconstruct the site as it had been crafted at its conception, but inevitably this was impossible. Defunct pages and, eventually, an interest in reshaping the project by choosing new images and pages that differently represented the words in the log, led me to continually revise the project. Thus, the project's impact - as I desired it - changed over time, and it became increasingly clear to me that I had little control over how the project would be received or how viewer's might interpret the way links were strung together, themed, and organized. Interestingly, my own efforts to communicate meaning and shape viewers' interpretations of this project led me to a deeper understanding of the ways that reliable transmission and reception of meaning is often impossible.