[Nettime-bold] RE: <nettime> Carl Loeffler (was: net art history)

["Steve Dietz" <steve.dietz@walkerart.org>]

R/T+,
Loeffler did die. Just before Feb. 7. Besides founding art com, he
also helped organize a conference in 1980 at SFMOMA called Artists'
Use of Telecommunications. Anna Couey has a good article about his
work and related pre-web telecommunications art and there is an
archive of some of the online texts at:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/listservs/pmc-talk/essays/artcom.mai
lart

sd

> -----Original Message-----
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> murphy@thing.net
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 6:26 PM
> To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
> Subject: Re: <nettime> Carl Loeffler (was: net art history)
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tilman Baumgaertel wrote:
>
> > Murphy, you mention Carl Loeffler, and that he died
> recently, a fact of
> > which I wasn't aware. In my research on early, pre-internet
> > telecommunication art I kept encountering his name. He
> edited an issue of
> > Leonardo Magazine on telecommunication art and started the art.com
> > newsgroup - that is as much as I know of him.
>
> I'm beginning to think I imagined his death. I know I read an obit
> somewhere, probably Wired News, but searches have brought
> no mention.
> There's not much from him past 1996. If my report of his death was
> exaggerated I apologize. Even if that is the case it's
> still strange that
> so many people don't know what happened to him. He was
> still running the
> art.com newsgroup and teaching (I think) at Carnegie Mellon
> in Pittsburgh
> around 1993. His concept of a "virtual museum" was an
> influence on me
> early on and I've been interested in these earlier theories
> of virtuality
> lately.
>
> Me thinks a great many names are in the process of being
> "expunged" right
> now by American art museums, galleries and magazines as
> they write the
> history of "art in a technological age..."
>
> Rob
>
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