Tom Moody

"One of the favored analogies of the people on the Rhizome chatboards attacking current art on blogs and WIKIS is 'using animated GIFs and default blog templates is like using acrylic paint and prestretched canvases!'"

Post on Tom Moody's blog

I use acrylic paint and make animated gifs. I stretch my own canvases though. This sort of techno-centrism that Moody is pointing out doesn't interest me at all. Yes, I use computers extensively, but they are a tool that I use to get the job done. I could quit using them tomorrow if the work dictated it. This sort of thinking seems to smack of the old "photography killed painting" debate that I don't anyone takes seriously anymore. It's about the work not the medium.