Greetings from Brussels!!!
So today, I wanted to write some HTML to revisit the history of my own websites. Ultimately, the goal is to rekindle my own HTML writing practice through revisiting the past.
The above is a snapshot of my site circa 2002. This is the first snapshot of it that exists in the wayback machine. At that moment, a recent work was Unravelling Histories, which was a collaboration with De Geuzen, including Femke Snelting, which would turn out to be quite significant for me personally. The site was written in Flash, and as such has not been available online for quite some time.
In 2004, I made a version that I called "prikbord" (Dutch for bulletin board). This was inspired by some of the collaborations I was doing at the time, in part with my then partner, Joost, who was (and still is) a graphic designer. Note the strategic use of tables! Sadly though it seems the images are missing/broken in this snapshot. Apparently I was also trying to come across as more professional, as I'm writing about myself in the third person, and digging into my CV to talk about my Masters work in the 90s.
In October 2005, I tried to embrace a hand coded HTML site again, while declaring, somewhat cryptically, "I feel wiki" ;) This one embraced horizontal scroll. Again, sadly, the thumbnails seem not to be included in the wayback snapshot.
This version of the site, circa 2009, is from when I'd just moved to Brussels, and started working on the Active Archives project with Femke and Nicolas as a member of Constant. I had also started a separate (wordpress) blog, which I made a fun (inkscape) symbol to link to, and includes a post with a funny SVG example of a rotating cat graphic, which I'm happy to say seems still to be working, even in wayback snapshot form.
In 2016, I dropped the photo and the visual index of past work, and started linking to other sites, such as the work I had started doing with Nicolas and Ellef as the (then still Scandanavian) Institute for Computation Vandalism. The name is a reference to the name of (itself a joke) institution that the Danish artist Asger Jorn made in the 1970s with the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.