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New Chemical History first went live in May 2003. My aim at the time was to provide artists and photographers with a decent online space to show their work in the form of regular exhibitions. This is still the core aim of New Chemical History to enable artists to have an online exhibition easily and to have that exhibition live here and never be removed.
If you are interested in having an exhibition please fill out the submissions form on the exhibitions page.
The landscape has of course change dramatically from when I set this site up. This was in the days before Flickr, Facebook, You Tube and Vimeo to name but a few. Things have changed now for the better, the cloud has removed the old obstacles non technical artists faced.
This often led me to think I should abandon this site and idea but I still believe there is great value in having a dedicated exhibition space where artists can show work alongside other artists and can promote their other online properties.
The site has gone through many changes over the years, this incarnation is the 4th since 2003. Its interesting now to look back at the different versions, you can see the progress of the site on the way back machine, version 1 - 2003, version 2 - 2004, version 3 - 2005.
Three things that will happen in 2009 I hope. The Image Bank section is now obselete, all my art and photography lives on my Flickr account now, so I am working on changing this section to pull direct from New Chemical History on Flickr. Feeds for Phones is also now in need of a major upgrade and lastly I would love to move the fornt page blog system to wordpress so I don't hae to maintain code and I can make use of that amazing piece of work.
Theres a number of people I need to mention, this site is built from the ground up using coldfusion. However it makes use of work other people have done, the RSS Reader (Feeds for Phones) utilises the rss/atom component built by Roger Benningfield. The cfAjax component is used on the site, you can read more about the project on indiankey.com.
Aonghus Flynn for helping me architect and bug fix the exhibition player which I rebuilt in AS3.
Andy Madigan, Niall Guerin, Richard Hearne for their testing and usability feedback, experts all, thanks guys.