Paul Slocum, artist and gallerist, celebrated the 20th anniversary of his Dallas-based And/Or gallery, a pioneering space dedicated to new media and digital art. The gallery, founded in 2006, has championed early internet and computer-based artists like Cory Arcangel and Petra Cortright, operating from a DIY ethos largely independent of the traditional art market.
Slocum's work is significant for its sustained focus on preserving fringe internet subcultures and digital creativity at a time when such art has gained mainstream institutional recognition. His interview reveals the grassroots, PBS-inspired origins of his artistic practice and his role in building a community for digital art, highlighting an alternative, sustainable model for exhibiting and selling art that exists outside conventional commercial and institutional systems.