update/ upcoming

Hello Rhizome RAW readers, and beyond

I wanted to report back on some site and community-related progress of
late. Below are some projects we've accomplished recently:

+Diversified Site Editors (formerly 'Superusers'), adding 9 more from
various quarters of the new media art world
+Fixed outstanding bugs in ArtBase submission process, so acceptance
of works will move more quickly
+We also brought on two new volunteers: artist Annie Abrahams, who
will be moderating discussion about ArtBase works, and the skilled
programmer and artist Steven Read who is working with our Director of
Tech, Patrick May, on setting up an open source blog comments project,
amongst other potential projects.

In regards to programming, new and ongoing:

+I'm pleased to announce that we've launched our first youth media
project: GROK. Based in CD-ROM format, GROK presents digital art works
selected from Rhizome's ArtBase, each indexed with a curriculum and
supplementary material. GROK is intended to familiarize high school
age youth with artistic uses of digital technologies, and encourage
literacy and agency in this field. Currently, we're reaching out to
youth art centers around the country and internationally to distribute
GROK. If you'd like to help or get a copy, contact me. (It's free!)

+I'd also like to point you to Time Shares, our online exhibition
portal co-presented by the New Museum. We developed Time Shares to
strengthen our commitment to exhibiting Internet art. This was partly
inspired by feedback from Members who felt this was important.

http://rhizome.org/events/timeshares/

+ In regards to the Festival, it is winding up before winding down
with two last events: a panel discussion, Open Source on the Line, and
an exhibition Networked Nature, details of which we'll send to the
list separately.

In terms of upcoming improvements to the site,:

+We are now beginning technical implementation for the Metadata
project and we have slated the addition of our comments to the reBlog
for the near future.

Finally, given the recent interest in discussing the site and
community, and also the fact that it is our anniversary, we think it's
important to have an open discussion on RAW about community in our
second decade. This could be an opportunity to discuss problems and
challenges as we have in the past on this list, but also a forum to
imagine possibilities and evaluate how certain site changes (such as
the two just mentioned) might shape particular kinds of interactions.

I hope to begin this discussion on Rhizome RAW soon, and that you will join in.

All the best,
Lauren


Director
Rhizome.org