New Site Editors & Curatorial Fellow

Thanks Marisa.
Cheers,
Lee


On 11/8/06 4:31 PM, "Marisa Olson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello. I'm writing with a few updates about our volunteer roster.
>
> We had an overwhelming number of responses from people who wanted to
> be Site Editors. (I've tried to get back to everyone, though my email
> was briefly knocked out, last week.) Because there were so many
> responses and we're more interested in diversity than "gatekeeping,"
> we decided to sign people up on a first-come basis. The newest
> additions to our list are Luis Silva, Seth Thompson, Lee Wells, and
> Tyler Jacobsen. They join recently-added Site Editors John Michael
> Boling, Hanne Mugaas, and Michael Parenti, and ongoing Site Editors
> Greg Smith, Ryan Griffis, Pau Waelder, Nicholas Economos, Mark Cooley,
> Lauren Cornell, and myself. Interns Ana Otero and Miguel Amado (see
> below) will also begin reblogging, soon. FYI, T.Whid and the former
> staff members who were previously Site Editors (Mark Tribe, Alex
> Galloway, Rachel Greene, Kevin McGarry, and Francis Hwang) have now
> become "Emeritus." Big thanks to everyone for their commitment. I'll
> be calling for more Site Editors in the future, for those who may be
> interested.
>
> Meanwhile, I also wanted to announce that Miguel Amado will be joining
> the Rhizome crew as our 06-07 Curatorial Fellow, beginning this week.
> His bio is below.
>
> Miguel Amado is a young Portuguese curator and writer. He has an MA in
> Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, in London. He
> was curator at the Visual Arts Centre, in Coimbra, from 2003 to
> mid-2005. Currently, he is curator at large of the Collection of
> Portuguese Contemporary Art of the PLMJ Foundation, in Lisbon.
> Selected curated shows include the annual exhibition "Options &
> Futures: Works form the Collection of the PLMJ Foundation" (2005-),
> "E=mc2" (National Museum for Science and Technology, Coimbra, 2005),
> "7/10" (Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,
> Lisbon, 2003), and the Project Room programme at the Visual Arts
> Centre (2004-2005). Since 2005 he has been a regular contributor to
> books, catalogues and magazines such as Artforum, Artforum.com, Flash
> Art, Contemporary and Exit Express. Between mid-2005 and mid-2006 he
> was the editor of the Portuguese quarterly magazine W-Art. He has also
> edited books such as "25 Frames per Second: Videos from the Collection
> of the PLMJ Foundation" (2006).
>
> Best regards,
> Marisa
>
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