memory?

At 12:35 AM 1/15/2003 +0000, atty wrote:
>hey
>
>this story on the front of rhizome at the moment "DEBT FREE WITH SITE
>AND SASS"
>
>seems like a kind of middle america, 'ain't the internet weird' kind of
>a story but also misses something a bit more polished from within
>'rhizome community' when one38 sold his 'hate' on ebay (but then as I
>remember it he got cold feet)
>
>but more to the point in some ways
>
>I am about to stump up my $5 for rhizome (which I don't know how much
>more the bank charge me to change to $.

hi atty

the bank won't charge you if you pay via paypal–just pay the equivalent in
euros

>I think rhizome might have
>considered paying this cost themselves considering I assume as a whole
>the $ carrying membership is the better off portion of the membership,
>at least when paying in dollars) despite the fact this is 15% of funds I
>currently have to cover the next week
>
>I would like to know it is money well spent

the money is definitely well spent, but you can see for yourself at
http://rhizome.org/financials

>at the moment the rhizome search engine seems shot to pieces, can't even
>find rhizome's own splash page collection. Try for instance where the
>non-virtual show was once
>http://rhizome.org/query.rhiz?words=splash+rhizome+New+Museum+of+Contemporary+Art
>. Certain of the pieces made seem to be in art-base but not others, even
>those inside seem to have broken internal links. Those of us who
>contributed I guess would hope they haven't actually been lost (just
>mislaid?)

i totally agree that the seach engine doesn't work and that fixing it needs
to be a top priority. we are still in survival mode–francis has been
focusing most if his time recently on back-end stuff relating to the new
membership policy. it's a lot more complicated that you might think.

>that's what I mean by 'memory' and leadership of rhizome has to realise
>if we pays our money on the basis this is 'net-art' community forum,
>discussion and memory place of community (art-base et al), its beholding
>not to loose things like this, even if only temporarily. Ain't no point
>in having a memory/archive if it can't be accessed as I am sure any good
>museo curator will remark

fyi, the commissions are still available via the regular navigation bar:
click on the art+text drop-down–it's at the bottom of the list

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>atty
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