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Community Fundraiser: Focus on Editorial

Joanne McNeil | Tue Nov 20th, 2012 1 p.m.

Have you enjoyed an article Rhizome published recently? Have you saved any of our features on Instapaper or emailed a story to your friends? Is there something you first saw on this website that inspired you or made you consider things in a new way?

I invite you to consider making a donation to Rhizome. Your donation allows us to continue our editorial operations and maintain our independent voice.

This past year alone, Rhizome’s editorial team has covered a breathtaking range of topics relating to the intersection of art and technology. Here are several highlights:

Martin Murphy's desktop from Adam Cruces's Desktop Views, featured in Beyond the Surface: 15 Years of Desktop Aesthetics

Photoshopped Sherman
Rachel Wetzler considers how we might think of Cindy Sherman’s photography now that she uses Photoshop in her practice.

Beyond the Surface: 15 Years of Desktop Aesthetics
Using Adam Cruces’ Desktop Views (a response to Alexei Shulgin’s Desktop Is,) as a jumping off point, Jason Huff explores the history of desktop aesthetics.

Screen. Image. Text.
As publishing moves from the page to the screen, Orit Gat considers the unique role of the digital image. She later spoke about this essay on a panel at the Frieze Art Fair.

Shu Lea Cheang on Brandon
Yin Ho speaks with the creator of the Guggenheim Museum’s first digital project, 14 years after its launch.

Image of Democracy: Why I Want to Build Nine Freedom Towers in Tiananmen Square
A personal essay by artist John Powers on public space and its political implications.

The Impermanent Book
An essay from The Piracy Project, an international publishing and exhibition project, on the mutability of text in both physical and digital books.

The Shape of Shaping Things to Come
Speculating on 3D printing’s potential to ...

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Rhizome's Annual Community Fundraiser

Rhizome | Wed Nov 14th, 2012 2:55 p.m.

Today, Rhizome kicks off the annual Community Fundraiser. Every year, we reach out to our community for a piece of financial support that is critical to our overall funding mix. This year, we need to raise $30,000 by January 14th and we ask that you consider making a contribution today to help us meet this goal.

This year marks a particularly exciting year for Rhizome, with new staff and new ideas that will help us to build on our rich history and programs.

Your donation will help:

•Expand our editorial team – bringing in more writers from around the world.

•Host Rhizome events and exhibitions beyond NYC – reaching our international community.

•Secure crucial tools and equipment for preservation – preserving works of art with a strengthened conservation program.

•Commission new works of art – directly supporting artists through grants.

•Improve development of the Rhizome website – making it easier for you to use.

The biggest reward we can offer is knowing that you've helped Rhizome continue. On top of this, seven artists from the Rhizome community have generously donated limited-edition artworks for this year's fundraiser — a gesture of their support for the organization.

Donate now and receive as our thank you, works by Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso, ReCode Project, Tabor Robak, Adam Harvey, Phillip Stearns and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.

As a non-profit organization, Rhizome relies on the community to help realize our mission and goals. We are a small but extremely passionate group of people dedicated to supporting art engaged with technology. If you’ve visited the Rhizome website, discovered a new artist, used the Artbase to view seminal works, posted on the community boards, read and shared an article, come to our events, or engaged with Rhizome in any number of ways – please consider donating this year.

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This Week on Rhizome Community Boards: Proclaiming My Love, Jobs, Opportunities, and More

Rhizome | Wed Mar 28th, 2012 5:43 p.m.

Recently added to the Artbase: Proclaiming My Love

Documentation of a performance which took place on 4/20/2010, atop Mount Tom in Holyoke, MA.

Events/Lectures/Exhibitions:

Street Digital: Recent Works by JODI, Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:30 - Sun May 20, 2012, Astoria, New York
New Institutions, 5th Annual Visual Art Graduate Student Conference, April 7, 2012, 10:00am-6:30pm, UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility
Sensing Site: A Series of Research Seminars with Central Saint Martins and CUCR, Goldsmiths, University of London, Wednesdays 4 April, 2-5 pm and 25 April, 2–5 pm, Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths College, University of London
Me and Everyone That Is With Me: Dan Herschlein, Graham Hamilton, and Alex Casso, In collaboration with: The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Regent Family Residence, March 22 - April 11, 2012, Reception: March 30th, 6-8pm
Blip Festival New York, The Gramercy Theater, May 25-27
Speed Show : Exra Credit, Thursday, April 5, from 3-5 pm, in 115 of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona

Jobs:

Digital Director, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Curator of Contemporary Art, BOCA Raton Museum of Art
Artist: Post MFA Fellow, The Ohio State University’s Department of Art
ELECTROFRINGE Artistic Co-producer, Electrofringe Ltd
Editorial Fellow, Rhizome seeks an Editorial Fellow from June through September 2012, Deadline May 4, 2012

Call for Submissions:

FEAST #13 Call for Proposals,FEAST will hold its 13th event on April 14th, 2012 at the Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The deadline for applications is March 29th at 11:59pm.
CFP: “In Memory of :Death and Technological Afterlife", Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), October 17-20, 2012, Durham, NC
Hidden Cities | Istanbul (Turkey), Call for Artists, Hidden Cities, Istanbul (Turkey), May 10-12, 2012, Deadline: April 13, 2012
Call ...

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Save the Date for Rhizome's Annual Benefit

Rhizome | Thu Mar 22nd, 2012 3:03 p.m.

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This Week on Rhizome Community Boards: IHSE, Jobs, Opportunities, and More

Rhizome | Wed Feb 29th, 2012 3:50 p.m.

Recently added to the Artbase: IHSE by Esther Hunziker

IHSE is a series of autonomous architectural buildings. Each photo shows a geometric figure, which overrides the forms of classical architecture. There is no roof nor a base, no top or bottom. The buildings float in the void. Architecture which looks like concrete capsules through which one can move into a different space-time continuum. The interactive online version of the photo series IHSE, responds to the mouse movements of the user. You hear a spherical, meditative sound in the background. Architectural buildings float slowly in empty space and endlessly multiply themselves out of themselves. They grow to a certain size until they divide into two. By moving the mouse the user can intervene in this process, slow down or accelerate the growth and turnaround the direction of the IHSE travel.

Events/Lectures/Exhibitions:

The Use and Abuse of Technology in the Arts, Thu Mar 08, 2012 19:00 - Thu Mar 08, 2012, New York, New York
Resonate - Belgrade New Media Festival - March 2012, Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:00 - Sat Mar 17, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia
Robots and Avatars, Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:00 - Sun May 27, 2012, Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Jobs:

ARTIST: POST MFA FELLOW, The Ohio State University’s Department of Art
ANIMATION FACULTY (GRANT-FUNDED), The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS CENTER, The Western New York Book Arts Center (WNYBAC)
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER, ALLDAYEVERYDAY

Call for Submissions:

Open Call for Curated Youtube Playlists, Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:00, Los Angeles, California
CFP: ISMAR 2012 - The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Fri May 25, 2012 23:59, Atlanta, Georgia
ESPACIO ENTER, art, science, innovation call, Wed May 30, 2012 06:05 ...

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This Week on Rhizome Community Boards: I'm Here and There, Jobs, Opportunities, and More

Rhizome | Wed Jan 25th, 2012 1:21 p.m.

Recently added to the Artbase: I'm Here and There by Jonas Lund

Through a custom browser extension, Lund has opened his personal web browsing to a level of full transparency and public scrutiny. At imhereandthere.com the URL of the website the artist is currently browsing is published in real time. When the artist visits a new site the work automatically refreshes – providing a mirror to the artist's life and browser

Events/Lectures/Exhibitions:

French new media artist Maurice Benayoun at Streaming Museum's Fourth anniversary celebration, New York, NY, Tue Jan 31 2012, 6PM
Being Social, Sat Feb 25, 2012 - Sat Apr 28, 2012 in London
Artefact festival 2012, Tue Feb 14, 2012 - Thu Feb 23, 2012, Leuven, Belgium

Jobs:

Assistant Professor of Art+Design / Film & Media Studies, School of Art+Design and School of Film & Media studies at Purchase College, SUNY
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media/Gaming, Tenure Track, The School of Communication at the University of Miami
Creative Programmers & Web/Software Developers, Linden Lab
The Shift Webzine Editor, The Shift Webzine
3D Animation Full-Time Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art

Call for Submissions:

Call for Reviews/Commentaries/Papers/ for Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus – Spring edition is making an open call for submissions to the Reviews, Commentaries and Papers section of our upcoming spring issue. The deadline for submission is February 10th.
2012 MUSE Awards, Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 23rd annual MUSE Awards competition.
Currents 2012 Santa Fe International New Media Festival June 22 – July 8, 2012, Call for New Media Submissions Currents 2012, the 3rd annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA – June 22 – July 8, 2012

Misc:

transmediale 2012: in/compatible, will take ...

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Final Day of Rhizome's Annual Community Campaign

Zoë Salditch | Fri Jan 13th, 2012 1:57 p.m.

Today is the final day of Rhizome's Community Campaign! We are incredibly close to reaching our $25,000 goal. If you have not made your contribution yet, we ask that you please do so now. It takes only a few moments to make a donation but it makes an impact that lasts an entire year.

Throughout our history, Rhizome has brought together a forward-thinking, international community of artists, writers, curators, technologists and new media enthusiasts. Together, we can continue to promote this emerging artistic field!

Donations are essential to the operation of our programs and artist initiatives here at Rhizome. With the support from our community, we are able to bring you more content on the blog, bigger and better programs, and new features on the website.

We have been overwhelmed with the generous support from the nearly 300 individuals who have contributed to the campaign. Please consider taking a moment to join the list of Rhizome supporters today.

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Extreme Animals Pictureplane Remix and Video

Rhizome | Wed Jan 11th, 2012 1:52 p.m.

Pictureplane "Body Mods" remix by Extreme Animals from Jacob Ciocci.

Support a community of forward-thinking artists, writers, curators and technologist and receive Extreme Animals's limited edition ringtone by making a $25 donation during Rhizome's Community Campaign.

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Rhizome Community Campaign: SymbiosisC

Rhizome | Tue Dec 27th, 2011 11:26 a.m.

SymbiosisO on Vimeo.

Kärt Ojavee & Eszter Ozsvald's SymbiosisO project is a collection of textile interfaces that react to the human touch. SymbiosisC is a low-tech member of the collection, a cushion that responds to heat and body warmth by changing its color, and is available now during the Community Campaign.

The geometry of these textiles are generated with Voronoi tessellation algorithm and utilizes the conducive properties of felt as a substrate material. A heat sensitive coating is applied to the felt and activated by electronics embedded into the material.

Support Rhizome's Community Campaign by making a contribution today!

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Ben Fino-Radin Rhizome's Digital Conservator on Supporting Preservation

Rhizome | Thu Dec 15th, 2011 9:29 a.m.

Ensuring that a piece of software will always work; capturing the subtleties of aging technology; extracting content from the clutches of closed platforms – none of these are simple feats, yet this is what Rhizome does on a daily basis. Since the ArtBase was founded in 1999, it has grown to become one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of it's kind. Today, the ArtBase is a free collection providing documentation and access to over 2,500 art works spanning nearly two decades. We need your continued support to keep the ArtBase free, open and permanent - Please make a contribution today!

I joined Rhizome this past August, and it has truly been a pleasure to become part of a team that is saving a significant moment in art history from the void. We work hard every day to ensure that future generations will be able to study the work of our time.

Thanks to your support the following is only a tiny selection of what we have accomplished recently:

• Archive and restore lost video assets to Lev Manovich's "Little Movies" (1994)

• Restore access to "VVEBCAM" (2007) by Petra Cortright, after it was censored and removed by YouTube

• Support new additions to the collection, including Travess Smalley, Esther Hunziker, Richard Vijgen, Mouchette, Dave Gerber, Sterling Crispin, and Andrew Norman Wilson just to name a few recent additions

• Begin collaborations with online exhibition spaces to archive and preserve their output

Simply put, we are only able to do this because of your continued support. The fact is we can't do it without you. Your donation today enables Rhizome to be a greater advocate for the preservation of a unique moment of art history. With your support, we can take bigger steps toward solving the complex challenges posed by preserving digital ephemera. On behalf of everyone at Rhizome, and on behalf of the artists whose work we preserve, I hope you will consider making a contribution to our Campaign today!

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