Who we are
Rhizome is a Member-supported organization. You can view the profiles of our international network of Members in the Member Directory.
Curatorial Fellow
Luis Silva studied Social Sciences and has a post-graduate degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies. He has curated several new media projects, namely Online - Portuguese Netart 1997-2004, Source Code and Sound Visions. In 2006 he created the Lisbon node of the Upgrade!, an international network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture and is currently curating LX 2.0, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea's net art program. Silva has published various reviews and texts addressing the issues of art and technology. Silva has also developed his activity producing contemporary art shows since 2003, mainly of Portuguese contemporary artists.
Lauren CornellExecutive Director, Rhizome and Adjunct Curator, the New Museum
Cornell oversees and develops Rhizome's programs, all of which serve to promote and contextualize new media art. Previously, Cornell worked as a curator and writer. She worked in the Andy Warhol Film Project at the Whitney Museum and, from 2002-2004, she served as Executive Director of Ocularis, an organization dedicated to avant-garde cinema, video and new media. Her writing has been published in a range of international publications and she has collaborated to produce events or exhibitions at The Kitchen, Foxy Production, Participant Inc, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Contemporary Center for Art in Warsaw.
William HanleyStaff Writer Caitlin Jones
Staff Writer
Jones was formerly the Director of Programming at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, NY. Prior to this, Jones held a combined curatorial and conservation position at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She co-curated the groundbreaking exhibition Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice and coordinated the Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition, Nam June Paik: Global Groove 2004. As a key member of the Variable Media Network, Caitlin has also been responsible for developing important tools and policy for the preservation of electronic and ephemeral artworks. Her writings on new media art presentation and preservation have appeared in a wide range of catalogs and international publications.
Patrick MayDirector of Technology
Patrick May is a programmer, organizer, and artist. May previously served as Software Engineer at SourceMedia, a financial publishing firm. He is also the founder of Open Ground, an artist collective and former exhibition space in Brooklyn. Widely recognized for his work with open source development, Patrick has spoken on Ruby at various national and international conferences.
Marisa OlsonCurator-at-Large and Staff Writer
Marisa Olson is an artist, critic, and curator. She has organized exhibitions and programs at the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, the Getty, White Columns, Artists Space, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and elsewhere, including SF Camerawork, where she was previously Associate Director. She's written for Wired, Mute, Afterimage, Flash Art, ArtReview, and others, and has written commissioned essays for the Walker Art Center, the Banff Centre's New Media Institute, and Eyebeam. Her own work (see marisaolson.com) has recently been presented by the Whitney Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pacific Film Archive, and the New York Underground Film Festival. Marisa holds an MA in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz, and both a BA and MA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she is a PhD Candidate and where she created and taught classes in new media in the departments of Film Studies and Art History. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the ITP graduate program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Rhizome would like to thank our recent Site Editors for their important contributions to the organization.
john michael boling
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mark cooley
Mark Cooley is a new genre artist interested in exploring institutional critique in a variety of contexts. Mark's work has been shown internationally in online and offline venues such as Exit Art, Postmasters Gallery, Furtherfield.org and Rhizome.org.
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nicholas economos
Nicholas Economos is an artist and educator living in rural Western New York. His art practice includes work in interactive media, sound, video, animation and prints. He is a Site Editor for Rhizome.org at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, editing content for the web site and the Rhizome Rare email list. His awards include an Individual Artist Project Grant in Film, Media, and New Technology Production, from the New York State Council on the Arts.
He has recently exhibited at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, Art in General in New York City, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo City, Window Project Space in Auckland, New Zealand, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, Chiangmai New Media Art Festival in Thailand, DigiFest DXNet in Toronto, and the Cyberarts Festival in Boston. He has been a frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York and is a visiting professor with the Department of Expanded Media at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.
Alexander Galloway
Alex works with RSG. Recent projects include the surveillance tool "Carnivore" and "Low Level All Stars," a DVD collection of C64 intros.
Rachel Greene
Rhizome is friends and family for Rachel, who has been involved with the org. in one capacity or another since 1997 when it was rhizome.com!!
Rachel wrote a book on internet art for thames & hudson's well-known WORLD OF ART series: it was published in June 2004. She was a consultant and catalogue author for the 2004 Whitney Biennial. She has also written for publications including frieze, artforum, timeout and bomb.
ryan griffis
The Temporary Travel Office produces a variety of services relating to tourism and technology aimed at exploring the non-rational connections existing between public and private spaces. The Travel Office has operated in a variety of locations, including Missouri, Chicago, Southern California and Norway.
Francis Hwang
Francis Hwang is an artist, writer, and software engineer. He was Rhizome's Director of Technology from 2003 to 2006.
Tyler Jacobsen
Tyler Jacobsen is a multimedia artist, programmer, and critical technologist. He received his MFA in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003.
He has exhibited, performed, and conducted workshops at festivals and museums around the world, including the Next 5 Minutes in Amsterdam, Transmediale in Berlin, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
With his collective, the Conglomco Media Net (CMN), he has received grants from the New York State Council of the Arts and Franklin Furnace, and has also held residencies in the US and the UK.
His recent work explores the possibilities of database interpretation as a creative response to a networked environment. In the Fall of 2007 Tyler will be an Instructor in the Design and Technology Department at Parson’s School of Design.
MTAA
Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo’s exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA’s "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as “a deftly transparent demonstration of new media’s ability to manipulate our perceptions of time.” The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Hanne Mugaas
Hanne Mugaas is an independent curator based in New York. She has curated exhibitions and screenings in Berlin, Stockholm, Tokyo and Paris. Recent projects include "Take it to the Net" for Vilma Gold in London, "Techniques of Today" for MIACA in Yokohama and "The Copy and Paste Show" for Rhizome.org. Mugaas is also a research assistant to Associate Curator Barbara London at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Greg J. Smith
Greg J. Smith is a Toronto based designer and researcher with interests in media theory, representation and digital culture.
Greg received a Masters in Architecture from al&d at the University of Toronto in 2007. His thesis project Movable Parts: The Retooling of the Los Angeles Times was a design proposal which speculated the spatial and programmatic implications of citizen journalism. He studied design with William Taylor at LAIAD and received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1999. In the fall of 2007 he taught a course on Interactive Digital Culture within the game development stream for the Department of Communications Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University.
Outside of his own "design research" blog Serial Consign, Greg has written and edited for various publications and websites including Rhizome, Coupe, Textura and Shift. Since 2005, he has co-curated and edited Vague Terrain, an online digital arts quarterly.
He is currently working on Critical Sections, a database drawing project to be published shortly in Vectors, The Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular and book chapter entitled "Information Visualization and Pervasive Interface Culture" which will be published in early 2009. Greg is an intern architect at Reigo & Bauer.
Online presence:
http://serialconsign.com - design/research blog
http://vagueterrain.net - digital arts quarterly
http://highflight.tumblr.com - image/link blog
http://missionspecialist.net - commercial design
Seth Thompson
Seth Thompson is an educator and arts journalist whose work has been exhibited internationally and shown on PBS. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. In addition, he has written on the arts for such magazines as Afterimage, Art Calendar, Bidoun and Dialogue. Thompson's documentaries, Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media and Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences have aired on such television stations as PBS 45 & 49, Northeast, Ohio; KDOL Channel 18, Oakland, California; DUTV, Philadelphia, PA; and Triangle Television, Auckland, New Zealand.
Thompson began his career at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts in New York City where he was the Business Manager and Education Director. In addition to teaching at The University of Akron and Cuyahoga Community College, he was a Contractual Artist/Lecturer with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Associate Educator at the Akron Art Museum.
Thompson holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Colorado, an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College.
For more information, please visit his site, http://www.seththompson.info .
Mark Tribe
Mark Tribe is an artist and curator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. He is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, where he teaches courses in the theory and practice of digital media. He is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006). His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new media art. Mark now chairs the Rhizome.org board of directors and also serves on the board of ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. He speaks widely on art and technology and frequently participates in grant selection panels and award juries. Mark received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. He lives in New York City.
Pau Waelder
Graduate in Art History by the University of Barcelona, currently studying for a PhD on digital art. Works as a freelance graphic designer and art critic. Has taught several courses on art history and contemporary art. Collaborator of the digital art websites Artnodes (Barcelona, http://www.artnodes.org) and Furtherfield (London, http://www.furtherfield.org). Correspondent for the art magazines a::minima and art.es (Spain), he also produces videos for Vernissage TV (Basel, http://www.vernissage.tv).
Website: http://www.pauwaelder.com
Lee Wells
Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. His artwork primarily questions systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti and the Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, http://www.ifac-arts.org, an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators.
His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net.
Wells is currently a curator at large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs http://www.scope-art.com. In January 2006, he co-founded the video art community research portal and traveling installation [PAM] http://PerpetualArtMachine.com and mobile conterpart http://pamart.mobi, with the artists Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller.
Wells has been participating on the Rhizome since 1998.
