Dawn Chan: "Rhizome.org, the New Museum's new-media affiliate, which curates both real-world and virtual art exhibitions, made the most of the intimate lighting and cozy booths for its benefit (...) The event featured three bands with legs in the art world -Gang Gang Dance, Professor Murder, and YACHT- and multimedia artist Cory Arcangel as MC."

Mia Fineman: "Rhizome.org, which hosts an archive of more than 2,000 'new media' projects, is the best place to discover work in these hybrid forms that represent the most promising new directions for art on the Web."

Morgan Falconer: "I had a peculiar feeling that an exhibition entitled Networked Nature was going to be like a show of those scifi kitsch gadgets (...). It wasn't but it didn't disappoint."

Holland Cotter: "This cool little show (...) filters that old Romantic stand-by, Nature, through the new-fangled technology."

Ben Davis: "Artworks that tackle the murky border between technology and nature, a hot-button issue in these days of anxiety about man-made environmental disaster."

Jerry Saltz: "Networked Nature, the nicely weird, somewhat generic group exhibition (...) was curated by Rhizome, a collective that claims the exhibition 'explores the representation of nature though the perspective of networked culture.'"

Curated by Marisa Olson, this group exhibition at Foxy Production explores the representation of the natural world through the perspective of networked culture.

HGM: "Rhizome continues its tenth-anniversary celebrations with Networked Nature at Foxy Productions, a show that offers perspectives on the natural world through the digital lens of networked culture"

William Hanley points out Networked Nature as one of the most interesting exhibitions in NYC in this beginning of 2007.

Blogger Paddy Johnson highlights Rhizome as the most important institutional web supporter working on the Internet today.

Two exhibitions focus on the virtual world of Second Life are taking place both on the real world and in SL galleries: James deavin: photographs from the new world and Eva and Franco Mattes' (a.k.a. 0100101110101101) The Most Beautiful 13 Avatars. This show is part of Rhizome's Time Shares.

Rhizome.org recently commissioned the activist web project Google Will Eat Itself by Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico. The project aims to be a critic of Google’s appropriation of the entire Internet business.

Ecrans points out that the alternative project "MySpace" from net activist 888 is one of the projects featured at Rhizome’s The Copy and Paste Show.

As part of its Tenth-Anniversary Festival, Rhizome curated an evening of video and performance influenced by the Internet at The Kitchen.

The field has "changed a lot in the last ten years(…) The computer has become an extension of our personal space" says Lauren Cornell, Rhizome’s Executive Director.

The recent book New Media Art by Rhizome founder Mark Tribe and art critic Reena Jana anthologizes some of the innovative artists in the field, documenting a moment when the genre is at its apex (or over, according to some).

"It is a paradox that the task is to preserve things that are not materials," said Lauren Cornell, executive director of Rhizome, which documents digital work by participating artists...

Back at Scope, Rhizome.org is staging All Systems Go as part of the "Cinema-scope" program of new-media, installation, and video art.

I think memes and other kinds of "Internet folk art" are some of the most interesting stuff happening online. The challenge, I find, is to take things I find amazing and recast them so others understand what I see in them...

Internet art may actually be more "present" than ever—just not exclusively in virtual space.

Two organizations that have worked tirelessly to promote new-media art, Rhizome.org and Electronic Arts Intermix, team up for this panel discussion on the development of Internet-based art.

Tonight's event celebrates Dirt Style computer-generated music and videos, pitting artists working with commercially marketed software against those using homemade hacked programs.

Since 1996, Rhizome.org has been the premier website for innovative web-art projects by international artists. Rhizome boasts 1,500 projects, an archive of 2,500 articles, two regular email publications, online exhibitions, and shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, which formed an affiliation with the site in 2003.

Since its inception 10 years ago, Net art has grown from an avant-garde phenomenon, with a select and small international contingency, to an accepted institution...

Far from showcasing tech art by tech artists that can only be appreciated by other techies, this show presents an emerging body of art that sparks thought about new uses for a technology that is mostly deployed for commercial ends. Anyone interested in artistic practice today (Luddites included) will appreciate the current state of the art as shown here.

While you may use the Internet to shop, gather information or share information, artists are continually finding new ways to use it as their means of expression. In the following report, NY1 Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin takes us inside a new Internet art exhibition.

Each piece calls for a different kind of attention. Some wow you with their data crunching. Some try to make you politically aware, or at least wary. Others are just entertainments. Still, you'll probably spend more time on any one piece here than most people would ever dream of spending in front of a Cézanne.

We live in a culture where, at least in America, public life is defined by television, entertainment culture and mass media. The internet is now a central convenience in our life, similar to television. However, the net is more amenable to subcultures, interference, innovation and creative cultures than television because it is so decentralised. It is home to a rich mix of activities that include art, parody, political activism and communication. And it has been artists who have developed and issued some of the most important critiques of media and net culture specifically, and have also brought the medium to life through their projects.

Finding art online is not as easy as, say, strolling through the megamall of Chelsea, and for many, the prospect is especially intimidating. "I wanted to write the book because the Internet is still such an unfamiliar space for looking at and thinking about art," says Greene.

It's dead. It's thriving. It's everywhere and nowhere. Like most things in the online world, the state of Internet art is subject to no small amount of exaggeration. During boom times, as art made with ones and zeroes entered Chelsea galleries and blue-chip museums, the new form was seen as the wave of the future. But now, ask an artist or a gallery owner or a blogger about it and you are likely to get a groan.

'Ruins of the Future,' a collection of contemporary art, is billed as a Peruvian international exhibition. But don't buy a plane ticket -- it only exists online.

In an unusual instance of an established cultural organization taking an upstart arts group under its wing, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho is forgoing a partnership with Rhizome.org, an Internet site where digital artists can exhibit their online projects and crow about their status as art-world outsiders. In an arrangement announced last week, Rhizome will become officially affiliated with the New Museum.

As flames crackled and the wind howled through a gash in the sky-scraper's wall, a gray-suited businessman wandered in a daze through the smoke. Unable to find an escape route, he suddenly strode toward the sky and leaped. This appalling scene appears neither in print not on film but in a computer game, "9-11 Survivor," that was briefly available this summer on the Internet. Using a mouse, players could move through an animated, three-dimensional rendering of a burning World Trade Center office. Ultimately one might perish in the fire, opt to jump like the businessman or, if concealed stairs were discovered, flee to safety.

Some say that new technology sounds the death knell for face-to-face human interactions--that we'll all be riveted to our Aeron chairs, staring at the tube. However, it's the experience of Mark Tribe, founder of Rhizome.org, a New York-based Web site for exploring the intersections of art and technology, that people do like to meet in the flesh.

When you climb the stairs from the bar and lounge decorated in blue on up to the VIP gallery you should only bring one thing with you: curiosity. The digital artists in the red twilight are all quite happy to give you a glimpse of the screen because at OpenMouse it's not the artists themselves who are "very important" but all the things one can get out of the computer.
[Original German version]

Artists began experimenting with the Internet in 1994, shortly after the first Web browser was released. Seven years later, everybody seems to want a piece of the action. With new-media exhibitions popping up in major museums from New York to San Francisco, this may be our last chance to reflect on Net art's golden age of innocence ...

...Long-running digital culture sites like Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org act as incubators for this high-tech art.

...While email lists and sites like Rhizome and nettime keep the digital art community informed... Rhizome's editor, Alex Galloway, said he was "totally stunned" when he heard the column was cancelled. "His column was the only one (about digital art) worth reading in the mainstream media."

STARRYNIGHT is a new interface for viewing and browsing the RHIZOME CONTENTBASE. Each star represents a grouping of ideas, based upon threads of ideas submitted by various listserv members...

"For me the Net is so great because it bogged with traffic and plagued with unemployment, but it has its charms. The gracious central square is bordered by a massive cathedral and a cohesive complex of Spanish colonial buildings, all made of native white volcanic stone. A couple of blocks away, a gateway in a forbidding wall leads to a splendid convent that once housed hundreds of well-to-do nuns and their maids. he said, "and is at its core new, democratic, and non-hierarchical."

Do you like new media? Do you like new media art? Do you like discussing new media art with people but don't actually want to see the person when you are talking to them?

"...Without art, [the Internet is] just a giant strip mall," said Tribe.

"We're on the launching pad," said Mark Tribe founder and executive director of Rhizome.org. "Absolute Angel will be a booster rocket that lift us into orbit."

Rhizome, and Internet locus for free wheeling discussions about new- media art, announced on Wednesday that it would transform itself into a not-for-profit entity...