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BIO
Richard Rinehart is the Director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. Previous to holding his position at Bucknell, Richard was the Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Richard has taught digital art studio and theory at UC Berkeley in the Center for New Media and Art Practice departments. He has also been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard sits on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and has served on the Board of Directors for New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, 'Archiving the Avant Garde', a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Richard is a new media artist whose art works, papers, projects, and more can be found at http://www.coyoteyip.com
Re: SF Rhizomers?
Dates:
Tue Jan 06, 2004 00:00 - Tue Jan 06, 2004
Daniel Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have moved out to the bay area from NYC and am looking for
> net/newmedia/computer arts activity out here. Any leads appreciated.
> Im interested in collobarting/ contributing to projects too and even
> knowing where such arts are being presented.
>
> cheers,
> -Daniel.
Hi Daniel,
This reply is a bit late, but there are Rhizomers and net.artists out west. The Art, Technology, and Culture series at Berkedley that Rachel refers to is at:
http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs
You also might want to check out the NetWork and packet series that I curate at New Langton Arts in SF, at http://www.newlangtonarts.org
...and of course other myriad projects out here, for instance, this one endeavoring to preserve digital art that, coincidentally, partners with Rhizome and others in NYC, at http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html
Good to meet you, welcome.
Richard Rinehart
> Hi,
>
> I have moved out to the bay area from NYC and am looking for
> net/newmedia/computer arts activity out here. Any leads appreciated.
> Im interested in collobarting/ contributing to projects too and even
> knowing where such arts are being presented.
>
> cheers,
> -Daniel.
Hi Daniel,
This reply is a bit late, but there are Rhizomers and net.artists out west. The Art, Technology, and Culture series at Berkedley that Rachel refers to is at:
http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs
You also might want to check out the NetWork and packet series that I curate at New Langton Arts in SF, at http://www.newlangtonarts.org
...and of course other myriad projects out here, for instance, this one endeavoring to preserve digital art that, coincidentally, partners with Rhizome and others in NYC, at http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html
Good to meet you, welcome.
Richard Rinehart
net.art auction on eBay
hello Rhizomers,
For the first time, as part of it's annual fundraising art auction,
New Langton Arts - an experimental media artists space in San
Francisco, CA - is offering a symbolic portion of 3 net.art works for
sale on eBay.
On the one hand; this auction follows the tradition of art
organization fundriasing auctions by selling donated art works; but
we are also updating that tradition with regards to net.art and
commenting on present issues of how valuation happens with a
intangible art medium by not selling whole or discrete art works, but
by offering instead conceptual portions (points, pixels, chapters) of
art works. So, yes, we need to fundraise; but we're also using the
opportunity to play , just a little, with the idea of collecting
intangible art. I would like to thank all of the artists for
supporting New Langton Arts with this creative donation.
You can participate by going to the New Langton Arts website
(www.newlangtonarts.org), or by following the links below directly to
the 3 works on eBay:
Lisa Jevbratt
1:1, 1999
1:1 was a project created in 1999 which consisted of a database that
would eventually contain the addresses of every Web site in the world
and interfaces through which to view and use the database. Crawlers
were sent out on the Web to determine whether there was a Web site at
a specific numerical address. If a site existed, whether it was
accessible to the public or not, the address was stored in the
database. Because of the interlaced nature of the search, the
database could in itself at any given point be considered a snapshot
or portrait of the Web, revealing not a slice but an image of the
Web, with increasing resolution.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8449839
Your bid is for one pixel which will be identified as your own within
the database.
Sonya Rapoport
Arbor Erecta: A Botanical Concept for Masculinity, 1998
Chapter 3: Pandanus Dioecious: Male/Female Separate is an
interrelated cross-cultural and scientific botanical concepts project
the work?s intent to promote tolerance of differences. Arbor Erecta
reflects on the intangible but real communication between tribal
initiation in New Guinea, its indigenous Pandanus tree and sexual
preference.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8450829
Your bid is for a single web page/chapter 3 of the project.
Richard Rinehart and Shawn Brixey
Chimera Obscura, 2002
Crossing the boundary between gallery installation and Internet art,
Chimera Obscura is constructed around a telerobotic agent that
Internet visitors use to navigate and decode a highly complex maze
designed from a human thumbprint. The project employs a mutative game
structure, allowing visitors to leave a virtual trail of media memes
(video, audio, text, etc.) behind for others to read, duplicate, or
delete in the search for a unique sequence that will decode the maze.
The ghost of the minotaur roams the maze in the form of random
mathematical algorithms that yield mutative forces to the memes in
the database, frustrating attempts at an easy, linear solution.
Visitors over the Internet break through by assuming a newer hybrid
form: that of telematic cyborgs simultaneously operating a robot in
the gallery space attached to a continuously evolving database in
virtual space.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8452110
Your bid is for a single virtual point within the maze (point 2031).
Thanks very much,
Richard Rinehart
New Langton Arts, Board Member and net.art Curator
For the first time, as part of it's annual fundraising art auction,
New Langton Arts - an experimental media artists space in San
Francisco, CA - is offering a symbolic portion of 3 net.art works for
sale on eBay.
On the one hand; this auction follows the tradition of art
organization fundriasing auctions by selling donated art works; but
we are also updating that tradition with regards to net.art and
commenting on present issues of how valuation happens with a
intangible art medium by not selling whole or discrete art works, but
by offering instead conceptual portions (points, pixels, chapters) of
art works. So, yes, we need to fundraise; but we're also using the
opportunity to play , just a little, with the idea of collecting
intangible art. I would like to thank all of the artists for
supporting New Langton Arts with this creative donation.
You can participate by going to the New Langton Arts website
(www.newlangtonarts.org), or by following the links below directly to
the 3 works on eBay:
Lisa Jevbratt
1:1, 1999
1:1 was a project created in 1999 which consisted of a database that
would eventually contain the addresses of every Web site in the world
and interfaces through which to view and use the database. Crawlers
were sent out on the Web to determine whether there was a Web site at
a specific numerical address. If a site existed, whether it was
accessible to the public or not, the address was stored in the
database. Because of the interlaced nature of the search, the
database could in itself at any given point be considered a snapshot
or portrait of the Web, revealing not a slice but an image of the
Web, with increasing resolution.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8449839
Your bid is for one pixel which will be identified as your own within
the database.
Sonya Rapoport
Arbor Erecta: A Botanical Concept for Masculinity, 1998
Chapter 3: Pandanus Dioecious: Male/Female Separate is an
interrelated cross-cultural and scientific botanical concepts project
the work?s intent to promote tolerance of differences. Arbor Erecta
reflects on the intangible but real communication between tribal
initiation in New Guinea, its indigenous Pandanus tree and sexual
preference.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8450829
Your bid is for a single web page/chapter 3 of the project.
Richard Rinehart and Shawn Brixey
Chimera Obscura, 2002
Crossing the boundary between gallery installation and Internet art,
Chimera Obscura is constructed around a telerobotic agent that
Internet visitors use to navigate and decode a highly complex maze
designed from a human thumbprint. The project employs a mutative game
structure, allowing visitors to leave a virtual trail of media memes
(video, audio, text, etc.) behind for others to read, duplicate, or
delete in the search for a unique sequence that will decode the maze.
The ghost of the minotaur roams the maze in the form of random
mathematical algorithms that yield mutative forces to the memes in
the database, frustrating attempts at an easy, linear solution.
Visitors over the Internet break through by assuming a newer hybrid
form: that of telematic cyborgs simultaneously operating a robot in
the gallery space attached to a continuously evolving database in
virtual space.
eBay URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item'8452110
Your bid is for a single virtual point within the maze (point 2031).
Thanks very much,
Richard Rinehart
New Langton Arts, Board Member and net.art Curator
Day Jobs net.art exhibition announcement
Day Jobs
Net.Work Exhibition at New Langton Arts in San Francisco
http://www.newlangtonarts.org/ (follow link to Day Jobs)
Wednesday, 18 Sep 2002 to Saturday, 19 Oct 2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sep 19, 6-8 pm
Artists: Maya Kalogera, Valery Grancher, Mark Tribe, and Jody Zellen
Curated by Richard Rinehart
Day Jobs explores the relationship between international net art and
its social and economic context through case studies of individual
net artists' day jobs in relation to their art. Rather than take the
more common art-historical or museological approach, this exhibition
examines the conditions of practice as a way into a genre. In
contrast to traditional media artists, digital media artists have
less of an economic base in art sales, and often work in the same
digital media by day for income as well as by night as an artist.
This situates digital artists between art and a relatively new
industry, as well as between their eerily similar day and night
activities, creating a kind of interference pattern that is largely
unexplored.
--
-
Richard Rinehart
---------------
Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
---------------
Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
---------------
University of California, Berkeley
Net.Work Exhibition at New Langton Arts in San Francisco
http://www.newlangtonarts.org/ (follow link to Day Jobs)
Wednesday, 18 Sep 2002 to Saturday, 19 Oct 2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sep 19, 6-8 pm
Artists: Maya Kalogera, Valery Grancher, Mark Tribe, and Jody Zellen
Curated by Richard Rinehart
Day Jobs explores the relationship between international net art and
its social and economic context through case studies of individual
net artists' day jobs in relation to their art. Rather than take the
more common art-historical or museological approach, this exhibition
examines the conditions of practice as a way into a genre. In
contrast to traditional media artists, digital media artists have
less of an economic base in art sales, and often work in the same
digital media by day for income as well as by night as an artist.
This situates digital artists between art and a relatively new
industry, as well as between their eerily similar day and night
activities, creating a kind of interference pattern that is largely
unexplored.
--
-
Richard Rinehart
---------------
Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
---------------
Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
---------------
University of California, Berkeley
call for exhibition proposals
Deadline:
Thu Jun 20, 2002 01:00
Hello folks,
I'm putting together an exhibition of net.art for New Langton Arts,
an experimental art gallery in San Francisco, CA, for Fall 2002. This
exhibition, 'Day Jobs', is described below and explores the
relationship between a net.artist's digital day job to their
art-making activities.
------------
Day-Jobs
A NetWork exhibition at New Langton Arts
www.newlangtonarts.org
This exhibition explores the relationship between net.art and its
social and economic context through case studies of individual
net.artists' day jobs in relation to their art, rather than the more
common art-historical or museological approach. This exhibition
examines the conditions of practice as a way into a genre. Digital
media artists have less of an economic base in art sales, and often
work in the same digital media by day for income as well as by night
as an artist. This situates digital artists between art and a
relatively new industry, as well as between their eerily similar day
and night activities, creating a kind of interference pattern that is
largely unexplored. This pattern is reflected in the art works, but
also, just as interestingly, in the day job projects of these
curators, programmers, and web-designers, often quite consciously.
This exhibition will look at a few of the more interesting cases,
taken from varied environments, and line up the art next to the day
job project as a way of uncovering how these new social,
intellectual, or economic patterns are influencing our art and the
rest of our lives.
-----------
I have a couple of people in mind for this show, but I'm writing to
you all to ask if you know of other artists who may present good
examples in this area - or if you yourself find yourself working in
this way. Ideally I would like to be able to exhibit an artist's
net.art next to projects they work on at their day job, and with the
help of the artist, try to make clear how themes, rebellions, or even
subconscious aesthetic decisions about information architecture or
programming may cross-over between the two. They need not be new
works.
I'm preferentially looking for artists working in California; but
that's not an unbreakable rule. So, if you are working in this area
or know of others who are, please contact me at this email address
within the next week or so. Thank you very much,
--
-
Richard Rinehart
---------------
Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
---------------
Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
---------------
University of California, Berkeley
I'm putting together an exhibition of net.art for New Langton Arts,
an experimental art gallery in San Francisco, CA, for Fall 2002. This
exhibition, 'Day Jobs', is described below and explores the
relationship between a net.artist's digital day job to their
art-making activities.
------------
Day-Jobs
A NetWork exhibition at New Langton Arts
www.newlangtonarts.org
This exhibition explores the relationship between net.art and its
social and economic context through case studies of individual
net.artists' day jobs in relation to their art, rather than the more
common art-historical or museological approach. This exhibition
examines the conditions of practice as a way into a genre. Digital
media artists have less of an economic base in art sales, and often
work in the same digital media by day for income as well as by night
as an artist. This situates digital artists between art and a
relatively new industry, as well as between their eerily similar day
and night activities, creating a kind of interference pattern that is
largely unexplored. This pattern is reflected in the art works, but
also, just as interestingly, in the day job projects of these
curators, programmers, and web-designers, often quite consciously.
This exhibition will look at a few of the more interesting cases,
taken from varied environments, and line up the art next to the day
job project as a way of uncovering how these new social,
intellectual, or economic patterns are influencing our art and the
rest of our lives.
-----------
I have a couple of people in mind for this show, but I'm writing to
you all to ask if you know of other artists who may present good
examples in this area - or if you yourself find yourself working in
this way. Ideally I would like to be able to exhibit an artist's
net.art next to projects they work on at their day job, and with the
help of the artist, try to make clear how themes, rebellions, or even
subconscious aesthetic decisions about information architecture or
programming may cross-over between the two. They need not be new
works.
I'm preferentially looking for artists working in California; but
that's not an unbreakable rule. So, if you are working in this area
or know of others who are, please contact me at this email address
within the next week or so. Thank you very much,
--
-
Richard Rinehart
---------------
Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
---------------
Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
---------------
University of California, Berkeley
