As Program Director, Zoë Salditch oversees and produces key Rhizome programs and events. She manages the Commissions Program, and The Download, a digital art collecting program she conceived and initiated in 2011. She also coordinates major organization initiatives like Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, manages all community aspects of Rhizome's site, and is the liaison for all member affairs, individual and organizational. Beginning in the summer of 2012, she has programed and coordinated Rhizome events including New Silent Series. Previously, Zoë was a volunteer assisting with the new site launch and spearheaded the revision of the ArtBase collection management policy, and came to the organization via the Museum Studies program at Tufts University.
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Watch Rhizome's Nostalgic VHS History from 2001 — and Donate for 2013!
This informational video from 2001, recently unearthed in the archives, is a nostalgic reminder of Rhizome's roots. Though the VHS format is near obsolete, our history will never be, and we maintain the same international and community-driven spirit today as seen in this video.
Since 1996, Rhizome has evolved and refreshed many times over. From email list-serv to thriving non-profit, the organization always strives to bring together an international and diverse community. We hope to reinvigorate and re-engage the international community featured on our website by bringing our programs and events abroad. By hosting programs in other cities, Rhizome can promote artists and communities beyond New York City in more meaningful ways.
However, we must raise the necessary funds in order to realize our goals in 2013 and beyond. Every year we rely on our community to contribute to our operational budget in ways that grants and sponsorships cannot. Please consider contributing to the Community Fundraiser today. Your donation is a vote of confidence as we grow our programs in the next year.
The Download: >get >put - an exhibition download
Screen shot of >get >put – an exhibition download (2012)
This month, The Download presents >get >put – an exhibition download (2012) an installation of digital compositions produced by Alexandra Gorczynski, A. Bill Miller, Benjamin Farahmand, Giselle Zatonyl, Derek Frech, and Travess Smalley in tandem with their physical pieces for the exhibition >get >put at little berlin in Philadelphia, PA
>get >put is an exploration of the interplay between the physical, social and digital spaces of networked culture. Installed as a series of digital compositions anchored in spatiotemporal objects, the work focuses around the fundamental shared behaviors of ‘downloading’ and ‘uploading’ that support our networked world. The exhibition exists in two parts – as digital compositions installed in HTML for this download, and as physical pieces produced for the exhibition’s installation.
The Download gives a first look to great art for Rhizome members. Start your own digital art collection by becoming a member today.
Stories from the New Aesthetic
Last week, Stories from the New Aesthetic, part of Rhizome's New Silent Series, took place at The New Museum of Comtemporary Art.
The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project by James Bridle, investigating the intersections of culture and technology, history and memory, and the physical and the digital. At a panel at South by Southwest this past March, Aaron Straup Cope, Ben Terrett, James Bridle, Joanne McNeil, and Russell Davies discussed ideas related to the project, which sparked a series of responses and ideas from artists, writers, and theorists across the web.
For this event, Bridle was joined by McNeil and Cope again to share their stories related to these ideas.
The Download: Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Screenshot of Pond Type interface
This month on The Download featuring an interactive software piece by Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain.
Pond Type (2012) transforms the QWERTY keyboard into a hauntingly beautiful musical instrument for digital poetry. Inspired by Brazilian concrete poet Augusto de Campos's "Pulsar," the artists Detanico and Lain designed a ripple typeface for an exhibition of the poet's work for the Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts. For The Download, they combined the typeface with sound to create an interactive version of Pond Type.
After selecting any text or poem, the viewer is instructed to type slowly and wait for each word to vanish before typing the next. By deliberately slowing down the urge to type quickly, the artists delay gratification and encourage careful listening.
The Download gives a first look to great art for Rhizome members. Start your own digital art collection by becoming a member today.
The Download: Kristin Lucas
Screenshot of The Sole Ripper in Google SketchUp, courtesy of the artist
This month The Download features Kristin Lucas's digital book The Sole Ripper (2012).
The Sole Ripper is a digital book containing a 1:132 scale architectural view of a fictional pedestrian roller coster modeled for an empty lot in Manhattan discovered by Lucas on Google Maps. The architectural plan arrives fragmented and out of order, given its shape through a process of software conventions and workarounds. It is a visual corollary to the download process in which files are broken down into packets and transmitted over internet pathways from one computer to another, and reconfigured at their final destination. Only, Lucas leaves the task of file reconfigurability open to the viewer, and opts for an alternative view that features a 352-page vertical drop and bears likeness to a filmstrip. Recalling Luis Borges's hyperreal map that was as large as the empire itself from "On Exactitude in Science," Lucas's plan for The Sole Ripper is too large to see in its entirety even when reassembled.
The Download gives a first look to great art for Rhizome members. Start your own digital art collection by becoming a member today.
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