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Rhizome supports the creation, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Read more about us.

Support Rhizome

You can support Rhizome by becoming a member for $25 a year or making a larger donation, in exchange for a limited edition artwork.

Founded in 1996, Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, our website serves to encourage and expand the international communities evolving these practices. Our programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. We support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Our organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

We receive support from foundations, government agencies and our wide base of members. You can become a member on an individual or organizational level.

BECOME A RHIZOME MEMBER!
Rhizomers who contribute $25 or more become Members. As a Member, you have access to all ten years of our archives or art and text, and also access to special features.

Learn about Rhizome membership.

LEVELS

Rhizome ($25 level): Rhizome Membership
Rhizome membership comes with full access to our archives, ability to use special site features and discounts to art merchandise online. See our individual membership page for a full list!

Sprout ($50 level): T-Shirt
Artist-designed t-shirt from the Rhizome archives

Seedling ($100): NASTY NETS DVD
Nasty Nets is an international ensemble representing some of the most active artists working online today. Identifying themselves as a "web surfing club," together the work they post on the nastynets.com blog both celebrates and critiques the internet. Their collections of animated gifs, YouTube hacks, html cheat codes, and other found and edited material offer a poignant and humorous take on contemporary digital visual culture. On a DVD player, the Nasty Nets DVD offers a handful of funny, visually playful videos and remixes from the treasure trove of internet pop culture. On a computer, users can also access a multitude of file folders jam-packed with a collection gif-mashups, videos, and other appropriated material that has made the site so popular, online.

Shoot ($200): "Recap" - DVD by Rick Silva
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Recap by Rick Silva is a remix of the cult classic graffiti movie Wild Style (1982) where every piece of graffiti in the original film has been digitally crossed out and tagged over with the Recap tag.

Bud ($300): On Everything: Rhizome Edition by Pall Thayer
A work of dynamically progressive imagery, "On Everything" generates a real-time audio/visual presentation of "everything" by appropriating material being shared by the worldwide public in the form of shared images and diaries. The source material is endless, thus the work goes on forever. Material is synthesized, mixed and, ultimately, abstracted, in a constant stream to allow for varied interpretation. "On Everything" knows nothing of the content of these materials. It reflects everything while reflecting on nothing. That is up to the viewer.

Stem ($350): "Gunship Ready" - DVD by Brody Condon
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An artist whose work explores the correspondence between video games and other social narratives, including pop music, renaissance painting and gang violence, Condon's multi-layered moving image works combine powerful political statements with vibrant imagery. Gunship Ready is DVD documentation of a series of five performative interventions within the online shooter Tribes 2.

Stolon ($500): Artist Book by RSG
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Originally commissioned for the Whitney Artport's online Gatepages, RSG-SMB-TAB equated playing video games with playing music by cataloging all game controller moves needed to beat every level of Super Mario Brothers, in tablature-format.