Rhizome Limited Editions and Higher Level Membership
Basic Rhizome Membership costs $25 annually and comes with a range of benefits and privileges. Higher-member levels, ranging from $50-$1000, come with limited edition artwork as thank you gifts and invitation to member events organized by Rhizome and held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, or partner spaces.
Rhizome Limited Editions 2008
- Sprout ($50 level): Rhizome, T-Shirt or Tote Bag
- Seedling ($100): Nasty Nets, DVD
- Shoot ($200): Recap, Rick Silva, DVD
- Bud ($300): On Everything: Rhizome Edition, Pall Thayer, CD-ROM
- Stem ($350): Gunship Ready, Brody Condon, DVD
- Stolon ($500): RSG-SMB-TAB, RSG, Artist Book
- Radical Root ($1000): Rhizome Council
Sprout ($50 level): Rhizome, T-Shirt or Tote Bag
Artist-designed t-shirt or tote bag, fresh this year or the Rhizome archives. (Your choice upon purchase.)
Become a member at the Sprout level »
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.
Become a member at the Seedling level »
Shoot ($200): Recap, Rick Silva, DVD small number remaining
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.
Become a member at the Shoot level »
Bud ($300): On Everything: Rhizome Edition, Pall Thayer, CD-ROM
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.
Become a member at the Bud level »
Stem ($350): Gunship Ready, Brody Condon, DVD small number remaining
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.
Become a member at the Stem level »
Stolon ($500): RSG-SMB-TAB, RSG, Artist Book small number remaining
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.
Become a member at the Stolon level »
Radical Root ($1000): Rhizome Council
As the top level in this year's Campaign, the Radical Root comes with many benefits including:
- Two limited edition artworks (pending availablility of your choice)
- Two complementary VIP tickets to Rhizome 2008 Benefit
- Special curators tour of Rhizome Exhibitions
- 2 additional Council events/ per year -- including studio visits with artists and conversations with leading technologists and entrepreneurs
Become a member at the Root level »
