Rhizome (art)
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Rhizome is a not-for-profit arts organization
, that supports and provides a platform for new media art
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founded Rhizome as a small email list in 1996 while living in Berlin. By August, Rhizome had launched its website, which by 1998 had developed a significant readership within the Internet art community. Originally designated a business, Rhizome became a nonprofit organization in 1998, switching to the domain-name suffix ".org."
Rhizome established an online archive called the ArtBase in 1999. The ArtBase was initially conceived exclusively as a database of net art works. Today, the scope of the ArtBase has expanded to include other forms of art engaged with technology, including games, software, and interdisciplinary projects with online elements. The works are submitted by the artists themselves. Only works considered to be of potential historical significance are included.
In 2003, Rhizome became affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art
in New York
. Today, Rhizome's programs include events, exhibitions at the New Museum and elsewhere, an active website, and an archive of more than 2,000 new media artworks.
In 2008, Rhizome expanded the scope of the commissions from strictly Internet-based art to the broad range of forms and practices that fall under the category of new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies or reflect on the impact of these tools and media. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices.
Not-for-profit arts organization
A not-for-profit arts organization is usually in the form of a not-for-profit corporation, association, or foundation. Such organizations are formed for the purpose of developing and promoting the work of artists in various visual and performing art forms such as film, sculpture, dance, painting,...
, that supports and provides a platform for new media art
New media art
New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
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History
Artist and curator Mark TribeMark Tribe
Mark Tribe is an American artist. He is the founder of Rhizome, a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City....
founded Rhizome as a small email list in 1996 while living in Berlin. By August, Rhizome had launched its website, which by 1998 had developed a significant readership within the Internet art community. Originally designated a business, Rhizome became a nonprofit organization in 1998, switching to the domain-name suffix ".org."
Rhizome established an online archive called the ArtBase in 1999. The ArtBase was initially conceived exclusively as a database of net art works. Today, the scope of the ArtBase has expanded to include other forms of art engaged with technology, including games, software, and interdisciplinary projects with online elements. The works are submitted by the artists themselves. Only works considered to be of potential historical significance are included.
In 2003, Rhizome became affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art
New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Today, Rhizome's programs include events, exhibitions at the New Museum and elsewhere, an active website, and an archive of more than 2,000 new media artworks.
Rhizome Commissions Program
Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded fifty-four commissions to-date. Projects realized through the Program represent some of the forward-thinking and innovative works of media and internet-based art.In 2008, Rhizome expanded the scope of the commissions from strictly Internet-based art to the broad range of forms and practices that fall under the category of new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies or reflect on the impact of these tools and media. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices.
ArtBase
The Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2110 art works. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, websites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends.Montage: Unmonumental Online
- Exhibition Statement
- Exhibition with work by artists Michael Bell-SmithMichael Bell-SmithMichael Bell-Smith is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Bell-Smith's work utilizes digital forms to explore the use of popular technologies in contemporary visual culture....
, William Boling, John Michael Boling, Charles Broskoski, Jessica Ciocci, Petra CortrightPetra CortrightPetra Cortright is a Santa Barbara, California based Internet artist. She studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in New York, Rhizome, the Venice Biennale...
, Chris Coy, Cao Fei, Kenneth Tin-Kin HungKenneth Tin-Kin HungKenneth Tin-Kin Hung is a Chinese-American new media artist who lives and works in New York. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Arts degree from San Francisco State University. Hung's works are digital collages of popular culture and current events. His media includes hi-definition video animation,...
, Nina KatchadourianNina KatchadourianNina Katchadourian is an American artist. She is known for conceptual works that explores themes of mapping, translation, and public space. Her projects have been exhibited widely, including a solo show of video installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in July 2008.-Biography:Nina...
, Oliver Laric, Olia LialinaOlia LialinaOlia Lialina is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator...
, Guthrie Lonergan, and Paul Slocum. - Curated by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director for Rhizome and Marisa OlsonMarisa OlsonMarisa Olson is a new media artist, curator, critic, and media theorist. In 2004 she auditioned for popular American television show American Idol as an artistic project. In her blog, she describes her feelings and the entire process that she must go through in order to look presentable to the...
, Curator-at-large for Rhizome.
Time Shares
- Time Shares is a series of online exhibitions dedicated to exploring the diversity of contemporary art based on the internet.
- Time Shares
The Gif Show
- Exhibition with work by Cory ArcangelCory ArcangelCory Arcangel is a Brooklyn, New York artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance,, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known...
, Peter Baldes, Michael Bell-SmithMichael Bell-SmithMichael Bell-Smith is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Bell-Smith's work utilizes digital forms to explore the use of popular technologies in contemporary visual culture....
, Jimpunk, Olia LialinaOlia LialinaOlia Lialina is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator...
, Abe Linkoln, Guthrie Lonergan, Lovid, Tom Moody, Paper RadPaper RadPaper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island art collective that makes comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands...
, Paul Slocum, and Matt Smear (aka 893/umeancompetitor). - Curated by Rhizome editor and curator-at-large Marisa OlsonMarisa OlsonMarisa Olson is a new media artist, curator, critic, and media theorist. In 2004 she auditioned for popular American television show American Idol as an artistic project. In her blog, she describes her feelings and the entire process that she must go through in order to look presentable to the...
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ArtBase 101
- Exhibition presents 40 selections from Rhizome's online archive of new media art, ArtBase.
- Works are grouped by 10 themes: dirt style, net cinema, games, e-commerce, data visualization and databases, online celebrity, public space, software, cyberfeminism, and early net.art.