Hi, everyone.

Thanks for your great feedback on the new site. I wanted to touch base
about a few of the RhizPaper-related suggestions we've received.

You've sent us a couple of great ideas. One was to investigate a means
of making the RhizPaper image visible underneath the text boxes, while
still making the text legible. This is very important to me and I'm
going to scope out the possibilities. It's hard to predict what images
people will submit, and to pre-anticipate legibility issues, but I'm
up for the challenge!

Secondly, I absolutely love the suggestion of making the background
image a more open platform. I like that it could be open to all
members and that this would keep the site more lively and dynamic. In
part, the idea grew out of my nostalgia for Rhizome's old Splash
pages, the art project you used to see before rolling to the main
page. Some really great projects were included in that series and I
think it was a nice means of exposing people to new work. If we opened
RhizPaper submission up to all members and made it a live-updated
feature, I hope it would accomplish some of the same things…

Anyway, I need to check on specs and a possible timeline for making
this happen. It's fairly complicated. We'll need a nice "submission
machine" of some kind, some place, and I'd like us to be able to
accommodate a variety of image file-types.

Meanwhile, thanks for the great tips!

All the best,
Marisa

Editor & Curator at Large
Rhizome.org