The Rhizome Commissions Program was founded in 2001 to provide support to emerging artists working with new technologies. The forty-four works commissioned to date represent some of the most innovative, pioneering efforts in the field. At the New Museum on May 22nd, several artists who received support in the 2008 cycle will present their finished projects as well as other select projects. Artists to present include Evan Roth, Eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht), Steve Lambert and Rafael Rozendaal.
Thursday May 22nd, 7:30pm
the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
2008 Commissioned projects:
http://www.rhizome.org/commissions/2008/
Image Credit: Rafael Rozendaal, JELLOTIME.COM, 2007
Nice presentations all! Couple things:
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I liked all the projects very much. I wasn't sold on jellotime before seeing it in the context of Rafael's other work, but I think he's got a very good thing going there.
Somewhat interesting thread I noticed that a couple of the projects seemed to be a bit of a throwback to older projects. The eteam's Second Life dumpster is very reminiscent of Napier's Digital Landfill. There is a long history of artists sifting through the trash, so I don't see the eteam's submission as being any more derivative than anything else.
There was a "1.0" version of swapping banner ads for art, similar to Lambert's Add-Art but I can't remember the name now… found this: http://www.bannerart.org/ … but there was another earlier one.
But again, these ideas are definitely worth revisiting, I'm not trying to denigrate either project by citing the precedents. Hell, MTAA recycles ideas all the time :-)
Tim - "There was a "1.0" version of swapping banner ads for art, similar to Lambert's Add-Art but I can't remember the name now…"
not the same or the even the one you might be thinking of but…
http://www.creativetime.org/dwa/2000/credits.html
I recall that there was a proposal for something very similar in the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commission round… I liked the idea and sent the guy proposing it (who was getting his PhD in computer science, I think) a note.
it must be the etxtreme.ru puzzler
started by hans bernhard and liz vlx
you can see some of the banners here
http://pleine-peau.com/pls-tk!/
ours was this one
http://pleine-peau.com/pls-tk!/banpeau.gif
f.
http://pleine-peau.com/BOARD