Zachary Kaplan

Member Since March 28, 2009

I'm Rhizome's Executive Director. I came to Rhizome from the Renaissance Society in Chicago, before that having worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and studying art history at Occidental College and the Roski School at USC, both in Los Angeles.
July 29 2015 10:24 on Feed my Feed: Radical publishing in Facebook Groups
Relevant to this post, the New Inquiry published a short reflection by Teju Cole, that had originally appeared as a Facebook post on the writer's personal page, about NY Mag's ...
July 27 2015 11:07 on Feed my Feed: Radical publishing in Facebook Groups
Here is just one public-facing thread on Facebook (that I've highlighted on this very site before) that rises above "chit-chat" about "mom's gmail" (ugh at the phrasing and innuendo):

https ...
July 27 2015 09:52 on Feed my Feed: Radical publishing in Facebook Groups
No one was blocked. (Though we didn't let through one comment from Pastasauce that failed to meet our commenting policy: "Content may not include any material that defames any person ...
Sept. 23 2014 10:02 on Announcing the 10 Artists Shortlisted for the Prix Net Art
Hi, Ben,
The prize is a three year initiative. Perhaps by late 2016 all will be pleased.
July 2 2014 09:42 on July 2: NYC poetry event with Kev, Bunny Rogers, and Brigid Mason
Tom,

I referred to your argument as 'tendentious' for two reasons:

1) The 'if he found Jesus' refrain — do you honestly believe that Kev having earnestly found Jesus would not ...
June 16 2014 17:08 on Internet Subjects: #Uberwar and the "Sharing" Economy
Per Airbnb, the Chronicle's overview of its footprint in San Francisco: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/airbnb-san-francisco-30110.php
May 30 2014 09:20 on The Accidental Archivist: Criticism on Facebook, and How to Preserve It
Good qs, and Paddy's post was a perfect example of the limits of sharing FB writing — Dragan had the same problem as you that day. :-)

As to your specific questions ...
May 29 2014 13:05 on The Accidental Archivist: Criticism on Facebook, and How to Preserve It
Thank you for sharing that, Mariana. And you're totally correct, it's not just the eventual move to 'legacy' that threatens important material hosted by the site. Other pressures clearly mount… ...
May 15 2014 15:28 on Art Focused and Distracted: Three new media exhibitions curated by Joshua Decter
There was definitely a lot of this: http://www.artchive.com/cdrom.htm. i.e. art encyclopedias on cd-rom, collection-specific, image-only. Our conservator Dragan was telling me about a few ...
March 20 2014 08:51 on The Commenter: A Lament
Hi Rob, I'm writing this comment as part of Rhizome's telethon, nearly hour 22. (I'm logged in as Zach, but this is Michael Connor. Zach only comments on social media ...
March 12 2014 19:39 on S.D. Chrostowska, Marie Calloway, and the New Media Novel
Brendan– I just finished reading this book, and had to drop a line. While GChat is represented, it's so ambient as to be invisible—Gould's point—a quality I appreciated ...