Rhizome has appointed Zachary Kaplan as the organization’s new executive director. “Zach is a proven leader and a passionate advocate for Rhizome’s mission. He brings a wealth of experience and a strong vision to this evolving organization, and we’re excited for him to shape the future of Rhizome,” says Greg Pass, the chairman of Rhizome’s board. (more…)
Lauren Cornell, the Curator of this year’s New Museum Triennial, is interviewed in Dazed this week, reflecting on her origins in experimental film, her work with Rhizome, and her work in addressing gender and sexuality as a curator. “I think it seems especially hard or frustrating to come up as a young artist now in an art world that seems to think of itself as ‘over’ inequality, while consistently rewarding white men more than anyone else,” she says. “In this context, it’s important to create spaces for ongoing inequalities to be named and dealt with constructively.” (more…)
Rhizome has announced its list of 2013 Commission Award Winners, including its first round of award recipients for the Tumblr Internet Art Award. Projects run the spectrum of internet and performance based works, including an online television show by Colin Self and American Medium, an app design by Aaron Meyers and Lauren McCarthy titled God’s Eyes (where one user at a time is granted omniscient access to all other user’s camera phones), a new visualization system for net art collective The Jogging, and even a one-week national tour by performance art/musical duo Extreme Animals. (more…)
Lauren Cornell has announced that she will be accepting a full-time position at The New Museum with the title “Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects, and Museum as Hub”. She was previously executive director at Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum. She is co-curating the 2015 triennial with artist Ryan Trecartin. (more…)
‪‬Art Fag City speculates possible candidates to replace Lauren Cornell as Executive Director of Rhizome
All images and text by Eric Forman for ArtObserved
Last Saturday at the New Museum, new media arts organization Rhizome presented Seven on Seven, a day-long conference showcasing seven collaborations between one artist and one “technologist.” Each pair had only 24 hours to conceive an idea and whip up a prototype. The event referenced “9 Evenings,” a famous 1966 collaboration between artists and engineers organized by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver. That group had 10 months and came up with many influential technological “firsts.” Seven on Seven had more modest aims, and the results, though uneven, were varied and entertaining, most straddling the line between functional social experiment and pop-up work of art. Rhizome executive director Lauren Cornell curated the pairings and many of the participators gushed about the fun they had brainstorming together. The audience, a packed house of well-heeled digerati who paid what some said were “exclusionary” amounts for tickets, seemed to enjoy the proceedings, not least the cocktail reception in the New Museum’s sleek Sky Room. Some grumblers asserted that networking was the true raison d’eÌ‚tre of the event, although there was widespread admiration for what the participators pulled off in such a short time.
More images, related links and a full report of the proceedings after the jump….
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