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Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His photographs, installations, videos, and performances are exhibited widely, including recent solo projects at Momenta Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, G-MK in Zagreb, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Tribe is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He is Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
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beuys
At 07:06 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, -IID42 Kandinskij @27+ wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mark Tribe wrote:
> > is it really so problematic to think of rhizome.org as merging art and
> > online community?
>
> Yes, since you're not really the 'author' and you claim authorship.
not at all.
saying that i think of rhizome as social sculpture and of myself as an
artist in that context is not a claim of authorship. my understanding of
beuys' notion of social sculpture is that it enables everyone, or at least
every participant, to become an artist. this doesn't mean that everyone
starts making things that look like art, but rather that our everyday
lives, from our jobs to our political activities, become a kind of artistic
practice. it's a radical concept, one that challenges traditional notions
of art, art making, authorship, etc.
in beuys' words: "every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called
to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and
structures that shape and condition our lives.
>On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mark Tribe wrote:
> > is it really so problematic to think of rhizome.org as merging art and
> > online community?
>
> Yes, since you're not really the 'author' and you claim authorship.
not at all.
saying that i think of rhizome as social sculpture and of myself as an
artist in that context is not a claim of authorship. my understanding of
beuys' notion of social sculpture is that it enables everyone, or at least
every participant, to become an artist. this doesn't mean that everyone
starts making things that look like art, but rather that our everyday
lives, from our jobs to our political activities, become a kind of artistic
practice. it's a radical concept, one that challenges traditional notions
of art, art making, authorship, etc.
in beuys' words: "every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called
to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and
structures that shape and condition our lives.
Re: RE: Re: Charity CD Project
Valery's recent emails have contained inaccurate assertions. A few points
of clarification:
At 11:01 PM 11/13/2002 +0100, valery grancher wrote:
>1- Before I was thinking like you but since a while severals sign has
>apperared:
>Mark Tribe is a part of net art jury in ars electronica the result is
>several rhizome member are getting a prize and the golden nika is going to
>another rhizome manager alex galloway with carnivore project ....
>ars electronica 2002
For 2002, I was a nominator for the Prix Ars Electronica "art databases,
cultural archives, museums, online galleries, reference" sub-category. So I
didn't nominate Alex Galloway or any other Rhizome members.
>2- day jobs exhibition all artist shows their real work and mark tribe
>describes rhizome as a personnal art project
The text Valery quoted from the day jobs site was was written by Rick
Rinehart, the curator of the show, not by yours truly. If you review the
statement I wrote for the show, it's clear that I do not describe Rhizome
as a personal art project. What I do say is that "I have come increasingly
to see Rhizome.org as a social sculpture and the work I do there as art work."
Here's the statement I wrote for the Day Jobs show (also available on the
Day Jobs web site at
http://www.newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Network&archive=1&displayYear 02&&eventId5):
+ + +
In the 1970s Joseph Beuys used the term social sculpture to describe a kind
of participatory art work in which speech and ideas are raw materials in
creating a transformative social space. Beuys' notion of art as a social
practice--even more radically expansive than Alan Kaprow's interest in
blurring the boundaries between art and everyday life--remains largely a
theoretical construct, a goal many artists strive for but rarely attain. It
is nonetheless a useful lens through which to look at things...
In 1996 I was living in Berlin, Germany. I had a day job as a web designer
and was making net art in my spare time. Those were heady days and Berlin
was teeming with people like me--young artists who were fascinated by the
Internet and its potential to liberate art from the bounds of real space
and the old school institutions that existed there. I also knew from my
trips to Ars Electronica and other new media art festivals that we were not
alone: the net art meme had replicated globally. So I started an email list
for the discussion of new media art and called it Rhizome, a term Deleuze
and Guattari use to describe horizontally distributed, non-hierarchical
networks. The list grew quickly, and soon took on a life of its own.
Running Rhizome became my day job, my night job, my only job.
Today, Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization based in New York City.
Through our web site, email lists, commissioning program and events, we
support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of new
media art. We have five people on staff and 15,000 members in 118
countries. We get funding from various private foundations and government
agencies and from hundreds of individuals around the world. Although
writing grants and doing budgets doesn't feel like art making, I have come
increasingly to see Rhizome.org as a social sculpture and the work I do
there as art work.
+ + +
>3- rhizome is giving grant to artist, who won? again rhizome staff ....
Of the five artists who received Rhizome commissions this year, none were
Rhizome staff.
>so what would we think ?
>
>I'm not naive, I just have doubt now regarding what's going on ....
>
>That's why I ask this question to have the whole truth cos I cannot accept
>to have this kind of doubt ....and I can say that I'm not alone to think
>like that cos we have already exchange emails in between us (many persons
>who have doubt like me) to make it clear ....
>so ?
>I'm talking not for others but personnaly
>
>I just guess that it was not really so smart and good to have made this
>statement in day jobs before making a campaign for raising money ....
>
>I have no doubt rgarding the worl done, but as a manager people whould take
>care about what they say and write, I'm exactly talking about politics ....
>
>take care about this ...
>
>on my side I will wait and see
>
>Valery
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Francis Hwang" <francis@rhizome.org>
>To: <list@rhizome.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:09 PM
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: RE: Re: Charity CD Project
>
>
> > So Mark decided to call Rhizome a work of art. I don't see what's the big
> > deal.
> >
> > You can argue over whether or not the idea of "social sculpture" is valid
> > artistically or not. But it would be a mistake to imply that Mark's
>artistic
> > ambitions are compromising his ability to be an arts administrator. Mostly
>I
> > know this because here in our tiny Rhiz office, I sit next to him, and I
> > overhear a lot of his phone conversations. And I talk to him every day.
>And,
> > being the sysadmin, I make sure to read all his email. (er, kidding,
>Mark.)
> > Mostly, he spends his time here in the office on boring arts-admin stuff,
> > the sort of things that people go to art school to _avoid_. Worrying about
> > grant applications, cash-flow, conversations with board members, how to
>make
> > the site and its related services better to the Rhizome community, etc.,
> > etc. He deals with a lot of paperwork, and he seems to really know his
> > spreadsheets.
> >
> > So please don't think Rhizome is basically Mark Tribe's little vanity
> > project. It's not. We're all working hard here to make it a useful
>resource
> > for its community. I hope we're succeeding. I'm sure you'll all let us
>know
> > if we're not.
> >
> > Francis
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "valery grancher" <vgranger@imaginet.fr>
> > To: "Mark Tribe" <mt@rhizome.org>; <list@rhizome.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: RE: Re: Charity CD Project
> >
> >
> > > I am also surprised by this campaign ! when I can read at new langton
>art
> > > center "day jobs" exhibition this :
> > > "
> > > Mark Tribe
> > > Projects
> > >
> > > Day: Rhizome.org http://www.rhizome.org
> > > Night: Rhizome.org http://www.rhizome.org
> > > Mark Tribe's art work featured in this exhibition can be seen as
> > performance
> > > as much as media art. Rhizome.org is an online community that Mark
> > describes
> > > as "social sculpture" in the tradition of Bueys. Here, product is not as
> > > important as process, though it would be a disservice to abstract
> > > Rhizome.org to the level of a conceptual art prank when, in fact, it has
> > had
> > > a very real effect on the social lives of many new media artists and
> > offers
> > > many practical services. This close-knit integration of a conceptual
> > social
> > > work combined, inextricably, with practical real-world services is
> > exemplary
> > > of how new media artists are sometimes able to play and work in the same
> > > media. Since media is the built environment that we now live in
>full-time
> > > (as opposed to a weekend leisure destination), artists find it possible
>to
> > > move into the "main house" -- sometimes without anyone noticing them
>sneak
> > > in.
> > >
> > > -- Richard Rinehart"
> > >
> > > on day jobs exhibitions statement !
> > >
> > > what's up ?
> > > Rhizome campaign : is it a campaign for a non profit organization? or
>for
> > > mark Tribe artpiece ?
> > > Could you mind to make it clear ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Valery Grancher
> > >
of clarification:
At 11:01 PM 11/13/2002 +0100, valery grancher wrote:
>1- Before I was thinking like you but since a while severals sign has
>apperared:
>Mark Tribe is a part of net art jury in ars electronica the result is
>several rhizome member are getting a prize and the golden nika is going to
>another rhizome manager alex galloway with carnivore project ....
>ars electronica 2002
For 2002, I was a nominator for the Prix Ars Electronica "art databases,
cultural archives, museums, online galleries, reference" sub-category. So I
didn't nominate Alex Galloway or any other Rhizome members.
>2- day jobs exhibition all artist shows their real work and mark tribe
>describes rhizome as a personnal art project
The text Valery quoted from the day jobs site was was written by Rick
Rinehart, the curator of the show, not by yours truly. If you review the
statement I wrote for the show, it's clear that I do not describe Rhizome
as a personal art project. What I do say is that "I have come increasingly
to see Rhizome.org as a social sculpture and the work I do there as art work."
Here's the statement I wrote for the Day Jobs show (also available on the
Day Jobs web site at
http://www.newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Network&archive=1&displayYear 02&&eventId5):
+ + +
In the 1970s Joseph Beuys used the term social sculpture to describe a kind
of participatory art work in which speech and ideas are raw materials in
creating a transformative social space. Beuys' notion of art as a social
practice--even more radically expansive than Alan Kaprow's interest in
blurring the boundaries between art and everyday life--remains largely a
theoretical construct, a goal many artists strive for but rarely attain. It
is nonetheless a useful lens through which to look at things...
In 1996 I was living in Berlin, Germany. I had a day job as a web designer
and was making net art in my spare time. Those were heady days and Berlin
was teeming with people like me--young artists who were fascinated by the
Internet and its potential to liberate art from the bounds of real space
and the old school institutions that existed there. I also knew from my
trips to Ars Electronica and other new media art festivals that we were not
alone: the net art meme had replicated globally. So I started an email list
for the discussion of new media art and called it Rhizome, a term Deleuze
and Guattari use to describe horizontally distributed, non-hierarchical
networks. The list grew quickly, and soon took on a life of its own.
Running Rhizome became my day job, my night job, my only job.
Today, Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization based in New York City.
Through our web site, email lists, commissioning program and events, we
support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of new
media art. We have five people on staff and 15,000 members in 118
countries. We get funding from various private foundations and government
agencies and from hundreds of individuals around the world. Although
writing grants and doing budgets doesn't feel like art making, I have come
increasingly to see Rhizome.org as a social sculpture and the work I do
there as art work.
+ + +
>3- rhizome is giving grant to artist, who won? again rhizome staff ....
Of the five artists who received Rhizome commissions this year, none were
Rhizome staff.
>so what would we think ?
>
>I'm not naive, I just have doubt now regarding what's going on ....
>
>That's why I ask this question to have the whole truth cos I cannot accept
>to have this kind of doubt ....and I can say that I'm not alone to think
>like that cos we have already exchange emails in between us (many persons
>who have doubt like me) to make it clear ....
>so ?
>I'm talking not for others but personnaly
>
>I just guess that it was not really so smart and good to have made this
>statement in day jobs before making a campaign for raising money ....
>
>I have no doubt rgarding the worl done, but as a manager people whould take
>care about what they say and write, I'm exactly talking about politics ....
>
>take care about this ...
>
>on my side I will wait and see
>
>Valery
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Francis Hwang" <francis@rhizome.org>
>To: <list@rhizome.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:09 PM
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: RE: Re: Charity CD Project
>
>
> > So Mark decided to call Rhizome a work of art. I don't see what's the big
> > deal.
> >
> > You can argue over whether or not the idea of "social sculpture" is valid
> > artistically or not. But it would be a mistake to imply that Mark's
>artistic
> > ambitions are compromising his ability to be an arts administrator. Mostly
>I
> > know this because here in our tiny Rhiz office, I sit next to him, and I
> > overhear a lot of his phone conversations. And I talk to him every day.
>And,
> > being the sysadmin, I make sure to read all his email. (er, kidding,
>Mark.)
> > Mostly, he spends his time here in the office on boring arts-admin stuff,
> > the sort of things that people go to art school to _avoid_. Worrying about
> > grant applications, cash-flow, conversations with board members, how to
>make
> > the site and its related services better to the Rhizome community, etc.,
> > etc. He deals with a lot of paperwork, and he seems to really know his
> > spreadsheets.
> >
> > So please don't think Rhizome is basically Mark Tribe's little vanity
> > project. It's not. We're all working hard here to make it a useful
>resource
> > for its community. I hope we're succeeding. I'm sure you'll all let us
>know
> > if we're not.
> >
> > Francis
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "valery grancher" <vgranger@imaginet.fr>
> > To: "Mark Tribe" <mt@rhizome.org>; <list@rhizome.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: RE: Re: Charity CD Project
> >
> >
> > > I am also surprised by this campaign ! when I can read at new langton
>art
> > > center "day jobs" exhibition this :
> > > "
> > > Mark Tribe
> > > Projects
> > >
> > > Day: Rhizome.org http://www.rhizome.org
> > > Night: Rhizome.org http://www.rhizome.org
> > > Mark Tribe's art work featured in this exhibition can be seen as
> > performance
> > > as much as media art. Rhizome.org is an online community that Mark
> > describes
> > > as "social sculpture" in the tradition of Bueys. Here, product is not as
> > > important as process, though it would be a disservice to abstract
> > > Rhizome.org to the level of a conceptual art prank when, in fact, it has
> > had
> > > a very real effect on the social lives of many new media artists and
> > offers
> > > many practical services. This close-knit integration of a conceptual
> > social
> > > work combined, inextricably, with practical real-world services is
> > exemplary
> > > of how new media artists are sometimes able to play and work in the same
> > > media. Since media is the built environment that we now live in
>full-time
> > > (as opposed to a weekend leisure destination), artists find it possible
>to
> > > move into the "main house" -- sometimes without anyone noticing them
>sneak
> > > in.
> > >
> > > -- Richard Rinehart"
> > >
> > > on day jobs exhibitions statement !
> > >
> > > what's up ?
> > > Rhizome campaign : is it a campaign for a non profit organization? or
>for
> > > mark Tribe artpiece ?
> > > Could you mind to make it clear ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Valery Grancher
> > >
