Rachel Greene
Since the beginning
Works in New York, Nebraska United States of America

BIO
Rhizome is friends and family for Rachel, who has been involved with the org. in one capacity or another since 1997 when it was rhizome.com!!
Rachel wrote a book on internet art for thames & hudson's well-known WORLD OF ART series: it was published in June 2004. She was a consultant and catalogue author for the 2004 Whitney Biennial. She has also written for publications including frieze, artforum, timeout and bomb.
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DISCUSSION

Re: RHizome Deserves your support.


Eryk -- I have never heard this before. I don't remember you're
bringing this up -- that you had done editorial work that hadn't been
recognized. Sorry if I missed it. We should discuss OTP or some such
but I can pay you for your interviews going forward if you still want
to conduct them. -- Rachel

DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome Needs Your Support


This is a great idea. Just spoke to Francis about the feasibility of
designing a Rhizome Member Jurying Tool, or some such that will link
from each Member page, and he has ideas on how he can build it. Give us
a couple of weeks to design it but for now it's a go. - Rachel

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:

>
> Will Rhizome supporters be able to assist in the selection process? I
> remember the last time you all did this, you picked "Members of the
> Rhizome
> Community" to serve on the board, who also just happened to be the
> heads of
> various New Media orgs and museums around the country. Are we keeping
> the
> hierarchy intact this year or going rhizomatic?
>
> -e.
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome Needs Your Support


On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Ivan Pope wrote:

> Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: Rhizome Needs Your Support
>
>
>> Hi Rhizomers:
>> I'm
>> writing to you now to let you know that we need your support once
>> again.
>> Our goal this year is to raise $37,000 by the 1st of February. So far
>> we
>> have raised about $5,000.
>>
>> It will cost about
>> $210,000 to operate Rhizome.org this fiscal year (this is about
>> two-thirds of what our was budget last year).
>
> Hi Rachel,
> I think we've been here before. I'm a donor and have the T-shirt to
> prove
> it. But honestly I got the impression that Rhizome was over now, apart
> from
> the mailing list which we stay on for old times sake.

Hi Ivan: I am sorry you feel that Rhizome is over. But not everyone
does. Yesterday I had three telephone calls from members who called to
make contributions in person. Two of them noted that given where they
live, one in Southern Europe and another from Western U.S., Rhizome was
a meaningful resource for information and opportunities and a
significant part of their life as new media artists. Also, last month's
web traffic was about 4.5 million hits with 1.5 million pages
requested. So, it's not over for a lot of people who find the contents
and services important.

> I haven't seen any
> announcements about the ArtBase for months, is it suspended or did I
> miss
> something?
>
The ArtBase was on summer holiday: this was a way to streamline
operations. The submissions page would have been revitalized by now but
Francis and Feisal (who just started working with us last week, with a
focus on the ArtBase) have been at an archiving conference.

> Your mail asks for $37,000 ('this year') by Feb 1. But you give no
> context
> to this. What is 'this year' (as February is patently in next year)?
> You say
> you have raised $5000 'so far', but what is 'so far'? When did this
> fundraising start? What part of your fundraising is this $37,000. Is
> this an
> emergency, or do you have to raise this every quarter? How does this
> relate
> to the $210,000 it will cost 'to operate Rhizome this fiscal year'?
> I say we've been here before because I can remember discussions before
> about
> Rhizome's income v. expenditure and I think Tribe pointed us to the
> Rhizome
> accounts. I did go to the website to read something about Rhizome's
> expenditure/income, but I can't find anything. So I thought I'd ask.
>
I meant that since July, the start of our fiscal year, we have raised
$5K from member contributions and our goal is to raise $37K before
February 1. A larger portion of our funding is expected to come from
institutions and government agencies. Thus far this fiscal year we have
received about $10K from foundations and $8K from a government agency
(and we are eagerly awaiting a check for $70K from a foundation any
week now).

July is technically when fundraising started for this year. Unless
something drastic happens in the funding climate in the U.S. we will
expect to get support from those who use our services each year. So
it's not an emergency in that something new has happened to the
organization, but it is an emergency in that if we don't raise the
money, I am not sure we'll be able to continue operations through the
year. As you probably remember from last year, instituting membership
fees was a very difficult decision. But we just don't see an
alternative given how little money there is for organizations of our
size and age in the United States. The alternative is for Rhizome to
cease to exist.

I will definitely post our latest audit once it is done. It's being
completed now by a certified accountant. Feel free to remind me about
this.

>> Your support will be put to good use. In the next few months, we will
>> initiate a new cycle of commissions in which we will award more than
>> $12,000 to Rhizome artists, revamp our search engine, develop a new
>> ArtBase curatorial program and launch Rhizome Memberships for
>> Organizations, a new program that will provide access to Rhizome.org
>> through schools, libraries and arts organizations from Chiang Mai to
>> Chile. And we will continue to offer our core programs, including the
>> Rhizome.org web site and email lists, with a focus on further
>> improving
>> the quality and relevance of our content.
>
> Give away $12,000 <--- hmm, if it were $120,000 it might pique
> interest, should I support this?
> Reveamp the ArtBase. <--- yes please, cluster around the ArtBase, I
> support this assuming the ArtBase is still open
> Recruit organisations. <--- Fundraising, should I support this?
> Provide access to Rhizome.org through schools, libraries and arts
> organisations <--- are you giving them web access then? what more do
> they
> need?
>
In this program, those visiting from schools, libraries and art centers
that subscribe to Rhizome (at a discounted rate) would be given access
to the site's contents. If these folks just had web access but were not
Rhizome members, they wouldn't be able to read or view Rhizome
contents. This program opens the site up to them, and by the way, will
focus on including poor and excluded countries as well as institutions
in Europe and the U.S.

> I thought by way of comparison with Rhizome's $210,000 expenditure, we
> could ask Ruth and Marc how much it costs them to run Furtherfield.
> Then we
> could do a value comparison.
>

That would be interesting. In some ways, it would be a comparison of
apples and oranges since British art projects are way more subsidized
than American ones, and since I imagine Furtherfield doesn't have the
traffic, international audience or membership numbers Rhizome does.
It's also hard to compare a project that has been active since 1996 to
a younger one in terms of programs and archival contents. By the way,
my remarks are in the spirit of inclusion and openness. I am not about
Rhizome v. Furtherfield -- in fact I welcome Furtherfield's arrival
into the world. -- Rachel

>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Distributed Creativity - Online NOW!


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DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome Needs Your Support


$12,000 in Net Art commissions. Only members of Rhizome ("Rhizome
artists") are eligible for the commissions. The announcement with all
the program details will run next Monday, by the way.

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 03:04 PM, Eryk Salvaggio wrote:

>
> When you say $12,000 to Rhizome artists, what do you mean?
>
> -e.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rachel Greene" <rachel@rhizome.org>
> To: <list@rhizome.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:36 PM
> Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: Rhizome Needs Your Support
>
>
>> Hi Rhizomers:
>>
>> When we made the transition from free membership to requiring
>> membership
>> contributions last January, there was a lot of debate on Rhizome.org
>> and
>> elsewhere. It was a difficult decision for us, but in the end it was
>> the
>> decisive factor in keeping Rhizome.org alive.
>>
>> If you are getting this message, then you are one of about 4,400
>> Rhizomers who decided to support Rhizome.org with a contribution. I'm
>> writing to you now to let you know that we need your support once
>> again.
>> Our goal this year is to raise $37,000 by the 1st of February. So far
>> we
>> have raised about $5,000.
>>
>> Please renew your membership now at
>> http://www.rhizome.org/support/?list, and consider increasing your
>> level
>> of support.
>>
>> Although our affiliation with the New Museum of Contemporary Art helps
>> us reduce our overhead significantly, we are still a small,
>> independent
>> nonprofit and we must raise own funds to survive. It will cost about
>> $210,000 to operate Rhizome.org this fiscal year (this is about
>> two-thirds of what our was budget last year). Though they offer other
>> forms of support, the New Museum does not support us financially. Many
>> economies around the world have started to recover, but the funding
>> environment for American nonprofits remains very challenging.
>>
>> Your support will be put to good use. In the next few months, we will
>> initiate a new cycle of commissions in which we will award more than
>> $12,000 to Rhizome artists, revamp our search engine, develop a new
>> ArtBase curatorial program and launch Rhizome Memberships for
>> Organizations, a new program that will provide access to Rhizome.org
>> through schools, libraries and arts organizations from Chiang Mai to
>> Chile. And we will continue to offer our core programs, including the
>> Rhizome.org web site and email lists, with a focus on further
>> improving
>> the quality and relevance of our content.
>>
>> Starting now, Rhizome members who donate more than $15 will receive a
>> 10-20\% discount on all items purchased at the New Museum's Online
>> Store
>> (the discount range depends on the producer -- books or editions
>> published by the New Museum are discounted 20\%). The New Museum Online
>> Store, which you can peruse at
>> http://www.newmuseum.org/comersus/store/comersus\_dynamicIndex.asp, has
>> wonderful books and gifts. Their book inventory is wide-ranging across
>> the fields of art, theory, and media. Titles include Uncanny Networks
>> by
>> Geert Lovink, Snap to Grid by former Rhizome Regional Editor Peter
>> Lunenfeld, and the New Museum Press' Art After Modernism: Rethinking
>> Representation edited by Brian Wallis. These are just three terrific
>> books you could buy at a significant discount! They would each make a
>> nice holiday gift. The Online Store also sells artists editions,
>> CD-ROMS, clothes, gifts, and children's merchandise. If you contribute
>> $50 or more, we will also will thank you with a "SOYLOVE" T-SHIRT
>> designed by Rhizome artist Cary Peppermint. Cary's wearable art is a
>> resounding hit among art and media crowds internationally!
>>
>> Please renew soon by making a donation here
>> http://www.rhizome.org/support/?list
>>
>> I hope you will enjoy the New Museum Online Store discount or Cary
>> Peppermint's conceptual art t-shirt. I also hope you'll let me know
>> what
>> you think about Rhizome.org's direction.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Rachel Greene
>> Rhizome.org
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>> Membership Agreement available online at
>> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>>
>


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