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 needs to drop its membership fee and free its content


Sure. And just remind me if you don't hear from me... Thanks, Rachel

On May 19, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Christina McPhee wrote:

> Rachel,
> Thanks for the very informative and exciting response. Could you put
> this
> up on rare and digest too? It would be great if you and Francis could
> take
> time to post often regarding goals and strategies like the ones you
> describe
> here, like giving away memberships , and public programs for
> artbase...etc.
> Maybe a once a month post on the state of rhizome?
>
>
> christina
> On 5/19/04 11:04 AM, "Rachel Greene" <rachel@rhizome.org> wrote:
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome needs to drop its membership fee and free its content


Hi all:

I have read every post in this thread and will continue to do so. Thank
you Tim for initiating this discussion and for your constructive
critcism. I really appreciate all of the contributions (even the Free
Rhizome ones) and think many of the suggestions are good and
potentially viable.

I stand behind our foray into membership, but want to reassure everyone
that we are 1. Aware of the impact of Google, RSS and Blogs on how
people search, read, and interact online (and consequently, the
perception of Rhizome), and 2. We are working on projects that will
relieve the burden on individuals and make our content more accessible.
For example, through the Organizational Subscriptions program (
http://rhizome.org/info/org.php ) this year we will give away scores
and scores of Rhizome memberships to people who come to us via centers
or schools in poor and excluded communities (such as in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia). I am developing more public programs that will
bring ArtBase works and Rhizome more generally into art spaces (not
just online).

To answer people who inquired about Free Fridays and all that... I
don't have Friday statistics available (and Francis is out of town),
but we are finding that membership and web traffic are on the increase
while subscriptions to email lists (except for the free, highly
editorial list Net Art News which has an explosive growth rate) grow
much more slowly. This suggests to me that more and more people are
using our web site and (obviously) signing up for membership. It may be
that the Raw, Rare, and Digest lists feel closed and small, but that in
fact people are reading Rhizome content a lot via the web site instead
of interacting over email. We found some general statistics that across
the Internet, email lists are withering because of spam and the
popularity of blogs. So one could argue that our spam-proof,
members-only lists are reasonable for our times.

I also wanted to mention that we do not receive any financial support
from the New Museum, though they do give us office space. Rhizome
raises its own monies, as always. It also seems relevant to note that
we received twice as much money this year from our dear Rhizome members
than from American Government Agencies. But back to the New Museum --
we do receive other kinds of important support from them -- they
believe in Rhizome's mission and staff. Their entire staff is really
supportive and interested in Rhizome, and we will be collaborating in
the future.

I hope this can be an ongoing conversation. I am in the difficult
position of representing an institution so I can't always move that
quickly, but I know more than anyone that the voices on RAW are
important and crucial to what I do and what Rhizome is.

Thanks, Rachel

p.s. I will be following this thread closely, but I wanted to add that
if anyone wants to chat in real time, on Thursday afternoons EST,
Rhizome staff is going to hold informal office hours on AIM or ICHAT.
Feel free to ping me at RachelFayeGreene or Francis at francisrhizome.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: kuda.lounge - LJUDMILA


Begin forwarded message:

> From: office@kuda.org
> Date: May 19, 2004 8:06:42 AM EDT
> To: office@kuda.org
> Subject: kuda.lounge - LJUDMILA
> Reply-To: office@kuda.org
>
>
> Kuda.lounge 19.05.2004.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> content:
>
>> presentation LJUDMILA from Slovenia
>
> ====
>
> Place: New media center_kuda.org
>
> Friday: 21.05.2004.
> time: 20:00 h
>
> presentation LJUDMILA from Ljubljana / Slovenia
>
>
> Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, founded by a group of new media artists
> and activists living and working in Ljubljana in 1995, has an
> extensive experience connecting new media technologies and artistic
> projects as well as encouraging broader, savvier and more creative
> uses of new technologies. Also a successor of the former OSI-Slovenia
> Internet program, it is now a well-equipped digital media laboratory
> that focuses on digital production as well as education, research and
> development of open standards software, providing knowledge,
> equipment, Internet access, web sites, electronic publishing and other
> affordable networking services to non-governmental and non-profit
> organizations, art collectives and individuals active in these
> organizations, and others.
>
> www.ljudmila.org
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> to unsubscribe from this list, reply with subject: unsubscribe<
>
>
>
>
> kuda.org
> office@kuda.org
> brace mogin 2
> po box 22
> 21113 novi sad
> serbia and montenegro
> tel/fax +381 21 512 227
> http://kuda.org
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: SCREAM


Begin forwarded message:

> From: KOGO <ga2750@i.bekkoame.ne.jp>
> Date: May 19, 2004 5:34:27 AM EDT
> To: <takujikogo@mac.com>
> Subject: SCREAM
>
>
> SCREAM
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
> WEB PROJECT @
> http://www.trans.artnet.or.jp/~transart/scream/
>
> ARTISTS:
> OLA PEHRSON
> TAKUJI KOGO *CANDY FACTORY
> YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
> JOHN MILLER
> DANIEL WESTRUND
> MIJA RENSTROM
>
> WORKSHOP 7th - 13th MAY 2004
> EXHIBITION 14th - 30th MAY 2004
> OPENING PERFORMANCE : NASDAQ VOCAL INDEX / OLA PEHRSON
>
> @ FARGFABRIKEN <http://www.fargfabriken.se>
> CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & ARCHITECTURE
> Lovholmsbrinken 1, S-117 43 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
> SUPORTED BY I.A.S.P.S
> CURATED BY OLA PEHRSON + TAKUJI KOGO and FARGFABRIKEN
>
>
> TAKUJI KOGO
> ga2750@i.bekkoame.ne.jp
>
> *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS
> http://www.trans.artnet.or.jp/~transart/
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Prix Selection Opens At Eyebeam


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Eyebeam <info@eyebeam.org>
> Date: May 18, 2004 11:49:27 PM EDT
> To: <list@eyebeam.org>
> Subject: Prix Selection Opens At Eyebeam
>
> May 21 - July 18, 2004
> Tues - Sat, 12-6pm
>
> 540 W. 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves) NYC
> Admission free with suggested donation
>
> Eyebeam is pleased to present Prix Selection, an exhibition of award
> -winning and groundbreaking interactive art installations. Prix
> Selection is part of Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars
> Electronica, a series of exhibitions, screenings, panel discussions
> and events in New York City in honor of the 25th anniversary of Ars
> Electronica, the world's largest and most renowned institution for
> digital media culture, and is in collaboration with the American
> Museum of the Moving Image and the Austrian Cultural Forum.
>
> Please join us for the opening reception Friday May 21, 7-10pm. This
> event is free to the public and will provide an opportunity to meet
> and talk with exhibiting artists as well as enjoy a live performance
> at 9pm with music by electronica composer Rupert Huber and
> visualizations by Justin Manor.
>
> On view:
> > Myron Krueger & Katrin Hinrichsen
> >Jeffrey Shaw
> >Paul Sermon
> >Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
> >Hachiya Katsuhiko
> >Luc Courchesne
> >Lynn Hershman
> >David Rokeby
>
> >I Dream Electric Sheep - A selection of Ars Electronica Computer Art
> prize winners, dating from 1987 when the award began, until the
> present. This hour-long, looped animation screening will elaborate on
> how technical innovation made new tools available to artists, quickly
> leading to an expanded vocabulary of cinema which altered the way
> moving imagery is captured, manipulated and distributed.
>
> For more information on Prix Selection please visit:
> http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/exhibitions/prix/prix.html
>
> For more information on Digital Avant-Garde please visit:
> http://www.aec.at/nyc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Support for Prix Selection and Digital Avant-Garde is provided by SAP,
> the world's leading supplier of business software. Additional support=

> is provided by WIRED Magazine, Tekserve, Austrian Cultural Forum New
> York, the Gershwin Hotel and Brooklyn Brewery.
>
> Support for Eyebeam is provided by the National Endowment for the
> Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the
> Atlantic Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the New York City
> Department of Cultural Affairs, the LEF Foundations, the Jerome
> Foundation, Alias Systems, Inc., Alienware and Discreet.
> If you would like to unsubscribe from the Eyebeam email list please
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