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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Fwd: SELFWARE newsletter 02 15.Mai 2003


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DISCUSSION

Fwd: MACWORLD EXPO DIGITAL ART CONTEST


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> Subject: MACWORLD EXPO DIGITAL ART CONTEST
>
> LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE 6TH ANNUAL
> MACWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO DIGITAL ART CONTEST
>
> The Macworld Conference & Expo Digital Art Contest is now accepting
> entries. This international competition is open to all Macintosh
> digital artists working in 2D and 3D.
>
> 30 images will be chosen and premiered at Macworld CreativePro
> Conference & Expo in New York City at The Javits Center July 14 -18
> 2003. Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo is a focused event for
> creative professionals and professional and consumers in design,
> publishing, audio and video.
>
> The gallery will also travel as an exhibition to art galleries, art
> spaces, 2 art festivals and to Macworld Conference & Expo/San
> Francisco 2004.
>
> Prizes from the contest's many sponsors will be awarded to the winning
> artists.
>
> The deadline to enter is THIS FRIDAY, May 16, 2003. It is possible to
> email LOW RES entries to digitalart@surfnetusa.com. Include the entry
> form with credit card information OR send the entry form and entries
> before May 16 and send the entry fee by check or money order BEFORE
> JUNE 5.
>
> For information, rules and regulations and to access an on-line entry
> form, please see the Macworld Conference & Expo Digital Art Contest
> & Travelling Gallery web site at http://www.macworldexpo.com/gallery.
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Steve Dietz Out at Walker Art Center


Well, I know art orgs are suffering, but Steve was doing such interesting,
varied work -- for a long time. Totally sucks!! Steve was really one of the
first museum curators who was a pillar of net art culture. I hope he can
keep up some of his projects as an independent, or maybe he'll hop to
another institution....

> It's the beginning of the end...
>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:54 PM
> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Steve Dietz Out at Walker Art Center
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>>> From: Murphy <murphy@thing.net>
>>>
>>>> Walker Art Center announced the layoffs of 5 percent of its staff
>>>> Wednesday
>>>> afternoon, becoming the latest local arts organization forced to
>>>> downsize in
>>>> difficult economic times.
>>>> The Minneapolis museum said it would lay off seven members of its
>>>> staff of 149
>>>> full- and part-time workers. The cuts came at all levels and included
>>>> Steve
>>>> Dietz, the center's director of New Media Initiatives. The Walker was
>>>> one of
>>>> the first art centers in the country to have a curatorial position in
>>>> the
>>>> nascent artistic field of new media.
>>>
>>> http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/entertainment/5809781.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Part of the problem is that the article calls new media a "nascent
>>> artistic
>>> field". That's a pretty old baby -- 40, maybe 50 years old? I would
>>> date its
>>> inception from the founding of the concept of Cybernetics. Perhaps the
>>> real
>>> problem is that the Walker had invested its endowment in "new media
>>> stock"
>>> and took a bath and so took revenge. I would think with such grand
>>> building
>>> plans they would pay someone like Dietz to stick around and advise
>>> them on
>>> how to incorporate new media forms into the construction of the
>>> building.
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DISCUSSION

FW: New Steps


------ Forwarded Message
From: olia lialina <olialia@teleportacia.org>
Organization: z&m
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 09:52:20 +0200
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net, rachel@rhizome.org, BRUCEWANDS@aol.com
Subject: New Steps

There was a new step made recently in net art exhibiting practice.
By NY Digital Salon. Actually two steps.

Step One: Screenshots instead of Links.
----------------------------------------

On 14.04.03 I got a message from Bruce Wands, Director of New
York Digital Salon, informing me that my work

"Will-N-Testament was selected by Gregor Muir of the Tate for
inclusion in the New York Digital Salon's special issue of
Leonardo, as part of an international survey on new media art.
Our upcoming exhibition, Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time at the
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, is a selection of
works from that survey

[...]

Further information can be obtained at www.nydigitalsalon.org"

from
http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/

i went to
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artists.php?nav=artists

and then to
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork(

a page where will-n-testament was featured. I click on the
picture of will-n-testament. A new window opens with only a
fraction of the will-n-testament page visible. I was about to
write my standard message to the director and the curators that
it looks really bad to open a link in a small window without
location bar visible: it is bad taste, dilettantism, it is a
mistake of last century curators, it is against logic of the
web, against nature of the work ... But then I resized the
window: there was still only part of my page visible. i reloaded
-- still same effect. It could only mean that it is not a site,
but an image, a .gif. will_n_testament.gif as the source code
revealed.

Most Other works looked the same:

CarnivoreLogo.jpg instead of Carnivore
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork=7

IOD-picture-1.jpg for IOD
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork

leonardo_numbers.jpg for The Godlove Museum_Numbers
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artworkB

I wrote a message to salon and curators asking how it could
happen that online works are represented without any link to
them. The answer came from Benjamin Weil. He wrote that what i
see is not an exhibition, but just a documentation of the
exhibition.

But what's the logic? Wouldn't it document an exhibition better
if you can see the works of the artists? How can a screenshot be
more informative than a work itself? What for to make a
screenshot (which is also more effort) if you can make a link?
Additionally i can't get why this 'documentation' is decorated
with my email address? (Actually it's nobody's email address,
this mailbox never existed.)

That it is just a documentation, not an exhibition itself, is of
course a good argument in conversation with me. I could
criticize the way my work is exhibited and demand that it is
changed, but I can't protest about the way ny digital salon is
documenting its own activity.

To sum it up: Ideal form found. Not an exhibition, but a
documentation. Not a link, but a screenshot.

Screenshots are easy and unpretentious. They can't destroy a
curatorial concept. They won't bring technical complications.

And, anyway, no one would complain, because the audiences (real
and virtual) of digital salons do not care about net art. Nobody
would follow more than two links deeper. People coming from
weblogs, private home pages or links their friends sent in an
email would do.

Plus, lots of more recent net art project are so complicated to
navigate, plug-in demanding and content-wise heavy that it is
not possible to get through them and they are adequately
represented by screenshots, "about" and "artist bio".

Step Two: "When Exhibition is over links will be reactivated"
-------------------------------------------------------------

But links to the project were found on these pages:

http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artworkU
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artwork=5
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/salon_10/artwork.php?artworkb

Real links. You click on them and they open a work of the artist
in the same window and with location bar.

On 5th May I got a new message from Bruce Wands explaining that:

"The NYDS Web site is currently set up to support our exhibition
at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery through May 25.
As such, the Web site and kiosks contain information about art
work and the essays in Leonardo. Four net art pieces were chosen
for the NY exhibition: Vuk Cosic's ASCI History of Art for the
Blind, Mark Napier's Riot, Maciej Wisniewski's netomat and
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Vectorial Elevation. These links are
live. We were hoping to have a wider selection of net art in the
exhibition and are sorry that your work was not included. After
May 25, the Web site will revert back to its pre-exhibition
status and the links to all the net art pieces will be
reactivated."

The way this online exhibition is constructed may appear very
simple, but in fact it's the next step in e-curating: Online
archives of any art institution contain links as real museum
archives are filled with paintings, video tapes, etc. To make a
real exhibition you take things out of the archive. To make an
online exhibition you activate some links from your online
archive. To make a new online exhibition, you deactivate these
links and activate others.

After years of perverse experiments the idea to make and remove
links sounds like a relief. Environmentally friendly approach.

However, this practice cannot be really recommended due to the
fact the role of curators and museums is different when it comes
to online exhibitions: they are not that important. No matter
how loud the museum's name or how great the curatorial concept
is, they are just nodes. Because online works are public anyway,
linked or not.

That is why the meaning of deactivating links is not identical
to bringing an art object to a storage room. The result is that,
for example, Digital Salon is not excluding works by not linking
to them. By not linking to them, Digital Salon is not
participating in the constantly ongoing exhibition of all these
works. I don't think this is a meaning they wanted to achieve by
selecting only 4 works from 20. But this is how it looks for the
people who see the pages i listed above.

And even worse in particular Digital Salon case. If my project
is listed, but not linked it can mean that curators could not
find it. Or that it was found but is not working. Or that i did
not allow to link to it, which is damaging for my reputation: in
no way i am against that there are links to my work from any
site. Even when it is in 'exhibition status'.

So the conclusion here can be that in case of online art, it
does not make sense to divide your collection into archive and
current exposition, into linked and not linked works.

May 9th, 2003
olia lialina

Check
http://www.zombie-and-mummy.org/misc/nydigitalsalon.gif
for an illustration.

This text can be also found at
http://art.teleportacia.org/ --> observations

--

Fresh entertainment for our networked society
http://www.zombie-and-mummy.org

Time to scroll
http://de708.teleportacia.org/~james.larin/stellastar/

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DISCUSSION

FW: PSY-GEO-CONFLUX: New York City, May 8-11


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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 15:22:10 -0700
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Subject: PSY-GEO-CONFLUX: New York City, May 8-11

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********************
PSY-GEO-CONFLUX
New York City, May 8-11, 2003 (exhibition runs through May 29)

Opening reception at ABC NO RIO, May 8, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Closing party / music and video evening at SUBTONIC, May 11, 8:00 p.m.
********************

Please join us this weekend for Psy-Geo-Conflux, a four-day event
dedicated to current artistic and social investigations in
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY ("the study of the effects of the geographic
environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals"). Part
festival and part conference, it brings together visual and sound
artists, writers, and urban adventurers to explore the physical and
psychological landscape of the city.

Events will include a life-sized chess match using humans as chess pieces, a
telephone message-guided walk, a walk using playing cards for navigation, a
tour of famous landmark buildings as seen from their service entrances, a
street art tour, a noise parade, an exhibition and other walks, talks and
gatherings.

Check the Psy-Geo-Con website for the latest news and the full schedule:
http://glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_index.html

The Conflux opening reception is Thursday, May 8 at 6:00 at ABC No Rio (156
Rivington St., on the Lower East Side). The exhibition at ABC No Rio
includes interactive map projects (Jeff Stark, Christina Ray) a video
documentary (Jake Barton), photographs (David Mandl), and additional
projects related to mapping and alternative uses of urban space. There will
also be a printed schedule, maps and information about the weekend's events.

The closing party on Sunday, May 11 at SubTonic will feature two
performances (Geoff Dugan/Sean Meehan and Jodi Shapiro), video work by Sal
Randolph, and several psychogeography-inspired dj sets (Krou, DJ Sal, Fabio
Roberti). SUBTONIC LOUNGE, 107 Norfolk St. (bet. Delancey and Rivington).

We hope to see you this weekend!

********************
Special Notice:
Please sign up if you'd like to participate in these two events:

URBAN CHESS
http://www.glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_events/pgc_evnt_nei.html

Volunteer to be a human chess piece on Sunday, May 11, 12:00 p.m.-2:00
p.m. The pieces will be moving from block to block on a grid in the
Lower East Side. Moves will be transmitted to them via mobile phone from
ABC No Rio, where two chess experts go head to head. If you have a
mobile phone and want to play, sign up! Contact Sharilyn Neidhardt:
dbasr@yahoo.com

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THE LOWER EAST SIDE SHUFFLE: a collaborative detective story
http://www.glowlab.com/psygeocon/pgc_events/pgc_evnt_ray.html

This project features a deck of cards, each depicting a different location
on the Lower East Side. Participants are invited to act as detectives in
finding and investigating these places over the course of the Conflux
weekend. When all locations have been found and documented with notes and
evidence, detective stories will be generated by shuffling and drawing the
cards to compose scenes. An interactive map in the ABC No Rio gallery will
chart the project's progress as participants add information, evidence, text
and photos.

50 decks are being produced for Psy-Geo-Conflux. Contact Glowlab at
shuffle@glowlab.com to reserve a Shuffle deck, and pick it up at the
reception on May 8th at ABC


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