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

Fwd: Guest Editors on Eyebeams reBlog


> From: Eyebeam <info@eyebeam.org>
> Date: April 15, 2004 5:30:33 PM EDT
> To: <list@eyebeam.org>
> Subject: Guest Editors on Eyebeams reBlog
>
> Eyebeam is pleased to announce two guest editors who will select the
> content on reBlog, Eyebeams blog site distilling the best in art and
> technology, for the rest of April.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: [oldboys] Gender+IST -Call for Contributions-


> From: Claude Draude <cdraude@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
> Date: April 13, 2004 11:19:40 AM EDT
> To: oldboys@lists.ccc.de
> Subject: [oldboys] Gender+IST -Call for Contributions-
> Reply-To: oldboys@lists.ccc.de
>
> Hi,
> this is to remind you that the call for contributing art works,
> software-/media presentations and posters is still open until May 9th.
> Best regards,
> Claude
>
>
> *******************************************
> GIST

DISCUSSION

Exhibition Redcat LA: Superflex/ Guarana Power


Begin forwarded message:

> From: superflex@superflex.dk
> Date: April 13, 2004 2:17:40 AM EDT
> To: netartnews@rhizome.org
> Subject: Exhibition Redcat LA: Superflex/ Guarana Power
>
> April 14-May 16, 2004
>
> SUPERFLEX/ SELF-ORGANISE/ GUARANA POWER
>
> REDCAT
> 631 W. 2nd Street
> Los Angeles, California 90012
> Opening Reception April 14, 6-9 pm
> Closing Reception May 15, 7-10 pm
>
> http://www.superflex.net/redcat/
>
> http://redcat.org/gallery/current.html
>
>
>
> Los Angeles, March 29 -- With a diverse practice that engages art,
> design and
> economic structures of dependency, Superflex challenges the role of
> artists
> in contemporary society. For this installation, the Copenhagen-based
> artists
> collective activates REDCAT with the independent manufacture of the
> natural
> soda, GUARANA POWER and a daily cinema featuring models of
> self-organization.
>
> GUARANA POWER is a soft drink developed by a farming cooperative in
> Maues,
> Brazil in collaboration with Superflex. The drink contains guarana, a=

> plant
> native to the Amazon whose berries have long been harvested by
> indigenous
> communities for their medicinal and energy-giving properties.
> Recently, Maues
> guarana farmers have formed the cooperative COAIMA to challenge the
> activities of multinational corporations whose sugary, diluted energy
> drinks
> have corrupted the physical and symbolic properties of the plant.
> These same
> corporations hold a monopoly on the purchase of the raw material,
> which has
> forced the price of guarana down eighty percent, thereby undermining
> the
> sustainability of entire communities.
>
> In 2003, Superflex was invited to collaborate with COAIMA by way of
> workshops
> to discuss new industrial and economic approaches to the situation.
> Together
> they came up with a variety of ideas including variations on existing
> products such as a popular energy drink, Antarctica. This became the
> model
> for a pirated or SUPERCOPY product called GUARANA POWER. GUARANA POWE=
R
> is one
> attempt to disrupt the current economic equation of corporate
> dominance by
> appropriating the strategies of multinational capital, here global
> branding,
> in order to reclaim the integrity of local agriculture and industry.
> Turning
> the gallery into an independent bottling plant, SELF-ORGANISE/GUARANA=

> POWER
> offers an example of how local economies can actively respond to the
> stranglehold of multinational corporations.
>
> During SELF-ORGANISE/GUARANA POWER, Superflex will activate REDCAT with
> various presentations including a series of screenings focused on acts
> of
> self-organization. The members of Superflex - Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob
> Fenger
> and Bjornstjerne Christiansen - are visiting faculty in the School of=

> Art at
> the California Institute of the Arts for the Spring 2004 semester.
>
> Since its inception in the early 1990s, Superflex has developed a
> complex
> practice that brings together art, design, and commerce to challenge
> economic
> structures of dependency. Working in- and outside the physical
> location of
> the exhibition space, Superflex reinterprets the role of artists in
> contemporary society through professional collaborations and unusual
> types of
> activation of their audience. At the core of their practice is the
> development of what they call 'tools

DISCUSSION

The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium opens May 28th in Beijing


Begin forwarded message:

> From: z <z@parsons.edu>
> Date: April 12, 2004 11:33:11 AM EDT
> To: rachel@rhizome.org
> Subject: The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and
> Symposium opens May 28th in Beijing
>
> ############################
>
> http://newmediabeijing.org
>
>
> The Millennium Dialogue
> - The First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and
> Symposium
>
> Preface
>
> The new millennium has witnessed the growing vitality throughout the
> world of new media art, an art mediated via digital means, often with
> the internet as its platform. This emerging art, originating from an
> increasingly technologically dependent society, not only challenges
> traditional creative media, and ways of thinking, but also posits to
> artists and cultural workers new questions concerning all realms of
> contemporary life.
>
> "Millennium Dialogue" aims at creating a constructive dialogue and
> promoting a dynamic interaction between Chinese artists and global
> trends in digital art education, production and theorization.
>
> At the crest of rapid economic growth, China has enjoyed a parallel
> advancement in the digital realm, deploying the latest development in
> communication technologies and nurturing vast opportunities for both
> artistic creation and social progress. Chinese art has inevitably, like
> the rest of the world, come to face similar challenges of the digital
> era.
>
> Tsinghua University is commited to advocating the understanding of
> humanity through cooperation and exchange, in promoting originality in
> artistic creation and innovative thinking in the new millennium, and in
> advancing excellence in education and research.
>
> The ZKM | Center for Art and Media is a unique institutional model
> comprising classical museum representation and artistic-technological
> research and development in order to support new perspectives on future
> technologies and modes of thought.
>
> V2_ is an organization that concerns itself with research and
> development in the field of art and media technology. V2_ concentrates
> its efforts on the presentation of contemporary media art by organizing
> exhibitions, lectures and workshops, masterclasses, symposiums and
> performances. Through its activities V2_ makes a structural
> contribution
> to the ongoing debate on art, technology and society.
>
> GOAL
>
> To establish a global, high profile platform for dialogue and
> exchange with the most current trends in all fields of new media arts
> production in order to advance and promote new media arts and new media
> arts education.
>
> AGENDA
>
> The First International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
> will be staged in two phases. Phase one titled: "LEADING THE EDGE" will
> mount the international academic exchange component of the project
> which
> is slated to open on May 28th of 2004, in which a number of
> internationally acclaimed leading educational and research institutions
> will join forces to participate in a fourteen day exhibition and a two
> day symposium focusing on the academic and educational aspect of the
> new
> media arts in order to foster a constructive and creative dialogue in
> research and education excellence. A compilation of speeches and essays
> will be published subsequently.
>
> Phase two will launch the international exhibition titled "IN THE LINE
> OF FLIGHT" in May 2005 to coincide with the Beijing Biennial. Along
> with
> the curated exhibition, "IN THE LINE OF FLIGHT" will also invite new
> media luminaries from world-renowned arts institutions and museums to
> attend a two day symposium in Beijing. Among them, Center for Art and
> Media (ZKM) of Germany, Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The Whitney
> Museum of American Art (US), Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (US),
> V2 (Holland), Ars Electronica (Austria), and Kiasma Museum of Modern
> Art
> (Finland) will be participating. A catalogue will accompany the
> opening.
>
> Both events will take place at the China Millennium Museum with over
> 10,000 square feet of state of the art facilities boasting the largest
> panoramic LCD screen in Asia and wireless broadband connectivity.

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Laura Mulvey talk, Cooper Union, Friday Apr 16


> From: Gareth_James@WHITNEY.ORG
> Date: April 12, 2004 4:10:33 PM EDT
> To: Whitneyprogram@WHITNEY.ORG
> Subject: Laura Mulvey talk, Cooper Union, Friday Apr 16
>
> "Cinema, the City, and the Young Modern Woman"
>
>


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