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: <nettime> URGENT - BEK: Call for support


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Trond Lossius <lossius@bek.no>
> Date: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:46:28 PM US/Eastern
> To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
> Subject: <nettime> URGENT - BEK: Call for support
> Reply-To: Trond Lossius <lossius@bek.no>
>
> BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts might be forced to close down
> early next year due to lack of governmental support. For this reason we
> call for your support. If you believe that BEK should continue to
> exist,
> please express your support at our web page:
>
> http://www.bek.no
>
> or by sending a mail to demo@bek.no.
>
> HISTORY
>
> BEK - Bergen Centre of Electronic Arts, was found while Bergen, Norway,
> was one of 9 cultural cities of Europe 2000. The founding of BEK was
> part
> of a national strategy initiated by The Norwegian Council for Cultural
> Affairs to better working conditions for artists working within the
> field
> of new media arts in Norway. BEK is part of the Norwegian Production
> Network for Electronic Arts (www.pnek.no). So far The Norwegian Council
> for Cultural Affairs has provided most of the financial support for
> BEK.
> The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs is not permitted to support
> organizations for extended periods, and will not be able to support
> BEK in
> the future. For this reason, we've applied for Governmental support
> from
> 2004. The proposed National Budget does not include future support for
> BEK. For this reason we now fear that we will be forced to close down
> early next year. If so, we believe that one of the strongest current
> Norwegian voices on the international art scene will be silenced,
> causing
> a severe setback to artistic exchange between the art community in
> Norway
> and abroad.
>
> ACTIVITY AND INTERNATIONAL PROFILE
>
> BEK hosted the first international workshop dealing with Nato.0+55 in
> the
> summer of 2000, and has been profiled as a valuable resource for
> artists
> in Norway and abroad using live technologies such as Max, MSP,
> Nato.0+55,
> streaming technology, Keystroke/Keyworx, etc. The mailing list /55 was
> established when Netochka Nezvanova was thrown of the Max-MSP mailing
> list. HC Gilje and Kurt Ralske of 242.pilots first met during the
> workshop
> at BEK. 242.pilots has toured the world as pioneers of real time based
> video performance, and the received the Image Award at Transmediale.03
> International Media Art Festival in Berlin, February 2003.
>
> The development of "MoB", Linux GNU software for real-time video
> processing (mob.bek.no) has been a major project for the last two
> years.
> In November 2003 BEK will host an international conference and
> festival,
> Piksel, of artists/developers working with real-time video on Linux
> (www.piksel.no). Piksel will be a valuable opportunity to coordinate
> current development of real time video software for Linux around the
> world. The workshop was overbooked before we got the opportunity to do
> a
> call for participation.
>
> BEK has been an important part of the Bergen electronic music and
> electronica community. Torbjorn Brundtland of Royksopp was doing civil
> service at BEK when Royksopp hit the British pop charts in 2001.
> Underground artists such as Kaptein Kaliber, Jazzkammer, Alog and
> Phonophani have been collaborating with BEK at a number of projects.
> Pilota.fm started out as a net radio focusing on electronic and
> contemporary music. The Trollofon concerts on a vintage trolley bus has
> hosted artists such as Phonophani, Oval, Alog, Pita, Kim Hiortoy,
> Tujiko
> Noriko, Maja Ratkje, Massimo and Fennesz. The concerts are available
> for
> download as mp3 at Pilota.fm. The Pilota project also caused the
> Municipality of Bergen to continue supporting the use of trolley buses
> in
> Bergen two years ago. BEK also hosts another net radio focusing on the
> local music scene (www.radiofetthode.no) and the mailing list
> CsoundTekno.
>
> BEK has been affiliated with the most important Norwegian contemporary
> theatre companies, such as BAK-truppen (www.baktruppen.org) and
> Verdensteatret (www.verdensteatret.com). BEK has been involved in the
> production of a number of short movies. The short movie "Love is the
> Law"
> was presented as part of Semaine Internationale de la Critique at the
> Cannes Film Festival 2003 and received "Prix Canal + du Meilleur court
> metrage" and " Prix de la (Toute) Jeune Critique".
>
> This year BEK is hosting 6 artists and students from abroad,
> participating
> in the NIFCA Media Artist in Residence, Fulbright program, Leonardo da
> Vinci EU training programme and other exchange programmes.
>
>
>
>
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DISCUSSION

Fwd: confrontation


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Annie Abrahams <aabrahams@bram.org>
> Date: Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:10:08 AM US/Eastern
> To: a@bram.org
> Subject: confrontation
>
>
> new "confrontation" nouveau http://www.bram.org/confront
>
> A man and a woman continue to discuss without understanding the other.
> Each
> uses his/her own invented language. The words on hope, left on the
> site by
> the visitors, confront the images on war found on the web.
>
> Un homme et une femme se parlent chacun dans sa propre langue
> inventee. Ils
> continuent leur discours sans se comprendre. Les paroles personnelles
> des
> internautes sur l'espoir se frottent aux images de la guerre
> collectees sur
> le web.
>
> images :
> from the web : search: war, guerre, guerra, oorlog, krieg, milit.
> text:
> red : visitor contributions
> black : contributions from visitors of 'hopes' part of 'project hope'
> sound:
> 'misunderstanding' Annie Abrahams/Clement Charmet
>
> Thank you for your attention/Merci pour votre attention
> Annie Abrahams / Clement Charmet
>
> Ps
> if you don't want to recieve my announcements, reply to this mail with
> 'no'
> in the subject / si vous ne voulez plus recevoir mes annonces,
> renvoyez-moi ce mail avec 'non' dans le sujet
>
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Betr.: Performance & Fluxus Film/Video 10. Oktober


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Edith-Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst <info@edith-russ-haus.de>
> Date: Wed Oct 8, 2003 11:27:16 AM US/Eastern
> To: Unlisted-recipients :;
> Subject: Betr.: Performance & Fluxus Film/Video 10. Oktober
>
> (scroll down for english)
>
> Film- und Videovorfuhrung, Freitag, 10. Oktober, 20 und 22.30 Uhr
>
> im Edith-Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst
>
> Achtung! Anderungen im Fluxfilm Programm
>
> Performing Artists, 20 Uhr
>
> Werner Nekes und Dore O., Jum-Jum, D 1967, 16mm, 10

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: ms REALLY sucks


If it's any consolation, I share your rage and encourage you to bring
it to diverse locations. It's hard to find the catharsis though when MS
is so everywhere even if I try to keep it out of my modus operandi. By
the way, I was freaked out though when I saw the subject line of your
post cuz I thought you were referring to Ms. magazine. We should change
it so there isn't a weird association with female nomenclature/feminist
rags! -- Rachel

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, t.whid wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I can't believe that this is all you have to say on the matter.
>
> Is it simply not that big of a deal to you? You're being forced to
> recode every page that uses shockwave because of someone's greed. The
> web is about to become much more user unfriendly because of someone's
> greed.
>
> Doesn't that piss you off?
>
> It pisses me off, it pisses me off a lot.
>
> Everyone seems to be rolling over for this. There isn't much
> discussion at all except Dominey
> (http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001254.shtml).
>
> Where's the outrage?!
>
>
>
>
> Jim Andrews wrote:
>
>>
>>> well not really.
>>>
>>> not sure if they suck, or the bastards who sued 'em suck; but it
>>> looks like it's on the way.
>>>
>>> fun, oh, fun.
>>>
>>> (first time i've ever found myself siding with MS on an issue.)
>>>
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
>>
>> Here's a page for those who have created pages using Macromedia
>> Flash/Shockwave affected by this thing:
>>
>> http://macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/
>>
>> ja
>>
>>
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DISCUSSION

re:Play: an exhibition of critical games by artists


> From: honor <honor@va.com.au>
> Date: Wed Oct 8, 2003 6:16:21 AM US/Eastern
> To: digest@rhizome.org, info@rhizome.org, rachel@rhizome.org,
> mark@rhizome.org
> Subject: <re:Play>: an exhibition of critical games by artists
>
> hi rhizomes,
>
> i wanted to let you know about the exhibition r a d i o q u a l i a
> have
> put together in cape town, south africa. it is about political
> computer
> games made by artists and is called <re:Play>.
>
> hope this is of interest to some of you.
>
> best
>
> honor
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> r a d i o q u a l i a + the Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town
> announce:
> an exhibition of critical games by artists:
>
>
> <re:Play>
>
> http://www.radioqualia.net/replay
>
>
> WHEN
>
> 08.10.03 - 01.11.03
>
>
> WHERE
>
> L/B's
> The Lounge at Jo'Burg Bar
> 222 Long Street
> Cape Town 8001
> South Africa
>
>
> START
>
> <re:Play> explores the world of the computer game. It features an
> exhibition of artists' computer games and a programme of workshops and
> lectures, given by the curators and artists in the exhibition.
>
> One of the most popular forms of entertainment in contemporary culture
> is
> the computer game. <re:Play> considers how gaming has affected the
> development of new forms of technological creativity and new modes of
> interaction and communication between people. It introduces techniques
> and
> strategies employed by artists and technicians working with games, and
> asks
> how can the hardware and software used to distribute and present games
> be
> subverted, re-purposed or even enriched through the intervention of
> artists
> or maverick technicians.
>
> <re:Play> presents projects created by artists which use game formats
> to
> make political observations. While some of the games presented are
> entirely
> new creations (such as Antiwargame by Josh On + Futurefarmers), others
> are
> ironic, often slightly humourous recreations of existing lo-fi arcade
> games
> (such as Space Invaders Act 1732 by Andy Deck). While the original
> arcade
> games such as Space Invaders, Quick Draw and Backlash encouraged users
> to
> engage in acts of violence, the artistic recreations of these games are
> infused with a political dimension that critiques the original violent
> character of the games, and also invites a slightly more meditative
> approach to the subject matter being presented in the games.
>
>
> PLAY
>
> http://www.radioqualia.net/replay
>
> The games in the exhibition are:
>
> Space Invaders Act 1732 by Andy Deck
> Blacklash by Mongrel
> Antiwargame by Josh On + Futurefarmers
> The Intruder by Natalie Bookchin
> Escape from Woomera by selectparks
> NationStates by Max Barry
>
> These games have a strong political dimension, and explore how play,
> interaction and competition can be utilised in an artistic context.
>
>
>
> CONTINUE
>
> The advent of digital technology is arguably the most important recent
> development in contemporary art. Computers, the internet, digital
> video and
> audio, as well as other technological tools, have become as integral to
> artistic expression as they have to other fields of human activity. As
> a
> result new forms of artistic practice are emerging.
>
> Although computers, the internet, and interactive games technologies
> have
> the potential to level the playing fields within culture, and offers
> previously marginalised artists the opportunity to participate equally
> within a global mainstream, the unequal distribution of technology and
> a
> continuing lack of access to knowledge pools has led to a situation
> where
> only a small number of artists in South Africa are ready and able to
> use
> digital technology effectively as a form and medium of expression. This
> exhibition and related education programmes will offer South African
> audiences and people interested in visual culture, the opportunity to
> experience current practices within art which exists on the internet or
> within computer games.
>
>
> LEARN
>
> The project includes a programme of workshops and lectures
> <http://www.radioqualia.net/replay/continue.html>
>
> The workshops will be lead by Graham Harwood from Mongrel, and will
> introduce people to the technologies and concepts used by artists who
> work
> with digital media.
>
>
> CREDITS
>
> A collaboration between the Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town
> and r
> a d i o q u a l i a and realised with the support of the the British
> Council, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Pro
> Helvetia,
> digicape and Jo'burg Bar.
>
>
>
> CONTACT
>
> r a d i o q u a l i a
> Email: radioqualia@va.com.au
> URL: http://www.radioqualia.net
> http://www.radioqualia.net/replay
>
>
> Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town
> Email: i.c.a@iafrica.com
>
>
> L/B's: the lounge at Jo'burg Bar
> Address: 222 Long Street, Cape Town, 8001
> Ph: +27 21 422 0142
> Email: info@lb-lounge.co.za
> URL: http://www.lb-lounge.co.za/
>
>
>
> honor@va.com.au
>
> r a d i o q u a l i a:
> http://www.radioqualia.net
>
> *
>
> present location: cape town, .za
>
> *
>
> current research:
> http://www.radioqualia.net/replay/
> http://www.radioqualia.net/real/frame.html
>
>
>
>
>
>


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