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: 1:100 EXHIBITION AT DCKT CONTEMPORARY]


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Subject: 1:100 EXHIBITION AT DCKT CONTEMPORARY
From: "alex villar" <villar@de-tour.org>
Date: Mon, June 28, 2004 6:51 am
To: "alex villar" <villar@de-tour.org>
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1:100 EXHIBITION AT DCKT CONTEMPORARY
From July 1 to August 27, 2004
Opening Reception: July 01, 6-8 pm

CURATED BY
Glowlab

ARTISTS
Corin Hewitt
Shih-Chieh Huang
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Kanarinka
Mario M. Muller
ON/Megumi Akiyoshi
Christina Ray
Swoon
Alex Villar
Lee Walton

DCKT CONTEMPORARY
537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea Hours
are 10am to 5pm, Monday - Friday. tel: 212.741-9955
For further information, please visit glowlab.blogs.com/1_100/ or
contact Dennis Christie or Ken Tyburski at the gallery.

EXHIBITION
DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present 1:100, curated by Glowlab,
in which 1 foot of interior space is equivalent to 100 feet of the
city. By enlarging the gallery floor plan and placing it over a map
of the surrounding neighborhood, Glowlab transforms the gallery
space into a three-dimensional map of the area. According to this
hybrid map: Chelsea Waterside Park is located at the gallery's main
entrance, the High Line elevated railway travels north through
Gallery 1, and, in Gallery 2, Madison Square Garden is located near
the east wall and the General Post Office is in the center of the
room. Each artist has selected a section of the gallery /
neighborhood and created new work in response to his or her chosen
location.

By focusing the viewer's awareness on the surrounding urban
landscape, each artist creates a link between the interior space of
the gallery and the exterior space of the city. Several artists work
with locally gathered materials. Shih-Chieh Huang creates a
sculptural installation of plastic containers, relay circuits and
microcontrollers, all found or purchased at dollar stores, pet shops
and hardware stores in the neighborhood. Corin Hewitt uses the dirt
swept from a local street corner to cast his sculpture of a
discarded plastic trash bag. Embedded in the dirt and resin are
discarded materials and refuse, turning the idea of the receptacle
inside out. Paul Ramirez Jonas scours the neighborhood for stray
bricks, bringing them into the gallery and building a section of
brick wall. Although dividing or supporting nothing in particular,
the unused bricks are given an optimistic second life as work of
art. Mario M. Muller's ink on paper works correspond to the four
cardinal points and are placed accordingly within the gallery. These
"urban canyons" offer long views of the light and architecture
extending beyond the confines of the neighborhood map.

Other artists' works invite direct interaction with the streets
immediately surrounding the gallery. kanarinka provides the means to
investigate "infinitely small things" in the area and record them as
part of a larger work. In addition to a documentary installation,
she offers two group expeditions during the course of the show.
Street artist Swoon adds peep-holes throughout the neighborhood,
through which one sees fictitious scenes that could be occurring
behind that very wall. These miniature images are reproduced as
three-dimensional works in the gallery. Christina Ray offers a guide
to navigating the city by the patterns and locations of its brightly
colored corner news-boxes. A printed guide will be available in the
gallery and distributed in neighborhood news-boxes throughout the
summer, and a walking tour using the guide will take place on the
final day of the exhibition. Ray also presents a series of small
drawings based on her walks.

Attention to street fixtures and other objects that help and hinder
our passage through the city is also evident in a number of
performance works. Alex Villar's depiction of an absurd way of using
a curbside mailbox disrupts the solemnity of the James A Farley
Station (8th Avenue between 32nd & 33rd Streets) that appears as the
background for his intervention. ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, dressed in her
signature "ON Gallery" attire, wheels a gumball machine throughout
the neighborhood as a mobile gallery, allowing customers to purchase
the small works of art inside to wear while walking through the
Chelsea art district. The gumball machine and video documentation of
her performance will be shown in the gallery. Lee Walton's
performance, documented as a video work, is a series of scripted
actions selected and enacted on a specific street corner in
combinations chosen by the other artists in the exhibition. As an
extension of this piece, Walton offers a real time performative
piece in which he will dribble a basketball up and down 36th Street
every morning of the exhibition.

ABOUT THE CURATOR
Glowlab is a Brooklyn-based arts lab dedicated to the production,
documentation and presentation of multi-media work in
psychogeography and public-space arts. They produce events and
lectures, organize collaborative projects and exhibitions, and
maintain an online lab at www.glowlab.com. Psychogeography is an
open and highly experimental discipline concerned with the ways in
which the geographic environment affects emotions and behavior.
Approaches to psychogeography vary, and include artistic, political,
philosophical and scientific work in fields ranging from archaeology
and cartography to programming, performance and street art. Glowlab
aims to bring together these diverse perspectives and engage in
dialogue on the methods and practice of psychogeography.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS
Friday, July 23, 7PM, and Friday, August 20, 7PM
Infinitely Small Things expeditions with kanarinka (meet outside
DCKT Contemporary)

Friday, August 27, 7PM
NewsBoxWalk with Glowlab (meet outside DCKT Contemporary)

July 01 - August 27, 7-8AM
Performance by Lee Walton, 36th Street between 7th and 9th Avenues

CREDITS
Maps by Red Maps
Exhibition concept, curation and website by Glowlab

DISCUSSION

exhibition announcement brody condon


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Subject: exhibition announcement brody condon
From: "brody condon" <brodyc@tmpspace.com>
Date: Sun, June 27, 2004 11:26 am
To: brodyc@tmpspace.com
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Machine Project announces "Untitled War", a medieval battle staged inside
the gallery space. On July 17 from 6 to 8pm, armored warriors will engage
in gut wrenching, full-contact combat with assorted melee weapons.

"Untitled War" is a performative event combining fantasy role-playing,
fabricated history, extreme sports, and computer games, where warriors of
various historical periods from the Society of Creative Anachronism will
endure an ongoing First Person Shooter Game style Deathmatch battle. Live
camera views (similar to the spectator camera views found in online FPS
games) will be projected next door at the Echo Park Film Center, creating
a game-like viewing experience for those outside the space.

"Untitled War" is the latest project by artist and uber-gamer Brody
Condon (www.tmpspace.com). Working in the mystical confluence of
contemporary art practice, computer games, and historical combat
re-enactment, Condon's work is engaged in locating and fabricating
situations and visual works where computer games and game culture leak
outside of the screen and into lived experience. He was a authorized
fighter in the SCA, and his personal and collaborative work has recently
been exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, the Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. The Society for
Creative Anachronism (www.sca.org) is an international medieval
re-enactment group, which selectively re-creates the historical period
from approximately the latter Roman era to 1650 A.D.

Existing to encourage the heroic experiments of the gracefully
over-ambitious, Machine Project presents workshops, events,
installations and performances on a semi-regular basis. The gallery is
located in Los Angeles at 1200 D North Alvarado Street, just north of
Sunset. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from noon to five, as well
as by appointment. Interested parties should contact gallery director
Mark Allen via electronic mail, at m@machineproject.com, or at
213-483-8761.

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DISCUSSION

[Fwd: public execution events this week]


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Subject: public exeuction events this week
From: "aellegood" <aellegood@nortonfamilyoffice.com>
Date: Sun, June 27, 2004 9:45 am
To: aellegood@nortonfamilyoffice.com
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What's Happening This Week at EXIT ART

June 28-July 4, 2004

FREE Public Programs in conjunction with the exhibition

public.exe: Public Execution

For more information about the exhibition and to view the on-line works:
www.exitart.org/public.exe

EXIT ART

475 10th Ave at 36th Street

212-966-7745

Tuesday, June 29, 1-4pm

Performance at Bryant Park (6th Avenue between 40/42 Streets)

Passerby: Michelle Handelman

Examining the possibility for or lack of privacy in public spaces and the
increasing prevalence of surveillance systems, Passerby features live
performers who remain immobile and mute yet are dressed as particular
visitors to the park who Handelman clandestinely documented during
previous visits there. Audio recordings from the conversations that
originally took place in each location will emanate from hidden speakers
on the performers. These audio recordings may be digitally manipulated
from the original conversations to create the effect of a doppelganger, a
mischievous shadow presence of the original.

*this is an on-going performance and visitors should feel free to come any
time between 1pm and 4pm

Rain date: Thursday, July 1, 1-4pm

Tuesday, June 29, 6.30-8pm

Panel Discussion at Exit Art (back gallery)

What is Public Art?: Looking at the Past, Present, and Future

Moderated by Anne Ellegood, co-curator, public.exe: Public Execution

Participants: Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art;
Anne Pasternak, Artistic Director, Creative Time; Warren Neidich, artist
included in public.exe

Exit Art

475 Tenth Avenue (corner of 36th Street)

New York, NY 10018

212-966-7745

<http://www.exitart.org/> www.exitart.org

www.exitart.org/public.exe

Sponsorship

public.exe: Public Execution is supported with a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts.

DISCUSSION

ISEA2004: NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED


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Subject: ISEA2004: NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED
From: iseainfo@lume.fi
Date: Thu, June 24, 2004 7:40 am
To: rachel@rhizome.org
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NEW ISEA2004 WEBSITE WITH PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS LAUNCHED -
http://www.isea2004.net

The site introduces the biggest media culture event of the year by
highlighting the programme taking place in Helsinki, Tallinn and on a
multi-venue cruiser ferry (August 15-17) connecting the harbour cities.
The site features artist profiles, speakers, projects and themes. Stay
tuned for daily up-dates, and check it out!

ISEA2004, the leading symposium on new media culture, is shaping up to be
an incomparable mid-August destination for a programme-filled experience
on electronic arts, music, research and technology. The cruise on the
Baltic Sea provides a multicultural forum for networking and pleasure. The
unique experience extends from custom-made buffer-dinners to ferry's gyms,
night clubs, pools and sun decks. Even the television programme on the
ferry is a part of the comprehensive experience.

Tickets: http://www.isea2004.net/tickets

Group discounts (30% off for groups of 6 or more): contact Mika Minetti,
mika@isea2004.net, +358 40 7192280

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*** ISEA2004 - PICK-UPS ***

CRUISE: AUGUST 15-17
TALLINN: AUGUST 17-18
HELSINKI: AUGUST 19-22

TOP ARTISTS SPIN THE HOUSE DURING THE ELECTRIFIED CRUISE

Collaboration between Montreal-based MUTEK festival on electronic arts
brings AKUFEN, CRACKHOUSE, SKOLTZ_KOLGEN and DEADBEAT to ISEA2004. On the
ferry, Akufen will play 'Music for Pregnancy' - a work that thrilled
crowds at Tate Modern some time ago (http://www.isea2004.net/mutek). One
of the world's leading VJs, CHARLES KRIEL (UK), has promised to drop
dancefloor bombs and introduce the latest VJ technologies during his house
act ( http://www.isea2004.net/kriel).

FELIX KUBIN ('refreshingly perverse', the Wire), the German-born pioneer
of electro-acoustic music and electronic pop, takes over the Riviera deck
(http://www.isea2004.net/kubin). The pool party continues with the
underwater soundscapes created by 2Linja. The Finnish-British band ROGER
will add elegance and insight to Northern electronica while mixing in with
the FUCHS-ECKERMAN collective's bewildering FutureDJ project, thus
creating a DJ set of the future (http://www.isea2004.net/roger). Aboard
the ferry, you also get to experience screenings of interactive films,
installations such as the locative sound installation 'Float' by TUOMO
TAMMENPAA (FI) and TAMAS SZAKAL (HU) that will turn the ship's route into
music (
http://www.isea2004.net/float).

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES & MACHINE THERAPY: LEADING MEDIA-LABS PRESENT THEIR
INNOVATIONS

During the Baltic cruise and the conferences in Tallinn and Helsinki,
leading media labs from allover the world present their innovations,
future products and interdisciplinary projects. KELLY DOBSON (MIT media
lab, USA) brings her MACHINE THERAPY session to the ferry's gym (
http://www.isea2004.net/dobson); THE SARAI MEDIA LAB (IND) introduces its
innovative research and creative projects in urban culture and new media,
and its initiator SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is one of the keynote speakers in
Helsinki (http://www.isea2004.net/sarai).

KATHERINE MORIWAKI (USA) presents proposals, prototypes and specific
outcomes of her research examining wearable technologies, fashion,
emerging communication infrastructures, networks and the body in Tallinn (
http://www.isea2004.net/moriwaki). LOCATIVE MEDIA LAB (CA) comes to
Helsinki with their location-based media installation Trans-Cultural
Mapping as part of the ISEA2004 wireless experience. MAKROLAB (SLO) will
host 8 biologists researching the climate, weather and telecommunication
in a mobile laboratory, which this time finds its place on a small island
in front of Helsinki (http://www.isea2004.net/makrolab).

STORYMUPE is a mobile storytelling application created and developed for
ISEA2004 by NOKIA Research Center and HIIT Mobile Content Communities
research project. Cruise participants can join the game by using java
clients in their mobiles, SMS, web or camera phones. LEON CMIELEWSKI and
JOSEPHINE STARRS (AU), world-famous for their animations, bring their
interactive Floating Territories game aboard the ferry. Cruise
participants get to build tribal allegiances and reflect their own
migration history.

TOP SPEAKERS AT HELSINKI AND TALLINN CONFERENCES

Keynotes at the major ISEA2004 conferences held in Helsinki and Tallinn
include MICHEL MAFFESOLI, MACHIKO KUSAHARA (
http://www.isea2004.net/kusahara), JOANNA BERZOWSKA (
http://www.isea2004.net/berzowska), JULIAN WEAVER (
http://www.isea2004.net/weaver), ERKKI HUHTAMO (
http://www.isea2004.net/huhtamo) and MATTHEW FULLER. In Tallinn, the
Wearable Experience comprises project presentations of state-of-the art
ubiquitous computing in fashion and cultural practices. In Helsinki,
Wireless Experience maps current emerging cultural and social practices of
mobile and other wireless media.

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m-cult, centre for new media culture (www.m-cult.org), is the main
organiser of ISEA2004, coordinating the programme and managing the event
across the cities
and on the ferry. Other organisers in Helsinki include the Museum of
Contemporary Art Kiasma (www.kiasma.fi) and Media Centre Lume
(www.lume.fi). In Tallinn, the main partner Estonian Academy of Arts
(www.artun.ee) works in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary
Arts (www.cca.ee).

DISCUSSION

From Today's Guardian


http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1245524,00.html

Talk time: Rachel Greene

Rachel Greene has just written a book on the history of internet art
Interviewed by Sean Dodson
Thursday June 24, 2004

The Guardian
Who are you?

I am a Canadian-born New Yorker and a graduate of Shakespearean
literature. As a student in England in the early 90s, I was isolated so
I began to use email to get myself home. Since1997, I have been working
with Rhizome.org, an international platform for new media art
affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Why did you change from Shakespeare to net art?

Like many women, I found a lot of traditional scholarship alienating.
Exposure to contemporary art in the mid-90s helped me enter into a more
three-dimensional and open-ended conversation and I found the nascent
net art scene even more so. While online, I was encouraged to talk
back, have a voice, to publish a text, write back, make a website etc.



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