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

Images for New Museum publication


Hi -- The New Museum is putting together one of their seasonal
publications which will include a feature on its affiliation with
Rhizome.org. I am trying to help them illustrate the story and am
hoping some Rhizomers will contribute images.

If anyone has images of 300 DPI or higher and would like them to be
published in a feature introducing Rhizome, please send them to me at
rachel@rhizome.org (and not to list@rhizome.org). Please include how
the credit line should read -- name, title of work, date and medium. We
might add some copy explaining the inclusion -- i.e. Art from the
Rhizome Community by XYZ, etc., etc.

I only need a handful and will use the first ones I receive.

Thanks and very best, Rachel

DISCUSSION

Fwd: OPERATION etoy.ART-INVASION MADRID ABIERTO STARTED IN MASSIVE SNOW STORM


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> From: ir@etoy.com
> Date: January 29, 2004 5:41:03 PM EST
> Subject: OPERATION etoy.ART-INVASION MADRID ABIERTO STARTED IN MASSIVE
> SNOW STORM
>
> etoy.ART-INVASION ON PLAZA COLON
>
>
> THE LEGENDARY ART CORPORATION "etoy"
> INVADES HISPANIC MARKET TERRITORY.
>
> MADRID/SPAIN:In the context of ARCO04,
> one of the five most important
> commercial art fairs in the world,
> etoy takes its aggressive business
> model for high risk art investors to
> the next level. Invited as guest
> artists in the "Madrid Abierto"
> program etoy.CORPORATION installs
> its mobile head quarter, studio and
> internet node in the heart of Madrid
> to perform a commercial experiment on
> the edge of reality.
>
> Two etoy.CARGO-TANKS will land on
> Plaza Colon during the night of
> January 29th/30th 2004. Touch down is
> expected for 00:00:00 CET.
>
> FIRST FOTO OPPORTUNITY: crew members,
> etoy.TANKS, giant cranes, police escort
> and machinery will be available for the
> press between 23:30:00 and 02:00:00 CET.
>
> etoy, famous for subversive PR stunts
> like the digital hijack (1,5 million
> online art hostages in 1996) or the
> online clash with the American 10
> billion dollar corporation eToys inc.
> in late 1999 (TOYWAR, with 4 billion
> dollars the most expensive performance
> in art history), won several
> international art awards and regularly
> appears in popular media channels such
> as CNN, WIRED NEWS, WASHINGTON POST,
> NZZ, TATE PUBLISHING, EL PAIS etc.
>
> Between February 5th and 22nd 2004 15
> etoy.AGENTS from Italy, the USA, Germany,
> Switzerland, Belgium and Spain aggregate
> in the physical world to operate a
> spectacular, living art installation on
> Plaza Colon. Dressed in their uniforms
> and equipped with exactly the same high
> tech tools the etoy.CREW will conduct an
> art industry analysis to explore the
> acceptance for a different kind of culture
> economy.
>
> MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW!
>
> disclaimer: etoy.CORPORATION is a global
> corporate sculpture to share culture profits
> instead of maximizing financial wealth.
> etoy is a registered trade mark of the
> etoy.VENTURE association. Past success
> cannot guarantee future performance.
> Share redemption strictly limited.
>
> etoy.SPONSORS 2004: LISTA, MIGROS, APPLE,
> IBM, PRO HELVETIA, ABACUS RESEARCH
> FUNDACION ALTADIS / MADRID ABIERTO
> -----------------------------------------
> www.etoy.com/unsubscribe/

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etoy.ART-INVASION MADRID ABIERTO STARTED IN MASSIVE SNOW STORM

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etoy.ART-INVASION ON PLAZA COLON

THE LEGENDARY ART CORPORATION "etoy"

INVADES HISPANIC MARKET TERRITORY.

MADRID/SPAIN:In the context of ARCO04,

one of the five most important

commercial art fairs in the world,

etoy takes its aggressive business

model for high risk art investors to

the next level. Invited as guest

artists in the "Madrid Abierto"

program etoy.CORPORATION installs

its mobile head quarter, studio and

internet node in the heart of Madrid

to perform a commercial experiment on

the edge of reality.

Two etoy.CARGO-TANKS will land on

Plaza Colon during the night of

January 29th/30th 2004. Touch down is

expected for 00:00:00 CET.

FIRST FOTO OPPORTUNITY: crew members,

etoy.TANKS, giant cranes, police escort

and machinery will be available for the

press between 23:30:00 and 02:00:00 CET.

etoy, famous for subversive PR stunts

like the digital hijack (1,5 million

online art hostages in 1996) or the

online clash with the American 10

billion dollar corporation eToys inc.

in late 1999 (TOYWAR, with 4 billion

dollars the most expensive performance

in art history), won several

international art awards and regularly

appears in popular media channels such

as CNN, WIRED NEWS, WASHINGTON POST,

NZZ, TATE PUBLISHING, EL PAIS etc.

Between February 5th and 22nd 2004 15

etoy.AGENTS from Italy, the USA, Germany,

Switzerland, Belgium and Spain aggregate

in the physical world to operate a

spectacular, living art installation on

Plaza Colon. Dressed in their uniforms

and equipped with exactly the same high

tech tools the etoy.CREW will conduct an

art industry analysis to explore the

acceptance for a different kind of culture

economy.

MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW!

disclaimer: etoy.CORPORATION is a global

corporate sculpture to share culture profits

instead of maximizing financial wealth.

etoy is a registered trade mark of the

etoy.VENTURE association. Past success

cannot guarantee future performance.

Share redemption strictly limited.

etoy.SPONSORS 2004: LISTA, MIGROS, APPLE,

IBM, PRO HELVETIA, ABACUS RESEARCH

FUNDACION ALTADIS / MADRID ABIERTO

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www.etoy.com/unsubscribe/

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DISCUSSION

Fwd: MELOmag Contributors


Begin forwarded message:

> From: melomag@melomag.com
> Date: January 28, 2004 3:59:51 PM EST
> To: <rachel@rhizome.org>
> Subject: MELOmag Contributors
> Reply-To: melomag@melomag.com
>
> Hello
> I'm writing on behalf of MELOmag.com - an online magazine devoted to
> creative artform from around the world.
> We are currently looking for submissions (articles, reviews, music
> samples, images, etc...) from aspiring writers all over the world.
> MELOmag.com wants to bring the world to the reader and introduce the
> reader to the world.
>
> If you or anyone you know is interested in:
>
> + Music
> + Cinematography
> + Design
> + Architecture
> + Fashion
> + Philosophy & Sociology
> + Nature
> + Food & Culture
>
> and anything else you strongly believe is an artform
> then please contact us.
>
> We will take it from there.
> We hope to hear from you.
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Cornelia Sollfrank's 'net.art generator' as Collectors Object


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Cornelia Sollfrank <cornelia@snafu.de>
> Date: January 28, 2004 10:28:50 AM EST
> To: cornelia@snafu.de
> Subject: Cornelia Sollfrank's 'net.art generator' as Collectors Object
>
> Net Art as Collectors' Object -
> How Smart Artists Make the Machine do the Work
>
>
> With the purchase of artist Cornelia Sollfrank's net.art generator
> 'nag_04', the Sammlung Volksfursorge becomes a pioneering art
> collector.
>
> In 2003, the Sammlung Volksfursorge put together one of the largest
> collections of contemporary art outside a museum. With a budget of EUR
> 800,000, contemporary works from a wide variety of media were
> acquired: from painting and sculpture to photography and video art to
> Net art. The permanent exhibition space for the collection is the
> newly opened luxury hotel Le Royal Meridien Hamburg on the Outer
> Alster Lake. The Galerie Ruth
> Sachse, overseeing the project, proposed acquiring for the collection
> not only completed images by Cornelia Sollfrank but also the computer
> program that generates the images. In cooperation with Panos Galanis
> of IAP GmbH, Hamburg, the artist developed a new net.art generator
> that works exclusively
> with images.
>
> Since 1999, Cornelia Sollfrank has been making new images, texts
> and/or automatic collages out of sites and HTML material available on
> the World Wide Web. So far, five versions of the program based on this
> concept have been created with varying emphases and formats. What they
> all share is a user-friendly WWW interface. The programs are based on
> Perl scripts which, once the user has entered the title of a work and
> the name of an artist,
> send the request to a specific search engine. The material called up
> according to the search terms is then processed in 12 to 14 randomly
> generated steps and placed in new combinations. The automatically
> generated images, texts or Web sites are stored in an archive, the
> 'net.art gallery.' Furthermore, the source code of the generator has
> not become private property of the collection, but is subject to the
> General Public License, GPL, which makes it possible for the code to
> be modified and distributed.
>
> Processes of rationalization via computer and automatization become
> means of artistic production via the net.art generator. Art works,
> traditionally understood as authentic, unique, creative and innovative
> can then just as well be created by a computer program. With the
> advent of new media, classic
> questions regarding authorship, originality, materiality, the role of
> the artist and the work are newly challenged.
>
> "And surprisingly quickly, you get used to the idea that the
> production of art can, in the end, only take place via the repetition,
> theft, quotation, combination and reprocessing of an underlying
> aesthetic program."
> Ute Vorkoeper in 'Programmed Seduction'
>
> Anyone who finds all that too complicated can go to the six floor of
> the hotel and see for themselves a series of automatically generated
> and aesthetically quite appealing images of flowers.
>
> Le Royal Meridien Hamburg, An der Alster 52-56, 20099 Hamburg
>
> A smart artist makes the machine do the work. Keep on Generating!
>
> Internet Addresses:
> Sammlung Volksfursorge: http://www.volksfuersorge.de/kunst
> Homepage for the net.art generators: http://soundwarez.org/generator
> Net.art generator nag_04: http://nag.iap.de
> Images (download): http://soundwarez.org/generator/src/imgs.html
>
>
> Contact: Julia Eble
> Press and Publicity
> Tel.: 040/2865-4603
> FAX: 040/2865-5771
> E-Mail: Julia.Eble@volksfuersorge.de
>
> *********************************************************************
>
> Net Art as Collectors' Object
>
>
> Cornelia Sollfrank in conversation with Dr. Joachim Lemppenau,
> Chairman of the Board of Volksfuersorge Versicherungen. As head of the
> insurance company, he is also responsible for the art collection and,
> as a jury member, took part in the selection of the artists.
>
> Hamburg, November 1, 2003
>
>
> C.S.: You've acquired one of my net.art generators for your
> collection. The purchase of a Net art work makes you a pioneer among
> collectors. What moved you to take this step and introduce Net art to
> the collection as well?
>
> Dr.L.: The net.art generator is a contemporary work of art that makes
> use of one of the most important media we now have - the Internet.
> With this purchase, the Sammlung Volksfuersorge is supporting current
> directions in art. Ownership of a materially tangible art work is not
> our concern; other sponsors make a sculpture or a painting available
> to the public in a museum.
> We find this more appropriate for our time, and besides, we're making
> the work available to a broader public by doing this on the Internet
> and with Net art.
>
> C.S.: One of the fundamental problems with purchasing Net art is the
> administration of copyright and rights of ownership regarding data
> that is online. What does it mean to you to be the owner of this
> generator?
>
> Dr.L.: It was agreed that the net.art generator would have a
> user-friendly Web interface for anyone who might be interested in
> using it. So the net.art generator is a sort of public work in our
> collection. We allow the "user" to create the art on his or her own.
> Anyone can become a (Net) artist.
>
> What's more, the code of the generator, that is, the program, is
> subject to a license, the so-called General Public License, GPL, which
> makes it possible for the code to be modified and distributed.
>
> C.S.: How will you be handling the needs that arise for the
> maintenance and administration of an online project?
>
> Dr.L.: The budget for the art collection ensures that the work will be
> maintained by another company for two years. After two years, we can
> decide how to carry on. (The costs aren't very high.)
>
> C.S.: Could you imagine expanding further in this direction, that is,
> adding another work of Net art to the collection?
>
> Dr.L.: The art collection has initially been set up to document
> exemplary works of contemporary art in various media immediately after
> the turn of the millennium. The plan does not currently project much
> further than that, particularly since it's a collection which
> principally has a single, immobile location - the Hotel Royal
> Meridien. The net.art generator represents the widest reach in terms
> of contact since it is accessible via the site
> www.volksfuersorge.de/kunst.
>
>
>
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> take it and run!
>

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Ciberart Bilbao 2004


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Programacion Ciber@RT" <programacion@ciberart-bilbao.net>
> Date: January 28, 2004 4:35:16 AM EST
> To: "Programacion Ciber@RT" <programacion@ciberart-bilbao.net>
> Subject: Ciberart Bilbao 2004
>
> ******************************************************
>


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