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Rhizome Commissions '08


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Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded fifty-four commissions to date. Projects realized through the Program represent some of the most forward-thinking and innovative works of media and Internet-based art.

Presented by Rhizome at the New Museum, NYC.

Next Level


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Bringing together prominent game designers, artists and critics, Next Level takes a look at the recent rise of indie gaming: a vibrant new culture of individually made and self-distributed video games that blur the line between digital art and creative entertainment.

Presented by Rhizome in conjunction with the New Museum, NYC.

Net Aesthetics 2.0


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Rhizome's New Silent Series at the New Museum, Net Aesthetics 2.0, examines the state of contemporary art engaged with internet art.

Presented by Rhizome in conjunction with Internet Week and EIA at the New Museum, NYC.

Montage: Unmonumental Online


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Rhizome Curator at Large Marisa Olson leads a conversation with four artists from Montage: Unmonumental Online. Michael Bell-Smith, William Boling, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, and Nina Katchadourian will give brief presentations of their work and join in a roundtable discussion of their diverse approaches to practices of appropriating, sampling, remixing, and otherwise responding to found material, online.

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The Technology Readings


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Part of the New Silent Series.

A group of New York comedians perform readings on the joys and pitfalls of a technology-saturated culture.

Featuring: Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, John Roberts, Joe Mande, Anthony Atamanuik and Laura Krafft, many whom are notable for gaining fame on the internet, from Roberts' YouTube monologues to Peretti's episodic online shows including the 6-part series "All My Exes."

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Continuing Education for Dead Adults


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Three multi-media performances that riff off the consequences of youth pop culture and adolescent education. East Coast collective Paper Rad premieres two videos: "Problem Solvers" (20 min, 2008) and a short entitled "crank dat spongebob batman dropdead robocop" (3 min, 2008), a ride through Youtube narcissism. New York artist Ben Coonley presents a new performance entitled 'Kindred Spirits is the Working Title,' (15 min, 2008) and Providence-based experimental band Wizardzz (featuring members of Lightning Bolt) will perform in front of a mesmeric animated tapestry composed of images taken from the Web.

Part of the New Silent Series.

This event took place on January 11, 2008 at the New Museum, NYC

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible


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Emergent digital technologies are rapidly changing both the face of our cities and our daily experience of them, whether invoked in the production of architectural form, the representation of urban space, or our interface to the locative and other services newly available there. Dynamic maps update in real time; garments and spaces deform in response to environmental, biological and even psychological conditions. We find our very emotions made visible, public, and persistently retrievable. Somewhere along the way, we find our notions of public space, participation, and what it means to be urban undergoing the most profound sort of change.

Featured projects by Stamen Design, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold blur the boundaries between art, design and technological development. Moderated and introduced by Everyware author Adam Greenfield.

This panel discussion took place on February 8, 2008 at the New Museum, NYC

BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING


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Co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum, December 1, 2007 - March 23, 2008. Co-organized by Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator, the New Museum, and Lauren Cornell, Executive Director, Rhizome and Adjunct Curator, New Museum.

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Replicant, Virgil de Voldere Gallery


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"Replicant", on view at Virgil de Voldere Gallery in New York from January 10-February 13th, brings together four artists- Ian Burns, Shane Hope, Gilles Rotzetter, and Scott Wolniak- whose work playfully imagines the course of creative expression within a post-apocalyptic future. In this video, the gallery's Director and Founder Virgil de Voldere discusses the concept behind the show and reviews the works included.

Video by Dennis Knopf