[NetBehaviour] Rhizome's continuous decline

[Paul Hertz]

Can't seem to fine the content for "Five Ambitious Commissions." I get a
page with "This Fall/Winter, Rhizome presents events, commissions, and
exhibitions that offer considered illumination of contemporary digital
culture, provide support for artists, and elaborate our vision for the born
digital arts institution."

That said, I have paid little attention to Rhizome over the past few years.
I found things happening in more scattered locations rather than in a
"central" site. This may be part of the problem.

-- Paul


On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Patrick Lichty <pl at voyd.com> wrote:

> I reviewed these, and it IS concerning.
> Most of these are books and films, or operas?  What's going on here?
> I think we are in a time where electronic media art is in a bit of an
> identity crisis.
> I almost feel like the end of Don Hertzfeld's "Rejected" when the cartoon
> starts falling apart.
> It seems like in the mid-2000's that there was a confluence of effects;
> New academic artists versus DIY, Art worlders versus what would become
> public practice, the emergence of 'brand'-movements; it;s all complex and
> not as dialectic as all this.  There are cultural moments where there is a
> confluence – I think 1998-2002 was one of those periods.  I just think that
> we have a lot oaf really strong work, and as Speculative Realism  and OOO
> are trying to take the mantle from Postmodernism, things like Glitch and
> Post-Internet (among others) are trying to be the successors to New Media
> as "handles" for moments in time.
>
> From: Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <
> netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 9:58 AM
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <
> netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Rhizome's continuous decline
>
>  The cutting edge always becomes dull.
>
> -Joel
>
>
> On 10/16/2014 7:33 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:
>
> I don't visit rhizome.org much any more but when I do... all they do is
> convince me more of their irrelevance.
>
>  They recently posted what they refer to as "Five Ambitious Commisions".
> Bear in mind that this was once the cutting-edge forum for internet-based
> art...
>
>
> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/oct/2/2014-2015-program/?ref=carousel_p1
>
>  Makes one wonder...
>
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