Rhizome Commissions
Rhizome is pleased to announce that eleven international artists/groups have been awarded commissions to assist them in creating original works of Internet-based art. Each commission will range from $2500 — $1000. The selected artists are: Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer, Nadia Anderson and Fritz Donnelly, Adam Brown and Andrew Fagg, Corey Jackson and Aaron Meyers, Zach Lieberman, Michael Mandiberg, the Institute for Applied Autonomy and Trevor Paglen, Evan Roth and Ben Engebre, slowLab (Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker), Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
All the projects present innovative approaches to working with the Internet and networked technologies, and touch upon pressing themes and concerns in new media today, including open source models for collaboration, visualization and mapping of information and the relationship between identity and culture online and off. ”
Rhizome commissions are selected by a jury and one is awarded by Rhizome Members open community vote. This year the Members chose Real Costs by Michael Mandiberg.
These artworks will also be preserved in the Rhizome ArtBase archive, and presented at a public event in New York City in Fall 2007.
