May 19, 2004
Rhizome.org Announces Winners of 2004 Net Art Commissioning Program
by Liza Sabater
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 17, 2004
CONTACT
Rachel Greene, Rhizome.org
Phone: 212.219.1288 X208
Email: rachel@rhizome.org
NEW YORK, NY—Rhizome.org is pleased to announce that seven artists/groups have been awarded commissions to assist them in creating original works of net art through its Commissioning Program. Paul Catanese, Warren Sack, Jason van Anden, Luis Hernandez Galvan and Carlo Zanni will receive awards of $2,500-2,900 each. Commissions of $1,750 will be awarded to Kabir Carter and C-Level.A panel of jurors—independent curator Yukiko Shikata, Francis Hwang of Rhizome.org, Natalie Bookchin of The Art Center, and Rachel Greene of Rhizome.org--selected six winners and one Honorable Mention from a pool of about fifty proposals that were received by the March 7, 2004 deadline. Members of the Rhizome.org community participated in the evaluation process through secure web-based ballots, selecting a proposal by artist Carlo Zanni to win a commission.
Launched in November 2001, the Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media artwork via panel-awarded commissions. To keep the program relevant and timely, requests for proposals (RFPs) will change from year to year to reflect new developments in technology and the current cultural environment. National Endowment for the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation,the Jerome Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support has been provided by members of the Rhizome community.
This year, the RFP was sent out on January 21, 2004. Artists were invited to submit proposals relating to the theme of Games. The proposal asked artists to “propose projects that will contribute to the art game genre, or reflect on broad interpretations of ‘game.’
“Since 1996 Rhizome.org has been supporting the new media art community by providing a place where artists and others can exchange information, share opportunities, present new work and engage in critical dialogue,” said Rachel Greene, Executive Director of Rhizome.org. “We are thrilled to be able to provide direct financial support to artists. Grants and commissions are particularly important for new media artists because, unlike artists who work with more traditional media such as painting and photography, artists who work with new technologies have a limited ability to sell their work. Giving these artworks an institutional presence is a different but very important form of support for new media artists.”
The chosen projects will be publicly exhibited on the Rhizome.org web site at http://rhizome.org starting in November 2004. They will also be preserved in the Rhizome ArtBase archive, and presented at a public event in New York City.
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Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that engages new technologies in significant ways. We foster innovation and inclusiveness in everything we do. Rhizome.org is a not-for-profit organization.
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Posted by Liza Sabater in Art, New York City, Web
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