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“I think Rhizome’s always been really good at trying to respond to new modes of artistic production with museum quality attention, but in a way that makes it accessible to the wide world of weird people who constitute that artist [audience]” —Zachary Kaplan
One of our favorite neighbors is the new media organization Rhizome, one of the anchor tenants here at New Inc. Founded in 1997 by artist Mark Tribe, Rhizome is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving digital-born art through ongoing projects such as their Webrecorder archiving platform, Artbase archive of over 2000 digital artworks, and their popular Seven on Seven event series. Rhizome is having a big year in 2019, with the launch of their Net Art Anthology project alongside the release of an accompanying book, The Art Happens Here, and an exhibition at the New Museum, The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics, which closes soon (May 26, 2019), so don’t miss it!
Bloomberg’s self-explanatory new channel, Art+Technology (presented by Hyundai) visited with Rhizome’s Executive Director Zachary Kaplan, and New Museum Director Lisa Phillips about the importance – and challenges – of preserving this unique art form in this video, the first in a three-part series about Rhizome.
