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Guest-Curated Exhibitions

Rhizome Guest-Curated Exhibitions are online shows comprised of works from the ArtBase organized by invited net artists, curators, and writers.
Curated by Marina Grzinic
With work by 0100101110101101.org/, hackitectura, Andreja Kuluncic, East Art Map, Klara Hobza, Trish Maud, Mendi and Keith Obadike, Cicero Egli and Helen Varley Jamieson.

"The idea behind the following exhibition's selection, or let's call it a temporary convergence of forces, is to think Internet art radically different from those projects and activities on the net that nurture only their design aspects.... The selection is about emphasizing responsibility, as critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak would say, for questions of rights, history, race and sexuality. I try to put forward those projects that display not only a clear political stance but also the politics of the Internet itself."

-Grzinic

Opened October 28, 2005

Curated by Yukie Kamiya
Including work by: Heman Chong, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Koki Tanaka, AUDC, Aisling O'Beirn and Marjetica Potrc

"City/Observer presents five projects by contemporary artists and architects who engage with a city as their sphere of artistic activity and research. They explore urban places and landscapes from personal experiences, memories and dialogues, taking different standpoints, from executor of an urban planning project, to producer of a comprehensive guidebook of a city.."

-Kamiya

Opened May 25, 2005

Curated by Michael Connor
Head of Exhibitions, BFI Southbank, Former Curator, FACT Liverpool
Including work by: Paul Slocum, Ian Haig, oddible, Katie Lips, Joao Simoes, capitalism, Eddo Stern, Paul Stringer, JODI, Beat Brogle and Philippe Zimmermann, Gustavo Romano, Sinae Kim and Olia Lialina

"The obsolete holds the key to the future. We must excavate our path forward from yesterday's remains."

-Connor

Opened March 1, 2005

Curated by Jillian McDonald
Including work by: Jeremy Wood, Hidekazu Minami, Julian Bleecker, Scott Paterson, Marina Zurkow, Janet Cardiff, Andrea Polli, Shawn Micallef, James Roussel, Gabe Sawhney and Germaine Koh

"The artists in Location is Everything have all mapped personal or collective experiences, some informed by external factors like weather data or pop-culture references, and some allowing the map itself or local residents to inform them. As a painter might pull imagery from the paint, the map as a birds-eye-view is a locative tool, which allows artists to playfully or poetically free information about physical and psychological space."

-McDonald

Opened January 18, 2005

Curated by Mendi and Keith Obadike
Including work by: Nicolas Clauss, Michiel Knaven, Conor O'Boyle, Paul Miller, Erik Bunger, William Duckworth, Michael Sellam, Mark Amerika and Erik Belgum

"When invited to curate an exhibition from the Rhizome Artbase, we were delighted to comb through the archived projects. Over the years we have been surfing the Artbase, watching the evolution of Internet art. The styles of interactivity and narrative have changed from moment to moment. But as artists who make sound art and net.art, one thing that has always fascinated us is the intersection of what some might consider separate fields."

-the Obadikes

Opened November 15, 2004

Member-Curated Exhibitions

FW: Re: Re:
Curated by: Luis Silva

Predating the internet itself, email has become a mass communication tool as well as a pillar of contemporary computing culture. The artists featured...

such a lie
Curated by: Eric Dymond
in the new theatre of DIY slanderous offers hope for the oppressed, a way out for the circumscribed, a knowlede base for the downtrodden.

From sounds to neurons, and back
Curated by: Luc Delannoy
From sounds to neurons, and back

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