2007 Commissions
Rhizome is pleased to announce that the eleven art works commissioned in our 2006-07 cycle are complete and available for contemplation, play or download now. No specific theme was outlined in the 2006 call yet the commissioned works share themes and concerns. Several take hidden or repressed information as their source material. Others examine the kinds of behavior the Internet encourages or inhibits through the creation of participatory systems. All together, the eleven artists/ collective have taken an incredibly thoughtful approach to the Internet and networked technologies, considered its artistic, cultural and political dimensions and produced provocative artworks that Rhizome is proud to have supported.
These works will also be presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008 and preserved in the Rhizome ArtBase.
Oppera Internettikka - Protection et Sécurité
by Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer
Oppera Internettikka - Protection et Sécurité explores the poetics of a contemporary sound form — the opera as a sound event for the audience in the form of a live internet audio broadcast. It combines the notion of the web communication protocols and the classical art space of the opera house.
VIDOPEDIA
by Nadia Anderson and Fritz Donnelly
A typical encyclopedia is the product of the editor's maniacal and obsessive interest in cataloging knowlege. A VIDOPEDIA grows from users' casual but intense interest in a particular activity. A user who explores "rolling" will be encouraged by Videopedia to upload video of a "stop, drop, and roll" or "rolling thunder," or "rolling a car".
Terminal Air
by the Institute for Applied Autonomy and Trevor Paglen
Since the mid-90's, the United States Central Intelligence Agency has operated a program called extraordinary rendition, in which suspected terrorists captured in Western nations are transported to secret locations for torture and interrogation. Terminal Air attempts to envision the CIA office cum-travel agency in Langley, Virginia from which the Extraordinary Rendition Program is presumably coordinated.
Pulse Pool
by Adam Brown and Andrew Fagg
Place a finger to your neck or wrist. Find your pulse. How does it alter your awareness of your body? Imagine if you could simultaneously see and experience another person's pulse the way you feel your own. The interconnected components of Pulse Pool explore how access to otherwise unavailable corporal information affects human interaction.
When No One Is Looking
by Zach Lieberman
When No One Is Looking presents a webpage designed to mimic an everyday, common website, but with a simple twist: when no one interacts with the page for a certain amount of time, the elements on the site appear to come to life.
Real Costs
by Michael Mandiberg
Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce websites. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airplane ticket websites telling you how much carbon each flight will produce. Think of it like the nutritional information labeling on the back of food, except for emissions.
Torrent Raiders
by Aaron Meyers and Corey Jackson
Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Torrent Raiders playfully addresses issues of domestic surveillance and intellectual property by putting players in the role of a mercenary copyright enforcer, encouraging them to capture evidence against peers on torrents in order to collect bounties.
White Glove Tracking
by Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth
There are 10,060 frames in the video of Michael Jackson's 5 min 35 sec nationally-televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. The White Glove Tracking project (W.G.T.) is an effort to isolate just the white glove from this moment in pop-culture history.
SLOWmail
by slowLab (Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker)
SLOWmail is a new email service that deliberately slows down the pace of electronic messaging. It operates at the opposite end of the time-to-delivery spectrum from traditional email, offering a more reflective experience for both sender and recipient, and challenging forth more artful and meaningful correspondence.
Paste
by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg
Whatever is in your clipboard, something that's on your mind or just a distraction, you paste. Paste keeps track of everyone's ctrl-V, option-V or middle-button press-- these routine actions combine into a single text stream.

