On April 20 seven duos, each made up of one artist and one tech-savvy individual, will unveil the projects they spent the entire previous day developing at the latest edition of “Seven on Seven,” Rhizome’s annual art and tech workshop, which this years shifts from its longtime home at the New Museum to the New School. The breakdown of the seven teams for the event, tickets to which can be had here, was announced yesterday. (more…)
For its fourth edition, Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference pairing seven artists with seven experts in digital media technology will move from its venue of previous years — the basement theater at the New Museum — to the New School’s Tishman Auditorium. There, from noon-6pm on April 20, the seven pairs of participants will each unveil the fruits of their day-long collaborations. (more…)
What constitutes art in the digital world, and how is it separate from the technology used to make it? It’s a question that plagues conservators as they attempt to preserve early forms of digital art, which often become difficult to replicate as technology improves. The Boston Globe explored some of the challenges in this morning’s paper, detailing, for instance, the problem with a Cory Arcangel work from from the “olden days” of 2002: (more…)
After months of speculation as to who would fill the shoes of former Rhizome executive director Lauren Cornell, the New Museum-affiliated new media art non-profit announced on Friday that Heather Corcoran will take up the position beginning September 15. Corcoran, currently the deputy director of London’s Film and Video Umbrella, cut her teeth as a curator at Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, SPACE in London, and Toronto’s Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. (more…)
Actually, there were a number of truly interesting ideas that came out of Rhizome.org’s annual Seven on Seven get-together, which as usual paired various artists with various technologists for day-long brainstorming sessions, the fruit of which were presented yesterday at the New Museum. However, one project stood out, not just because it actually created a prototype that kind of worked, but because it represented a particularly satisfying pairing of art and tech sensibilities: The “Cultural Differences” search engine, hatched by smart contemporary photo-conceptualist Taryn Simon and politically engaged programmer Aaron Swartz.
