[NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2014-06-09 Thread Greg Silva
Hello, this is a belated follow-up to the thread from October 2013 regarding my work. I tried to time this with Rhizome's 7x7 watch party last month which I suspected was the final London event they needed to get the rest of their Arts Council money, but I couldn't get everything together. I

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-31 Thread Paul Squires
Hi all, Thanks for a good discussion. It's why I used the term the strange tale in the headline - the article wasn't designed to tear down ACE or Rhizome - in fact, I had written a rather fluffy article being generally positive towards Rhizome last week for a different publication. I guess that

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-31 Thread Rob Myers
On 31/10/13 05:15 AM, Paul Squires wrote: I guess that I wanted to just report on what happened, to give ACE their right of reply, which they duly did, and to end with open question as to what the public support of digital art looks like in 2013 - how decisions are made and to whom they

[NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread netbehaviour
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
is the link to the rest of the article on the matter. http://www.imperica.com/en/news/the-strange-tale-of-rhizome-and-its-arts-council-funding ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread marc garrett
Council England (ACE), with the account owner claiming to have hacked into Rhizome's email and web CMS. Here is the link to the rest of the article on the matter. http://www.imperica.com/en/news/the-strange-tale-of-rhizome-and-its-arts-council-funding

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread marc garrett
about Rhizome's application to Arts Council England (ACE), with the account owner claiming to have hacked into Rhizome's email and web CMS. Here is the link to the rest of the article on the matter. http://www.imperica.com/en/news/the-strange-tale-of-rhizome-and-its-arts-council

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
. Here is the link to the rest of the article on the matter. http://www.imperica.com/en/news/the-strange-tale-of-rhizome-and-its-arts-council-funding ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread marc garrett
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding (better version)

2013-10-30 Thread marc garrett
Hi Ana, I have been thinking about this a lot today, The article itself on emprica and the hacking was interesting. But I'm not sure who this really serves. We live in strange, horrible difficult neo-liberal times - and if anything happens that brings about possible forms of emancipation

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding (better version)

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
I was the inmigrant alibi in all those funding organizations and I accepted after discussions with many comrades. I felt at the beginning I was used but I did my best to take to the surface alternative anarchist individuals or groups unknown for the most of my colleagues. I was not among the

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 30/10/13 08:40 AM, marc garrett wrote: Also, the money was from a UK budget there are lots of smaller groups in the UK need of support who are not as big as the Barbican Rhizome. Quite. Internationalism and avoiding splits are not considerations when a large American organization is

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Ana Valdés
But Rob, is Rhizome a part of the etablishment? Cultural imperialism are for me all the infamous tv-series we are invaded with, CSI somewhere, Hostages (made by Israeli television) and showing horrendous scenes of torture as the most normal things, Homeland (same Israeli and US collaboration), etc

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 30/10/13 11:22 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: But Rob, is Rhizome a part of the etablishment? They've worked very hard to be. Cultural imperialism are for me all the infamous tv-series we are invaded with, CSI somewhere, Hostages (made by Israeli television) and showing horrendous scenes of

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding

2013-10-30 Thread Simon Biggs
I don't think you can describe Rhizome as large. It's two and a half people, basically - and survives in main part from donations, as US state arts funding is so poor. I think it gets some money from the Warhol Foundation charity too. The Barbican is large but mainly funded from the City of

Re: [NetBehaviour] The strange tale of Rhizome and its Arts Council funding (better version)

2013-10-30 Thread marc garrett
Hi Ana, yes, I agree again - the more money we can get the more people we can bring with us ;-) wishing you well. marc I was the inmigrant alibi in all those funding organizations and I accepted after discussions with many comrades. I felt at the beginning I was used but I did my best to