It is most definitely fundraising season and Rhizome is in the midst of their annual community campaign. The new media portal has set out to raise $30,000 by midnight on December 31st and they are about 80% of the way there. Rhizome are an utterly essential online arts organization whose importance was recently described by Steve Deitz as capturing "the memory of what has been and the possibility of what can be". Contributing to Rhizome awards participants the following benefits: The opportunity to vote and help determine which artists will receive support through their commissions program, full access to the ArtBase archive of digital art and continually updated listings of residencies and opportunities.
Rhizome is also offering a bunch of goodies for donations of more than $25. Please consider supporting this pivotal ongoing project in nurturing and preserving technology-based art.
