honoring digital arts with rhizome and new museum
On Wednesday night, New Museum held an annual benefit in affiliation with Rhizome, a non-profit art organization that champions born-digital art and culture. New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director, Lisa Phillips, and Rhizome’s founder, artist Mark Tribe, were recognized at the benefit for fostering the partnership that began in 2003.
“Generative art is a core thematic focus of the evening, with three artist honorees-Rafaël Rozendaal, Lillian Schwartz, and Ix Shells--that use computation as a central aspect of their creative practice. The benefit inaugurates a new partnership with TRLab in support of Rhizome's work in the generative art field, including archival efforts and artist commissions,” says New Museum in their post about the event.
Co-executive director of Rhizome, Michael Connor gives a speeech at New Museum’s theater. Rafaël Rozendaal’s projected digital artwork on the left; Lillian Schwartz’s digital artwork on the right.
On photo 1 Rafaël Rozendaal poses with a friend in front of his projected digital artwork.
Dinner setup.
Olive Allen is a tech entrepreneur and NFT artist. She is an early adopter of cryptocurrency and one of the pioneers in the NFT space. She burned her Russian passport in front of the Russian consulate in NYC and created NFT from it to raise money for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. I might or might not have told her that she looks like Daenerys Targaryen. Yea I did.
Rhizome asked artist Damjanski to create a physical award that they could present to the artists and honorees, but what they received was half of an award that is activated by a digital component. In these photos, Damjanski showcases how the awards would look when scanned by a smartphone. From left: Lisa Phillips and Mark Tribe with their awards; Ix Shells’ award on the dinner table, Rafaël Rozendaal and Ix Shells.
Rafaël Rozendaal’s trophy is scanned by friends.
Itzel Yard aka Ix Shells who resides in Panama is the highest-selling female NFT artist. Her “Dreaming At Dusk” digital self-portrait was sold for $2 million.
Moments from the ground and theater floor of the after-party.
