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GROK: A Youth Educational Initiative

GROK

Rhizome's first youth education program, GROK, introduces high-school age youth to new media art and digital culture. Based in CD-ROM form, GROK presents new media art works by an international roster of artists, all selected from Rhizome's online archive of art, the ArtBase. Encompassing video games, software, moving image and websites, the works present artistic approaches to the digital materials that increasingly influence our lives, culture and identities. GROK's aim is to illuminate the ways artists make use of new technologies, and to encourage youth to become active interpreters and producers in a digital world.

Each work on GROK is accompanied by a syllabus, and in some cases, supplementary materials that contextualize new media terms or history.

GROK is available free with Rhizome Membership: one copy per individual, and more for our organizational subscribers depending on the size of their institution.

Software requirements on back of CD.

GROK was produced, in part, thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tin Man Fund, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Verizon Foundation and Rhizome Members whose support benefits all.

ARTWORKS included:


BCC (Blank Carbon Copy)
by Motomichi Nakamura (2003-05)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?33460

 


Email Erosion
by Ethan Ham (2005)
http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005/emailerosion.rbw

 


Fortune Tower
by James Ford (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?32498

 


iTunes Signature Maker
by Jason Freeman (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?37227

 


Last Meal Requested
by Sachiko Hayashi (2003)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?16975

 


Media Portrait of the Liberties
by Valentina Nisi (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?36999

 


Nike Ground
by 0101010100101 (2003)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?32878

 


Panel Junction
by Andy Deck (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?42456

 


Swarm Sketch
by Peter Edmunds (2005)
http://www.rhizome.org/object.rhiz?35981

 


Time Lapse Homepage
by Paul Slocum (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?36510

 


Triptych: Motion, Stillness, Resistance
by Peter Horvath (2005)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?36533

 


Uninvited Words
by Paivi Hintsanen(2006)
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?33741

 

GROK is a benefit of Rhizome Membership on Individual and Organzational levels.

LEVELS

$25 level: Rhizome Membership
Rhizome membership comes with a host of special features and benefits. See our individual membership page for a full list!

Sprout ($50 level): LoVid Live T-shirt
Your gift with membership at the $50 level is a T-Shirt designed by artist duo Lovid.

Shoot ($150): "Gunship Ready" - DVD by Brody Condon
Gunship Ready by Brody Condon is DVD documentation of a series of five performative interventions within the online shooter Tribes 2.

Shoot ($150): "Recap" - DVD by Rick Silva
Recap by Rick Silva is a remix of the cult classic graffiti movie Wild Style (1982) where every piece of graffiti in the original film has been digitally crossed out and tagged over with the Recap tag.

Bud ($250): Digital Print by MTAA
Made exclusively for Rhizome, this print captures the still frames from the artists' video contribution to Cory Arcangel's legendary 'Infinite Fill' exhibition, in which Phil Hartman plays Phil Donahue.

Stolon ($500): Artist Book by RSG
Originally commissioned for the Whitney Artport's online Gatepages, RSG-SMB-TAB equated playing video games with playing music by cataloging all game controller moves needed to beat every level of Super Mario Brothers, in tablature-format.

Stolon ($500 SOLD OUT!): Performance documentation of Playing A Round by Lee Walton
Walton makes performative use of the internet, video, drawings, and other media to construct and document 'experientialist' systems.

Root ($1000 SOLD OUT!): Mixed media sculpture with LEDs by Kristin Lucas
An adaptation of this famous childhood toy, Mr. Potato Head is covered with blinking LEDs, resembling a rash.