In 2014, Rhizome launched a microgrants program, awarding $500–$1,500 to anyone with a compelling vision for net art through an annual open-call. Below are the awardees since founding.
2018
Net Art:
Cassie McQuater, Black Room (The image above was a sketch submitted with the proposal / link)
Elisabeth Nicula, dioramas.space (link)
Dina Kelberman, Into (link)
Mobile VR:
Theo Triantafyllidis, Studio Visit 360
Tough Guy Mountain, Guided Meditation
Poetry:
Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky, Shanzhai Lyric (Display Distribute) (link)
Barrett White & Miriam Karraker, editors, Tagvverk (link)
Bryan Thao Worra, So You Want to Make a Secret War (link)
2017
Ideas City:
Lina Bondarenko, Martin Byrne, Holly Childs, Kei Kreutler, and Jelena Viskovic, Patternist (link)
Net Art:
manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, home school (link)
Sean Patrick Carney, Humor and the Abject (link)
Holly White (related link)
Winslow Laroche, YOINK! Issue 4
Eternal Dragonz (related link)
N-Prolenta, Black Hydra (related link)
Webrecorder:
Muira McCammon (link)
Caroline Sinders
Gabriele de Seta
Nadine Fattaleh
2016
Announcement of awardees
Georges Jacotey, N/A (or Lana Del Pepe?) (link)
Amira Hanafi, A Dictionary of the Revolution (link)
Donald Hải Phú Daedalus, SGT STAR Redux
Chloe O'Neill and Sylvia Gutierrez, Chloe and Sylvia are Color Blind
Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain, The Good Life (Enron Simulator) (link)
Elizabeth Mputu, LVLZ Healing Center (link)
2015
Loz Cliffe, An Open Call for Spam Bots
Emilie Gervais, Fuck Privacy
Adriana Minoliti, -PLAY SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS- (link)
Rafia Santana, RAFiA's WORLD (link)
Alex Taylor, .3gp (link)
2014
Deanna & Jack, Well, Actually: a journal of vernacular criticism!
Ben Grosser, Music Obfuscator (link)
Martha Hipley, untitled Twitter hack (link)
Lena NW and Julia Kunberger, Viral (link)
Angela Washko, BANGED (link)