This is Rhizome Today for Wednesday, December 24, 2014.
Rhizome invited a few of our collaborators to submit a few of their favorite links of 2014. These are published as part of Rhizome Today, a series of "ephemeral" blog posts which are taken offline within a day or so of publication.
Proposal for a forum: How has Facebook referral traffic fluctuation at your small-scale publishing platform deteriorated your physical and mental health?
Paywalled (and worth purchasing!), but I hand-xeroxed this excerpt from Jeff Chang's excellent Who We Be for each of my Rhizome colleagues to read.
This was quite a year for Vine. Think I saw this one.... 'bout a week ago. Here are some other *recent* non-friend favs:
A piece by Roberta Smith, on Carry That Weight by Emma Sulkowicz, that explains why I prefer to call actual art criticism, "art criticism" rather than "art writing."
Twitter gets a bad rap for being a time-suck and very often dimming and for giving persistent, direct voice to the worst people on the internet. I was logged on to Twitter for much of 2014. In general, the worthwhile time was spent listening to those who are not the worst people on the internet and whose tweets I feel lucky to have persistent, direct access to. S/O to @nanpansky for being the tweeter whose tweets most consistently expanded my thinking; to those who watched the Sopranos for the first time this year and tweeted about it; to @heathercorc when she asked LinkedIn to interview her; to those who tried to build awareness and activism on the hashtags Ferguson and BlackLivesMatter; to people who tweeted @rhizome for whatever reason; to, quoting @pdrvelez, "#FF Everyone I follow because they are thoughtful and good looking." to everyone who did a good job online this year: well done. i am very proud of you. to everyone else: There is always next year. i believe in you.
Rejected from Berghain.
— sailingfanblues (@sailingfanblues) October 19, 2014Zachary Kaplan is Rhizome's Assistant Director.