{"id":37540,"date":"2011-12-12T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-fact-that-we-support-an-emerging-field-of\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:48:09","slug":"the-fact-that-we-support-an-emerging-field-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-fact-that-we-support-an-emerging-field-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The fact that we support an emerging field of practice differentiates us from other arts institutions and makes us more reliant on the community we serve,\u201d Salditch wrote. \u201cWe need the artists we support to give back to our efforts.\u201d In turn, proceeds from Rhizome\u2019s 2011 $25,000 pledge drive will go toward an annual Commissions program of 11 grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, event programming including performance and media work, and online resources for artists, among other projects. While AMP and Rhizome both circumvent the traditional commercial gallery system of representation and commercial sales, that doesn\u2019t mean that artists working in innovative media can\u2019t thrive in a gallery setting \u2014 it\u2019s just harder to sell a computer-based sculpture or JPEG file than a painting on canvas. New York\u2019s bitforms gallery, opened in November 2001, has spent the past decade creating a sustainable sales system for innovative, technology-based art. \u201cWe have tried to educate and create a platform for collectors and curators\u201d about new media art, said bitforms director Steven Sacks, in order to \u201ccreate the ability to sell the works and have the artists and gallery profit from them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/artinfo.com\/news\/story\/753419\/get-rich-click-schemes-innovative-funding-strategies-keep-new-media-artists-afloat\">Get Rich Click Schemes: Innovative Funding Strategies Keep New Media Artists Afloat | Artinfo<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that we support an emerging field of practice differentiates us from other arts institutions and makes us more reliant on the community we serve,\u201d Salditch wrote. \u201cWe need the artists we support to give back to our efforts.\u201d In turn, proceeds from Rhizome\u2019s 2011 $25,000 pledge drive will go toward an annual Commissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}