Rhizome - Sergei Demidov

Plant of the Day

Friday 13 October 2023

Providing height for this autumn border was Helianthus pauciflorus (stiff sunflower). This herbaceous perennial originates in North American spreading by means of underground rhizomes.

Jill Raggett

Conversation Pit

a GIF commission for Rhizome and GIPHY

Description: “This GIF is a ghost story, a void of failed Feng Shui. Like the mock-up renderings created by contractors when a new home or public space is being built; unnatural spills of light and perspectives make very little sense when human images are implemented. Structurally palatial architecture harking back to a vapid but inornate Rococo interior. You’re seeing just the smallest snippet of a labyrinthian, suburban American home; needlessly sprawling but spiritually claustrophobic. Inanimate objects working as sponges of extreme human emotion, fumbling to grasp at a sense of comfort and status via possessions and excess. An “if these walls could talk” scenario with the tension softened, reckoned with by digestible cartoon depictions of manmade sadness and profitable unease. One of the many Pyramids erected in the Pyramid Scheme of Western Exceptionalism, the ones getting emptier, decaying every day. All this is a vulnerable, subconscious projection, haunting not only what occupies the home, but how the home ultimately functions.”

(2023)

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Rhizome Presents: Some Tumblrs!

Recently, Rhizome accessioned 22 artist-made Tumblrs into the Artbase, their online archive of born-digital artworks. To celebrate, Rhizome Co-director Michael Connor will be chatting with Christopher Clary, Cat Frazier (@animatedtext), Molly Soda (@mollysoda), and writer Larissa Pham (@larissa-pham)— contextualizing the selected works within the larger story of Tumblr, and exploring perspectives on the site's history and its importance to artists. 

Tune in tomorrow, May 18, at 6:30pm EDT on Tumblr Live!

If ya think about it... rocks are just inaccessible nutrients that water helps break down over time, which then can be accessed by plant roots and the delivered to us or other animals as edible nutrients.

Plants are just catalysts to help us eat rocks.

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Rhizomes, A Brief History (Part 1)

spoilers for zero escape: virtue’s last reward under the cut

So the basic premise of the Rhizome that I’m working with assumes that the Moon is a planetoid without a molten core, and that it’s because of its shape rather than its size that enables it to orbit the Earth. The science then assumes that there’s a weight variance of about 10-15% going either way before it starts to negatively affect the Earth.

So, keeping the shape in mind, what the engineers did is they designed the Rhizome to be built modularly but underground so that there wouldn’t be any giant structures throwing off the Moon’s orbit. And what the constructors did to help is get the approximate weight of a cubic meter of Moon rock (by having the astronauts bring the rock down to earth), and then create construction materials that were built solid while weighing about as much as the amount of moon rock they would replace.

The ease of modular building enabled the inhabitants of the Rhizome project to build their own living space with minimal assistance from construction crews. This enabled the UN to hire workers and pay them a retainer to live onsite and work the plug-n-play. But every Rhizome always starts with the same basics: two warehouses stacked on top of each other, a three-story service lift connecting the warehouses and the Moon’s surface, and crew quarters split off one of the warehouses, dealer’s choice.

Crash Keys, an investment firm known to the UN as unfocused in regards to acquisitions but *scarily* accurate as an information broker, was easily able to get exclusive rights to Rhizome 9 on *very* short notice. Due to this short notice, only the listed basics were built into the Moon.

(And if they passed a tip to the UN in early January that the Project needed to speed up a little, enabling the construction of over fifty Rhizomes by April, well. They *are* known for their accuracy.)

all of that to say that by the end of the Diana period of the 45 Year Foretold section, Rhizome 9 only has eight rooms besides the warehouse, and four of them aren’t there until about year three or so. the original four rooms Sigma and Diana have to work with are the four crew quarter rooms from the game. one room is housing the cryo pods, one room that doubles as the medical office if one of them gets sick and Diana’s biomed classroom, one is Sigma’s bedroom (for sleeping and studying *only*, no shenanigans), and the last is Diana’s, which Sigma has never seen before.

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Source Vision, 2023 Commissioned by Rhizome.org & Giphy

Wurzelatlas drawings by Erwin Lichtenegger

BLoSCtober Day 24

Prompt: Rhizome

This is Persephone, a girl from the planet Rhizome and an occasional playmate of the Lightyear-Nova kids. When she's not in school, she sometimes helps out at the spa/resort where her mother Demeter works. She also likes bugs, especially ones such as butterflies that pollinate flowers.

As alway, Disney and Pixar own Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and its characters; I just own Persephone here.

Plant of the Day

Saturday 25 February 2023

A native plant of the British Isles is the small herbaceous perennial Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone, lady's nightcap, moonflower, wood crowfoot, wood windflower). This woodland plant has slender rhizomes and thrives on moist but well-drained humus-rich soil.

Jill Raggett

We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics. Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial roots, adventitious growths and rhizomes.

A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari

Sin always comes openly and can at once be grasped by means of the senses. It walks on its roots and does not have to be torn out.

– Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms