The voting for the Rhizome ‘05-‘06 Net Art Commissions is underway.

You can look at all the proposals here. You have to be a Rhizome member to vote on the proposals.

There’s already been a bit of discussion on Rhizome_Raw regarding the proposals. From Jess Loseby:

just gone through the submissions for this years commissions. I would be interested to know what proportion of the submissions people approve….??

I must have approved about 6

does that make me discerning or arch-bitch - (rhetorical - I know:).

I tried to look at as much and be as fair as possible but I admit after the first 15 anything with the word “mapping” or whose abstract looked like it had been written by curt’s “market-o-matic” went into auto-no. *yawn*

Backed up by Annie Abrahams:

I ‘saw’ them all too and had the same kind of reaction

finally said ‘yes’ to 6 propositions , same as you.

I must admit to be underwhelmed by the proposals as well. This doesn’t mean that many of the projects couldn’t or wouldn’t be good. It’s just that for one reason or another the proposal isn’t interesting. Maybe the author simply doesn’t know how to talk about their work? Maybe the proposal just doesn’t transfer well into a description?

Whatever the reason, I’m curious to hear from any artists, curators, or critics who have sat on juries. Is the signal to noise ratio any different in these Rhizome proposals then you normally see?

For the record, here is MTAA’s proposal. permanent link to this post