NEW YORK, NY, August 26, 2002 - Rhizome.org, an online community focused on new media art, is pleased to announce that is has received a $30,000 grant from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation in support of Rhizome.org’s web hosting program. This is Rhizome.org’s first grant from the foundation.

"We are very grateful for the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation’s generous support," said Mark Tribe, Executive Director of Rhizome.org. "This grant will help us develop our new web hosting program, which launches this week."

Rhizome Web Hosting is a fee-based service that provides server space for artists and others in the Rhizome.org community. Offered in partnership with a commercial hosting provider, Rhizome Web Hosting is an innovative collaboration between non-profit and for-profit businesses that will make Rhizome.org more sustainable by generating earned income while furthering Rhizome.org’s mission. For more information about Rhizome Web Hosting, go to http://rhizome.org/hosting.

Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization that provides an online platform for the global new media art community. Founded in 1996, Rhizome.org serves as a grass-roots community center for new media artists, curators, students, educators, writers and enthusiasts. Rhizome.org’s programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and
preservation of contemporary art that engages new technologies in significant ways.

Rhizome.org takes its name from the botanical term for an underground stem that connects plants into living networks, a metaphor for the organization’s  non-hierarchical structure. Widely considered to be the world’s leading online resource for and about new media artists and their work, Rhizome.org connects, supports, and educates the new media art community and the public through cost-free programs including email-based discussion groups and publications, online archives for new media art works and writings, a new media calendar and opportunity listings, a new media art commissioning program, outreach events, and an international internship program.