If you are in New York, I invite you to come to the opening for Rhizome Artbase 101. My e-commerce project Shop Mandiberg (http://www.mandiberg.com/shop) is included in this net.art survey at the New Museum here in New York. The exhibition opens this wednesday night, and runs until september 10th. The URL is http://www.newmuseum.org/now_upcoming.php best, Michael RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 June 23 - September 10, 2005 New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea Media Lounge Rhizome ArtBase 101 includes some of the most important works and brightest talents in new media art, which includes website design, performance, software and games. This exhibition showcases a selection of historically significant Internet art works organized around salient critical or formal themes - such as Game, Appropriation, and Cyborg Identity - all of which are preserved in Rhizome.org's online archive of new media art, the ArtBase. Presenting the Internet as a medium rivaling photography or sculpture in its ability to sustain diverse critical and formal explorations, Rhizome ArtBase 101 introduces the museum visitor to historical and contemporary topics in Internet-based art creation. Arists in the exhibition include Barbara Lattanzi, Michael Mandiberg, Prema Murthy, Rtmark, and Alexi Shulgin. Rhizome ArtBase 101 is organized by Rachel Greene, Adjunct Curator.