Our energies are focused on this Web site, our email lists and program events where we bring people together to experience and talk about new media art. Together, these services form a platform for a global community of people who share an interest in the intersection of contemporary art and emerging technologies. The Rhizome.org community is geographically dispersed, and includes artists, curators, writers, designers, programmers, students, educators and new media professionals. Click here to see Rhizome.org's community statistics . A rhizome is a horizontal, root-like stem that extends underground and sends out shoots to the surface.
Rhizomes connect plants in a living network.
Rhizome is also a figurative term used by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to describe non-hierarchical networks of all kinds. Here are a few quotations from their seminal book, A Thousand Plateaus. A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes. Even some animals are, in their pack form.