05/06/2025
The Rhizome World Benefit Gala on May 9 at celebrates the luminaries who have deeply impacted digital culture.
The ticketed benefit follows 7x7 2025, Rhizome’s annual art-tech collaboration program, which will be held from 12-5 pm. Attendees will take a chartered ferry near this year’s 7x7 symposium venue at Cornell Tech to the gala at at 5:30 pm. The dinner takes place at 6 pm in conjunction with Rhizome World, a month-long immersive exhibition of software art. Rhizome World features newly commissioned installations and conserved digital pieces, including artworks by each honoree.
This year’s honorees include respected artists and visionaries:
Taryn Simon, Aaron Swartz (In memoriam), Auriea Harvey (.harvey.studio), and Michaël Samyn (.art), who’ve made innumerable contributions through their personal works and continued support of digital-born culture throughout their careers.
This year’s gala is also possible through generous support from MSCHF, Fred Benenson (), Dorothy Chou, Jehan Chu () & Jeannie Vu, Lisa Roumell & Mark Rosenthal.
Founded in 1996, Rhizome is a prolific organization that can be traced in tandem with the history of the internet. Our programming takes place online + in partnership with institutions & venues globally– with our supporting organizations, Digital Counsel (.xyz) and the New Museum () in NYC. We support digital art research & production, and we conserve and maintaining access to the important works pertaining to the history of digital art.
The program will include a dinner, live performances, artworks on view, as well as a paddle raise fundraiser whose proceeds go to Rhizome’s yearly artist commissions and microgrants.
Join the celebration of digital-cultures most renowned artists and thinkers
at the Rhizome Gala, May 9, at WSA, from 6-10 pm
(Tickets available for purchase through link in bio)
