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I recently learned that the online arts portal Turbulence is in a bit of a financial jam. Turbulence is the new media division of the New Radio and Performing Arts a NYC/Boston based media art funding organization. Like Rhizome and Eyebeam, Turbulence is near and dear to my heart as an organization that has introduced me to countless fantastic artists and projects. Many of my earliest experiences with online digital art were through Turbulence-commissioned work and I consider the organization's two blogs, Networked_Performance and Networked_Music_Review, to be absolutely essential art/technology news feeds.

Turbulence co-directors Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington need to raise $25,000 in donations this month - you can pitch in via this fundraising microsite. These curators really need to be commended for the work they've done over the years. I'm in the midst of juggling my holiday finances but look forward to pitching in to support the development of, and discourse surrounding provocative projects like Shiftspace (pictured above).

[kate armstrong & michael tippet / grafik dynamo / 2005]

So given the above, I've taken some time to wander through the Turbulence archives to revisit work that I've enjoyed in the past. If you have some time, take a look at the following projects: Jason Freeman, Patricia Reed and Maja Cerar's Graph Theory (2005), David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies (2004) and Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries (2003).