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Artist Profile: American Artist
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Ryan Kuo: Let's rewind to 2017. You are presenting your digital work Sandy...
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In between performance and documentation
This essay was originally published November 2022 as a chapter in the book Documentation as Art, edited by Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi.In the preservation of digital art documentation is...
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Aura of an Era
Editor's note: Last year we decided to look back on Tumblr’s history by publishing an open call for artist-made Tumblrs to be accessioned to the Rhizome ArtBase, our archive of more than 2000...
View ArticleRhizome pivots to video: Welcome to video.rhizome.org
Mainstream video sharing platforms can be difficult places to host artworks reliably. With unpredictable terms of service, algorithmically driven removal, and elusive support staff, videos are always...
View ArticleNew Museum Director Lisa Phillips and Rhizome founder Mark Tribe to be...
(NEW YORK, NY – June 21, 2023) — Rhizome is pleased to announce its upcoming benefit, taking place on Wednesday, June 28, will celebrate the history and future of the non-profit as the definitive...
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Artist Profile: Tomi Faison
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Toniann Fernandez: We first met on the Do Not Research Discord around the time...
View ArticlePostcards from StarryNight
Thanks to everyone for purchasing an NFT from SEED: Postcards from StarryNight, a special collaboration with TRLab in support of Rhizome’s work with generative art. The collection quickly sold out, but...
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celebration.obj
Last month, Rhizome celebrated our annual benefit, honoring generative artists Lillian Schwartz, Rafael Rozendaal, Ix Shells, and our 20 years of partnership with the New Museum. We commissioned artist...
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SEED: Stories of Rhizome and Generative Art
Last month, Rhizome held our annual benefit in partnership with TRLab, honoring generative art and artists Rafaël Rozendaal, Lillian Schwartz, and Ix Shells. The night was also a celebration of...
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Announcing the 2023 Microgrant Awardees!
Back in March, Rhizome relaunched its Microgrant program, inviting proposals for Browser-based projects and pitches for articles about works of born-digital art in the Rhizome ArtBase. Our staff...
View ArticleSkawennati Joins the Rhizome Board
Please join us in welcoming Skawennati to Rhizome’s Board of Directors! Based in Montreal, Skawennati's artistic practice questions our relationships with technology and highlights Indigenous people in...
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Cinema of Transmission
Rhizome recently organized a screening series as a part of the 2023 FWB Festival, an event described by the festival's manifesto as "a destination gathering of new-internet communities, and a temporary...
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Meet NEW INC's 2023-24 Art & Code Track Members
We're excited to introduce the cohort making up NEW INC's 2023-24 Art & Code track, a partnership between Rhizome and NEW INC.NEW INC is the first museum-led cultural incubator, which supports a...
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Works from the 2022-23 Art & Code cohort
In June, Rhizome and NEW INC presented works by artists in the 2022-23 Art & Code Track in a culminating exhibition at Dunkunsthalle, a former Dunkin’ Donuts turned art space founded by artist...
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Rhizome Discord - "Season 2" Update
At the beginning of this year, Rhizome launched a pay-what-you-wish Discord to create a space for community members to share resources and internet discoveries, and connect for IRL and online events....
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2023 Microgrants Community Program #1 - Recap
On October 7, Rhizome held the first Microgrants Community Session for 2023 Micrograntees, who, in August, were awarded between $500-$1500 via an open call to create a browser-based project or write an...
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Artist Profile: Rosalie Yu
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Stephen Kwok: Let’s start with your most recent work, Candy Glazed Eyes of...
View ArticleDocumentation from Neural Net Aesthetics is online
On October 26, 2023 Rhizome presented Neural Net Aesthetics at the New Museum, the latest in a series of panels that explores current artistic practice as it relates to the changing landscape of...
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Rhizome and the New Museum Announce Participants for 7x7 2024 Presented by...
Rhizome and the New Museum today announce the relaunch of Seven on Seven (7x7), the iconic art and technology program, to take place at the New Museum on January 27, 2024. Founded in 2010, 7x7 pairs...
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GIFs are a flat circle
What do GIFs as a practice look like today? With support from GIPHY Arts, Rhizome commissioned ten artists to make GIFs, or GIF-adjacent works. We invited artists that don’t maintain exclusive...
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7x7 January 27, 2024
get tickets7x7 presented by Rhizome and Hyundai Motor pairs seven leading artists together with seven visionary technologists, giving them a simple assignment: make something new. The results of these...
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Thank you to everyone who made Seven on Seven possible!
On January 27, Rhizome presented the 14th edition of Seven on Seven at the New Museum in New York City. As in previous years, artists and technologists came together for short term collaborations to...
View ArticleApply to be a member of NEW INC’s Year 11 cohort!
NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator, is seeking an intersectional community of applicants including artists, creative technologists, creative/design studios, entrepreneurs, and more to apply for...
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Artbase Anthologies 001: Auriea Harvey and Entropy8Zuper!
This new series showcasing works from the history of born-digital art is made possible with support from Teiger Foundation.Created during a period of increasing corporatization online, the works in...
View ArticleWelcome to ArtBase Anthologies, a New Repertory Program for Digital Art
ArtBase Anthologies, a new program showcasing the history of born-digital art, launches today with an online exhibition of newly restored artworks by Auriea Harvey and Entropy8Zuper!Enter ArtBase...
View ArticleFresh Kill, Freshly Restored
Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill is a fever dream of New York City at the dawn of the internet. Unfolding in a series of vignettes that are structured like the stanzas of an epic poem, interrupted by ad...
View ArticleRhizome Forever
Supporting the 2024 Rhizome microgrants programCelebrating ArtBase Anthologies, our new repertory program offering transformative histories of digital artFeaturing live performances, dinner, and...
View Article7x7 2024 Videos: Ana Fabrega x Cristóbal Valenzuela
The first in a series of videos and posts about each of the seven collaborations from 7x7.aiFounded in 2010, Rhizome’s 7x7 initiative brings together seven artists and seven technologists – roles that...
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A Generative Evening
Last month, Rhizome celebrated its 2023 benefit, honoring generative artists Rafael Rozendaal, Lillian Schwartz, and Ix Shells. We also celebrated 20 years of affiliation with the New Museum, saluting...
View Article"Hoarding is a Virtue": Documentation from our ArtBase Anthologies launch...
On April 3, Rhizome celebrated the launch of ArtBase Anthologies at Onassis ONX with a conversation between Michael Connor, Rhizome Co-Executive Director, Dragan Espenschied, Rhizome Preservation...
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Artist Profile: Heesoo Kwon
Lauren Sorresso: Since 2017, you’ve been exhibiting an episodic series of autoethnographic works about a feminist religion you initiated titled Leymusoom. These works include animated videos and games,...
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ArtBase Anthologies 002: Let’s Play Majerus G3 📽
“Let’s Play Majerus G3” explores a previously unexplored aspect of artist Michel Majerus’s archive: his laptop.Majerus (1967–2002) was a painter who used the computer extensively, incorporating digital...
View ArticleRhizome Forever Modules
As part of a special partnership, Rhizome is posting digital artefacts and original images for collectors on the Zora blockchain. A low-cost layer of Ethereum, Zora is designed more like a social media...
View ArticleDocumentation from Our Friend the Computer launch is now online!
In April, Rhizome hosted the launch of a new zine by Our Friend the Computer, a technology history podcast hosted by Camila Galaz and Ana Meisel. Rhizome Community Designer Bri Griffin joined Camila...
View ArticleRemembering the Internet(s)
This essay was originally published in Our Friend the Computer's zine.“In our dreams we have seen another network, an honest network, a network decidedly more fair than the one in which we now...
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Artist Profile: Nihaal Faizal
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Anisha Baid: When we spoke last, you mentioned that your recent trip to the...
View ArticleRhizome at DWeb Camp 2024!
Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a...
View ArticleIntroducing Rhizome’s Preservation Services
Are you an artist, museum conservator, or collector looking to restore or archive a work of software- or network-dependent art? Is your community organization trying to recover access to a meaningful...
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Open Call: Microgrants 2024
Now through September 15, Rhizome is accepting submissions for our 2024 Microgrants, offering support for new artworks on the web!Artists, thinker/tinkerers, game-makers, creative hackers, digital...
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Announcing the NEW INC Year 11 Art & Code Cohort!
We're excited to introduce the cohort making up NEW INC's 2024-25 Art & Code track, a partnership between Rhizome and NEW INC.NEW INC is the New Museum's cultural incubator, which supports a...
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Artist Profile: Anisha Baid
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Nihaal Faizal: Your work Breaking the Screen (2020) is part video essay, part...
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Artist Profile: Mark Fingerhut
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies.Jason Isolini: Comp USA Live was a live desktop performance and livestream...
View ArticleHappy Birthday ArtBase!
Happy birthday to Rhizome’s ArtBase, which launched 25 years ago today!It comes as no surprise that with the advancement of new technologies comes the risk of digital art and culture becoming lost to...
View ArticleMcKenzie Wark on TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT
To celebrate the 25th birthday of ArtBase—Rhizome's archive of digital art—we're sharing 25 works selected by 25 artists, curators, writers, and critics here and on Instagram.Writer and scholar...
View ArticleMajor Milestones at Rhizome
Rhizome Receives $750,000 Grant from The Mellon Foundation Earlier this month, we marked the 25th anniversary of our landmark digital art archive, the ArtBase. Today, we have another significant...
View ArticleAnn Hirsch on DIALTONES (A TELESYMPHONY)
This week for our 25 by 25 series we’re sharing artist Ann Hirsch’s nostalgia-filled pick: Dialtones (A Telesymphony) by Golan Levin, a custom audience-based ringtone symphony from 2001. Recalling her...
View ArticleCory Arcangel on World of Awe: The Traveler’s Journal (Chapter 1: Forever)
Up next in our 25 on 25 series we have Cory Arcangel and his pick, World of Awe: The Traveler’s Journal (Chapter 1: Forever) by Yael Kanarek. Salvaged from a laptop in 2000, World of Awe allows its...
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ArtBase Anthologies 003: Postborder (code)pendency / (Código)pendencia...
Web 1.0 was built on the promise of a borderless society—a global village (McLuhan 1962) where physical boundaries could be bypassed, allowing us to build communities based on shared interests. It’s no...
View ArticleHerdimas Anggara on GOBLIN.exe
This week for our 25 on 25 series we’re sharing the pick of fellow software manipulator, Herdimas Anggara. GOBLIN.exe by Mark Fingerhut is software that uses real malware techniques to take over the...
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Dentimundo: A Nostalgic Exploration of Early Web Art, Dental Tourism, and...
Dentimundo is on view now as part of ArtBase Anthologies 003: Post(border)codependencyDuring the final part of the introductory video to Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga’s online artwork Dentimundo [World of...
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