Readers' Survey
Time is running short to participate in a survey of Rhizome readers organized by Nectar Ads (who organize the art-related advertising that you see in our sidebar).Many of you will have seen my recent...
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A Shimmering Analog Memory: Artists' films in Pixelvision
Still image from Peggy Ahwesh, Strange Weather (1993). Single-channel video with sound.Ed. – Strange Weather will be shown at the New Museum this Friday, April 26, at 7:00 PM as part of “The Art of...
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Seven on Seven 2013: Recap
This past Friday, seven artists and seven technologists, working in pairs assigned by Rhizome, took up residence in workspaces across the city. The rules of engagement were simple: they were given one...
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Datamoshing the Land of Ooo
Screenshot of work in progress, David OReilly, "A Glitch is a Glitch" (2013). Episode of the television series Adventure Time.David OReilly is a 3D animator’s 3D animator. Embracing a stripped-back...
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Oliver Laric's Response to BiennaleOnline
Screenshot of Oliver Laric, An Incomplete Timeline of Online Exhibitions and Biennials (2013). Web page with text and still images.Rhizome is pleased to present a new artwork by Oliver Laric, An...
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The Week Ahead: Inaugural Media Orgy Edition
Gary Viskupic, poster for HPSCHD, 1969For the next few Mondays, we're going to be test-running a weekly feature that spotlights some tantalizing looking events from Rhizome Announce, in New York and...
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Ryder Ripps' "Hyper Current Living"
Ryder Ripps, Screenshot of portion of project website for Hyper Current Living (2013).Tilda Swinton hasn't reappeared in her box at MoMA since Ebertfest, but there's a new endurance performance in...
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Emoticon, Emoji, Text II: Just ASCII
Artwork from ASCII Art Dictionary (possibly 1999). This is the second in a three-part series to be published on Rhizome. The first part, exploring the history of the emoticon, can be found here. The...
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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Gaming Canvas
Brent Watanabe, for(){};(2013). Projection-mapped video game on canvas.A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the Web, taking a brief look at creative works that...
View ArticleCommissions Deadline Extended to May 15
Over the past couple days, my inbox has been filled with pleas for deadline leniency from bleary-eyed artists around the world who, presumably upon stumbling from their beds after several weeks of...
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The Strange Rituals of TEDxSummerisle
I woke up early that morning with the intention of helping to fake a TEDx Conference.I prepared tea and oatmeal in the usual way. Then I opened a Google Drive document, in which more than ten people...
View Article"Art and Not Bits and Bytes"
Last Friday, Rhizome published a new artwork by Oliver Laric that was originally made for BiennaleOnline, but which could not be shown because HTML code and outgoing links were (surprisingly, for an...
View ArticleVideos of Seven on Seven Now Online
On April 20, 2013, a nice spring Saturday, some brilliant minds from art and technology met to share the ideas and projects that emerged from a one-day interdisciplinary collaboration. For those of you...
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A Queer History of Computing: Part Four
In Part Four of our ongoing genealogy of queer computing (Part One, Part Two, Part Three), we introduce a second generation of queer scholars who made important contributions to the field of computer...
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The Week Ahead: Bloc Party Edition
Events and deadlines that are on our radar this week: MontréalThe fifth annual Sight & Sound festival hits town this week, marking the fifth anniversary of the artist-run new media venue Eastern...
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A Cavalier History of Situationism: An Interview with McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark’s new book The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the Twenty-First Century (Verso, out today in the US and May 20 in the UK) completes his non-trilogy of writings...
View ArticleNotes on ASMR, Massumi and the Joy of Digital Painting
When I first came across ASMR, it struck me as an Internet meme that bordered on a vast consensual hallucination, like the stories of fainting spells that sweep village schools. ASMR stands for...
View ArticleThe Greatest Hits of Rhizome April 2013
In April 2013, the most viewed article on Rhizome was Daniel Rourke's richly illustrated interview with David OReilly, animator and director of a recent episode of Cartoon Network's series Adventure...
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Did 'Vertigo' Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?
Extract from Vertigo (1958).As Slavoj Žižek and others have argued, the credit sequences designed by Saul Bass for Alfred Hitchcock's unofficial trilogy of late masterpieces—Vertigo (1958), North by...
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Surf Report: Sext Me So I Know It's Real Edition
TIME Magazine, May 20, 2013. TIME Magazine, January 1, 2007.Jon Rafman, New Age Demanded Microfiche Archive, 2013. Microfiche machine and custom microfiche. 51.5 x 33 x 48.4 cm. Via Future Gallery....
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