The Week Ahead: Conflict of Interest Edition
Jeremy Bailey, Importrait Portrait of Michelle Kasprzak, 2013. Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery.Earlier this year, "Famous New Media Artist" Jeremy Bailey ran a Kickstarter campaign in which he offered...
View ArticleInternet Real Estate, Art and Power: The cases of Artsy and .art
The forthcoming introduction of generic top-level domains (gTLDs)—which will replace the .com or .net suffix with specific words or terms, such as .food, .movies, or .microsoft—poses new speculative...
View ArticlePerformance GIFs 7: Jennifer Chan
Cam Twist ManyCam and webcam videoJennifer ChanArtist's statement:"Whenever you put your body online, in some way you are in conversation with porn," writes Ann Hirsch."If you do not want your image...
View ArticlePeter Van Riper: Between Holography and the Avant-Garde
As an artist, my interface with holography and laser technology is always aimed at achieving a particular art piece that communicates the concerns of all my work. They are chance, change, it-ness,...
View ArticleRestoring 'The World's First Collaborative Sentence'
Douglas Davis, "The World's First Collaborative Sentence" (1994). Detail.On Monday, the New York Times ran an article describing the Whitney Museum's restoration of an early online artwork by Douglas...
View ArticleTyler Coburn's Performances for Data Centers
Artist and erstwhile Rhizome staff writer Tyler Coburn's recent project I'm that angel includes a book and performance narrated by a fictional “content farmer,” a writer (typically freelance) who...
View ArticlePerformance GIFs 8: Marisa Olson
This is the latest in an ongoing series of performance GIFs curated by Jesse Darling. Previously: Maja Cule, Legacy Russell, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Creighton Baxter, Genevieve Belleveau, Jennifer...
View Article#Resistance as Daily Practice
In the aftermath of a tumultuous weekend in Istanbul, artist Merve Unsal reflects on the relationship between social media and the quotidian practice of protest.Photograph by Ian Usher taken at Gezi...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Our Data, Ourselves Edition
Promotional video for Lovid, U R QR (2013).This weekend, artist duo Lovid will premiere a new project titled U R QR. If you participate, various things will happen to you, including your face being...
View ArticleA Queer History of Computing, Part Five: Messages from the Unseen World
This marks the fifth and final installment in a genealogy of queer computing (Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four). Note from Alan Turing to Robin Gandy, March 1954.Born in London in 1949,...
View ArticleSite Sprint
The Rhizome team are holed up in Red Hook for the rest of the week, doing some much-needed spring cleaning on the beast that is rhizome.org. If we happen to break anything, please don't be alarmed, but...
View ArticleQuestioning the World as Image: The 55th Venice Biennale and "The Whole Earth"
Photo of Earth by the crew of Apollo 8. December 22, 1968The central theme for this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, comes from an obscure patented design for an...
View ArticleComments on Wark
Several critical comments on our recent posts about McKenzie Wark and on Marc Garrett's announcement for a talk by Wark at Furtherfield were caught in spam filtration for a time, and have now been...
View ArticleCory Arcangel, "GAO" (2013)
Cory Arcangel, Clinton, 2011. Pencil on paper (produced with Mutoh XP-300 series printer), edition 1 of 3, 11 x 8.5 inches. Last year, critic Alix Rule and artist David Levine suggested in a...
View ArticleChariots of the Gods: A spaceship lands in Bogotá
Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Nave Especial (1980). Photographed in 1990.The morning of April 17, 1980 dawned cold, gray and damp in Bogotá. In other words, it was like most mornings there, with a low...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: We're in the MON3Y Edition
Selected events, exhibitions and deadlines this week, culled from Rhizome Announce.DeadlinesArtistsSunday, June 30: Online exhibition MON3Y.US | *MON3Y AS AN ERROR is calling for digital works...
View ArticleToday: #Downing_St, a Twitter Play by Eva Weinmayr
Work from the series Todays Questions by Eva Weinmayr.NARRATOR (@Narra_DowningSt): She pushes her bike to the front door of No 10 and rings the bell. Samantha Cameron answers the door, smiling....
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Privacy Exposed To Radiant Light
"...what is art? Privacy exposed to radiant light."— Mu Xin, Chinese Landscape PainterUndef, User 632 (2013). Animated GIF documentation of real-time visualization of data collected from passersby.A...
View ArticleMagda Sawon on the High Line
For their group exhibition Busted, High Line Art are commissioning a new work of art honoring a person to be chosen by members of the public. Magda Sawon, founder of Postmasters Gallery, one-time board...
View ArticleSurf Report: gURLs
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's shoes during her 13-hour filibuster on June 25, 2013.Jennifer Steinkamp, from the seires Sexist Slides (1989). Slideshow projected on a street in Hollywood at...
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