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The Book as Interface: WYSIWYG
Marialaura Ghidini, ed. On the Upgrade: WYSIWYG (or-bits.com, 2013).One of the most intriguing things about On the Upgrade, a series of publications resulting from the activities on online exhibition...
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The Week Ahead: We'll Miss You Zoë Salditch Edition
The Reanimator Lab and community participants, Rhizome logo made at IDEAS CITY (2013).This week, there are many deadlines that are relevant to the Rhizome community. You can submit your work to VIDA...
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Compression by Abstraction: A Conversation About Vectors
The following conversation was re-published with permission from the brand-new publication Spheres by Swiss graphic designer Philippe Karrer. Rafaël Rozendaal and Jürg Lehni discuss their shared...
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Apple's Patent on the Pinch-and-Zoom Falls
Thomas Hirschhorn, Bootleg extract from Touching Reality. Yesterday, Engadget and other outlets reported that the USPTO made its final decision to nix a patent filed by Apple in 2007 in an attempt to...
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And the Guy Debord Action Figure Goes To...
After months of jury deliberation, we have a winner in the limited edition Guy Debord action figure giveaway that we offered on behalf of Verso Books to mark the launch of McKenzie Wark's new book on...
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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Dance and Technology
Anarchy Dance TheatreA collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web around the subject of dance and the creative employment of contemporary technology.Anarchy...
View ArticleArtists: Bring Us Your Obsolete Digital Media
Between now and September 8, Rhizome and the New Museum are inviting artists to make free-of-charge appointments at the XFR STN exhibition to transfer their obsolete digital media and videotape to more...
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Dov Jacobson: Human Vectors (1982)
Material that has been brought to the XFR STN open-access media conservation project is now beginning to appear online at the Internet Archive, and there are some real treasures. One of these is Human...
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We Made a Full-Screen GIF Viewer (But it doesn't work well with pixel art)
Screenshot of Google Chrome logo resized in Google Chrome. When we began working with Jesse Darling on her recent Performance GIFs series, she had a request: she wanted all of the GIFs to open...
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The Week Ahead: The Uncanny Edition
The inToAsia Festival opens this week.Without further ado, here are more selected events, exhibitions, and deadlines this week, all culled from Rhizome Announce. Artist OpportunitiesSunday, August...
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Best of Rhizome: July 2013
Frames from television program (1964) featuring a demo of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, edited in Photoshop to show the onscreen graphics more clearly.Here at Rhizome, the big news of July 2013 was the...
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Seeking Autumn Fellows and Intern
Former interns have participated in Rhizome-commissioned projects such as DISimages.Rhizome is offering a range of professional development opportunities for the fall semester: an Editorial Fellowship,...
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Olia Lialina, 'Summer' (2013)
Summer (2013). Olia Lialina. Screenshot of animation comprising individual GIF images displayed across multiple websites.In a 2006 interview with Valeska Buehrer, artist Olia Lialina observed that her...
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Marc Ngui, Illustration for 'A Thousand Plateaus'
Artist Marc Ngui recently returned to his A Thousand Plateaus drawing project, in which he visually interpretats the famous text by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Ngui had previously only...
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Don Slepian's "Sunflower Geranium" (1983)
Recently, Rhizome featured vector animations by Dov Jacobson that had surfaced at the XFR STN open-access media conservation project. Another standout work from the same videotape (RYO Gallery’s 1986...
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The Week Ahead: Honk-Tweet Edition
Labrynthitis by Jacob Kirkegaard is presented at Eyebeam on FridayThis week, New York is awash with sound art, led by MoMA's exhibition Soundings: A Contemporary Score (which features work by...
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What Could the Internet Be? Dia’s Online Projects
Laylah Ali, John Brown Song! (2013). Cropped screenshot of website with Quicktime videos.Laylah Ali’s project, John Brown Song!, was launched in June as part of Dia Art Foundation’s artist web...
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Allan Sekula's Letter to Bill Gates
Allan Sekula, artist and author of such indispensable texts as "The Body and the Archive," passed away over the weekend. While Sekula's primary medium was photography, his work had no small relevance...
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The Rhizome ArtBase As Seen Through Vince McKelvie's 3dGif
GIF by Vince McKelvie. (The artbase GIFs can be found below).We've been enjoying learning more about the work of Vince McKelvie since he released the web-based toy 3dGif a couple of weeks back. Perhaps...
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Art & Technology According to Powhida and Townsend
William Powhida and Jade Townsend's drawing Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (2012). Detail. William Powhida and Jade Townsend's drawing Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes is a depiction of the art world as a...
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