Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Polygon Glitch
A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr and around the web that involve constructive distortions and creative error in 3D computer graphics.The glitch aesthetic is now mainstream,...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Analog Sunset (Down Under) Edition
Analog Sunset at Ludlow 38.In 2009, I went to an amazing event at 38 Ludlow called Analog Sunset, which took place on the night that analog television was due to be turned off in the US forever, giving...
View ArticleThe Voluptuous Blinking Art of Teletext
With its blocky, low-res graphics and clunky interaction, the television-based information retrieval system known as teletext seems out of place in today's world of touchscreens and flatscreen TVs. But...
View ArticleA Network for a Space: Auto Italia South East Moves Into King’s Cross
Tim Ivison, Julia Tcharfas, George Moustakas and Rachel Pimm. View of Recent Work by Artists (2013).Auto Italia South East is no stranger to precarity. The inaugural event for this artist-run project’s...
View Article'My Little Pony' is the Nearest I Can Get to LSD: UBERMORGEN on Teletext Art
Artist duo UBERMORGEN are participating in the International Teletext Art Festival, which was recently profiled here on Rhizome. The following interview by Raffaela Kolb with UBERMORGEN's Hans Bernhard...
View ArticleRed Burns, 1925-2013
We were deeply saddened to learn this weekend of the passing of Red Burns. On Saturday, NYU's ITP department announced her passing with a statement. "After living several full lives, one of which we...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Go to Japan Edition
Participants in JAPIC's 2012-2013 Animation Artist in Residency Program engaging directly with Japanese animation culture.A notable opportunity came through the wire this week from Tokyo, where the...
View ArticleKentucky Route Zero: Adventuring into Appalachian Limbo
Still image from Cardboard Computer (Tamas Kemenczy and Jake Elliott), Kentucky Route Zero (video game). Act I, Scene I: Equus Oils."I've got a delivery on Dogwood Drive, but I'd rather watch the...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Net Artist Music Videos
The latest in an ongoing series of themed collections of creative projects assembled by Prosthetic Knowledge. This edition brings together music videos by artists for whom the internet is a primary...
View ArticleSampling Sonic Culture: MoMA’s Cautious Entry Into a World of Noise
Carsten Nicolai, Wellenwanne lfo (2012). Water tank, water, mirror, audio equipment, stroboscope, display screen."Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen."— Alvin...
View ArticleBest of Rhizome: August 2013
Sara Ludy, GIF extract from House on Fire (2013). Music video for Outfit. This month, the most-read article on Rhizome was by our regular contributor Prosthetic Knowledge, who put together a set of...
View ArticleRhizome's Seven on Seven at the Barbican Centre, London on October 27, 2013
Europeans: one of Rhizome's flagship programs, Seven on Seven, is on the move. We're pleased to announce that the first international edition of the event is to be held at the Barbican Centre, London,...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Back-to-School Edition
Apple 1 replica, Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple II clone), Apple ///, Apple IIe. Media Archaeology Lab early Apple Computer collection.A roundup of opportunities and goings-on from Rhizome's community....
View ArticleA Letter to Jennifer Knoll
Constant Dullaart, Jennifer_in_Paradise (2013). Restored digital image re-distributed online with stenographically encrypted message.Dear Jennifer,Sometime in 1987, you were sitting on a beach in Bora...
View ArticleThomas M. Disch's "Endzone"
Ariel Hameon, Science fiction author Thomas M. Disch at South Street Seaport (2008). Via Flickr. June 3, 2008. Some rights reserved."This Journal is a memorial. New entries cannot be posted to it." So...
View Article1980s Digital Experiments by Mechthild Schmidt Feist
Still images from computer graphics reel by Mechthild Schmidt Feist (1985).This summer, the New Museum's exhibition XFR STN (organized with Rhizome's collaboration) has been functioning as an...
View ArticleVideo of 'Born Digital' Now Online
Video of this weekend's panel discussion, Born Digital: Conservation in the Computer Age, is now online, featuring computer arts pioneer Lillian Schwartz, and digital humanities scholars Matthew...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Thank You Edition
From the series Artificiata II by Manfred Mohr.Last week, Rhizome received a rather exciting donation from Ryder Ripps and Sean John, and we want to start off this week by saying a big, heartfelt thank...
View ArticleThe Phantom Zone
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto (1991) [1]This is no fantasy... no careless product of wild imagination. No, my good...
View ArticleFrom the Rhizome Archives: 9/11 and its Legacy
Today, as we look back at a few of the reflections of 9/11 and its complex legacy that can be found in our archives and elsewhere, our thoughts are with all those in Rhizome's community who have lost...
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