Sound is Here: An Interview with Barbara London
The Museum of Modern Art is making headlines in the wake of its recently opened exhibition, Soundings: A Contemporary Score (recently reviewed for Rhizome by Sam Hart). Organized by Barbara London,...
View ArticleOh gURL: It’s so good to finally meet u IRL
Ann Hirsch stood fully nude at the head of the gallery, solidly on both feet. "I guess a lot of people are 'over' nudity in performance art," she said. "Like it's been done before... so we should stop...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Alien She Edition
A roundup of opportunities and goings-on from Rhizome's community.PittsburghOpening Friday at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon is Alien She, the "first exhibition to examine the lasting impact...
View ArticleWho Sleeps? Jonathan Crary's "24/7"
Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963). Labor Day is supposed to be a day that honors those of us who work for a living with an extra day of rest. I'm writing this on Labor Day, at home on my own laptop, avoiding a...
View ArticleParanoid Reading: Notes on the Young-Girl and the Man-Child
This text is re-printed with permission from a publication released in conjunction with the exhibition The Politics of Friendship (Anicka Yi / Carissa Rodriguez / Jordan Lord / Lise Soskolne) at...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Rachel Reupke
Rhizome's Artist Profiles are interviews with artists that have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist...
View ArticleThe Impossible Music of Black MIDI
The machine on which Conlon Nancarrow created his player piano rolls. Photo by Carol Law, 1977. Collection: C Amirkhanian.In 1947, the composer Conlon Nancarrow—frustrated with human pianists and their...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead: Cross-Strait Edition
Ming Wong, Making Chinatown (II & III) (2012). On view as part of "Cross-Strait Relations" at Parsons.A roundup of opportunities and goings-on from Rhizome's community.OnlineRight now: Reading...
View ArticleMore Than A Feeling: An Interview with James Richards
Filmmaker Hito Steyerl has described the aesthetically-coded power dynamics at play between the "poor" and the "rich" image that infiltrate all aspects of contemporary video production. Beyond the...
View Article(A)non-Proposition: A Conversation with Studio for Propositional Cinema
In the summer of 2013, Studio for Propositional Cinema (SPC) launched itself during the Kunstverein Düsseldorf's congress "Proposals and Propositions" with a talk by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, the director...
View ArticleFridericianum Goes (Digital) Native
A major international show of post-internet, virtual, digital (or however you want to # it) art is opening this weekend at the Fridericianum in Kassel. To those who have experienced the long journey...
View Article[Portrait of the internet as a young girl]
Playground, a two-person performance by Ann Hirsch and commissioned by Rhizome, premieres at the New Museum this Friday, October 4. When a stranger wrote me out of the blue asking me to write about...
View ArticleOccupy.here: A tiny, self-contained darknet
Ed. — Occupy.here was supported by Rhizome as part of its 2012 Commissions program, and also received a commission from Triple Canopy in 2013. The project's new website launched yesterday.Regardless of...
View ArticleGeneration Worked
Generation Works, an artist-run space in Tacoma, Washington, recently staged its last-ever project as part of the Upcoming Exhibitions program at abc art berlin contemporary, an art fair founded in...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Computational Photography
The latest in an ongoing series of themed collections of creative projects assembled by Prosthetic Knowledge. This edition brings together works dealing with computational photography, featuring new...
View ArticleThe Silk Road
Image from the exhibition Concealed Carry, 2012 at Oliver Francis GalleryDescribed as a black market eBay, the Silk Road was a website where anything—and we do mean anything—could be purchased with...
View ArticleBest of Rhizome: September 2013
Performance by Genevieve Belleveau featuring Mikey Coyte at "gURLs."In September, as we prepared for Ann Hirsch's play in early October, feminism was very much on our minds. We published a report by...
View ArticleCall for Papers and Projects on E-Cigarettes and Vaping Technologies
We’ve been spotting them more and more in the wild, at galleries, house parties, restaurants, parks, various Bloomberg protectorates. Puffs of white and circular neon flickers; brushed aluminum spires...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Erica Scourti
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist...
View ArticleRafaël Rozendaal's Liquid Websites
The following videos are selections from interviews that Rhizome conducted with artist Rafaël Rozendaal, whose online artworks are part of the Rhizome Artbase.Rozendaal's work is an important inclusion...
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