Collecting Contemporary Art Means Collecting Digital Art
Petra Cortright. RGB,D-LAY, 2011. Webcam video file. Edition of 5. 1 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. Last night, Rhizome was the beneficiary of the Paddles On!...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Harry Sanderson
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 ArticleSeven on Seven London at the Barbican Centre, October 27
David Karp (Tumblr) and artist Ryan Trecartin at Seven on Seven 2010. Image credit: Renny Gleeson. Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference series heads to the Barbican Centre in London on October 27. The...
View ArticleThe Sixth Annual Imagine Science Film Festival
Forms (2012) by Memo Akten and Quayola. Image Credit: ISFF The Imagine Science Film Festival, now in its sixth year, has grown in the hands of organizer Alexis Gambis from a small discussion group...
View ArticleRequired Reading: A Closer Look at JODI's 'Untitled Game'
Mute, Vol 1, No. 22 ("The Art Issue"), including CD-ROM of JODI, Untitled Game (1996-2001). Rhizome's erstwhile Conservation Fellow, Lisa Adang, has published the results of her material analysis of...
View ArticleHeroes and Villains: Nate Hill in New York
Nate Hill, from the series Trophy Scarves (2013).To the extent that people know his name, Nate Hill is a controversial figure in the internet art world. He gets into bizarre, seemingly one-sided fights...
View ArticleRunning a Marathon
Douglas Coupland, I Miss My Pre-Internet Brain (2013). Pigment on lacquered apple plywood 22" x 17". Courtesy of The Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.With the Frieze Art Fair now in full swing, London is...
View ArticleVideo of Post Net Aesthetics is Now Online
Post-Net Aesthetics, a panel organized by Karen Archey and Rhizome that took place at the ICA in London last week, picks up the discussion from Rhizome's Net Aesthetics panels of 2006 and 2008, both of...
View ArticleUBERMORGEN at Carroll/Fletcher, London
UBERMORGEN, Perpetrator i (2008) detail. Pigment Print on Paper, 220 x 146 cm.Edward Snowden, MMO gamming sweatshops in China, torture as participatory art, madness, and the troubled life of a...
View ArticleThe Age of Drones
Detail from ESSAM, Drone Campaign Poster (2012).If the epoch of a technology is signaled by the simultaneous appearance of new potential uses and looming ethical questions, then without a doubt we've...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Steve Roggenbuck
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 ArticleWherever You Are: Watch Seven on Seven London Live on October 27th!
Rhizome is pleased to announce that Seven on Seven London, at Barbican Centre on October 27th, will be streamed live, 7AM through 1PM8AM through 2PM EST. The particpants in this first international...
View ArticleLingering Patience
Jon Rafman, A Man Digging (2013), Single channel HD videoJon Rafman uses the intricate tableaux of Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3 as cinematic source material for his new machinima work, A Man Digging...
View ArticleWhat's Postinternet Got to do with Net Art?
Courtesy grouphab.it and Harm van den Dorpel.An extended and altered version of this text will be published in... You Are Here: Looking at After the Internet (Cornerhouse Books 2014), edited by Omar...
View ArticleThis Thursday, A Fresh Start
This Thursday, the Rhizome community will come together in the New Museum Sky Room to re-imagine its future. A future less bound by the nitpicking criticism of the past, the hand-wringing, the...
View ArticleATHENS, BABY: A Conversation with Poka Yio
The Beggar's Opera at the 4th Athens Biennale, AGORA . Source.If you thought the Greek economic crisis had faded into irrelevancy, think again. Greece may not dominate headlines as it once did, but...
View ArticleArt Criticism in the Age of Yelp
Thomas Struth, Hermitage 3, St. Petersburg (2005).I. Amazon Amazon used to have literary ambitions. In the late '90s, the company hired professional editors who commissioned and wrote thousands of...
View ArticleCyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum
Wangechi Mutu, A'gave you (2008). Mixed media collage on mylar, 93" x 54".The violent and ambiguous encounter depicted in A'gave you (2008) encapsulates the force and intent of Wangechi Mutu's...
View Article3 Videos by Hamishi Farah
Surfers' Paradise was an artist residency and exhibition that took place in Melbourne from 1–10 November. Fifteen Australian artists created, documented, and uploaded artworks to the internet over the...
View ArticleWelcome to My Chronic Internet Freak-Out Syndrome
Left: AOL, about the time the internet and I first met. (Remember that sonorous modem music? The sound of the future!) Right: AOL now (yes, it's still there). With lotsa "headline news" on household...
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