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Launching Rhizome's Community Campaign 2014: What Will Rhizome's Role Be in...
Had we taken this Chris Burden piece (Tower of Power, 1985) from the New Museum recently, we'd be set. We're launching our six-week community campaign today. Will you make a donation this year? As...
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Welcome to Your New NSA Partner Network: Report from Transmediale 2014
We're running our annual community campaign through March 19. Give today!Photo: Andreas Nicolas Fischer.A kind of cold weather antipode of summer's "Love Parade," the Transmediale 2014 media arts...
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To Program a Prose Machine
Nanni Balestrini, Tristano, copy #10750 (Verso, 2014).In order to program a poetry machine, one would first have to repeat the entire Universe from the beginning—or at least a good piece of it.—...
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I (No Longer) Have a Web Site: Access, Authenticity, and the Restoration of...
"I Have a Website." JPEG version of screenshot from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op.One year ago, a system developed by artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied began taking screenshots of...
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Getty Images: Still Kinda Sexist?
Portrait of a confident businesswomanThis week, LeanIn.org and Getty teamed up to release a new collection of 2,500 stock photos that aim to "represent women and families in more empowering ways." The...
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Community Campaign 2014 — Donate to Sustain Commissions to Artists
Ann Hirsch, Playground (2013). Photo: Oresti TsonopoulosYour Gift Means Rhizome Can Commission Artists - Donate Today?A message from Ann Hirsch, 2012-13 Commissions Awardee: When I received a Rhizome...
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Dating Advice Needed
For the past few days, using a special algorithm we call "first come, first served," we at Rhizome HQ have been busily setting up blind dates (or trying to). This is not only because we want our...
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TEDxVaduz: Towards a new future through a moribund format
Femke Herregraven speaks at TEDxVaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Dec 2013. Via DIS.TEDxVaduz was held at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in December of 2013. Designed and organized by artists Simon Denny...
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Shia LaBeouf: Is there genius in his endgame?
Hollywood has come to regard the likes of LaBeouf as disposable freelancers: cheap relative to more established stars, there to fill space between the explosions the summer audience really wants to...
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Artists in the C A S C A D E: Kari Altmann and Rhizome's Insta
#softcontrolabstracts 2012-ongoing @softmobility @karialtmannIn recent years, a central challenge for Rhizome as an internet-based organization has been adjusting to the C A S C A D E (to expand on a...
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Bitcoin and the Speculative Anarchist
Kari Altmann, image from Soft Mobility Abstracts (2014). When I tell my close friends—who know of, and share, my anti-capitalist anarchist views—that I own some cryptocurrency (my current holdings...
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Always Evolving, Historically Rooted — Rhizome Needs Your Support
Still frame from Cory Arcangel, Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), as featured in Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, curated by Christiane Paul for the Whitney Museum of American Art.Rhizome puts the...
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Before and After UbuWeb: A conversation about artists' film and video...
Jason Simon, Untitled (Video Against AIDS), 2013. Three facsimile cassette wraps and original printed materials. Beginning in 2009, artist Jason Simon worked with media scholar Cynthia Chris to...
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Welcome to the Internet Smoking Room
This weekend, to coincide with This is the ENDD: a Forum on the E-Cigarette, the front page of Rhizome.org will present The Smoking Room, created by Pinar&Viola and programmed by Gui Machiavelli....
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Wavelength: The VAPECRU Mixtape
In conjunction with This is the ENDD and at the invitation of event presenter Mathew Dryhurst, Aaron David Ross of Gatekeeper has compiled a mixtape exploring the vape aesthetic. The resulting work is...
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Watch 'This is the ENDD' Live from 3-6pm EST
This is the ENDD is streaming via New Museum's livestream.The order of events is as follows:3pm Heather Corcoran, Director's remarks310pm Zachary Kaplan introduction320pm Mat Dryhurst/Brian...
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48 Artists (and Rhizome) remember when...
When all of my friends are on at once, organized by Gene McHughChat rooms, ScReEnNaMeS, AdultKing, cheat codes, Everquest, AOL/Rent essay writing contests. While the cultural forms we encounter on the...
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Hey: Your data-driven headlines are probably just drivel after all, but...
A few years back, a writer friend who worked at a prominent blog explained to me that her employer's sensationalist, runon headlines were crafted with the help of a cutting-edge A/B testing system....
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I Mean Business: the e-cigarette store and how we sell technology
E-cig store in Les Sables, FranceOn February 22, Rhizome held This is the ENDD, a one-day forum on the e-cigarette. A version of this article was given by the author as a PowerPoint lecture.Last fall,...
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A New Office for Rhizome (Means Even More Reasons to Donate)
Today, I'm pleased to share some news: this summer, Rhizome will be moving into expanded office space in the New Museum's building at 231 Bowery, also home to NEW INC, their art, design, and...
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