Digital Preservation Community, This One's for You: Donate Today
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Once Upon, 2012Rhizome is a nimble organization that is passionate about the impact we can make in the field of digital preservation—yet the work we do exists...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Code and Economics
"Joy To Ode" by Dominik PodsiadlyThe latest in an ongoing series of themed collections of creative projects assembled by Prosthetic Knowledge. This edition takes a look at creative projects and...
View ArticleNamaste, the ad begins: Bernays & Assoc. sells the e-cigarette
The following image-essay accompanies a performance given by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal at This is the ENDD, a forum on the e-cigarette held on February 22. Video of Rosenthal's presentation can be found...
View ArticleLiquid Crystal Palace: Jeremy Blake and his new peers
Jeremy Blake, Liquid Villa, 1999 Digital C-print 29 x 84 inches Edition of 3 + 1APRhizome Editor and Curator Michael Connor, in his prior capacity as an independent curator, co-organized Liquid Crystal...
View Articlebooomerrranganggboobooomerranrang: Nancy Holt's networked video
Nancy Holt, Boomerang (1974), still from video.In her time on this planet, Nancy Holt came to be known as a great American Land Artist, and certainly her brilliant installations, like Utah's Sun...
View ArticleMissing Our Target :-( and Our Telethon
Artist's rendering: Editor and Curator Michael Connor on March 19First things first: we're behind on our targets with two weeks to go in this campaign — donate today to catch us up?Now, on to something...
View ArticleTen Seconds to Hypertext Oblivion
Before reading this, you may as well play the game. It's only ten seconds long. But, I recommend that you do it late at night, and all by yourself. OK, here's the link. Begin.Blue helvetica typeface...
View ArticleBlue Ruin: Totality and Acceleration
Republished with permission from Public Seminar.Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Film still from Atomic Park (2003).Who could have guessed that when the flood came it would come in slow motion, over forty...
View ArticleThe Horror of Google Street View
Jon Rafman, BR-265, Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, (2012). Archival pigment print on aluminium. Seventeen Gallery.It is not a good opening paragraph, as opening paragraphs go: A friend of mine showed...
View ArticleRhizome's 24-Hour Telethon: Lineup Announced
For 24 hours from 11am on Wed, March 19 (EST) on Rhizome.org, and broadcasting live from Lu Magnus. Our volunteers will be ready to take your calls.Our campaign still has some way to go to meet our...
View ArticleEndless War: On the database structure of armed conflict
Republished in slightly edited form from VVVNT.Image courtesy of Graham Harwood.How does the way war is thought relate to how it is fought?As the Afghan war unfolds, it produces vast quantities of...
View Article$6,587 To Go, and a 24-Hour Telethon To Get Us There
A telethon. All day. All night. We are doing this. Will you donate to support? 11am-11am EST, March 19-20. 24 hours. Wow. That's a lot of hours. But we are going to fill those hours with some of the...
View ArticleThe Commenter: A Lament
This post was composed in one hour in front of an online audience for the Rhizome Internet Telethon 2014.Tom Moody, Double Buckyball (detail of work in process), 2004, mixed media, approx. 60 x 40...
View ArticleThank You. Now, we have work to do.
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and friends. After a successful conclusion of our 2014 Community Campaign yesterday, there are many positive feelings, and many things to say.The format was an experiment. Our...
View ArticleCosmic Time Capsules: Spacecraft as archaeological treasure
An artist's impression of Rosetta waking from deep-space hibernation to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. © ESA, image by AOES Meidalab.In May, the Rosetta spacecraft will make...
View ArticleTrolling Anal (Or, recent performance in LA)
Thursday, 2:30 am, four drinks deep, at the old Night Gallery Space, some schmoe is coming around the crowd with a lockbox and deck of cards, telling us to hand over our cell phones. "None of this can...
View ArticleLocative Media Revisited
Molly Dilworth, 547 West 27th Street (2009). From the series "Paintings for Satellites."In the early 2000s, as location-aware devices first became commonplace, there was a lot of hype surrounding...
View ArticleAn Email Interview with Jeremy Blake
4 Apr 2006Hello Chris. Thanks for taking an interest in my work, and Jayson's as well. Below are my answers in blue.Sincerely, JB1. How integral was Jayson Whitmore's involvement with you on the...
View ArticleDNS Politics: Citizen journalism after the Twitter ban
Photograph posted to Twitter by Engin Onder on March 20, 2014, with the caption: "#twitter blocked in #turkey tonight. folks are painting #google dns numbers onto the posters of the governing...
View ArticleShana Moulton and Nick Hallett's 'Whispering Pines 10' on Art21
Wake up, sleepyhead. Art21 just posted their profile of Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett's opera, Whispering Pines 10, presented by Rhizome at the New Museum."Shana gets all of these comparisons to like...
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