Clik here to view.
Incognito Mode for the 21st-Century Flâneur
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877).If it's just a matter of avoiding "that guy" or helping its co-creator avoid his ex, then the new "anti-social" app Cloak—which sources your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Constructions of Truth In A Drone Age: "Forensis" at Haus der Kulteren der...
“Threshhold of Detectibility” Top: the roof of a building in Miranshah, Pakistan, that has been hit by a drone-fired missile. the form of destruction is masked in the photo’s pixelation. Source:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Notes for a New Documentary
Tony Conrad, Yellow Movie 12/17/72If, as Tony Conrad might have us suppose, a Movie is light and any marking of the passage of time, what is Documentary Cinema as a category? In fact, the Minimalist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing Seven on Seven's Fifth Anniversary Edition, NYC
Saturday, May 3, 201412-6pm EST at the New Museum, New York Livestreamed on Rhizome.org For Rhizome's Seven on Seven, leading contemporary artists are paired with tech luminaries for one day. Their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Successful Apps Fill Gaps
Jon Nash and Michael Petruzzo, Slight 1.0 (2014), screenshot of iOS app.A smartphone app feels special when, upon first being opened, one has no clue what one is supposed to be doing with it. If life...
View ArticleClik here to view.
911,000 B.C. at Grand Century
In order to increase survivability in the event of a crash, scientist Charles Yost developed memory foam in 1966 at the NASA Ames Research Center, within walking distance of what would later become the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connecting With My Inner Bot
Incorporate introduces itself in the iOS app store with a simple inquiry: "How do you connect to others, if you're not connected to yourself? This experiment in digital relaxation comes from artist duo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas: When property becomes smart
From Joe Hamilton, hypergeography. Sources: ultrazapping and darrellg.If you thought cryptocurrencies were hard to understand, you probably want to sit down for your first introduction to smart...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All the News We Hope to Print
Photo of Salon de Thé Facebook, Tunis, shared on Twitter by @WadhahJebri on February 16, 2011 and recirculated with the #16juin2014 hashtag.It sounds, at first, like something out of H.G. Wells. On...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artist Profile: Michael Manning
Animated GIF via dump.fmLH: For as long as I've been familiar with your work—starting on dump.fm in 2010—you've been incredibly prolific. Back then, you were creating and sharing abstract animated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Image of a Storm Cloud
The following is a fictionalized account of the opening of Jon Rafman's You Are Standing in an Open Field, which was on view from Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2013 at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York. "Zach Feuer's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Retweeting Fiction
New York City. Photograph by Teju Cole, via Flickr.On the morning of January 8th, Teju Cole published a fiction in the form of 33 tweets, each posted from the account of a different "collaborator," and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seven on Seven NYC is Sold Out (but you can still watch online and join AFK)
General admission tickets to the 5th Anniversary edition of Rhizome's Seven on Seven program, returning to the New Museum on May 3, are sold out. Missed your chance to buy tickets? Live somewhere other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Art Focused and Distracted: Three new media exhibitions curated by Joshua Decter
Image of äda 'web page produced for the exhibition "Screen," 1996.In 1996, curator, critic, and educator Joshua Decter colorfully defined "media cultures" as "a euphemism for how we reproduce...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Notes on Being Net Artist
18 years of being net artist were 18 years of explaining difference in between net art and web art explaining difference in between net.art and net art removing the dot from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To Bind and to Liberate: Printing Out the Internet
Kenneth Goldsmith at Labor Gallery, Mexico City, 2013. Posted on Printingtheinternet.tumblr.com with the caption, "We printed the fucking internet.""Printing the internet is not creative nor art. It is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seven Big Ideas from Seven on Seven 2014
Frances Stark and David Kravitz during the Seven on Seven work day. Photo: Ed Singleton.The fifth anniversary edition of Rhizome's Seven on Seven took place on Saturday. The project pairs seven leading...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Her Quantified Self
Courtesy of Natalie James at NJinLA.comThe alarm on her FuelBand pulses at 5:30 am because she wants to be a better person. Studies show that early risers are more proactive, more likely to anticipate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Better Sexual Politics Through Noselicking: A report from Different Games
Realistic Kissing Simulator (2013) James Andrews and Loren SchmidtDueling tongues protrude from simplified profiles. They worm through swinging-door lips, taking an unpredictable course as they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some Sites and Their Artifacts: 123D Catch
The 123D Catch website promises its users that they can "Turn ordinary photos into extraordinary 3D models;" the resulting models can be shared with other users on the 123D Catch community site. In...
View Article