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Destruction Ceremonies as 21st Century Book Burning
Advertisement for destruction of pirated media in the Philippines.Surely the irony wasn’t lost on Maulana Fazlullah when he took to his FM channel to tell his supporters to burn their radios. But...
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Solidarity after "Sharing:" Notes on Internet Subjects #1
Enormous amounts of capital have been amassed of late under the banner of the so-called "sharing" economy, characterized by companies such as Uber and Airbnb that have garnered multi-billion dollar...
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Emulating "Bomb Iraq"
Cory Arcangel, Bomb Iraq (2005). Screen capture of found hypercard program."In 2005, Cory Arcangel bought a used computer at a Salvation Army store in Buffalo, New York. Originally he was attracted to...
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Long Live Immortality: Art as cryogenesis at Ashkal Alwan
Still image from the documentary Transcendent Man (2009), featuring Ray Kurzweil.Bills, letters, clothes, books, records, photos, DNA samples—these are some of Fredric Kurzweil's personal effects,...
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Digital Handwork
In Luc Besson’s sci-fi classic The Fifth Element (1997), the "veryperfect" future human is reverse engineered from a severed hand. As sole surviving fragment of the hijacked Mondoshawan spacecraft...
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Invisible
It shows how completely genre TV has appropriated the concept of DNA identification that one would immediately associate Invisible—artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg's product-provocation designed to protect...
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Forgetting the Internet
San Francisco (AFP), June 26 - Google on Thursday said that it is "forgetting" things in Europe to comply with a legal ruling granting people the power to have certain information about them removed...
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Dancing About Architecture: Artists' reponses to the built environment
Former Ministry of Highways Building, Tbilisi.There is a sense in which all architecture is authoritarian, regardless of its ideals. No matter how many community meetings a planning process...
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Greater Than A Wave: The Rise of Performance and Intervention in Japanese...
Finger Pointing Worker; video still of performance by Kota Takeuchi. In the three years since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart infrastructures and livelihoods throughout eastern Japan, there's...
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Announcing the Prix Net Art
Beginning this autumn, Rhizome and Beijing-based TASML and CAT/CCIA will award a substantial new prize for internet art. The "no strings attached" prize, which will be awarded three times in total in...
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On July 13, 2014, to mark the occassion of the release of The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued, Rhizome, the New Museum Education Department, and Experimental Television...
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Rhizome's 2014-15 Support for Artists: Announcing New Microgrants and...
Aleksandra Domanović, From yu to me, supported by Rhizome's commissions program in 2014.Rhizome supports the creation of significant new art through commissions and direct funding for artists. These...
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Artist Profile: Genevieve Belleveau
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Genevieve Belleveau on the hood of the...
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At Our Expense: Harun Farocki's Images at War
Still from Serious Games I: Watson is Down (2010)To question the point of view from which a war is narrated or fought, or to say that our image of war is reshaped by imaging technologies, implies that...
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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...
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Rhizome Today
Ann Hirsch's Playground (a 2013 Rhizome commission) had its UK premiere on Friday. Photo from Instagram via @southlondongallery.
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Rhizome Today
Nordic Larp. A caged troll in an old telecommunication center in Neonhämärä. via Spike Art Quarterly, Issue 39: Networks.
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Artist Profile: Heather Phillipson
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.Heather Phillipson, immediately and for a...
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August 10 in Rockaway: Trailblazers, a Web Surfing Competition
Sunday, August 10, 1pm Rockaway Beach Surf Club 302 Beach 87th Street, Rockaway Beach (Subway: Beach 90th)Surf the classic way From Amazon to PiratebayEight of New York's web surfers will find out who...
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