Five Videos: Anahita Razmi's Exile TV
Five Videos is an online series "hosted" by Rhizome, in collaboration with FACT, responding to the Liverpool Biennial's theme, The Unexpected Guest. Each week throughout the Liverpool Biennial, a new...
View ArticleThe Download: Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Screenshot of Pond Type interface This month on The Download featuring an interactive software piece by Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain. Pond Type (2012) transforms the QWERTY...
View ArticleLaura Poitras Among 2012 MacArthur Fellows
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras is among the 2012 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" award winners, announced yesterday. Her 9/11 Trilogy was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial film program....
View ArticleINSERT DISC: a digital flaneur’s guide
For the traveler who desires a journey through space and time, a visit to Long Island City is highly recommended. The second iteration of Aram Bartholl's DVD Dead Drop project is available at the...
View Article3D Printed Weaponry
Meet Defense Distributed, home of the Wiki Weapon — "A collaborative project to create freely available plans for 3D printable guns." They've just been granted $20,000 in funding from an angel...
View ArticleStories from the New Aesthetic: Oct 11 at the New Museum
"This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail." Mojibake diacritics translated to Cyrillic by the postal employees via The...
View ArticleInside the Prosthetic Imaginary: An Interview with Sara Hendren
Gloves for Two, Sandie Yi Crip Couture (2001) Sara Hendren is an artist, researcher, and writer who explores how design and art practices can inform techno-scientific research and...
View ArticleFive Videos: Jennifer Chan's I Like To Watch
Five Videos is an online series "hosted" by Rhizome, in collaboration with FACT, responding to the Liverpool Biennial's theme, The Unexpected Guest. Each week throughout the Liverpool Biennial, a new...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: nOdalisque
Uncomposed (after Titian after Giorgione) by Georgie Roxby Smith [GIF by PK] A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web, looking at a Fine Art archetype...
View ArticleInkjet Modernism: Wade Guyton at the Whitney
Untitled, 2010. Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen; eight panels, 305 x 69 in. (774.7 x 175.3 cm) each ; 305 x 586 in. (774.7 x 1488.4 cm) overall. Collection of the artist. Photograph by Lothar...
View ArticleNew in the ArtBase: Twilight Screensaver (1991) for Atari TOS
There is a new addition to the ArtBase's collection that we are rather excited about: TwiLight (1991-1997), a screensaver for Atari TOS by Dragan Espenschied, Alvar Freude, and Peter Scheerer. There...
View ArticleFive Videos: Jemima Wyman's The Shared Face of the Collective
Five Videos is an online series "hosted" by Rhizome, in collaboration with FACT, responding to the Liverpool Biennial's theme, The Unexpected Guest. Each week throughout the Liverpool Biennial, a new...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Katriona Beales
Constant Screen (2012) limited edition poster to accompany 'Constant Screen' video installation Much has been made of our networked present’s utopic possibilities, but it feels like a wave of...
View ArticleData Space
Rather than hewing to a tight editorial voice, New York-based quarterly CLOG selects a singular subject for each issue and promises to unpack it “from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of...
View ArticleThis is More Than a Game: A (very) Brief History of Larp Part 2
Gloriana via darkismus It is tempting to view the wildly different natures of Stateside boffer larp – the rubber-swords-in-the-woods fantasy romps – and the Nordic art-house scene in terms of...
View ArticleStories from the New Aesthetic
Last week, Stories from the New Aesthetic, part of Rhizome's New Silent Series, took place at The New Museum of Comtemporary Art. The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project by James Bridle,...
View ArticleFive Videos: Zach Blas/Queer Technologies' Escape
Five Videos is an online series "hosted" by Rhizome, in collaboration with FACT, responding to the Liverpool Biennial's theme, The Unexpected Guest. Each week throughout the Liverpool Biennial, a new...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Matthew Johnstone
Your recent exhibition at JVA Project Space in London, Photographs and Slide Shows, primarily used LCD screens to both display and constitute work. These screens are quickly becoming the primary...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Kinect Genealogy - A Brief History of Gestural...
In honor of the approaching second birthday of the release of Microsoft's Kinect, we will take a brief tour of the experimental technology that preceded it. But before we begin, it is worth noting a...
View ArticleA Book is Technology: An Interview with Tan Lin
Over the past 15 years, poet, novelist, and filmmaker Tan Lin has been at work creating an "ambient" mode of literature that engages a set of practices including sampling, communal production, and...
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