After VVORK: How (and why) we archived a contemporary art blog
Screenshot of VVORK post from April 2006, as archived by Rhizome.Today, Rhizome unveils a new archive of the contemporary art blog VVORK (2006-2012), in which we demonstrate a novel solution to the...
View ArticleRhizome Today: VVORK, Fair Use, and Small Archiving
This is Rhizome Today for February 10, 2015. This post will be taken down on February 12. On the eve of its annual conference, the US-based College Art Association (CAA) published its "Code of Best...
View ArticleDo You Follow? Art in Circulation 3 (transcript)
Do you follow? Art in Circulation 3London, October 17 2014Featuring Hannah Black, Derica Shields, Amalia UlmanThis is the third and final panel discussion in "Do You Follow? Art in Circulation," a...
View ArticleLetters from an Australian Nowhere: Reading Holly Childs' 'Danklands'
Danklands by Holly Childs, European edition of 100, Australasian edition of 100. Cover artwork by Marian Tubbs.Danklands, the second novella by Holly Childs, coming out as an e-publication this...
View ArticleMay Waver, 'Embedded Lullabies' (2015)
Last fall, Gabriella Hileman, Violet Forest, and May Waver issued this statement, the cybertwee manifesto, in defense of internet saccharine:Gabriella Hileman, Violet Forest, and May Waver, the...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Paul Soulellis on Experimental Publishing
Image: Scott GelberIt may seem odd to cite a syllabus as required reading, but this RISD class on Experimental Publishing offers a cogent way of thinking about what instructor Paul Soulellis, after de...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Hannah Black
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist...
View Articletransmediale 2015: Why we need spaces for art and tech beyond corporate...
Photo: "Through the Eyes of a Paratrooper: 173rd Jumps in Ukraine for Rapid Trident 2011" by U.S. Army Europe Images on flickr. © Artwork by The Laboratory of Manuel BürgerTrue to its title, "Capture...
View ArticleOrigins: Lynn Hershman Leeson in NYC
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta's Construction Chart #2, 1975The sophistication and prescience of Lynn Hershman Leeson's decades-long engagement with identity under networked conditions, bioengineering,...
View ArticleAna Maria Uribe, Anipoems
Ana Maria Uribe, Escalera 3 (1999).Ana Maria Uribe (1951-2004) was an Argentine visual poet who made work online beginning in 1997 after working in other media for many years. When she passed away,...
View ArticleThe Missing Open Standard: How can we unlock the drone's social potential?
Chris Anderson has famously compared the nascent drone market to the early days of PCs, comparing it with the Homebrew Computer Club, the Bay Area hobbyist meetup where the Apple I was first unveiled....
View ArticleAnnouncing the Inaugural Prix Net Art Awardees: JODI & Kari Altmann
After extensive deliberation, the Prix Net Art jury—comprising curators Michael Connor, Samantha Culp, Zhang Ga, and Sabine Himmelsbach—is proud to announce that inaugural $10,000 Prix Net Art is...
View ArticleTowards a Theory of the Dick Pic (NSFW)
1.Preliminary MaterialsAt this very moment, countless dicks compete for your attention. Some archived and waiting to be accessed through the same internet search tools you use to find new restaurants,...
View ArticleSelf-Portraits in Abject Time: Review of Paul Kneale at Evelyn Yard
Paul Kneale, "4 or 5 self portraits for free-form natural language descriptions of image regions", exhibition view at Evelyn YardFor Paul Kneale's show "4 or 5 self portraits for free-form natural...
View ArticleBodies on the Line
"You can have the party. Give us the power!"Andrea Fraser had already been onstage in front of a packed house at the New Orleans Museum of Art's auditorium for more than half an hour. Dressed in a...
View ArticleFirst Look: Poetry as Practice
In this online exhibition, six poets approach internet language as a bodily, social, and material process. New poetry works will be published every Monday through April 6, 2015. Co-presented by Rhizome...
View ArticleGrappling with complexity, women in tech, and Leonard Nimoy: Perry Chen's Y2K
Screenshot of Leonard Nimoy in Y2K Family Survival Guide (1999). In December, artist and technologist Perry Chen organized a panel discussion at the New Museum (copresented with Rhizome and Creative...
View ArticleSpeaking in Code
"The future of poetry is with the programmers." - Kenneth Goldsmith"Does everything that exists, exist to be presented and represented,to be mediated and remediated, to be communicated and...
View ArticlePenny Goring - 'Deletia' (2015)
Penny Goring, DELETIA – self portrait with no self (2015, screenshot). Web-based poem with audio and video. Courtesy the artist.Part of First Look: Poetry as Practice, copresented with the New...
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