WITCHCRAFT: Craftsmanship, personal mythologies, and spiritual queries in the...
This essay was written in conjunction with the exhibition "Witchcraft," which opened February 19th, 2015 at Initial Gallery in Vancouver. "Witchcraft" features the work of Laura Brothers, Brenna...
View ArticleBusiness Fish, or, Emotion Under Late Capitalism
I can't always articulate what it is like to be a worker, writhing in muted panic in the net of late capitalism. But I have found a fine outlet in Business Fish, a surreal family of sticker sets on...
View ArticleGlobal Audiences, Zero Visitors: How to measure the success of museums’...
This text (original title: "The Outskirts of the Internet") was originally commissioned for the book Turning Inward, with contributions by John Beeson, Svetlana Boym, Marta Dziewańska, Philipp Ekardt,...
View ArticlePoetry as Practice: Tan Lin
Part of First Look: Poetry as Practice, copresented with the New Museum.Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Systems Theory (2015) by Tan Lin uses a script to pit two books—which address subjects...
View ArticleDigital Publishing, Unzipped
Kristen Gallagher's latest work has been published as a ZIP file.This shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with GaussPDF, the publisher who hosts her Dossier on the Site of a Shooting (GPDF154). The PDF...
View ArticleCyborg Origins: Lynn Hershman Leeson at Bridget Donahue
"Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species," installation view, Bridget Donahue. Copyright Lynn Hershman Leeson. Photos by Marc Brems Tatti. Courtesy Bridget Donahue, New York.Lynn Hershman Leeson...
View ArticlePoetry as Practice: Ye Mimi's filmic postcards of street life in NYC,...
Part of First Look: Poetry as Practice, copresented with the New Museum.Was Being Moved? (2011)Ye MimiView on VimeoThe poetry film Was Being Moved? (2011) takes the form of a series of postcards to a...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Kari Altmann
Preview image from "XOMIA" (2015) which debuts March 27th at Ellis KingThe latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in...
View ArticlePoetry as Practice: Melissa Broder's poems for Oneohtrix Point Never
Part of First Look: Poetry as Practice, copresented with the New Museum.R Minus Seven (2015)Melissa BroderView WorkR Minus Seven (2015) by Melissa Broder (@melissabroder) is a collection of ekphrastic...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Net Art gets bodied
Ann Hirsch, Playground, 2013 Performance at the New MuseumJohanna Fateman's "Women on the Verge," running in the current issue of Artforum, takes an in-depth and sensitive look at the recent online...
View ArticleArt After Social Media in Cambodia
Image posted to Facebook by Pen Robit.An artist finishes a piece, snaps a selfie in front of the work, and uploads the picture to Facebook. Although there is no curator or gallery mediating the art,...
View ArticlePoetry as Practice: not_I want you to roll over
Part of First Look: Poetry as Practice, copresented with the New Museum.The Fall (2015)not_I View Worknot_I's The Fall (2015) presents a series of "erasures" of poems from Ana Božičević's second...
View ArticleManaging Boundaries with your Intelligent Personal Agent
Karen, my life coach, was supposed to teach me about changing my attitude towards relationships.[1] Over the past ten days, she has mostly taught me about how not to be caught up in one. I've watched...
View ArticleAirbnb vs. Berlin: Was sagen die Daten?
After a few short years coming to grips with the sharing economy—not exactly "embracing" it as Airbnb press releases may suggest, but not exactly coming down on it with a hammer—the city government of...
View ArticleSeven on Seven: Sold-out for the 7th time (but here's how you can still join in)
Martine Syms and Gina Trapani will collaborate at Seven on Seven 2015The response for Rhizome's Seven on Seven has been overwhelming: tickets sold out in a record-breaking 72 hours. For its 7th...
View ArticleIn the future, people will pay to feel unemployed: On Melanie Gilligan's...
Melanie Gilligan, The Common Sense: Episode 1 (2014)This article marks the online premiere of Melanie Gilligan's The Common Sense: Episode 1, which will also show on our front page through Thursday,...
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