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Games are a Faith-Based Pursuit: A conversation with Jenn Frank
Still image from Chop Suey (1995).On Friday, Rhizome published a restoration of three CD-ROM games from the 1990s by Theresa Duncan, which you can play here. Duncan's work has been largely and unjustly...
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Artist Profile: Guan Xiao
Guan Xiao, "Survivors' Hunting," exhibition view at Magician SpaceThe latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the...
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A New Hypertext Frog Simulator (Finally!)
Described by its creator as a "frog simulator," Beautiful Frog by Porpentine is actually a text-only interactive fiction build on the Twine platform that allows players to guide a frog through its...
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I Dreamed a Dream: CloneZone is Live.
Ever dream of writing for the New Yorker, America's preeminent magazine and blogging site? Ever wish to join the ranks of giants like Jill Lepore, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Remnick, and Malcolm...
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I hope we are not disturbing you: Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum in Beijing,...
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and Ai Weiwei in Beijing last week. (Photo: Heather Corcoran).Last week, Rhizome brought Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei together with key Tor Project activist and...
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Creating Radical Software: A Personal Account
What can be analyzed in my work, or criticized, are the questions that I ask…my composition arises out of asking questions.— John Cage Radical Software Volume I, Number 1: the Alternate Television...
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Required Reading: Empathy & Disgust
Distaste or disgust involves a rejection of an idea that has been offered for enjoyment. —Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, 1798For the first time, this year's Seven on Seven...
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The Final Post: Computer Evolution on Law and Order
The first computer on the show (1,1).Combining endurance performance art and media studies, artist Jeff Thompson captured over 11,000 images of the show Law & Order while watching the complete...
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Lyfe, Labor, Lunch
Lunch Bytes began as a series of panel discussions on the topic of art and digital culture in Washington D.C. in 2011 and 2012. Curated by Melanie Bühler and supported primarily by the Goethe Institut,...
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Work in Progress
Last Friday, 12 out of 14 participants in this year's Seven on Seven (Jacob Appelbaum and Ai Weiwei worked remotely in Beijing), descended on NEW INC., home to Rhizome, to work in pairs on projects...
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Eight Big Ideas from Seven on Seven
Martine Syms and Gina Trapani at the 7th edition of Seven on Seven. Photo: Madison McGaw/BFAOn Saturday, the seventh edition of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference took place at the New Museum. For the...
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Now you can finally experience what it's like to commodify yourself on the...
Last year, Rhizome awarded a $500 microgrant to Lena NW and Costcodreamgurl to create a game "that parodies celebrity status games (i.e. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood... but focuses on the concept of...
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Exhibition as Interface: An interview with V4ULT
Anni Puolakka and Laura Jantunen, performance/reading/book launch of V4ULT publication A gesture waves us on, answering our own wave (2014), SIC, Helsinki.V4ULT is a curatorial platform initiated by...
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Travess Smalley for Rhizome's Paddle8 Auction (Ending Friday)
Travess Smalley's Composition in Clay35.7, part of Rhizome's Paddle 8 auction, is on the front page of Rhizome.org through the auction's end this Friday at 3pm EST. "I think of the home office as the...
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Music in the Corporatocene (It's a Shame)
In 1996-1997 the artist duo Komar & Melamid hired professional polling companies to conduct a worldwide survey of musical tastes. Based on the averaged results, they partnered with musician Dave...
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Poor Media on Demand: All the files of Printed Web 3
Printed Web 3 is currently featured on the front page of Rhizome.org as a browsable Apache directory.Earlier this year, I announced an open call for the third issue of Printed Web, a semi-annual...
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Serial Experiments for a Better Future: Holly Herndon's 'Platform'
Ever the defender of the laptop as a gateway to more accurate and speculative expressions of the self, Herndon goes for the throat of the issues of our contemporary future with her second album,...
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Don't Fight It: On "/Performing the Text," curated by Kerry Doran
Screengrab from Martine Syms's Nite Life (2015)"Don't you believe me?" "Huh?" "What's wrong with me?" "Somebody…" "You know what I'm saying?"Asks Martine Syms's Nite Life. These texts appear through an...
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'Bodies are packages made to be opened': Shu Lea Cheang's 'I.K.U.' (2000)
Net art nomad and cyberfeminist Shu Lea Cheang's sci-fi porn film I.K.U. premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2000. When the film later screened, Cheang conceived a follow-up project for Lars von...
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Artist Profile: Mark Dorf
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...
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