Why (and how) our museum started collecting Vines
The 2015-16 English premiere league season kicks off on Saturday, and the National Football Museum will be collecting fan-made archives throughout the season using Webrecorder Beta. To suggest fan-made...
View ArticleCollectible After All: Christiane Paul on net art at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum artport has been an important institutional presence in net art and new media since its launch in 2002. Created and curated by Christiane Paul, artport features online commissions as...
View ArticleThe Flash Artists who Cybersquatted the Whitney Biennial
Joel Fox for whitneybiennial.com, as seen in 2015 on Chrome for Mac. Photo: Heloise Cullen.One story of whitneybiennial.com opens at the electronicOrphanage (EO) in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Founded in...
View ArticleInterview: American Reflexxx
Signe Pierce and Alli Coates, American Reflexxx (2013)Two years ago, performance artist Signe Pierce and videographer Alli Coates staged a public intervention on the Myrtle Beach strip in South...
View ArticleArt in Your Pocket 4: Net Art and Abstraction for the Small Screen
"The Facets of Obama" created by Jonah Brucker-Cohen using the Fracture application by James Alliban, 2011The devices we carry with us can do much more than simply act as communication tools and...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
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.Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Contra Diction...
View ArticleA Scanner, Darkly: On Andrea Crespo's "polymorphoses"
Andrea Crespo, multi (sensorygates), (2015; detail)In futurist Ray Kurzweil's early version of the flatbed scanner, angled mirrors feed the image of a document through a series of encoding CCDs....
View ArticleSimulation as Institutional Critique: Lawrence Lek's 'Unreal Estate'
Lawrence Lek, Unreal Estate (the Royal Academy is yours) (2015; video game still)Wealth is monolithic: it refutes argument, pointed criticism, direct gaze. The architecture of today's wealth is...
View ArticleA black market for people "consumed by the internet"
Interview responses translated from Japanese by Love Kindstrand."Welcome to [...] the Internet's next wave," Sue Halpern wrote in 2014, "the Internet of Things"—a harbinger of our gradual transition...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2015 Net Art Microgrants
In June, we launched our 2015 Net Art Microgrants program with an open call for entries. 262 projects were proposed, representing the diversity of net art practices today. All proposals were considered...
View ArticleBorn-Digital Art Institutions: TEDxMet
this is happening / cc @LangeAlexandrapic.twitter.com/FHA8xJhVvf — Paul Soulellis (@soulellis) August 23, 2015With New York's Whitney Museum of American Art officially decamped to Lower Manhattan, the...
View ArticleNew digital paintings by Petra Cortright
For her contribution to the ongoing online exhibition "Brushes," presented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of the First Look series, artist Petra Cortright presents two versions of a Photoshop...
View ArticleJacob Ciocci at Interstate Projects
Jacob Ciocci, Jacob's Year, 9/11, Unbox Perfect Sleep (2015)Jacob Ciocci's new exhibition at Interstate Projects could easily be mistaken for a study of banality and irony. However, as one begins to...
View ArticleFlatness: an interview with Shama Khanna
Robert M. Ochshorn, Chewing Time (2013)What were the initial intentions of the Flatness project, and how would you say those first iterations have reshaped your ongoing research, as well as future...
View ArticleBetween 'Total War' and History Painting: Andrej Ujhazy for 'Brushes'
For his contribution to the ongoing online exhibition "Brushes," presented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of the First Look series, artist Andrej Ujhazy presents a large-scale (70MB, 15120x7560...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Shawné Michaelain Holloway
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. Shawné Michaelain Holloway, snow white...
View ArticleIt Doesn't Just Work: DullTech on Kickstarter and Shenzhen
Earlier this month, the artist and DullTech CEO Constant Dullaart launched a Kickstarter to crowd-source the company's first product. The DullTech media player is a product that promises to simplify...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Zachary Kaplan Appointed Rhizome's Executive Director
Photo: Sheiva Rezvani Rhizome is pleased to announce that Zachary Kaplan, formerly our Assistant Director, has been appointed the organization's new Executive Director. Zach has spent the last two...
View ArticleJacob Ciocci Paints Outside of the Box
For his contribution to the ongoing online digital painting exhibition "Brushes," presented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of the First Look series, artist Jacob Ciocci presents a series of gifs...
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