John Russell's SQRRL
SQRRL by John Russell is on view through Thursday on the front page of rhizome.org"Since 2085 Rodent and reptilian Body structure, Musculature and skeleton Have been identified As the ideal...
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Two days with the shadowy emoji overlords
A few days before the Unicode Consortium's annual conference was slated to begin, its co-founder and president Mark Davis had a change of heart. He canceled a planned session on local language formats...
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After the Hookup, an App
The Space Between Us, a new app from David Horvitz, does so little. It’s Grindr in reverse, a post-hook-up tool for conjuring the other, after the fact. While some geo-location apps invite us to...
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Dissociative Social Media
"I do not believe that knowledge is embedded in documents, just as beauty is not embedded in objects. Beauty and knowledge are created by joining and creating complex relationships between creators,...
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A Prehistory of The Cloud: an interview with Tung-Hui Hu
Tung-Hui Hu’s A Prehistory of the Cloud, published by MIT Press in August 2015, is a necessary excavation of the material infrastructures that undergird the fantasies of freedom proposed by cloud...
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Data Ontology: James Bridle on secrecy, surveillance, and the limits of...
A new exhibition by writer/artist/publisher/technologist James Bridle, "The Glomar Response," is on view through September 5, 2015 at NOME, Berlin. Here, Bridle discusses the exhibition with Fiona...
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Data Ontology: James Bridle on secrecy, surveillance, and the limits of...
A new exhibition by writer/artist/publisher/technologist James Bridle, "The Glomar Response," is on view through September 5, 2015 at NOME, Berlin. Here, Bridle discusses the exhibition with Fiona...
View ArticleNow on the front page: João Enxuto and Erica Love's 'Waiting for the Internet'
On the front page of rhizome.org through December 28 is a new video work by the artist duo João Enxuto and Erica Love that portrays internet access as a basic necessity that is distributed unequally....
View ArticleNow on the front page: Zach Blas's Contra-Internet desktop lecture
On the front page of rhizome.org this week is a performative video work by artist Zach Blas that articulates a position of resistance to the internet via plagiarized texts.This video begins with the...
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If Art is Possible at All: Robert Adrian X, 1935-2015
Artist Robert Adrian (1935-2015, also known as Robert Adrian X), founder of what was likely the first artist-initiated online community, passed away in September. As 2015 comes to a close, Rhizome is...
View ArticleRhizome Awarded $600,000 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build Webrecorder
Webrecorder is hiring a talented developer dedicated to protecting digital culture. See the description.Rhizome is thrilled to announce today that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the...
View ArticleNow on the front page: Shireen Ahmed's 'Antonym of Direction in the Curiosity...
Now on Rhizome's front page is Antonym of Direction in the Curiosity Gap, a one-act play and hyperlinked script by Shireen Ahmed. Text from the artist's everyday online conversations were repurposed...
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Review: The Wrong, a biennial in 22 tabs
This is the second in an ongoing series of reviews, edited by Orit Gat, which give critical attention to online artworks and exhibitions. This word, “biennale” (or biennial) has become a little...
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Nintendo Power: Rutherford Chang plays Tetris
Since 2013, Rutherford Chang has documented himself playing Tetris on the Nintendo Game Boy 1,747 times in an effort to become the number one player in the world. Chang's best effort of 614,094 points...
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Now on the front page: Amalia Ulman's The Annals of Private History
Now on Rhizome's front page is Amalia Ulman's The Annals of Private History, which takes the form of an illustrated, subtitled lecture outlining a liberally fictionalized history of the diary for a...
View ArticleBrowser to Browser: New tracks by shawné michaelain holloway
Now on the front page, shawné michaelain holloway presents three new electronic music compositions. This is the seventh work presented as part of Real Live Online, curated by Lucas G. Pinheiro and...
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Review: A permanent installation in a VR museum
The latest in an ongoing series of reviews, edited by Orit Gat, which give critical attention to online artworks and exhibitions.Rachael Archibald: Carnate (in-pinking)Ongoing on Paper-Thin.orgThe...
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Servicio Digital a Papá Legbá
Livestream: January 21, 9pm EST, rhizome.orgManuel Arturo Abreu transforms the web into a platform for spiritual and bodily transcendence in a digital, live streamed adaptation of a Dominican Vudú...
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Zapatismo in Cyberspace: an interview with Ricardo Dominguez
"Somehow I got tenure for all of it and got into trouble for all of it at the same time." Throughout a long and varied career, Ricardo Dominguez has made artistic and poetic gestures that trouble and...
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