Review: A Troubled Object
How to begin? It’s a hell of a question that seems to possess Matt Sheridan Smith. It has plagued writers for millennia and openly aggravated literature for the best part of a century. Sheridan Smith’s...
View ArticleThe Hidden Labor of Teaching Machines to See
Sebastian Schmieg's Segmentation.Network, now showing on the front page of Rhizome.org, plays back over 600.000 segmentations manually created by Mechanical Turk workers for Microsoft's COCO image...
View ArticleTrans is a failure of language. Poetry is a failure of the body.
TRANS PLANET is an occasional poetic interaction that showcases the work of emerging transgender and gender-nonconforming poets and artists. The second installment in the online reading series will...
View ArticleAlgorithmic Models of Art's Future
Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA), now on the front page of Rhizome.org, is copresented with the New Museum as part of First Look: New Art Online. The New Museum and Rhizome are proud to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Seven on Seven Keynote + Additional Tickets Released
Rhizome is excited to announce that writer, documentarian, and organizer Astra Taylor will keynote Seven on Seven 2016, May 14 at the New Museum. With this announcement, 30 final tickets have been...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Colin Self
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.Chloe O’Neill: Do web-based projects like...
View ArticleTrust Issues
On the splash page of Ian Cheng’s Bad Corgi, a Serpentine Gallery digital commission, I watch a corgi, a herd of sheep, and a white shepherd’s crook totter across a red, rocky landscape in a madcap...
View ArticleThe Download: Incantations for the Birth of a Network
The Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition. Lance Wakeling's Incantations for the Birth of a...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Manuel Arturo Abreu
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.Eleanor Ford: You describe your book List...
View ArticleOn the Gaze in the Era of Visual Salamis
Looking at my .pdf library I recently came across Monte Burch's The Complete Guide to Sausage Making, a book that clearly—and perhaps morbidly—describes some key features of this ancient and mysterious...
View ArticleMiss Seven on Seven 2016? Catch Up via Refinery29's Live Stream Documentation
On Saturday at the New Museum, seven art-tech pairs debuted new creations as part of Seven on Seven 2016. If you missed the event, but want to see what they created—from a portrait of the internet as...
View ArticleThe Seven on Seven Celebration Dinner, Hosted by Chopt, Created by Salad for...
The Seven on Seven Dinner, hosted by Chopt and created by Salad for PresidentTo welcome and celebrate the Seven on Seven 2016 participants, Chopt Creative Salad Company hosted a special dinner on...
View ArticleLast 24 Hours for Bidding on Rhizome's Seven on Seven Auction on Paddle8
Clockwise, left to right: Wagenknecht, Vierkant, Henrot, FornielesEach year, Rhizome hosts a benefit auction on Paddle8 alongside Seven on Seven to support that program and our work more broadly.The...
View ArticleWe Are Obsessed With You
The Seven on Seven presentation from Miranda July & Paul Ford is on the front page of rhizome.org; to view the rest of the day, as footage is being edited, please visit the live stream, provided by...
View ArticleSurface, Image, Reception: Painting in a Digital Age
“Rather than initiating the death of painting, as was expected, photography and other media of mechanical reproduction have been like a vampire’s kiss that makes painting immortal. Painting is...
View ArticleReview: Democracy or Data Entry? Jonas Lund’s Fair Warning
The latest in an ongoing series of reviews, edited by Orit Gat, which give critical attention to online artworks and exhibitions.7 April–12 June 2016, https://fairwarning.tech/In October 2015, Twitter...
View ArticleThe Babypod: Intravaginal Hardware for the Pregnant Body
The Airless DyadSaint Augustine asks of God in his Confessions, “Where do I call You to come to, since I am in You? Or where else are You that You can come to me?” The same matryoshka riddle describes...
View ArticleBecome a Rhizome Member Now and Get Your Very Own Bad Logo T-shirt
Now in stock: special Bad Logo Rhizome t-shirts designed by Wieden+Kennedy! They're a gift for Rhizome members who join at the $75 level and above. Dolphins splash, paint cans spill, and we all wonder...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Joey Holder
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.Jamie Sutcliffe: I’d like to talk about...
View ArticleServicio 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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