The Human in the Loop
This text accompanies the presentation of Data Diaries as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. “People were listening to nothing but machines. And these machines weren’t playing songs, or...
View Article#fyi: On Slack and Surf Clubs
I love Slack. It’s the perfect application of an amorphous office messaging-meets-productivity concept—it provides a break from the constant shadow of my perpetual email-anxiety, and actually creates a...
View ArticleAll The News That's Fake to Print
On February 5, 2017, German lawmakers unveiled a bill that would make fake news illegal. But before post-truth was named 2016’s word of the year and counterfeit news articles came to dominate real...
View ArticleDIY Reparations
This interview accompanies the presentation ofRent-a-Negro as a part of the online exhibitionNet Art Anthology.Aria Dean: Can you describe what led you to create rent-a-negro.com?damali ayo art...
View ArticleWhen You Can't Buy, You Rent
This essay accompanies the presentation of Rent-a-Negro as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.“I remember years ago… when I would go to a party and I’d be the only colored brother there....
View ArticleArtist Profile: Bogosi Sekhukhuni
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.Aria Dean: I read in an interview that...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Bogosi Sekhukhuni
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.Aria Dean: I read in an interview that...
View ArticleCurating by Numbers
Madja Edelstein-Gomez is an independent curator and activist, based in Paris and Kuala Lumpur. Edelstein-Gomez has created a new interface for an online exhibition, produced by Zinc, with support from...
View ArticleFirst Look: ‘The Good Life’
Co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum, “First Look: The Good Life" is an online exhibition of the eponymous 2016 work by Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain.Machine learning is widely used in contemporary...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2017 Microgrant Awardees
More than 500 valid and complete proposals were submitted for this year's Rhizome Microgrants, which is more than we've ever had before. In addition to the open call for born-digital artworks, we also...
View ArticleThe Download #6: A desktop lamentation
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.to oblivion.zip by Sheida Soleimni is part of The...
View ArticleExoplanets of the Lower East Side
Tomorrow, in between presentations by the likes of Mel Chin and David Byrne, visitors to IdeasCity New York will have the opportunity to try out a demo of the augmented reality project Patternist,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Nora Khan as Acting Editor
Rhizome is pleased to announce that longtime contributing editor Nora Khan is moving into a larger role in the editorial program as acting editor. In this capacity, she will focus on developing...
View ArticleRhizome to Host National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
Rhizome, in collaboration with the University of California at Riverside Library (UCR), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Documenting the Now project, was awarded...
View ArticleRe: skinonskinonskin
This essay accompanies the presentation of Entropy8Zuper!’s skinonskinonskin (1999) as part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.skinonskinonskin began in 1999 the day after its creators, net...
View ArticleGuys With Spikes
This text accompanies the online exhibition First Look: The Good Life. Join us at the New Museum for a panel discussion with artists Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain on October 6, 2017. The content of Tega...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Winslow Laroche
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.Winslow Laroche is a Black artist living...
View ArticleMerging with the Network
This interview accompanies the presentation of Life Sharing as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology.Life Sharing (2000–2003) is an epic work by Eva and Franco Mattes...
View ArticleWelcome to Banana Island!
When the markets open this morning, artist and musician N-Prolenta will begin composing a mixtape via twitch.tv livestream. Confined in an undisclosed location for the next six days, they will rely...
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