Warm Data
Presented as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome's ongoing online exhibition that charts a history of net art through one hundred works, How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database (2004) was the...
View ArticleUtopian Mining
On November 13th, The New Inquiry released, in conjunction with the Bronx Freedom Fund, a desktop application entitled Bail Bloc, which pools the distributed processing power of its user base to mine a...
View ArticleDu Bois Machine
Pope.L’s distributingmartinis presented this week as part of Rhizome’s ongoing series Net Art Anthology.This text was reprinted with permission from the artist. It originally appeared in Showing Up to...
View ArticleBostrom's Basilisk
Humans click things, and humans love to click things, but humans will never click things fast enough. Paperclips, a computer game in which the universe is converted into a paperclip factory, begins...
View ArticleReconsider the Oyster
Each year, the Unicode Consortium releases a new version of the Unicode Standard, including a collection of new emoji. The chosen symbols are developed from user proposals, or reflect widely...
View ArticleYouTube, 2008: A Q&A on the “Scandalishious” Restoration
Yesterday, we shared the newest addition to our ongoing online exhibition Net Art Anthology: Ann Hirsch’s Scandalishious (2008-2009), a seminal work developed for the video-sharing platform...
View ArticleWho is Jack?
Guthrie Lonergan’s 93.1 JACK FM LOS ANGELES 2008 is presented this week as part of the ongoing online exhibition Net Art Anthology.JACK FM is a radio station that broadcasts, according to on air quote,...
View ArticleOn the “We” of Transmediale
To take something at “face value” seems to suggest a lack of deeper analysis, that there is a second, more worthy or more truthful value simmering just beneath the surface. “Face value,” the theme of...
View ArticleThe Ephemera Mine
This article accompanies the inclusion of Petra Cortright’s VVEBCAM in the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. The vintage punctuation of “net.art” here reflects the preferences of the author. For...
View Article“kick ascii acid”: A Q&A on the restoration of “VVEBCAM”
Yesterday's Net Art Anthology entry brought another YouTube classic, Petra Cortright's VVEBCAM (2007). And as with Ann Hirsch's Scandalishious, I was blown away by the restoration of late-aughts YT....
View ArticleInternet Yami-Ichi at NADA Art Fair
Today, a special art fair edition of the Internet Yami-Ichi opens at NADA New York, which runs through Sunday at Skylight Clarkson Square. Founded by art collectives exonemo and IDPW in 2012, the...
View ArticleNaming is a Protocol: An Interview with Kristin Lucas
Aria Dean: What led you to pursue your refresh?Kristin Lucas: There were many factors. In my previous works, I was sorting through how network technologies were changing the way we live, interact, and...
View Article2018: 10th Edition
Line-up and Details for the 10th Edition of 7×7 to be announced on Monday, April 2!
View ArticleWe Believe in (ArtBase) Users
Over the last few decades, cultural and media studies have helped deconstruct the artificial barriers between design and use. Users* and technologies are now widely understood not as separate entities,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Line-up, Tickets, and First Details for the 10th Edition of Seven...
We're pleased to announce the 10th edition of the celebrated art-tech platform Seven on Seven, to be held May 19 at the New Museum. This flagship Rhizome event brings together leaders in art and...
View ArticleHumans of Simulated New York
The role of simulation in planning is nothing new—it’s how Google Maps anticipates there’ll be traffic on a daily commute, and how the Obama Campaign in 2012 forecasted an electoral edge over Mitt...
View ArticleWhat Will I Be When I Grow Up? A Production Company
This article accompanies the inclusion of Ryan Trecartin's I-BE AREA in Out of Order Youtube Messy-Format (2008) in the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. Released at a time when social media...
View ArticleBlack Pyrotechnics: On the New in ‘New Black Portraitures’
This article accompanies the online exhibition First Look: New Black Portraitures, presented by Rhizome and the New Museum.The powerful work in “First Look: New Black Portraitures” forces a...
View ArticleOn the Edge of Google
Image: Miao Ying, LAN Love Poem—FLOWERS ALL FALLEN, BIRDS FAR GONE (Still), 2015. GIF animation.This article accompanies the inclusion of Miao Ying's Blind Spot (2007) in the online exhibition Net Art...
View ArticleDraw me like one of your French AI-generated nudes
Draw me like one of your French AI-generated nudes. As one of many amorphous masses of flesh, all rolls and folds like a browner Rubens. Drooping and melting, spilling over, exceeding myself. A face...
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