First Look VR: Tough Guy Mountain
With their new work Intern Purgatory, Tough Guy Mountain (Iain Soder, Jonathan Carroll, and Cat Bluemke) camouflages a critical inquiry into art, labor, and emerging technology with a VR mindfulness...
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Curating Online Exhibitions
Maja Cule, Hanging from the 8th floor of the South side of The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, (2013) (featuring: Marlous Borm). From “Performance GIFs,” 2013, curated by Jesse Darling. Screenshot,...
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Design Research for a New ArtBase
Artbase redesign research by Lozana Rossenova is now available online.Established in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an international and diverse archive with over 2200 artworks, primarily works of net...
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Reverse Hallucinations in the Lower Delta
“Are Drexciyans water-breathing, aquatically mutated descendants of those unfortunate victims of human greed? Have they been spared by God to teach us or terrorize us? Did they migrate from the Gulf of...
View ArticleDigital Resources for a Movement Against Police Violence
As an organization, Rhizome supports an uncompromising movement for black lives and against police violence. In times of public protest, digital tools and practices can play an instrumental role: as...
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Introducing Conifer
Today, we are rebranding webrecorder.io—the free-to-use web archiving platform hosted by and developed at Rhizome since 2015—as Conifer, located atconifer.rhizome.orgWe're doing this to commit...
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America, Online
Nick Pinkerton reviews 1995: The Year the Internet Broke, a screening series programmed by Screen Slate at Anthology Film Archives in March 2020. Cut short by COVID-19, the program lives on in the...
View ArticleArtBase in 2020
On Monday, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a new grant award to Rhizome, supporting an overhaul and re-implementation of ArtBase, our archive of 2,000+ born-digital artworks.Founded...
View ArticleFirst Look: Screen Talk
Note: screen-talk.com is now in Beta, and works best on Firefox web browsers. Originally shot in 2014,Screen Talk is a web-based mini-series that depicts a world afflicted by a major pandemic,...
View ArticleFirst Look: The Thing BBS
In the early 1990s, a community of artists, writers, psychoanalysts, and cultural gadflies came together around The Thing, a bulletin board system (BBS) in New York that expanded to include nodes in...
View ArticleFirst Look: Ours
Ours, a browser-based work by Samuel Marion commissioned by Rhizome as part of its annual Microgrants, introduces a speculative vision of the near future in which green capitalist ideologies have...
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Ours: Green Capitalism and the Great White Outdoors
This essay accompanies First Look: Ours, Rhizome and the New Museum's presentation of a browser-based artwork by New York-based artist Samuel Marion. Ours was funded as a part of Rhizome's microgrant...
View Article7×7 Stavanger: Newly Imagined, Online Only at 7×7.no
Together with Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway, we are delighted to announce 7×7 Stavanger, a newly-imagined, socially-distanced edition of our longstanding platform pairing visionaries from the fields of...
View ArticleFirst Look: Cyberfeminism Index
Cyberfeminism Index is an in-progress online collection of resources for techno-critical works from 1990–2020, gathered and facilitated by Mindy Seu. View workIn Seu’s telling, the term...
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A New Kind of Archive
Rhizome’s key archive of born-digital art, the Rhizome ArtBase, was initiated in 1999. Accepting open submissions which were lightly moderated, the ArtBase grew over the years to hold more than 2,300...
View ArticleNotes on Online Exhibition: LIKELIKE
As 2020 comes to a close, and we mark nearly one year of navigating the effects of COVID-19, we've invited a group of curators and programmers to reflect on how they've evolved their work to meet their...
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Notes on Online Exhibition: arebyte
Installation View: Hosted (2020) in "Best Effort Network," at arebyte in March 2020. 70-frame animation. Photo: Max Colson. As 2020 comes to a close, and we mark nearly one year of navigating the...
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First Look: Forking PiraGene
Visit the online exhibitionWhile the rest of you sheeple take solace in your SubStacks, I have subscribed to an email list this week, where I can take part from afar in Shu Lea Cheang’s “feral lab” at...
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“Did We Dream Enough?” THE THING BBS as an Experiment in Social-Cyber Sculpture
This article was commissioned alongside a restoration of The Thing BBS as part of the research project “Early Online Communities in Context,” which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment...
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Before Flash Sunset
Donate to Rhizome’s Flash fundraiser today, or go read our article about how to preserve access to your Flash projects!Despite being 99% bad, or perhaps because of this, Flash has been a hugely...
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