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Emulation or it Didn’t Happen
Over the past few months, many artists have reached out to Rhizome asking for advice about how best to preserve or continuing to offer access to their Flash-based artworks, in light of the official...
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Notes on Online Exhibition: Stream Slate
All images: Masao Adachi smokes a cigarette, screenshot on Zoom, from an evening copresented by Collaborative Cataloging Japan.As 2020 comes to a close, and we mark nearly one year of navigating the...
View ArticleNews from Rhizome HQ
Here at Rhizome we begin 2021 with some bittersweet news: after more than four years with the organization, Aria Dean is stepping down as Editor and Curator to pursue her solo artistic practice as well...
View ArticleA New Partnership with Hyundai Motor to Showcase Leading Digital Art Globally
This week, we've announced a new partnership with Hyundai Motor Company that will see both entities supporting innovative digital art endeavors and exhibitions through 2022. This partnership will be...
View ArticleNow Live: "World on a Wire," Online and Off
Image: Pete Jiadong Qiang, Dungeon: Maximalism HyperBody (2021).Hyundai Motor Company and Rhizome of the New Museum have announced a partnership that will see both entities supporting innovative...
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Architecting Emergence
ZZYW (Yang Wang & Zhenzhen Qi) is a New York-based art and research duo who examines the cultural, political, and educational imprints of computation. Their work ThingThingThing (2019), included in...
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Another New World
In May 2014, artist Kevin McCoy sold a GIF onstage at Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference to Anil Dash, and published the transfer of ownership of a GIF on the Namecoin blockchain. The data written to...
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Before the Boom
Paul Slocum, Transformer Fire (2008)For its blockbuster sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days, an artwork in the form of an NFT and a digital file comprising thousands of images, Christie’s...
View ArticleFirst Look: Further Experiments in Art & Technology
This online exhibition, copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum as part of First Look: New Art Online, showcases new works created by artists Andrew Demirjian, Foreign Objects (with Eliza Collin and...
View ArticleNews: Celine Katzman Joins Rhizome
We’re pleased to share the news that Celine Katzman is joining Rhizome in the position of Web Manager. An independent curator and faculty member at the School for Poetic Computation, Celine brings a...
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Part III: The Fuzzy Science and Art of Empathy
In this three part series, Lana Polansky explores the history and use of “empathy” in games, from its application in science and tech, to its appeal to marketers and business elites, to its function in...
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Announcing: From Black Boxes to Open Systems
“From Black Boxes to Open Systems” is a new knowledge-sharing initiative. Through events, articles, and a forthcoming website, the project aims to help artists and art organizations to develop a better...
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The Rules of the Game
This is part 2 in a series on Curating Online Exhibitions. Part 1 can be found here. The presentation based on this article, given on April 12, 2021 as part of “From Black Boxes to Open Systems,” is...
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First Look: Stickers
This text accompanies the exhibition of M.K. Stickers as part of First Look, the ongoing series of digital projects co-curated and copresented by Rhizome and the New Museum. M.K. Stickers, a...
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The ArtBase Relaunches: Welcome to Linked Open Data
Update your bookmarks: artbase.rhizome.org Rhizome’s key archive of born-digital art, the ArtBase, was initiated in 1999. Accepting open submissions which were lightly moderated, the ArtBase grew over...
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True Fans Translate: Fansubbing BookStory
Cover image: Screenshot of BookStory’s opening title screen, featuring the interior of the Kurome Shobo bookstore.Usually, a Google Sheet is the site of bureaucratic misery and numbing digits; the...
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Gene Youngblood's Unfinished Work
At 4pm EDT on June 15, 2021, Third Space Network will host an online memorial for Gene Youngblood. Please RSVP to attend.In December 2019, I visited artist Kit Galloway at his home in Pinon Hills,...
View ArticleIn Support of Palestine
Rhizome supports the human rights of Palestinian people and stands against their dispossession, blockade, and silencing.We do not see ourselves as leaders with particular insight to offer on this...
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Artist Profile: Jenson Leonard
“Yacht Metaphor: The Collected Work of @CoryInTheAbyss,” curated by Georgie Payne, April 3 - May 30, 2021. Screenshot, April 14, 2021, www.YachtMetaphor.com. Courtesy of Georgie Payne.The latest in a...
View ArticleNow Online: NFS NSFW NFT
This year's NEW INC x Rhizome Art & Code track cohort have culminated their term with a new exhibition: NFS NSFW NFT, a 3D virtual project, hosted at New Art City, exploring the critical poetics of...
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