Dear Jeff Bezos
Today is the birthday of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On this day, self-proclaimed “interface artist” Johannes P Osterhoff begins a new performance work, titled “Dear Jeff Bezos.” The work stems from the...
View ArticleA Compromise: Bring Us to $20,000 and We'll End the 2013 Fundraiser
It's been a big year for worthy, interesting projects and causes for you all to support. With Hurricane Sandy relief efforts all along the east coast, many great projects on sites like Kickstarter, and...
View ArticleMRAs and WTFs: A Context for "Nice Guys of OKCupid"
''We're not psychologists. We're math guys,” remarked Sam Yagan, the chief executive of OKCupid. He wasn’t being self-deprecating. OKC suggests romantic pairings based on information gathered from a...
View ArticleFor Aaron
Aaron Swartz’s passing affected us all at Rhizome. We’re grateful to Artinfo for writing the piece that, in our sadness and confusion, we couldn’t quite write ourselves – about our work with him, how...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Typewriter
A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web on creative projects and installations which employ the typewriter as part of the work.On Journalism #2...
View ArticleChimera Q.T.E at Cell Project Space, London
Chimera Q.T.E at London’s Cell Project Space draws its curatorial theme from a collagist interpretation of the Internet – a view that sees the web as a collection of orphaned, mashed and re-mashed...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Ed Atkins
Still from Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths 2013, HD video with 5.1 surround, 13'. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Jerwood Visual Arts. Your video installation Us Dead Talk Love,...
View ArticleRecommending Reading: Post-Digital Print
Image via Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1864 from Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine, 1935Artists have often been at the forefront of technological innovations in publishing...
View ArticlePainting by Numbers
Bruce Sterling recently suggested that it no longer makes sense to talk about “the internet” as a whole. Instead, we ought to refer to the distinct corporate structures that define the topography of...
View ArticleThe Artifice of Videography at 24 Frames per Second
From Rodney Graham's Torqued Chandelier Release, 2005, 35mm film loop shown on a custom 48 FPS projectorAs of November 2012, the last packages of light-sensitive film vanished from the racks of my...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Surveillance Painting
Being Digital by Enda O'Donoghue (2008)A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive featuring artists who have inserted the visual grammar of new media technology into...
View ArticleThe People Code
Installation view of pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁ at the Goethe-Institut Library. Photo courtesy of Jenny JaskeyThe mission of the library could be described as calibrating the optimal ratio of signal to noise, by...
View ArticleRhizome Digest: Best of Rhizome January
Dala3 (in Vegas), 2011, Fatima Al Qadiri w/ Khalid Al Gharaballi (From WaWa Series)InterviewsThe Lure of an Untold Story: An Interview with Fatima Al QadiriDear Jeff BezosReviewsChimera Q.T.E at Cell...
View ArticleThe Danmaku Game as a New Optical Art, Part I
Non-playable danmaku test / simulation programmed in Visual C++ and DirectX c 9.0The ‘Apollo’ game center near Abeno Station in Osaka is indistinguishable from dozens of others scattered throughout...
View ArticleBen Jones: The Video
Ben Jones, The VideoIt seems pretty fitting that I’ve sat down to write about Ben Jones’ current exhibition at least three or four times. The requisite online “research” always turned into episodes of...
View ArticleWired Differently: Joel Holmberg at American Contemporary
Installation View: Joel Holmberg, Soft Laws (2013), American Contemporary, New YorkIf we look back at the community of artists associated with the surf club Nasty Nets, including John Michael Boling,...
View ArticleThe Download: Andrew Norman Wilson
Album cover for ECCOSThis month, The Download premieres Andrew Norman Wilson's first experimental album, ECCOS (2012), a modified soudtrack from an Ecco the Dolphin gameplay video. Wilson...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Slitscan
A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on the subject of Slitscanning, a photographic effect that creates distortions and occasionally insightful images based on time.The...
View ArticleYounger than Rihanna
In 2009 the New Museum played host to its inaugural triennial, the now famous “Younger Than Jesus” Generational. Taking its name from its restrictive age limit, the exhibition proposed a survey of...
View ArticleThe Body as an Object of Interference: Q+A with Jeff Kolar
Dancers often describe the feeling of watching someone else’s performance and actually feeling, in their own bodies, the form and movement of the other. This sensation of inhabiting another’s body in a...
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