A Queer History of Computing
This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a history that are...
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Metahaven in collaboration with IMMI, Data / Saga, digital models and sketches, 2013I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about the foundations and origin of Metahaven.Metahaven is a...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Lance Wakeling
A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable (2011)Your videos seem to borrow aspects from narrative filmmaking, the documentary format, amateur travelogues, and even at times experimental cinema....
View ArticleBeyond a href: Preserving Flash-driven Art
As Digital Preservation Fellow with Rhizome, my work has focused on archiving works of net art from the live web into the ArtBase. Net art, despite the benefits of being abstract - it rarely gets...
View ArticleAnnouncing Rhizome's Fourth Annual Seven on Seven Conference
Rhizome and HTC® are pleased to announce Rhizome’s Seven on Seven Conference, an annual event that brings together figures at the forefront of art and technology to create innovative new ideas. Over...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Jeff Baij
It seems like artists who were actively making and showing their work online a few years ago have either started making objects and pursuing the familiar career path of the artist—gallery shows,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Michael Connor as new Editor & Curator
We are pleased to announce the appointment of New York-based writer and curator Michael Connor to the new position of Editor & Curator. This senior appointment will significantly shape the overall...
View ArticleParapolitics
LuckyPDF, 幸運PDF S/S 2013 capsule collection, 2012.One of my favorite searches on twitter is “twitter sadness”. For such a simple gesture, it exposes a lot about our emotional relationships with...
View ArticleRhizome Digest: Best of Rhizome February
A Veil That Is A Network, From Metahaven, Disposable Imagecraft, 2012EssaysA Queer History of ComputingThe Danmaku Game as a New Optical Art, Part IParapoliticsBeyond a href: Preserving Flash-driven...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Contemporary Plotter
RitaA collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on the modern adoption of an older computer output technology - the plotter.Invented in 1953, the plotter was a vectorial...
View ArticleBusinesslike: DIS Magazine's Stock Database
Shawn Maximo, from Neighboring Interests, 2013Last month, DIS Magazine made The Suzanne Geiss Company, a gallery in downtown New York, an open photo studio. Don’t worry if you missed it. There wasn’t...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Sascha Pohflepp
The Supertask (Yesterday's Today), installed at LEAP, Berlin, January 2013Your work displays an interest in the interplay between narrative and identity. How do those notions inform your practice? My...
View ArticleLink Editions publishes new book, Best of Rhizome 2012
Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age today announces the publication of a new book in the series Link Editions, titled Best of Rhizome 2012. Edited by former Rhizome editor Joanne McNeil,...
View ArticleElsewhere, After the Flood: Glitch Feminism and the Genesis of Glitch Body...
I first began to realize the potentiality of my glitch body at the age of thirteen. If not thirteen, maybe even a few years younger—eleven, even—when I signed up on Yahoo! under the handle of...
View ArticleThe Download: Deanna Havas
Rhizome is pleased to present The Download's first free and open project, featuring Deanna Havas. Havas offers a solution to earn back your membership donation once required to access The Download. By...
View ArticleEmoticon, Emoji, Text: Pt. 1, I Second That Emoticon
(This is the first in a three-part sequence to be published on Rhizome.) “A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.” -- L. Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (trans. Peter...
View ArticleAD BOOK, An Interview with BFFA3AE
Badlands Unlimited’s recent e-book, AD BOOK, is a collection of ads - as it’s title suggests - stitched together by BFFA3AE, a NY based collective of artists including Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand, and...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: WebGL
ShadertoyA collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on the relatively new and impressive web technology, WebGL.WebGL has very recently reached it's second birthday, and has...
View ArticleA Queer History of Computing: Part Two
In this second part of our genealogy, we move not forward in time, but look back to an encounter that took place between two foundational figures in logic and mathematics, in an attempt to identify the...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Paul Kneale
This interview is being conducted on a Google doc. I’ve seen your Drive; you use it regularly and with a certain energy. Further, there’s an underlying aesthetic reminiscent of SketchUp in your work....
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