Mission Creep: K-Hole and Trend Forecasting as Creative Practice
“Determinism would gain credibility if it gave us useful forecasts” wrote Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic, referring to those who saw the outcome of political events as written in their formation. Perhaps...
View ArticleArtifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke
“But even if the internet is dead this doesnt mean it's over. It is all over.”When we met recently we talked about the glitch as it relates to contemporary image culture, but we also talked about the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference Participant Teams
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12:00 PM - 6:00 PMRhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, presented by HTC, will pair seven leading artists with seven influential technologists in teams of two, and...
View ArticleRhizome Digest: Best of Rhizome March
SeriesA Queer History of Computing: Part TwoEmoticon, Emoji, Text: Pt. 1, I Second That EmoticonEssaysMission Creep: K-Hole and Trend Forecasting as Creative PracticeElsewhere, After the Flood: Glitch...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Alex Myers
Your work spans several distinct, but overlapping areas of discourse. We could start by talking through design, animation, glitch art, code, game play or the interface. I want to start right from the...
View ArticleRhizome Commissions: 2013-2014 Cycle Now Open, Including New Partner Grant...
Screenshot of DISimages.com, 2011-2012 Rhizome CommissionRhizome is now accepting proposals for the Rhizome Commissions 2013-2014 cycle. Each year, the program supports emerging artists by providing...
View ArticleHarper Reed: Changing Politics and Technology
Harper Reed Harper Reed will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.On Reed’s website (subheaded “Probably one of the...
View ArticleA Queer History of Computing: Part Three
In this third segment of ourgenealogy we begin to form a connection, and to examine those lesser-known but foundational figures that radiate out from Turing's early work. Perhaps appropriately, given...
View ArticleJill Magid: Effective Storytelling
Jill Magid. Rhinestoning Headquarters (System Azure). Public performance and permanent installation. Rhinestone encrusted surveillance cameras, posters. Police Headquarters, Amsterdam. 2002Jill Magid...
View ArticleProsthetic Knowledge Picks: Arrays and Matrices
IrisA collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on installation artworks which can be characterized by geometric or networked arrangement.WindsweptWindswept by Charles...
View ArticleBreaking the Ice
Pierre Huyghe, A Journey that Wasn'tToday is the start of my first full week here at Rhizome in the role of Editor & Curator. I’m really excited to have this opportunity to help shape the next...
View ArticleCameron Martin's Nonspecific Landscapes
Partition Expanse, 2011, 30×45 inches, acrylic on canvas over panelCameron Martin will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with technologist Tara Tiger...
View ArticlePatents Pending: Jeremy Bailey and The Future of Gestural Interfacing
Bailey at the AND Festival in 2007. Photo by Paul Greenwood. Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery.Jeremy Bailey will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with...
View ArticleArtist Profile: Émilie Gervais
Animated GIF from the website Parked Domain Girl Tombstone (2013)DR: On first inspection, a lot of your work appears to be rooted in the 90s, drawing on the low bandwidth aesthetics inherent in GIFs,...
View Article3 Excellent Uses of 3D Printing from Eyebeam's 'F.A.T. Gold' Exhibition
1. Golan Levin's Free Universal Construction Kit (2012). This series of adaptors allows interoperability among different kinds of children's toys, such as Legos®, Tinkertoys® and Lincoln Logs®. The...
View ArticleFatima Al Qadiri: Game Game Games
Fatima Al QadiriFatima Al Qadiri will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with technologist Dalton Caldwell.Fatima Al Qadiri. Google her, visit her...
View Article#7on7HTC: Fever Pitch
Seven on Seven is tomorrow! It's sold out, but never fear: Giampaolo Bianconi will be hosting a liveblog of the event, so you can follow along here as it happens. As our stellar interim editor for the...
View Article#7on7HTC: Liveblog
Hi, I'm Giampaolo Bianconi and I'll be liveblogging today's Seven on Seven conference. Check back throughout the day for realtime updates from the conference, as well as Tweets and thoughts from...
View Article#7on7HTC: Liveblog Part II
Here's a fresh new liveblog for part II of Seven on Seven.2:44: We're back with John Michael Boling on stage: "A lot more exciting things to come." Next team: Cameron Martin and Tara Tiger Brown....
View ArticleXul Solar's Possible Futures
Pan-Arbol (1954)Only collective inventions have any real value, Xul Solar once told his close friend and fellow Porteño Jorge Luis Borges, trying to convince him (unsuccessfully) to write in...
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