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‘Cyberfeminism Index' is an in-progress collection of resources for techno-critical works from 1990–2020, gathered and facilitated by @mindyseu. Link in bio!
The work is copresented with
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as part of First Look: New Art Online.
Episode one of 7x7 Stavanger launches in 5 minutes:
Artist & Filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang x Kate Adamala, Assistant Professor Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at University of Minnesota
Founded by Rhizome in 2010, 7x7 pairs artists and technologists and challenges them to make new things. The first Norway-based edition, 7x7 Stavanger will premiere new projects daily through 30-minute livestream broadcasts on this site from October 5–11.
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Together with Kunsthall Stavanger, we've reimagined 7x7 as a fully online program, lunching October 5 and free to all. Learn more below.
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 art and technology and charging them to create new projects through one-on-one collabor...
In partnership with Small Data Industries, we've undertaken significant restoration work on The Thing BBS. We'll be launching selections, and hosting two live online events beginning July 21.
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Today, we are rebranding webrecorder.io—the free-to-use web archiving platform hosted by and developed at Rhizome since 2015—as Conifer, located at https://conifer.rhizome.org. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/jun/11/introducing-conifer/
Our embedded PhD researcher Lozana Rossenova has spent the past few years conducting participatory research to conceptualize a new data model for born-digital culture and a new user interface for the Rhizome ArtBase. The first of her reports are now available on line:
Research for a new data model and interface design framework for the archive.
Rhizome and New Museum have partnered with Chronus Art Center（CAC）, 아트센터 나비 art center nabi, and others on "We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces," a First Look online exhibition of newly commissioned net art works for WeChat and the web.
In partnership with Chronus Art Center (CAC) and a group of international contemporary art spaces that support born-digital practice, Rhizome and the New Museum have commissioned new works of net art for WeChat, the essential Chinese social network. New works have been commissioned from Raphaël...
Join us for an online event next Thursday, 3/19 - RSVP to [email protected] for stream link/reminder: Published fifty years ago, Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema was a landmark account of early media arts in the US, written by a self-described “twenty-six-year-old former crime reporter with only a high school education.” With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller, the book offered an in-depth account of artists working with light shows, immersive projection, computer-generated imagery, and television, and addressed topics from sexuality to political revolution. To mark its fiftieth-anniversary re-release by Fordham University Press, Michael Connor will host an online screening and a conversation about Expanded Cinema and its legacy, featuring Youngblood.
"Certain styles of music reward contemplation because they suggest rich new worlds of sonic possibility–the sounds actively seek to adjust the shape of things to come–and, by contrast, EDM is frighteningly interesting for how at home it is in the ouroboros of financial logic." - Alexander Iadarola
Alexander Iadarola explores EDM and financial capitalism's entanglement after the crash.
We close out the decade by closing out the internet itself... maybe. (Maybe not!)
Rhizome Artistic Director Michael Connor reflects on the end of the internet as we know it.
"It’s a daunting task to boil down the past ten years of the internet into only ten colors. But I’m a web designer… who started working professionally in 2010… so I subjectively choose some memorable colors directly from websites I’ve designed these past ten years… and I’ve also included some favorites from our collective screen-based unconscious."
Laurel Schwult's 10 colors to commemorate the last decade (and 1 to forget).
In The Decade in Internet, artists and writers reflect on their favorite moments from the 2010s. First up: Dena Yago on Google Wave, biobags, and the magic shoebox.
Dena Yago reflects on memorable moments from a decade spent navigating trend reports, the art world, and social media
New episode of the podcast now online! Featuring a lightly edited recording of 'After the End of History,' which brought together three posters from Gen Z post-left politigram who are participating in an ongoing project by artist Joshua Citarella.
Audio from the New Museum event is now online
“The conflict between those who use the internet and those who own it will likely become major grounds for class struggle.” Notes from two Gen Z writers who align themselves with U/acc (unconditional accelerationism), part of an ongoing research project by artist Joshua Citarella.
A statement on capital, queerness, and revolution from UACC zoomers. This text is part of a larger artistic research project by Joshua Citarella.
A web-based exhibition for Bogotá’s Salón Nacional (curated by aarea and Ana Maria Montenegro) considers online time as material: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/24/45SNA/
‘The future for capitalism, if there will be a future for it at all, is eco-fascism.’ As part of our ongoing Info-Wars program, Gen Z anti-civilization egoist Marxist zoe4revolution shares their vision of the next 25 years. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/oct/17/communism-against-civilization-or-eco-fascism/
We're partnering with Infinite Objects on a set of 3 Rhizome limited editions "video prints." Take a look!
Announcing a launch partnership with Infinite Objects, a company making video prints, “a new way to live with art that moves. ”
Tonight in Los Angeles: First & Negative Two, internetish shorts by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew.
While film in general has struggled to depict new modes of mediated interaction, Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand’s innovative new shorts–First and Negative Two—detail life in media rather than with it. Instead of showing dating apps, feeds, and direct messages (DMs),....
Nothing in Life Matters: Nihilism, meme found on Politigram, 2018. Digital file courtesy of Joshua Citarella.
Microgrants! New Programs! Take a gander.
This is a big year for Rhizome. Building on the success of the "Net Art Anthology" initiative and the exhibition "The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics," which is beginning a national tour, Rhizome introduces a new research-based program structure to begin this fall. In this new...
An interview with Pat Cadigan on science fiction, cyberfeminism, and terminal cancer:
An interview with sci-fi author Pat Cadigan
"Beauty vloggers—mostly young and femme-presenting—appear to be strangely vulnerable to spirit possession." Sofya Aleynikova writes about a YouTube microgenre, the paranormal storytime.
Beauty vloggers’ paranormal storytimes as neogothic genre
'The Game: The Game' by Angela Washko
is a dating sim in which the player must navigate a series of manipulative encounters with seduction coaches. After years of development, it's now available on the artist's site for free download. #NetArtAnthology https://anthology.rhizome.org/the-game-the-game
In Angela Washko’s dating simulator The Game: The Game, the player is placed in the perspective of a femme-presenting person who encounters a series of men in a bar setting. The men are all prominent figures in the so-called seduction community, an internet-fueled subculture of “pick-up artists...
This end of fiscal year, consider a donation to Rhizome to support our programs, or buy one of our net art products on offer. :-)
For the past two or so years, Rhizome has told the story of the web as a core material, subject, and inspiration for innovative contemporary art, through events, publishing, preservation, and online access. This year, we capstoned that story with the gallery exhibition and publication: "The Art ...
“Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact, this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.”
Over the next few weeks, we're adding the final works to Net Art Anthology. First up, a major reconstruction of "DIS Images," an agency and web platform that commissioned and licensed artist-made images for use in advertising or publishing, and offered a radical alternative to the uncanny homogeneity of commercial stock images.
DIS Images was an agency and web platform that commissioned and licensed artist-made images for use in advertising or publishing, and offered a radical alternative to the uncanny homogeneity of commercial stock images.The project grew out of the DIS collective’s long-running online publication Di....
We built Webrecorder to capture life right here, on social networks like this. Three years in, the robust toolset continues to expand possibilities for the field of web archiving. We invite you to back it by becoming a Webrecorder Supporter today.
We are excited to announce a new opportunity for Webrecorder users and community members to support our vision and services by becoming a Webrecorder Supporter.
Gaby Cepeda probes the limits of Heriberto Yépez’s post-conceptualism: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/may/22/conceptual-fumes/
Heriberto Yépez claims the purpose of his writing is to destroy himself “including everything.” One just wonders what his rebuilding plans would look like.
“Post Internet embraced the network as form as well as subject matter. Through McHugh’s serial updates, punctuated by quotations and comments from readers, the blog engaged deeply with the internet’s increasingly significant effects on artistic creation and production, and on art criticism itself.”
A WordPress blog created by writer and curator Gene McHugh between December 2009 and September 2010, Post Internet was an exercise in art criticism as well as a performative work of art. The blog contended with many of the key issues of the early postinternet moment, in which artists contended wit.....
Described by the artist as “a multimedia survival kit for another dimension,” Psycho Nymph Exile is a fractured sci-fi narrative that plays out across multiple platforms. New in Net Art Anthology!
Described by the artist as “a multimedia survival kit for another dimension,” Psycho Nymph Exile is a fractured sci-fi narrative that plays out across multiple platforms. The work includes a novella (ebook and print), two interactive poems, a sticker set of a three-irised eye, a website featurin...
Announcing new details for our Arcangel Surfware pop-up event on May 18, including the return of Trail Blazers, the classic web surfing competition.
We're thrilled to be collaborating with San José Museum of Art to re-present and expand on Hayal Pozanti and Laura Welcher's collaboration for 7×7 2019, as part of SJMA's new free Fridays. If you're in the area, please join.
Rhizome is thrilled to be partnering with the San José Museum of Art to re-present artist Hayal Pozanti and linguist and Long Now Director of Operations Laura Welcher's collaboration from last weekend's 7×7 2019. This thought-provoking project sought to send a message deep into the future, ent...
What happens when you pair artists and technologists and ask them to make something new? Find out today by joining the 7×7 2019 livestream!
Beginning at 1PM EST, we'll be broadcasting 7×7 2019 live from the New Museum. Tune in here.
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‘Cyberfeminism Index' is an in-progress collection of resources for techno-critical works from 1990–2020, gathered and facilitated by @mindyseu. Link in bio! The work is copresented with @newmuseum as part of First Look: New Art Online.
"If ever computers had a subconscious, this is it." Cory Arcangel's 'Data Diaries,' 2003, running in glorious OS 9 in your browser. https://anthology.rhizome.org/data-diaries-2003 #netartanthology #f405fc
The "aha!" moment: #7on7NYC collaborators Hito Steyerl and Grant Olney Passmore working on their project ahead of Saturday's conference. Watch it live stream via Refinery29 and Facebook Live from noon to 6 PM EST on May 14.
Just a small taste of Constant Dullaart: Premiere of Terms of Service, 7PM tonight at the New Museum.
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