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"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.
“‘StarryNight’ is both a classic work of information aesthetics and a rich portrait of Rhizome’s early online community.” Now online again as part of #NetArtAnthology after a major effort by Rhizome’s digital preservation team.
StarryNight was developed as an artistic interface for the curated, online archive of Rhizome’s email discussion list, an important forum for artists working with new forms of media in the late 1990s. Each week, selected messages from the list—including critical exchanges, sharing resources and....
We are pleased to present materials Brian Mackern's 'Netart Latino Database' as part of El Paquete Semanal, Cuba's 'offline internet.' Visitors to the Havana Biennial, don't miss this unique edition of the Sección A R T E series curated by Nestor Siré.
For !!!Sección A R T E !!!Act[No.22], alongside projects by a range of other artists and writers, Rhizome presents materials from Brian Mackern’s project Netart Latino Database (1999–2004).
'The World in 24 Hours' (Robert Adrian X, 1982) linked artists in sixteen cities around the globe via fax, phone, slow-scan TV, and an early computer network. Now in #NetArtAnthology
The World in 24 Hours was a networked happening that linked sixteen cities worldwide, with the media art festival Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria acting as the central node. Each site was given one hour—coinciding with midday, local time—in which to generate and transmit content over a wide ra....
How did empathy become a buzzword in the games industry? Lana Polansky breaks it down.
In the early 2010s, “empathy games” came to connote games that defied the medium's reputation as crass, immature and even psychologically harmful. But “empathy” is also a marketing gimmick used to sell games as cure-alls for complex social issues, often at the expense of those meant to be em...
April 27: Seven on Seven 2019 at the New Museum! We're thrilled to announce line-up and details.
We’re thrilled to announce the 2019 edition of the celebrated art and technology platform Seven on Seven. This annual event brings together leaders in art and technology for a one-day creative collaboration with a simple challenge: “Make something.” On Saturday, April 27, seven col...
A “content farmer,” a writer who dashes off quick online articles designed primarily to drive web traffic to their host publication, is the central figure in Tyler Coburn’s 'I’m that angel' (2011–), a project that includes a limited edition book and a series of readings and tours held in data centers.
Through the text and these events, 'I’m that angel' links the semiotics of large-scale data production with the physical infrastructure and human labor that support it.
View 'I'm that angel' now as part of #NetArtAnthology:
About 100,000 digital paintings are tiled in the online gallery of 'Death Imitates Language', representing the cumulative output of a computer-driven composition system initiated by artist Harm van den Dorpel in 2016.
View 'Death Imitates Language' induction into #NetArtAnthology' by following the link below.
About 100,000 digital paintings are tiled in the online gallery of Death Imitates Language, representing the cumulative output of a computer-driven composition system initiated by artist Harm van den Dorpel in 2016. Beginning with a single, original pair of images—a nongendered “Adam & Eve”/h...
Net art is "not a passive object on a shelf. It’s something that happens in encounters between people and machines. What we find is that over time and in our culture, it’s devalued so people don’t recognize its value and they’re not putting the resources into sustaining it.” - Michael Connor
Listen to the latest episode of the 'Recode Decode' podcast, which is hosted by Kara Swisher and features Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor. #NetArtAnthology
That’s one of the questions Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor has to face as he and his team chronicle "net art."
New In #NetArtAnthology: Morehshin Allahyari’s ‘Material Speculation: ISIS’ series (2015–2016).
Described by the artist as an exploration of the “petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism, and Jihad,” the project centers around an effort to 3-D print replicas of twelve artifacts from the ancient cities of Hatra and Nineveh, which were destroyed by ISIS in 2015.
https://anthology.rhizome.org/material-speculation-isis
"This store is all we've ever known."
Sister Unn's (2011), an enigmatic flower shop storefront by Bunny Rogers and Filip Olszewski, is now in #NetArtAnthology.
In autumn 2011, an enigmatic flower shop appeared without prior announcement on a well-to-do shopping street in Queens. It never opened to the public, but passersby would peer through the window at the lines of drying flowers that lined its shelves, and the single rose encased in a block of ice in a...
Rhizome's cover photo
“YOUTH UNDERSTANDS FREEDOM WITH LIMITS—THAT BEING ADAPTABLE IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SET YOU FREE.. .”
Best known as the progenitor of Normcore, K-HOLE’s Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom was the art collective’s fourth experimental trend forecast, a PDF modeled on the reports often commissioned by businesses to help them anticipate changes in consumer taste or other factors.Taking up the problem o...
What was the first cyberpunk rock band?
Created by Russian artist Alexei Shulgin, 386 DX was “the world’s first cyberpunk band.” Known for its live performances on city streets and in nightclubs, the performer is a dingy, singing PC that runs Windows 3.1, equipped with a vintage sound card and loaded with MIDI files of drums, gui...
We've launched a bunch of materials detailing what went into making Net Art Anthology and the Art Happens Here, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. Take a look and learn more.
Over the coming weeks, Net Art Anthology will come to a close, and along with the launch of "The Art Happens Here" exhibition and publication, we're beginning the important task of documenting all the essential scholarly research and preservation work that comprised its making.
On January 25, Rhizome and Google Arts & Culture presented a preview of "The Art Happens Here" at the New Museum, and an evening of digital preservation conversation.
On January 25, Rhizome and Google Arts & Culture presented a preview of "The Art Happens Here" at the New Museum, and an evening of digital preservation conversation.
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"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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