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This month The Download features American Cypher by Mendi + Keith Obadike. Still from American Cypher (2012) American Cypher is a suite of projects that respond to American stories about race and DNA...
Locative media art responds to two of the most definitive social issues of our times: the reorganization of everyday life by mobile computing technologies and the seeming assurance of ecological disa...
Rhizome is happy to announce that we have launched a new design and a big new feature for The ArtBase. In case you are not familliar with the ArtBase, it is Rhizomes archive of internet art and new m...
Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine, 2009. The notion of “feedback” is an important element for your sonic sculptures, where the viewer/listener is pulled into and directed by the work. As you sta...
Lebohang Kganye & Onthatile Modise, Reshot, Grandmother and children, 2011 Could you tell me about visual culture in Africa and how that influences your work? Africa has a long legacy of visual, ...
Installation view, Whitney Biennial (2012) Looking back at the time in which I was beginning to study art, one could describe the motivations I shared with my peers as generally aspirational and huma...
Thursday, May 24th, 2012 7 p.m.at the New Museum Constant Dullaart: Premiere of Terms of Service During this event Constant Dullaart (NL 1979) will release a new series of works as a response to new ...
The Noun Project is a seemingly infinite collection of black-and-white symbols put into the public domain. As the founders put it, it is an attempt to organize the world’s visual language into one on...
Engines within the Throne We once worked as clerks scanning moth-balled pages into the cloud, all memories outsourced except the fuzzy childhood bits when I was an undersized girl with a tic, they nu...
Contant Dullaart: Premiere of Terms of Service will see the artist release a new series of works as a response to new Terms of Service conditions of several internet services. The event is part of th...
X1795 by Max Capacity A collection of items from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive, around the theme of Television de/Rastra by Kyle Evans An old television set is converted into a live perform...
Still from Art21 Telethon, May 2012 Theres performance: immediate, rehearsed and present; then theres television: distant, canned, and broadcast. One offspring of their coupling is the telethon. Tele...
Tauba Auerbach, RGB Colorspace Atlas. (2011) I once heard Leon Botstein, the President of Bard College, compare books to stairs. “They’ve invented the elevator,” he said, “but sometimes you still wal...
Sister Unns, 2011 A lot of your work seems to explore the transitional moments of adolescence into adulthood through sexual introductions like Dotyk and Waiting for Anne, as well as through sentiment...
The Inland Printer – 164, 2012 Through webinars, installations, power points, performances, audio meditations and videos, Andrew Norman Wilsons interventions into the brands and infrastructures of Si...
Shu Lea Cheang, Brandon, Bigdoll interface, collaboration with Jordy Jones and Cherise Fong, 1998 In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum launched its first web-based art commission, Shu Lea Cheangs Brandon. ...
Joshua Callaghan’s Two Dollar Umbrella (2011) As far as art fairs go, Frieze New York was better than most: the booths were spacious, the tent well lit, and the amenities for visitors excellent. The ...
Katja Novitskova and Timur Si-Qin, Installation view at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Im going to imagine a time in which post-internet megabucks are really...
Lesson One: IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING, SO LONG AS ITS WORKING. ██████ 01 December at 17:31 heh. your videos, blog and online presence are like a window on some sort of amazin...
Image spam might tell us a lot about “ideal” humans, but not by showing actual humans: quite the contrary. The models in image spam are photochopped replicas, too improved to be true. A reserve army ...
Tickets are still available for our Benefit party on May 9th! Performances by Venus X, Extreme Animals, and LE1F. Venus X Extreme Animals LE1F
The verdict from Frieze New York? Not so bad! While the city has experienced a rash of yawn-worthy art fairs — this years Armory no exception — yesterday saw the impressively successful debut of Frie...
photo: Melissa Gira Grant “I wanted us to be so naked with each other,” Acker/Laure writes to Bataille, “that the violence of my passion was amputating me for you.” But “as soon as you saw that I got...
Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey is releasing the audio from his 1999 video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. The record is the first release on Boomkat in house label The Death Of Rave, and the...
Mat (Clodagh Emoe, 2008-ongoing) via On a recent episode of Fringe, a mad scientist arch-villain primes two parallel worlds for destruction by re-tuning the frequency of each planet to resonate at th...
Barbra Latanzi, The Letter and the Fly (2002 ) Trevor Owens interviewed Rhizome Digital Conservator Ben Fino-Radin for the Library of Congress blog on digital preservation, The Signal. In the intervi...
David Kraftsows Vlog Artifacts, is featured this month on The Download. Screenshot of At My Funeral, 2011 Much of your work involves recontextualizing a lot of YouTube and Twitter content. Through th...
Tonight is the deadline for Rhizome commissions! Proposals are due at midnight tonight. Also, tickets are still available for our Benefit party on May 9th! Performances by Venus X, Extreme Animals, a...
The Internet, specifically social media, is often perpetuated as being a new kind of ‘revolution celebrity’ and indeed to some point its played a hefty distributive role in accelerating the 2011 Egyp...
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