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- Digital Painting in LA and Beyond, the Set List February 25, 2026For tonight's program in Los Angeles, organized in partnership with LACMA Digital Leaders and Ark/8, I sought to gather up some images that I think of as digital painting, from Rhizome’s archive and beyond, with a few key figures from Los Angeles. Digital painting can be a slippery and contested category, but also a longstanding […]
- Board Updates for Rhizome’s Fourth Decade February 24, 2026Jeannie Vu and Katherine Frazer have been elected to Rhizome’s Board of Directors, strengthening the organization as it enters its fourth decade. Katherine Frazer is an artist and product designer at Apple with a multidisciplinary background spanning new media art, software application design, accessible technologies, social therapy robotics, and Japanese floral arrangement. Frazer’s design practice […]
- Rhizome.org in India February 17, 2026This month, Rhizome launches a series of programs in India, in a continuing partnership with Anthropic. Thanks to this visionary support, Rhizome will have the opportunity to connect with burgeoning creative communities in Bangalore, Mumbai, and elsewhere. Through a workshop, a festival partnership, and a year-long fellowship, Rhizome aims to create space for artists to […]
- Praxinoscope as Praxis with Margot McEwen February 13, 2026In this interview, Ana Meisel is joined by Margot McEwen, an artist in London. They discuss GIFs as modern-day praxinoscope animations, making art on outdated equipment, and the art of scrolling. Ana Meisel: Where are we right now? Margot McEwen: We are in Peckham Rye Park or Peckham Rye Common. I'm not sure what the […]
- Open Call: Vibe Shift Bengaluru February 3, 2026This February, Rhizome.org arrives in Bengaluru for a special evening program, presented in partnership with Claude and the Museum of Art & Photography. Marking the beginning of a series of Rhizome programs in India, Vibe Shift is a mindful hackathon that gives artists and creative practitioners the opportunity to explore AI-assisted creative coding, often referred […]
- Conifer Twilight and Rhizome’s Next Chapter in Digital Preservation December 18, 2025As we prepare for Rhizome’s 30th anniversary, we’re taking an important step in the evolution of our approach to dynamic web archiving. Rhizome’s software infrastructure for digital preservation—which represents more than $3M of investment over the past decade, and an annual server bill that rivals what other organizations spend on rent—allows us to offer an […]
- 2025-26 Microgrants Awardees! December 16, 2025We're thrilled to announce the 17 recipients of our 2025-26 Microgrants, selected from an open call encouraging experimentation with alternatives for digital culture. This year's awarded projects explore four themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame and identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics), and Synthetic […]
- [DEADLINE EXTENDED!] Apply to the Counterstructural Commons Residency December 16, 2025Apply by January 28 Update: The deadline has been extended to January 28, 12AM. Beginning in January, Rhizome will host the winter edition of Creative Futures: Counterstructures (CFC), Mozilla Foundation’s 10-week cultural R&D residency where creative technologists and communities come together to imagine, test, and build alternative tech infrastructures. Based on the Mozilla Foundation's global […]
- Bedrocks, Not Clouds: an interview with Batool Desouky December 12, 2025Have you ever been interested in ways of applying commoning, ecology, and degrowth to your creative practice? In this interview, Ana Meisel interviews Batool Desouky, a computational artist who is reimagining computation through analog processes, community organizing, and combinatorics. -- Ana Meisel: Where are we right now? Batool Desouky: We’re in London, England, in the […]
- Rhizome at 18th Street Arts Center! December 9, 2025Rhizome’s solar server has found a permanent home on the roof of the historic 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, where it will bask in the Organization’s vibrant rays. Founded in 1988, 18th Street Arts Center has a rich history as a meeting place for artists and activists in Southern California and beyond. […]