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- ArtBase Anthologies 002: Let’s Play Majerus G3 📽 December 4, 2024“Let’s Play Majerus G3” explores a previously unexplored aspect of artist Michel Majerus’s archive: his laptop. Majerus (1967–2002) was a painter who used the computer extensively, incorporating digital imagery and media into his work. His laptop, which held sketches and compositions, working materials, notes, and appointments, could be thought of as an extension of his […]
- Ann Hirsch on DIALTONES (A TELESYMPHONY) December 3, 2024This week for our 25 on 25 series we’re sharing artist Ann Hirsch’s nostalgia-filled pick: Dialtones (A Telesymphony) by Golan Levin, a custom audience-based ringtone symphony from 2001. Recalling her first encounter with Dialtones, Ann remarked: “When I came across this work, I was in college and just starting to learn what art could be. […]
- Major Milestones at Rhizome November 26, 2024Rhizome Receives $750,000 Grant from The Mellon Foundation Earlier this month, we marked the 25th anniversary of our landmark digital art archive, the ArtBase. Today, we have another significant milestone to share: a $750,000, three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation in support of the archive. This three-year grant will support the accessioning, preservation, and public […]
- McKenzie Wark on TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT November 22, 2024To celebrate the 25th birthday of ArtBase—Rhizome's archive of digital art—we're sharing 25 works selected by 25 artists, curators, writers, and critics here and on Instagram. Writer and scholar McKenzie Wark looks back on TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT, a performance by Eddo Stern from 2001: "Eddo Stern's Tekken Torture is just one of many works in […]
- Happy Birthday ArtBase! November 12, 2024Happy birthday to Rhizome’s ArtBase, which launched 25 years ago today! It comes as no surprise that with the advancement of new technologies comes the risk of digital art and culture becoming lost to time. "I thought that artists should have the right to determine the future of their work or lack thereof," recalls artist […]
- Artist Profile: Mark Fingerhut November 8, 2024The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Jason Isolini: Comp USA Live was a live desktop performance and livestream series that disregarded various physical and digital boundaries, including browser windows, green screens, and private and public space. Both live and virtual audiences often participated in […]
- Artist Profile: Anisha Baid September 17, 2024The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Nihaal Faizal: Your work Breaking the Screen (2020) is part video essay, part corporate presentation, but mainly I see it as an artist's statement. It charts the ground for a lot of what your practice […]
- Announcing the NEW INC Year 11 Art & Code Cohort! September 10, 2024We're excited to introduce the cohort making up NEW INC's 2024-25 Art & Code track, a partnership between Rhizome and NEW INC. NEW INC is the New Museum's cultural incubator, which supports a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing creative projects and businesses. The Art […]
- Open Call: Microgrants 2024 August 19, 2024Now through September 15, Rhizome is accepting submissions for our 2024 Microgrants (ranging from $500-$1500), offering support for new artworks on the web! Artists, thinker/tinkerers, game-makers, creative hackers, digital archaeologists, code poets and dreamers: Rhizome gives small annual grants to people like you, to support new online projects. No experience is necessary – just review […]
- Introducing Rhizome’s Preservation Services August 14, 2024Are you an artist, museum conservator, or collector looking to restore or archive a work of software- or network-dependent art? Is your community organization trying to recover access to a meaningful online resource? Is your creative agency paying high server costs for outdated web projects that you can’t bear to let go of? If you […]