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- Announcing the NEW INC Art & Code Year 13 cohort! September 10, 2026Each year Rhizome partners with NEW INC on its Art & Code track, a year-long program designed to help artists realize or prototype a creative project in community with a network of other artists and thinkers. The Art & Code track is designed for individuals who critically engage with technology and the internet in their […]
- Mastera Returns as Co-hosting Partner for Rhizome Benefit September 9, 2026In recognition of our shared commitment to computer art history, Mastera (M) will be a co-hosting partner for Rhizome’s 30th anniversary benefit on September 23. This continues a partnership that began with the Artist & Technologist dinner at this year’s 7x7. "Mastera amplifies trailblazing moving image art and music on a global scale,” notes Mastera's […]
- Artist Profile: Vijay Masharani August 27, 2026The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Charlotte Strange: I experience your works most immediately through their use of color. Your drawings in the exhibition Sequin, Shadow reference it in their titles—both explicitly, as in Red Drawing and Green Vision, and through […]
- WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! — A Celebration of Net Art's Past, Present, and Future August 24, 2026Can websites still support creative artistic expression in 2026? To mark our 30th anniversary, Rhizome has partnered with ARTXCODE on the new exhibition WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! (WWW!), curated by Sofia Garcia of ARTXCODE and Vienna Kim and Benoit Palop of LAN Party. This exhibition celebrates the website as an enduring site of experimentation, identity, and […]
- Stop Worrying and Love the Computer: Art & Code’s "Edge Cases" August 14, 2026Code as law. Code as computational language. Code as social ruleset. Code as creative medium. Code as secret message. What does “Art & Code” mean in 2026? Visit Edge Cases Each year, Rhizome partners with NEW INC to host one of the incubator’s thematic tracks: Art & Code. Though deceptively simple, the rubric of “Art […]
- Artist Profile: Mitch Anzuoni July 28, 2026The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Matilda Lin Berke: You’ve described video games as “possibility engines.” I think there’s a way in which—per Werner Herzog’s concept of “the accountant’s truth” vs. “the ecstatic truth,”—a simulation or emulation can unveil something more […]
- Escaping the Calculating Machine July 13, 2026"The ability to 'read' a medium means you can access materials and tools generated by others. The ability to 'write' in a medium means you can generate materials and tools for others. You must have both to be literate. In print writing, the tools you generate are rhetorical; they demonstrate and convince. In computer writing, […]
- #5: Advertising is broken. It’s time to move your brand inside the model. June 12, 2026“For the last couple of decades, brands have fought for visibility on surfaces like billboards, magazines, television, subway ads. “Clearly, people hate this. “So we're proposing a new model of AI native advertising for the generative era. “Not in the YouTube ad, not in the subway, not in the margins, inside the attention, inside the […]
- #1: To address the tech industry’s harms, we need to build the kinternet June 12, 2026This pairing brought together a theoretical case and a legal one. Nairobi-based litigator Mercy Mutemi is leading a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Meta for harms that it has caused to the public good in Africa, including forced labor, genocide, and human trafficking. The goal of the case is to set up a victims fund to […]
- #2: A container is not a vessel, but an interface. June 12, 2026Disintegrator (Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, Hugh Scott-Douglas) and 邊界BianJie (Elena Carbajal, Ian Margo and Alexandre Montserrat | 世然)’s collaboration resulted in a curious object—a black silicon wafer, laced with billions of cuts by a precision laser— which posed a set of inquiries. The etching of the wafer created two states on its smooth surface: […]