Rhizome

3 weeks ago | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

Rhizome’s pop-up in NYC is now open, through May 11. In the early days of the web, Rhizome emerged as an online gathering place for artists working with new media. Dreamers and tinkerers who glimpsed the possibilities and problems of code, networks, and machines—not just tools, but collaborators in evolving creative languages and communities, and new systems of power and knowledge. From our beginnings as an email list, Rhizome has grown into a mature nonprofit.

1 month ago | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

Honoring:  Taryn SimonAaron Swartz (In memoriam)Auriea HarveyMichaël Samyn Committee: Fred BenensonLady CactoidDorothy ChouSofia GarciaLindsay HowardJason IsoliniMartina NegroJack PitneyAmanda SchmittLisa Roumell & Mark RosenthalNatalie StoneKaren WongMarcella Zimmermann The Rhizome World Benefit Dinner celebrates luminaries who have deeply shaped digital culture. The benefit follows 7x7 2025, Rhizome’s annual art-tech collaboration program, which will be held from 12-5pm.

Nov 26, 2024 | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

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 presentation of born-digital art, through a redesign as well as curation and content development.

Jul 22, 2024 | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

This essay was originally published in  Our Friend the Computer's zine. “In our dreams we have seen another network, an honest network, a network decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live.”—Zach Blas, after Subcomandante Marcos, from Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism). There have been so many internets.

Apr 9, 2024 | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

A new 35mm print of Shu Lea Cheang's 1993 fever dream premieres at BAM tonight Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill is a fever dream of New York City at the dawn of the internet. Unfolding in a series of vignettes that are structured like the stanzas of an epic poem, interrupted by ad breaks and news flashes, it portrays a sci-fi world of collapse, corporate control, media saturation, and environmental disaster, inhabited by a creative resistance of foragers, artists, queer lovers, and hackers.