Rhizome

1 week 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.

Apr 3, 2024 | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

ArtBase Anthologies, a new program showcasing the history of born-digital art, launches today with an online exhibition of newly restored artworks by Auriea Harvey and Entropy8Zuper!Each month, ArtBase Anthologies will preseent a selection of works – either a deep dive into a a solo artist, a snapshot of a historical moment, or a thematic curation of works from the recent or more distant past.