How does ASCII art support a more sustainable approach to making art on the web? On Sunday, June 28 at the New Museum, Rhizome will present a day-long event exploring the versatility of ASCII art as ...

This is the second in a three-part series to be published on Rhizome. The first part, exploring the history of the emoticon, can be found here. The final installment (forthcoming) will explore the ...

“Imagine if we could begin our little life all over again. Imagine if it was all nothing more than some electronic game. Imagine if I knew then what I know now.” —Deus Ex Machina, Automata, 1984 If ...

In this third segment of our genealogy we begin to form a connection, and to examine those lesser-known but foundational figures that radiate out from Turing's early work. Perhaps appropriately, given ...

“But even if the internet is dead this doesnt mean it's over. It is all over.” When we met recently we talked about the glitch as it relates to contemporary image culture, but we also talked about the ...

This essay was originally published November 2022 as a chapter in the book Documentation as Art, edited by Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi. In the preservation of digital art, documentation is ...

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If we look back forty years, video’s ability to continuously process new data in real time and render it for visual display make it an important correlate technology for contemporary computing systems ...

Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.

The launch of artist Paul Chan’s publishing company, Badlands Unlimited, in 2010 could have been mistaken for a career non sequitur. His foray into book publishing felt at once completely futile and ...

Today's web browsers want to be invisible, merging with the visual environment of the desktop in an effort to convince users to treat "the cloud" as just an extension of their hard drive. In the 1990s ...

Join us for a public conversation with Shu Lea Cheang, a pathbreaking artist and filmmaker whose work spans cinema, installation, networked media, and performance. The discussion will also touch on ...