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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, March 22, Rhizome presented SCREENTIME as part of the New Museum's opening weekend, featuring eleven video works made by artists in ArtBase, Rhizome’s archive of digital art. The fully sold ...

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 ...

The machine on which Conlon Nancarrow created his player piano rolls. Photo by Carol Law, 1977. Collection: C Amirkhanian. In 1947, the composer Conlon Nancarrow—frustrated with human pianists and ...

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 ...

Can the solar web invite us into a more intentional relationship with computers and connectivity? In an age of abundant computation and connectivity, this was the question that animated Rhizome’s ...

“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 ...

Buy fresh, train local! Presenting Small Batch: A Dataset Farmers Market. Browse farmers market of artists‑curated datasets including manga screenshot troves, heartbreak maps, MoMA‑tote street‑view ...

Through your academic research you’ve developed an intimate understanding and typology of the glitch. You even refer to glitches as a “wonderful interruption that shifts an object away from its ...