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 ...

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 ...

This essay accompanies the presentation of Mongrel's BlackLash as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. 1998 marked a horizon of vast potential for gaming: in the sixth console generation ...

ZZYW (Yang Wang & Zhenzhen Qi) is a New York-based art and research duo who examines the cultural, political, and educational imprints of computation. Their work ThingThingThing (2019), included in ...

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 ...

Viktor Timofeev, DOG (2021). Installation view at Interstate Projects, New York. Hard pastel, acrylic on wall. Courtesy of Interstate Projects, New York. The latest in a series of interviews with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...