The Download is a series of Rhizome commissions that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition. Material Speculation: ISIS/Download Series (King ...

Beginning in January, Rhizome will host the winter edition of Creative Futures: Counterstructures (CFC), Mozilla Foundation’s 10-week cultural R&D residency where creative technologists and ...

“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 ...

Cover image: Screenshot of BookStory’s opening title screen, featuring the interior of the Kurome Shobo bookstore. Usually, a Google Sheet is the site of bureaucratic misery and numbing digits; the ...

Created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists ...

I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about the foundations and origin of Metahaven. A brand is a socially and economically sustained form of prejudice. Branding is the management of first ...

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 ...

For nearly 30 years, Rhizome has supported digital art that has helped to shape contemporary conversations about technology and culture. In an era of platform monopolies, algorithmic manipulation, and ...

I first began to realize the potentiality of my glitch body at the age of thirteen. If not thirteen, maybe even a few years younger—eleven, even—when I signed up on Yahoo! under the handle of ...

At this very moment, countless dicks compete for your attention. Some archived and waiting to be accessed through the same internet search tools you use to find new restaurants, some directed at you ...

We are no longer mostly dealing with information that is transmitted form a source to a receiver, but increasingly also with informational dynamics—that is with the relation between noise and signal, ...

Back in March, Rhizome relaunched its Microgrant program, inviting proposals for Browser-based projects and pitches for articles about works of born-digital art in the Rhizome ArtBase. Our staff ...