In the early days of the web, Rhizome emerged as an online gathering place for artists working with new media. Dreamers and tinkerers who glimpsed the possibilities and problems of code, networks, and ...

Measuring and understanding digital emissions is becoming a popular sub-topic of sustainability in the arts and culture sector. So much of the work we do in the digital art community and within 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 ...

Pete Jiadong Qiang, Queer Maximalism HyperBody (2020). Game level Pinkray, Pinkray plush dolls, VR gameplay screenshot. Courtesy of the artist and CheeseTalk. The latest in a series of interviews with ...

This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a history that are ...

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 ...

Over the past few months, many artists have reached out to Rhizome asking for advice about how best to preserve or continuing to offer access to their Flash-based artworks, in light of the official ...

This essay accompanies the presentation of Electronic Disturbance Theater's FloodNet as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. What is the relationship between data bodies and real bodies?

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...