Earlier this month, Rhizome presented Vibe Shift, a two-part event featuring a hackathon and showcase at ZeroSpace in ...

In a recent interview, rapper Soulja Boy revealed that he purposefully mistitled his song Crank That on Limewire, attributing ...

"Larp can change the world." So claimed Heikki Holmås, Norway's newly-appointed Minister for International Development back in March, and I couldn't help but take notice. Three months previous, I was ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In early 2015, near the end of my MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons, I set out on a project to create a celebrity by 2020—entirely via the internet—as an art practice. The celebrity I began to create was a ...

GIF extract form Hito Steyerl, How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013. HD video file, single screen, 14min. How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File 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 ...

While The Thing moved to the nascent World Wide Web in 1995, looking back on both the technological affordances of the particular pre-Web Bulletin Board System (BBS) software package The THing used as ...

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 ...

Courtesy grouphab.it and Harm van den Dorpel. An extended and altered version of this text will be published in... You Are Here: Looking at After the Internet (Cornerhouse Books 2014), edited by Omar ...

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 ...