Registration is now open for participation in FILE – International Electronic Language Festival 2026, one of the most important events dedicated to art and technology. FILE invites Brazilian 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum launched its first web-based art commission, Shu Lea Cheang's Brandon. Over the course of a year, the collaborative, dynamic piece would look at the complexity of gender ...

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 ...

This text accompanies the presentation of Art Thoughtz as part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” goes the famous New Yorker cartoon. The notion ...

Presented as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome's ongoing online exhibition that charts a history of net art through one hundred works, How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database (2004) was the ...

Screenshot of VVORK post from April 2006, as archived by Rhizome. Today, Rhizome unveils a new archive of the contemporary art blog VVORK (2006-2012), in which we demonstrate a novel solution to the ...