Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
FW: Re: Re:
a selection from Rhizome's ArtBaseCurated by Luis Silva for Rhizome
July 2008
Predating the internet itself, email has become a mass communication tool as well as a pillar of contemporary computing culture. The artists featured in this exhibition consider the ways email has become an unquestioned part of our lives; and their diverse works push the traditionally prescribed uses of thie ubiquitous technology. All works are selected from Rhizome's ArtBase.
FW: Re: Re: takes the form of an email. The exhibition will exist solely in people's inboxes and will last until its moved to the trashed or filed and forgotten.
BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Curated by Laura Hoptman and Lauren CornellDecember 1, 2007–March 23, 2008
the New Museum
Using Flash animation techniques, they create fast-moving, text-based artworks that are synchronized with original scores. Seemingly an extremely simple format—text on monochromatic backgrounds— YHCHI carefully choreographs texts that weave complex and evocative narratives. The work invokes the genre of film noir, and the hard-boiled literary styles of Raymond Chandler and Phillip K. Dick. Their imaginative, witty and often politically pointed narratives offer layered and compelling stories in which identities are assumed and discarded, and ideologies of all persuasions are held up and questioned. BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING is a new, seven-screen installation co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum.
Montage: Unmonumental Online
Curated by Lauren Cornell and Marisa Olson
February 15, 2008 - April 6, 2008
The final portion of "Unmonumental" will be presented online and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. "Montage: Unmonumental Online" will feature works by an international group of fourteen emerging and midcareer artists who appropriate diverse material from the Web to create new Internet-based montage. Cutting and pasting, breaking apart and re-assembling, ripping and remixing, the participating artists extend the radical practice of collage to the Internet, demonstrating how previously tried techniques can engender rich, new artistic practices. Their works incorporate varied formal elements: digital images, sound, video, or code, and also recite fictions and fantasies found online.
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Google Art, or How to Hack Google
Curated by Ana Otero for Rhizome
October 2007
In an information-based age, the ability to search and organize information amounts to power. Search engines shape knowledge, modulate web traffic, and contribute to the creation of new semantics and meanings. Currently, Google's influence is unparalleled. It has expanded the way that we search and find information, and inserted itself into nearly every web-based activity.
The selection of projects in Google Art, or How to Hack Google illuminate and critique the influence of this expanding online institution. The projects include ad hacks that attempt to foil Google's seemingly unstoppable business machinery, playful re-interpretations of search results and alterations of its geographical worldview. Together, they elevate and critique Google's logic, while recognizing its own deepening relationship with our culture, behavior and lives.
TOURING SHOW
Curated by Marisa Olson
May 2007
Touring Show is an online exhibition of artists' maps and 'virtual tours' of spaces public and private, ranging from the Military Industrial Complex to geographic borders, to the body. The projects mingle investigations of technology's impact on our landscape and the use of technologies to explore and document this terrain. While some of the projects read as interventions, others simply present the information needed to navigate viewers' own subjective tours.
This exhibition is part of Times Shares.
NETWORKED NATURE
Curated by Marisa Olson
Foxy Production Gallery, NYC.
Jan 11 - Feb 18, 2007
In the finale of our Tenth Anniversary Festival, Foxy Productions presents Networked Nature, a group exhibition that inventively explores the representation of 'nature' through the perspective of networked culture. The exhibition includes works by C5, Futurefarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross, Stephen Vitiello, and Gail Wight, who provocatively combine art and politics with innovative technology, such as global positioning systems (GPS), robotics, and hydroponic environments.
Networked Nature runs in conjunction with CAA's annual conference in New York, February 14-17, 2007.
Networked Nature is supported, in part, by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the College Art Association, the New York City Department for Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
This exhibition was part of Rhizome's Tenth Anniversary Festival events.
PROFESSIONAL SURFER
Curated by Lauren Cornell
January, 2007
Professional Surfer is a group exhibition that considers web browsing (aka 'surfing') as an art form.
It brings together websites run by individuals and collectives who re-publish found digital material next to remixed graphics, video, performance and commentary. Framed as individual artworks, the websites employ appropriation in ways that are reminiscent of Pop, video or conceptual art, yet set apart by a deep immersion in their surrounding digital environment. Presented in blog posts, or across a series of interlinked web pages, their projects transform the anarchic territory of the Internet into an aesthetic that could only be borne out of a territory in which commerce and creativity, amateurs and professionals, as well as divergent cultures and styles are in constant flux and uncomfortable proximity.
This exhibition is part of Times Shares.
D.I.Y. Or DIE
at Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO) and online
Dec 1 - Jan 15, 2007
In celebration of their respective ten-year anniversaries, Turbulence and Rhizome collaborated with Upgrade! New York to present an exhibition of works that they commissioned or presented over the course of their histories. From re-purposed commercial software to homegrown digital knitting applications and works that offer alternative constructions of identity and nationality, D.I.Y. or Die presents a cross-section of Internet-based art that, much like punk and grassroots activism has the urgency and invention required to change existing standards of art practice.
D.I.Y. or Die is currently installed at Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO), a not-for-profit arts organization presenting work by Oklahoma artists, including visual art, poetry, theater, and film and video.
This exhibition was part of Rhizome's Tenth Anniversary Festival events.
MOST 13 BEAUTIFUL AVATARS
by Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.org)
Curated by Marisa Olson
Nov 15 - Dec 29, 2006 at Second Life's Ars Virtua gallery.
Nov 30 - Dec. 19, 2006 at The Italian Academy, Columbia University (NYC)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars, an exhibition in Second Life's increasingly popular Ars Virtua gallery --a virtual nonprofit arts organization-- captures the most visually dynamic and celebrated "stars" of Second Life. The Matteses have been living in the virtual world, Second Life, for over a year, exploring its terrain and interacting with its peculiar inhabitants. The result of their "video-game flanerie" is this series of portraits.
This exhibition is part of Times Shares.
DIY COMPUTING
vertexList in Brooklyn, NY.
Oct. 14 - Nov. 19, 2006
Rhizome co-presents a solo exhibition by Dallas-based artist Paul Slocum who turns outdated technologies, from Ataris to dot matrix printers, into expressive and technically innovative art works. The emerging artist fuses nostalgia with a critical take on the rapid obsolescence of technologies.
This exhibition was part of Rhizome's Tenth Anniversary Festival events.
THE COPY AND PASTE SHOW
Curated by Hanne Mugaas
September, 2007
The Copy and Paste Show explores the evolution of copy-and-paste culture, where the copying of digital material has become a major technique in the construction of online identity and style. Featured artists include: Seth Price, 808 and artists collaborative, Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby. Each explores how copy and paste techniques, paired with different digital tools, influence web aesthetics, music production, and relationships on and offline.
This exhibition is part of Times Shares.
FAULTLINES
Curated by Lauren Cornell
August, 2006
The works in Faultines consider the desires, fictions and anxieties embedded in online communities, and also reveal how "real-world" issues, such as commerce and international politics, drive relationship in the virtual sphere just as they do offline.
This exhibition is part of Times Shares.
GIF SHOW
Curated by Marisa Olson
RX Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
May 3 - June 3, 2006
The GIF Show takes the pulse of what some net surfers have dubbed 'GIF Luv,' a recent frenzy of file-sharing and creative muscle-flexing associated with GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format files).
RHIZOME 2005-2006 COMMISSIONS
Eleven projects were awarded grants for the 2005-2006 cycle; each one pushes formal and conceptual boundaries of works made with the Internet or networked technology. The eleven projects awarded commissions this year are now online.
Explore innovative works by Dave Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young, Jason Corace and Vicky Fang, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenburg, Peter Horvath, Sean Kerr, Thomas Laureyssens, UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio and Adriaan Stellingwerff.
SURGE
Jan. 10 - March 31, 2006
An online exhibition of web-based projects selected from an open call for submissions, curated by free103point9 and Rhizome. Surge includes works by artists 31 Down, Abe Linkoln and Marisa Olson, Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera, NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology), Jim Punk, and Leslie Sharpe. The featured projects employ new media tools to both conceptually and formally address different possibilities for transmission art online. Some consider the nature of signals as they move through the ether; others appropriate forms of wireless transmission, such as the military's aerial 'drone' or the data format ASCII, to propose new kinds of digital communication.
Surge Live, a reception to celebrate the exhibition took place on March 28th, 2006 at Participant, Inc. gallery. Presentations were given by several of the featured artists: 31 Down, Angel Nevarez, and NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology)
ALL SYSTEMS GO!
Curated by Marisa Olson
~Scope-New York Art Fair
Cinemascope Gallery, NYC
March 10 - 13, 2006
Part of the Curator's Choice program at this year's Scope-New York Art Fair, All Systems Go! features high-tech, low-tech, and hybrid work exploring digital, representational, political, and social systems. This exhibition constitutes an expansion of Rhizome's mission to connect art and technology. The artists comment on systems, in their various forms and themes, with works ranging from computer, video, and electronic installations to drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Here, technology is not the sole tool or object at play, but is often an indirect subject -- a backdrop on the social landscape within which all art practice now occurs. The harmony or dischord between these installations pinpoint areas of overlap between the various systems now navigated by each of us living in a technological society. The show is, thus, an update on the established field of 'systems art,' from the perspective of contemporary culture and practice.
NET ART'S CYBORG[FEMINIST]S, PUNKS AND MANIFESTOS
Curated by Marina Grzinic
"The idea behind the following exhibition's selection, or let's call it a temporary convergence of forces, is to think Internet art radically different from those projects and activities on the net that nurture only their design aspects, without questioning the logic of their appearances or the social matrix to which they apply. The selection is about emphasizing responsibility, as critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak would say, for questions of rights, history, race and sexuality. I try to put forward those projects that display not only a clear political stance but also the politics of the Internet itself. " -- MN
RHIZOME ARTBASE 101
Curated by Lauren Cornell and Rachel Greene
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC.
June 23 - Sep. 10,2005
Rhizome ArtBase 101 surveys salient themes in Internet art, a practice that has flourished in the last ten years. The exhibition presents forty selections from Rhizome's online archive of new media art, the ArtBase, which was launched in 1999 and currently holds some 1,500 works by artists from around the world. Featured works are grouped by ten unifying themes and include seminal pieces by early practitioners as well as projects by some of the most pioneering emerging talents working in the field today. Encompassing software, games, moving image and websites, Rhizome ArtBase 101 presents the Internet as a strapping medium that rivals other art forms in its ability to buttress varied critical and formal explorations.
Rhizome ArtBase 101 premiered at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Summer 2005. You can view an online version here.
