Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From our base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through our acclaimed ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Martine Syms, film still produced for the cover of Most Days (2014). LP. Mixed Media Recordings, Brooklyn. The undersigned, being alternately pissed off and bored, need a means of speculation and ...

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?

This essay accompanies the presentation of Mongrel's BlackLash as a part of the online exhibition Net Art Anthology. 1998 marked a horizon of vast potential for gaming: in the sixth console generation ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Rhizome and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) are teaming up with Canyon—a major new venue for media art opening on New York’s Lower East Side in 2026—to develop joint programming and expand public ...