Posts tagged rhizome

“In a sense every work based on the Internet, or inspired by it, is opposed against the idea of originality. Everything in and of the Internet is a stimulus package for the endlessly derivative, in the same way that a mirror image is a derivative of an original. Not a copy, but a mirror.”

- Metahaven

Metahaven, Uncorporate Identity, and soft power.

Interview on Rhizome.org

A sneak peek of Rhizome’s benefit auction offerings… TONIGHT at the New Museum!

Bid online on Paddle 8. Tickets still available here.

“um i mean to be honest the first reason i dont show really is because being around gallery people for more than 5 or 10 minutes without being absolutely shitfaced is literally (Literally) in my top 3 least favorite things in the entire world.”

- Jeff Baij

Full interview on Rhizome.org

RHIZOME’S BENEFIT AUCTION

Tuesday February 26, 7-10pm

235 Bowery at Prince

Cocktails and Silent Auction – $90

Participating artists: TARYN SIMON, RAFAEL LOZANO HEMMER, DEBO EILERS, ANDREW NORMAN WILSON, ALEX DA CORTE, JESSE WILLENBRING, ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC, JON RAFMAN, MATT OSTROFF, KATIE PATERSON, DANIEL JOSEPH MARTINEZ AND BRENDAN FOWLER.

Featuring DJ set by MARIA MINERVA With entertainment provided by AMERICAN MEDIUM

Slitscanning: a photographic effect that creates distortions and occasionally insightful images based on time.

More on Rhizome.org

Jones – despite his RISD BFA and art world pedigree—maintains a strong populist, mass media bent to his conceptual approach.  The artist claimed, in a 2010 interview with the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, to have learned the most about minimalism from Atari… Where did Tron come from if not a Lewitt grid or a Flavin neon?  And where did Paper Rad come from if not video games, children’s television and what has, in today’s parlance, transformed into Tumblr aesthetics?

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22 January 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Fake European propaganda movie hits Austria and Bologna Mattes’ grand artwork keeps on spreading in both the public and the media space.

‘United We Stand’ is the title of the much-hyped spy/action movie wholly produced by Europe, a large-scale propagandistic stunt that has in the past few months stirred much controversy. Too bad the movie doesn’t actually exist, but it is instead the latest insane provocation of the artists’ couple Eva and Franco Mattes, better known as 0100101110101101.ORG.