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Can the solar web invite us into a more intentional relationship with the internet? 🔍 ☀️This was a question that guided ...
08/01/2025

Can the solar web invite us into a more intentional relationship with the internet? 🔍 ☀️

This was a question that guided our recent workshop series, “Solar Web in Schools,” funded by grants from Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and the New York City Cultural Development Fund.

Conducted in May and June of this year, these workshops invited students consider how the web can be used as a creative medium, while also drawing attention to the environmental costs of participating in digital culture and internet-based art practices.

One question we posed to the students was, how can we create more environmentally-friendly digital art? Students learned about the work of Solar Protocol—a network of solar-powered servers—wherein each server can only offer sporadic connectivity that is dependent on available sunshine, the length of day, and local weather conditions.

Finally, students learned how to transform their own drawings into “solar-friendly” digital artworks using ASCII, a character encoding standard that replaces characters with numbers. Our gallery of student works is now online (link in bio!)

🌧 Note that this website is hosted on Rhizome’s very own solar server, which is currently located in LA. As such, this website might go down during periods of cloudy weather!

✏️ Workshops were taught by Kayla Drzewicki (), Bri Griffin (.muein), and Diwa Tamrong.

🕸 Website design by Kayla Drzewicki with support from Mark Beasley

🤝 Special Thank you to Mark Beasley, Danica Newell, Solar Protocol, NYC CDF, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and our partner schools!

Daniel Murray discusses “MelonLand,” the online art project and community they started in 2007, how Pete Seeger and folk...
07/29/2025

Daniel Murray discusses “MelonLand,” the online art project and community they started in 2007, how Pete Seeger and folk music has influenced their philosophy on website making, and whether or not a “good web” exists, with Kristoffer Tjalve (.tjalve), in our latest Artist Profile. ✏️🖥️🗺️

[1] Daniel Murray, Melon’s home and the window to leave,  2016-2022. Screenshot,  https://melonking.net/melon?z=/home.

[2] Daniel Murray, An Everyone Site page showing communally written rules for the web, 2024. Screenshot. https://everyone.melonland.net/rules.

[3] Daniel Murray, The crows island on display at Melonland, 2017-2024. VR Screenshot. https://melonking.net/melon?z=/vr/.

[4] Daniel Murray, An ozwomp encountering the The Big Ozwomp, 2023. Screenshot. https://ozwomp.online.

[5] Daniel Murray, Melonland eParty rendering every image on the site at once, 2025. Screenshot. https://melonking.net/melon?z=/hidden/million

Rhizome is spreading!! 🫚🌱With our old friends at , we’re teaming up with .ny—a major new venue for media art opening on ...
06/17/2025

Rhizome is spreading!! 🫚🌱

With our old friends at , we’re teaming up with .ny—a major new venue for media art opening on New York’s Lower East Side in 2026 –to develop joint programming and expand public access to our archives.

As part of this partnership, we’re working with EAI on curating periodic exhibitions and establishing a free, public-facing space within Canyon dedicated to accessing the histories of time-based and born-digital art that Rhizome and EAI steward. We hope this can be a starting point for archival collaborations with other institutions globally!

Just a few blocks away, our primary home remains at the , where we’ve been an affiliate in residence since 2003 and anchor members of since its founding. We look forward to growing our work there as the museum reopens this fall with its new OMA-designed expansion!!!

come shop 🛒 our office clear out sale, next Monday June 9, 6-8pm! we’ll have:🖥 lightly used equipment- projectors, wall ...
06/03/2025

come shop 🛒 our office clear out sale, next Monday June 9, 6-8pm! we’ll have:

🖥 lightly used equipment- projectors, wall mounts, speakers, extension cords

👗 rhizome merch: internet hats, baby onesies, prints, ephemera from past rhizome exhibitions

📚books , and more ♾️

please rsvp so we can have a sense of headcount and so that you can easily access our building! Link in bio

05/22/2025

The final episode of Let’s Play Majerus G3 📽️, “Atomic Kittens” is here! ⛳️

For its last episode, takes us on a silent tour of the folder “liverpool” on Majerus’ desktop, containing working files, sketches and exhibition plans for an unrealized show at the Tate Liverpool.

🖌️🖌️🖌️

Let’s Play Majerus G3 📽 is the second installment of ArtBase Anthologies, and is presented in partnership with Cory Arcangel and the Majerus Estate . All five episodes are on Cory’s YouTube, and on rhizome.org (link in bio)

The Rhizome World Benefit Gala gathered some of the digital world’s finest!Inside the Rhizome World exhibit at on May 9...
05/15/2025

The Rhizome World Benefit Gala gathered some of the digital world’s finest!

Inside the Rhizome World exhibit at on May 9th, Rhizome held a gala celebration honoring Aaron Swartz (in memoriam), Taryn Simon, Aurelia Harvey (.harvey.studio) and Michaël Samyn (.art), as iconic artists and champions of new media art, while gathering the Rhizome community to celebrate.

A full-fledged gala with cocktails, a little glamour, and, of course, some of digital-born’s biggest supporters, benefit guests included artists pioneering software art since its inception, technologists rethinking the possibilities of the internet, new media collectors, and art lovers integral to continuing Rhizome’s mission.

Beginning right after the conclusion of this year’s 7x7.legal symposium, guests headed to a chartered ferry crossing the river to attend the benefit, which featured live performances, a gallery tour, and a fundraiser for Rhizome’s artist fellowship grants, future events, and archival efforts preserving the best of digital art for the next generation.

Here’s some BTS of one of online art’s biggest nights.

Seven on Seven (7x7) is just days away on Friday, May 9 at Cornell Tech.* 7 groundbreaking artists* 7 leading legal mind...
05/06/2025

Seven on Seven (7x7) is just days away on Friday, May 9 at Cornell Tech.

* 7 groundbreaking artists
* 7 leading legal minds
* 24 hours to create something entirely new
* 1 day to present their ideas live

Don’t miss the 2025 legal edition line-up including:

Lauren Lee, (), artist, and founder of ()
Máuhan Zonoozy (), Global Head of Innovation at Spotify, entrepreneur, and conceptual artist
Darren Bader (), conceptual artist and software designer
Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law at NYU School of Law
Sonia Katyal, American legal scholar, professor, and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research at UC Berkeley School of Law

A limited number of tickets remain — secure yours now and experience what happens when law, art, and technology converge in real-time. If you can’t join us in person — join us via Zoom. Link in bio.

🪩 P.S. Join us for the Rhizome Benefit after 7x7 — a gathering of artists, researchers, technologists, and thinkers honoring the luminaries shaping Rhizome’s history.

The Rhizome World Benefit Gala on May 9 at celebrates the luminaries who have deeply impacted digital culture.The ticke...
05/06/2025

The Rhizome World Benefit Gala on May 9 at celebrates the luminaries who have deeply impacted digital culture.

The ticketed benefit follows 7x7 2025, Rhizome’s annual art-tech collaboration program, which will be held from 12-5 pm. Attendees will take a chartered ferry near this year’s 7x7 symposium venue at Cornell Tech to the gala at at 5:30 pm. The dinner takes place at 6 pm in conjunction with Rhizome World, a month-long immersive exhibition of software art. Rhizome World features newly commissioned installations and conserved digital pieces, including artworks by each honoree.

This year’s honorees include respected artists and visionaries:

Taryn Simon, Aaron Swartz (In memoriam), Auriea Harvey (.harvey.studio), and Michaël Samyn (.art), who’ve made innumerable contributions through their personal works and continued support of digital-born culture throughout their careers.

This year’s gala is also possible through generous support from MSCHF, Fred Benenson (), Dorothy Chou, Jehan Chu () & Jeannie Vu, Lisa Roumell & Mark Rosenthal.

Founded in 1996, Rhizome is a prolific organization that can be traced in tandem with the history of the internet. Our programming takes place online + in partnership with institutions & venues globally– with our supporting organizations, Digital Counsel (.xyz) and the New Museum () in NYC. We support digital art research & production, and we conserve and maintaining access to the important works pertaining to the history of digital art.

The program will include a dinner, live performances, artworks on view, as well as a paddle raise fundraiser whose proceeds go to Rhizome’s yearly artist commissions and microgrants.

Join the celebration of digital-cultures most renowned artists and thinkers
at the Rhizome Gala, May 9, at WSA, from 6-10 pm
(Tickets available for purchase through link in bio)

Rhizome World at is imagining alternative networks for navigating the digital realm.Focusing on the theme “Another Inte...
04/23/2025

Rhizome World at is imagining alternative networks for navigating the digital realm.
Focusing on the theme “Another Internet Is Possible” from April 25–27, learn about visions of the digital that go beyond today’s dominant platforms from expert technologists and artists building possible futures.

Exploring software, social media platforms, and online communities that are decentralized, humanistic, as well as innovative. 

Join the discussion with author Mike Pepi discussing his new book Against Platforms about what went wrong during “the digital utopia” and how to fix it; grab a copy of Lori Emerson’s () groundbreaking Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook or revisit the groundbreaking interactive documentary, CLOUDS.

Take a peek into what’s possible.
🟢𝑅𝒽𝒾𝓏𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 @ WSA
Free Exhibition & Events
Entire Exhibit on Display from April 18–May 11 
Link in bio.

Rhizome curated a mini-exhibition as part of Select Start, a celebration of art and videogames at BEEPLE studios in Char...
03/24/2025

Rhizome curated a mini-exhibition as part of Select Start, a celebration of art and videogames at BEEPLE studios in Charleston, South Carolina - March 29, 6pm! Featuring works by Anna Anthropy, Nathalie Lawhead (), Jayson Musson (), Fantasia Malware (), BIG BAG CO. (), Tale of Tales (), and Yoshi Sodeoka ().

As the studio writes: “video games have had a profound impact on digital art from the aesthetics to the tools and workflows. This event aims to explore all the ways these two mediums have influenced each other.”

With this in mind, we selected works that blur the boundaries of art and videogames—including a hypertext poem-game that restarts every ten seconds, to a game that doubles as both screensaver and hard ambient mix, and more.

1 - Everything is going to be OK, Nathalie Lawhead
2- TERMINAL 69, BIG BAG CO
3 - The Path, Tale of Tales
4 - Escape from Lavender Mirror Corporate Island Mall, Fantasia Malware
5 - Corner of the Club simulator, Jayson Musson

“As someone who began using the Internet in 1994, Dentimundo makes me nostalgic for an era when we accessed the net excl...
02/04/2025

“As someone who began using the Internet in 1994, Dentimundo makes me nostalgic for an era when we accessed the net exclusively from computers, encountering simple webpages adorned with pre-Instagram graphics.”

—Rodrigo Arenas

🌍🦷🌍🦷🌍🦷🌍🦷🌍🦷🌍🦷🌍🦷

In “Dentimundo: A Nostalgic Exploration of Early Web Art, Dental Tourism, and Evolving Latinidad,” writer Rodrigo Arenas () takes us through Dentimundo (2005) an online resource for Americans seeking dental treatment in Mexico, by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga ().

In his essay, Arenas traces the fascinating history of Don Francisco, the Chilean television host of the long-running variety show Sábado Gigante, and argues that the preservation of early digital artworks is a necessary step in understanding the evolution of Latin American culture.

Dentimundo is on view now as part of ArtBase Anthologies 003: Post(border)codependency, curated by Doreen Ríos (). Read the full essay and browse Dentimundo at the link in bio! 🦷✈️

“As someone who began using the Internet in 1994, Dentimundo makes me nostalgic for an era when we accessed the net excl...
02/04/2025

“As someone who began using the Internet in 1994, Dentimundo makes me nostalgic for an era when we accessed the net exclusively from computers, encountering simple webpages adorned with pre-Instagram graphics.”

—Rodrigo Arenas

🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷

In “Dentimundo: A Nostalgic Exploration of Early Web Art, Dental Tourism, and Evolving Latinidad,” writer and microgrants recipient Rodrigo Arenas () takes us through Dentimundo (2005) an online resource for Americans seeking dental treatment in Mexico, by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (). 🕸️🌐

In his essay, ✍️ Arenas traces the fascinating history of Don Francisco, the Chilean television host of the long-running variety show Sábado Gigante, and argues that the preservation of early digital artworks is a necessary step in understanding the evolution of Latin American culture.

Dentimundo is on view now as part of ArtBase Anthologies 003: Post(border)codependency, curated by Doreen Ríos ()

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