The following essays are a part of "Counterstructural Commons", a limited publication released on May 16, 2026, that collects work from a ten-week residency Rhizome hosted in partnership with the ...

In the current geopolitical context, speaking about the commons might sound like opening a box of Arcadian dreams. The term’s origins lie in the European feudal countryside, where the earliest forms ...

If you are seeking funds to help realize a creative project related to digital art and networked culture, consider applying ...

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 ...

For the preceding segment of this four-part genealogy, see Part 1 In this second part of our genealogy, we move not forward in time, but look back to an encounter that took place between two ...

Rhizome has added fifteen artworks on the theme of “Executable Poetry” to the Rhizome ArtBase, our archive of more than 2000 born-digital artworks. Selected by a jury via a public open call, these ...

“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 ...

ZZYW (Yang Wang & Zhenzhen Qi) is a New York-based art and research duo who examines the cultural, political, and educational imprints of computation. Their work ThingThingThing (2019), included in ...

For its blockbuster sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days, an artwork in the form of an NFT and a digital file comprising thousands of images, Christie’s auction house published an essay ...

The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist ...