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  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

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• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

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• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Ryan Trecartin: The Real Internet is Inside You | The White Review

  It’s difficult to describe Ryan Trecartin’s work without sounding hopelessly overwhelmed. I want to say a load of finger-snappy stuff like ‘Imagine if Hieronymus Bosch and Keith Haring got together and…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should Gloriously Terrible Movies Like The Room Be Considered 'Outsider Art'? -…

  Given this context, it might be useful to think of Wiseau as something of an outsider artist. Outsider art—also known as visionary art, or art brut— “describes the work of untrained,…

  October 21 2013, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

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• Bookmark @Horse_ebooks is a human performance | The Verge

  @Horse_ebooks, the Twitter account that was until now largely thought to be a spambot, is in fact controlled by real people. And in an even more surprising twist, its random bits…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is a JPEG? The Invisible Object You See Every Day -…

  You're looking at dozens of JPEGs right now. In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Horse_ebooks and Pronunciation Book Revealed : The New Yorker

  The Internet is full of mysteries. Two of the more intriguing ones have been a Twitter account, @Horse_ebooks, and a YouTube channel, Pronunciation Book, which have been running for the past…

  September 24 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: The Phantom Zone "In comic books, as in the moving image, the frame is the constituent element of narrative. Each page of a comic book is a frame which itself frames a series of frames, so that by altering each panel's size, bleed or aesthetic variety,…

  September 11 2013, 10:51pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

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• Bookmark Omni Reboot | NETWORK OF BLOOD

  Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook.

  August 27 2013, 7:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Machine Zone: This Is Where You Go When You Just Can't…

  "People love Facebook. They really love it," Biz Stone wrote earlier this month. "My mother-in-law looks hypnotized when she decides to put in some Facebook time." She is not the only…

  July 31 2013, 2:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

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• Bookmark How To Create a Mind: Can a marriage between man and machine…

  How do you know when your new book is a success? When Google promptly offers you a plum job as soon as the book is on the stands. That's the pleasant…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | The Postmedia Perspective

  The following excerpt comes from the final chapter of my book Media, New Media, Postmedia, recently published in Italian by Postmediabooks, who kindly gave Rhizome permission to republish it in English.

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Instagram I am on Jury Duty at the moment. I found this in the court's complimentary…

  July 8 2013, 11:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Representations of 'The Phantom Zone' (in the original Superman films) In the original Superman films General Zod and his accomplices are trapped in The Phantom Zone, which in the films is represented as a 2D 'crystal' prison sent spinning through space. I am looking for any writings/insights into how the visual effects for…

  June 3 2013, 9:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Breaks the 1st! (Aftermath)

  May 27 2013, 9:11am | Comments

• Tumblr Excited and privileged to be in this show, opening tomorrow (May...

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• Bookmark Today, cyber means war.

  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute

  Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Archaeology

  Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 9 2013, 11:37pm | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 26 2013, 6:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Jerry Saltz on Kanye, Kim, and ‘the New Uncanny’ -- Vulture

  Lou Reed got Kanye West's Yeezus absolutely right. "No one's near doing what he's doing,” Reed wrote in a review just a few weeks before he died. “It's not even the…

  November 25 2013, 4:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Big Things & Little Things | ‘Digital’ in the arts

  So, returning to an old subject, about which I’ve got very annoyed in the past. Last week Arts Council England (ACE) published the second version of their 10-year strategic framework for…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Hidden History of

  The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Ryan Trecartin: The Real Internet is Inside You | The White Review

  It’s difficult to describe Ryan Trecartin’s work without sounding hopelessly overwhelmed. I want to say a load of finger-snappy stuff like ‘Imagine if Hieronymus Bosch and Keith Haring got together and…

  October 31 2013, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Explaining it All: How We Became the Center of the Universe

  David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is a brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have…

  October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments

• Projects This Mess is a Place

  October 26 2013, 11:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark Should Gloriously Terrible Movies Like The Room Be Considered 'Outsider Art'? -…

  Given this context, it might be useful to think of Wiseau as something of an outsider artist. Outsider art—also known as visionary art, or art brut— “describes the work of untrained,…

  October 21 2013, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark @Horse_ebooks is a human performance | The Verge

  @Horse_ebooks, the Twitter account that was until now largely thought to be a spambot, is in fact controlled by real people. And in an even more surprising twist, its random bits…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bookmark What Is a JPEG? The Invisible Object You See Every Day -…

  You're looking at dozens of JPEGs right now. In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was 'liked' over 4 million times. That photo, like the…

  September 26 2013, 12:49am | Comments

• Bookmark Horse_ebooks and Pronunciation Book Revealed : The New Yorker

  The Internet is full of mysteries. Two of the more intriguing ones have been a Twitter account, @Horse_ebooks, and a YouTube channel, Pronunciation Book, which have been running for the past…

  September 24 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: The Phantom Zone "In comic books, as in the moving image, the frame is the constituent element of narrative. Each page of a comic book is a frame which itself frames a series of frames, so that by altering each panel's size, bleed or aesthetic variety,…

  September 11 2013, 10:51pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Omni Reboot | NETWORK OF BLOOD

  Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook.

  August 27 2013, 7:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant – review | Books | The Guardian

  August 9 2013, 12:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Machine Zone: This Is Where You Go When You Just Can't…

  "People love Facebook. They really love it," Biz Stone wrote earlier this month. "My mother-in-law looks hypnotized when she decides to put in some Facebook time." She is not the only…

  July 31 2013, 2:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  Part of an ongoing series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work but may not (yet) be well known to our readers. Nick Briz is an artist/educator/organizer living in Chicago, and co-founder of the conference and festival GLI.TC/H. This interview took…

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Nick Briz

  July 15 2013, 7:41am | Comments

• Bookmark How To Create a Mind: Can a marriage between man and machine…

  How do you know when your new book is a success? When Google promptly offers you a plum job as soon as the book is on the stands. That's the pleasant…

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Rhizome | The Postmedia Perspective

  The following excerpt comes from the final chapter of my book Media, New Media, Postmedia, recently published in Italian by Postmediabooks, who kindly gave Rhizome permission to republish it in English.

  July 14 2013, 4:40pm | Comments

• Instagram I am on Jury Duty at the moment. I found this in the court's complimentary…

  July 8 2013, 11:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Representations of 'The Phantom Zone' (in the original Superman films) In the original Superman films General Zod and his accomplices are trapped in The Phantom Zone, which in the films is represented as a 2D 'crystal' prison sent spinning through space. I am looking for any writings/insights into how the visual effects for…

  June 3 2013, 9:24am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Glti.ch Breaks the 1st! (Aftermath)

  May 27 2013, 9:11am | Comments

• Tumblr Excited and privileged to be in this show, opening tomorrow (May...

  May 22 2013, 5:14pm | Comments

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