Tag: RHIZOME

Where I'm coming from on this: nothing wrong with selling but the certificate of authenticity from the artist and a GIF on a DVD or USB stick is enough. That's how I've done it in the past. But then I want the thing out there circulating, that's why it's a GIF and not a super high res video file requiring proprietary software to play. [...] If there's a reason for using a "democratic" medium ...

Ceci Moss over at Rhizome recently did a studio visit with Brooklyn-based musician/artist Steven Litt of CrudLabs, whose home-built CrudBox machine "allows users to plug electronic or electromechanic devices [including power tools and solenoids] into a 16 step, 8 channel step sequencer." Check out Rhizome's coverage and a video of Litt's delicious noise at the link. ...

Share New York-based artist and programmer Rob Seward's 'Four Letter Words' electronic sculpture will spell out dirty words at you (No fear, it also does nice ones, too). A series of small fluorescent tubes move about to form an angular typeface of shifting verbiage. Seward explains the origins of the words in his artist statement: The piece displays an algorithmically generated word ...

We know that you nerds can't live without documentaries or glitchy electro noise, and, for that matter, neither can we. The New Museum's geeky art blog Rhizome (one of our favorites) will be posting videos and docs about the history of electronic music this entire week, and we are delighted. Rhizome has already published: the Bell Labs audio of the IBM 704 singing "Daisy Bell" (which we ...