Rhizome

Name: Rhizome
Address: 235 Bowery, New York, NY, 10002, US
Telephone: (212) 219-1288
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Rhizome commissions, presents, and preserves internet art.
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10/27/2026

Join Rhizome and Ingrid Burrington (Ingrid Burrington), author of “Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure,” this Sunday, November 1st for a guided tour of the physical internet as seen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Using the vernacular of a nature field guide, Burrington will identify often overlooked network objects, utility markings, electronic equipment and sensors, and buildings we pass by everyday that are instrumental to global internet activity.

We will meet at 1pm outside of Elizabeth Street Garden. The tour will last approximately an hour, RSVPs are highly encouraged! Link in bio

10/26/2026

⛳️Rhizome microgrants are open, Apply by November 20 for grants of $500 - $1500!

Are you seeking funds to help realize a creative web-based project? consider applying to Rhizome’s annual microgrants open call. Since 2014, Rhizome has awarded small grants for the creation of new web-based works. In recent years, awarded projects have included a multilingual archive of printed “Internet directory” books, a browser-based adventure game where you care for “small but alive” creatures, a free pop-up school in Portland, and many more.

This year, we invite proposals in the following categories:

🫆PERMANENCE, in partnership with Larva Labs (digital projects built to endure);
🛠️MISUSE, (projects that misuse the technologies they depend on);
✋HANDMADE, (non-AI works and handmade digital practices); and finally
💬CO-OP (cultural artifacts that result from collective online behavior)

This year, Rhizome is also partnering with Joygill Moriah and Liz Mputu (LVLZ Healing Hub) to offer additional annual grants for artists who exemplify the legacy of digital artist and curator Terrell Davis. This fund aims to support work that speaks to Black and Afrodiasporic experiences, and projects in any category may opt-in to receive additional funding through this award.

Proposals will be reviewed by Rhizome staff and a panel of guest jurors including ✏️ Larva Labs + Natalie Stone, ✏️ Joygill Moriah, ✏️ herdimas.anggara, and ✏️ maybe: annie rauwerda.

We’re looking for compelling ideas and creative vision, regardless of your technical or demographic background. Artists, hackers, researchers, game masters, designers, storytellers, tinkerers, community builders, scientists, archivists, culture workers, are all invited to apply.

Graphics by Holly Oliver (Holly) ⭐️Holly

10/24/2026

We’re excited to share that Upendra Vaddadi ( ) has joined Rhizome as our part-time Bangalore City Fellow! In his role, Upendra conducts research, interviews artists in Bangalore, and offers support related to content in Rhizome’s ArtBase archive.

With a practice rooted in graphic and interaction design, Upendra primarily works with artists and cultural organizations across editorial, web and interactive projects, including books, printed matter, websites and experimental audio-visual work.

Visit the link in bio for the full announcement!

Launched earlier this year, City Fellows is a new initiative that embeds contributors in institutions and cities around the world. Earlier this month, we launched the Amsterdam City Fellowship, in partnership with Hartwig Art Foundation.

Image Credit: Image of the cult Kannada actor-director Upendra from his 1999 film “Upendra”, on an autorickshaw meter in Bangalore. Photo courtesy of Upendra Vaddadi.

10/23/2026

We’re excited to share that Upendra Vaddadi ( ) has joined Rhizome as our part-time Bangalore City Fellow! In his role, Upendra conducts research, interviews artists, and offers support related to content in Rhizome’s ArtBase archive.

With a practice rooted in graphic and interaction design, Upendra primarily works with artists and cultural organizations across editorial, web and interactive projects, including books, printed matter, websites and experimental audio-visual work.

🫟Visit the link in bio for the full announcement!

Launched earlier this year, City Fellows is a new initiative that embeds contributors in institutions and cities around the world. The Bangalore City Fellowship is presented in partnership with MAP Bengaluru.

Image Credit: Image of the cult Kannada actor-director Upendra from his 1999 film “Upendra”, on an autorickshaw meter in Bangalore. Photo courtesy of Upendra Vaddadi.

10/20/2026

“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

On October 28, 6:30pm New Museum, Rhizome will explore Agentic Aesthetics as the next edition in our long-running Net Aesthetics series. Since 2005, each of these panels has attempted to capture a current conversation in artistic practice as it relates to changing internet culture and technology. The most recent, Neural Net Aesthetics, took place in 2023, exploring machine learning and its implications for composing and processing sounds and images.

This event will also mark the book launch of “Intersubjectivity IV: Network Affect” published by Sternberg Press, gathering contributors from the book and artists from Rhizome’s community.

Featuring: , adina, bogna konior, Dawn Chan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ian Cheng, Gene Kogan, , & Michael Connor

Purchase Tickets to the event, or RSVP to the free livestream at the link in bio! Rhizome members, please email mailto:[email protected] for a discounted ticket.

Image courtesy of Lynn Hershman Leeson.

10/16/2026

Mitchell Chan (Mitchell F. Chan) maps out different subcategories of games in his new essay “Categories of the Art Game,” ultimately arguing that games have the power to reveal the economic, social, and political structures that shape our lives in ways no other art forms can. 🏓 🧠

“A game designer molds a player’s range of possible behaviors. They chisel away certain possibilities and polish others until they stand out. They build environments that encourage some kinds of exploration and discourage others. They create the conditions for a broad but limited set of player-defined outcomes. In short, they sculpt the player’s agency. That is what a game designer does, and that is the toolset you put in an artist’s hands the moment they understand it.”

Read on the blog, link in bio! 🧩🧩
Edited by Cindy Mathis (cindy hernandez mathis 👛) ❤️

10/02/2026

Last Wednesday, we gathered at Capitale, a former bank in New York City’s Lower East Side, to celebrate Rhizome’s 30th anniversary and raise funds as we embarked on our next decade. Formerly the Bowery Savings Bank, it was built in the 1890s and designed to resemble a Roman Temple.

Rhizome responded to this setting by paying homage to an earlier artistic experiment with markets: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T)’s 1971 ARTCASH benefit, where guests were invited to play games of chance with artist made scrip by Robert Rauschenberg ($12), Andy Warhol ($1), Robert Whitman ($3), Marisol ($88), Tom Gormley ($24), and Red Grooms ($51). Warhol intentionally made his very easy to copy, because he believed “everyone should have money.” Rauschenberg took a more aestheticized approach, noting that since money is hard to get, “it should be nicer to have.”

For ARTCASH 2026, in a new period of uncertainty for cultural funding, Rhizome invited nine artists—in ascending order of denomination, Simon Denny (), Manfred Mohr (Manfred Mohr), Beeple (beeple), Canal Street Research Association (Shanzhai Lyric), Morry Kolman (Morry Kolman), Maura Brewer (Maura Brewer), Lovid (LoVid Hinkis-Lapidus), Genevieve Goffman (Genevieve Goffman), and Cory Arcangel (Arcangel Surfware), —to create their own works for this homage. Guests were given a short stack and invited to redeem their ARTCASH on artist-made games, experiences, and installations; from a money laundering simulation to horse race betting.

A live betting system for the iconic video series, Horse Race Tests. Players crowd around placing bets, followed by a short digital horse race. If you win, you collect your reward!

$1, Simon Denny
A plottable note created from a generative model trained on futurist forms. Complex though the image is, with a plotter it would be easy to copy, because–as Warhol said–everyone should have money.

$5, Manfred Mohr
Mohr, himself a pathbreaking computer artist who began making algorithmic work in Fortran, created a $5 bill. Mohr chose $5 because he felt a connection to the number.

$7, Beeple
Beeple offered 300 unique variations based on 30 figures from computer history and computer

10/02/2026

Rhizome and Hartwig Art Foundation are appointing a part-time Amsterdam City Fellow!

The Amsterdam City Fellow will research and connect with digital art communities and practitioners in Amsterdam, participate in ongoing collaborative research, write a monthly newsletter, conduct interviews, and more.

🌐 Apply by October 12 at the link in bio.

City Fellows is a new initiative that embeds Rhizome contributors in institutions and cities around the world—If you are interested in supporting a City Fellow in your area, write to us at [email protected]!

Image Credits: 1) A rendering of the future Hartwig Museum. © Hartwig Art Foundation, 2025 2) Rhizome’s ArtBase Anthologies launch at Onassis ONX in NYC with Michael Connor, Auriea Harvey, and Regina Harsanyi, 2024 3) Extreme Presence, design by Bart De Baets 4) From “Rhizome World,” exhibition in NYC, May 2025.

09/28/2026

Last Wednesday, Rhizome celebrated its 30th anniversary at Capitale in NYC. Thank you to everyone who made this night possible!

Dinner Host Committee: Fred Benenson & Louise Macfadyen, Sofia Garcia, Natalie Stone, Mark Tribe & Emily Eakin, Athena Tse, Jeannie Vu & Jehan Chu
Activations: Inpatient Interactive, Alex Declino, Luke Shannon, Blake Andrews, Club Chess, Donna Dimitrova, Paizley Lee; scratchcards: Parker Ito
ARTCASH by: Simon Denny, Manfred Mohr, Beeple, Canal Street Research Association, Lovid, Maura Brewer, Cory Arcangel, Genevieve Goffman, and Morry Kolman
Auction: Jehan & Jeannie Chu; and the artists who participated: Evil Biscuit, LoVid, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Casey Reas. Framing and presentation: Jason Isolini and Kevin Eichenberger. Auction platform: Basta
Our honorees: Skawennati, Erick Calderon; honored by Candice Hopkins and Leo Villareal
Graphic Design by: Laura Coombs, Ruby Miller
Website Identity: Don Hanson, Kayla Drzewicki
Visuals: Sasha Zabegalin, Flora AI
Video segments: Sean Kennedy, Bri Griffin, Corinne Ciani, Hank Shi
AV Producer: Nate Mohler
Indigenous Culinary Consultant: Diosa Hall
Floral: Under New Mgmt (Alexandra Floro and Sean Williams)
Afterparty performers: DEBIT, James K, Star & Stan, Macula Dog
Award Fabrication: Harris Rosenblum, Tee Topor
Co-hosting partners Mastera, Flora, Senal, Yap
Benefit partners: 0x, Arab Bank Switzerland, Boys Club, Fellowship, Fountain, New International Picture Company, Onassis Foundation, A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya
Rhizome Board & Council
Special Thank you to: Natalie Stone, Will Freudenheim, Department PR, AMAX Printing, Danny Luk, Julie Martin, Saarim Zaman, David Lee, Blake Finucane, HEFT Gallery, Olivia Ragazzi, Sofia Garcia, Weber Wong, Sean Sherman and NATIFS
Our afterparty host committee
Rich Wessel and Vegas Nights
Documentation: Nafisa Skeie, Casey Kelbaugh Photography, and Ella Sinskey
Our Support Staff: Ruby Arthur, John Irving, Madison Davis, Isabella Fraga- Abaza, Xavier Ames, Chuck White, Madeline De Soto, Cassidy Arkin, Dieu Sam, Zheng Chuwie, Sam Mullany, Lillian Stahlberg
Danica Newell, Producer & Randa Eid, Associate Producer
Capitale Staff: Adam Hartofilis, Michael Alvarez

09/16/2026

Our first benefit honoree is Skawennati, a trailblazing artist, cyberpunk avatar, and Indigenous futurist who examines how virtual environments can sustain Indigenous history, knowledge and resistance within futurist frameworks. In her practice, Skawennati asks: “what concepts, memories and things from the past can we discard, and what do we want to bring with us into the future?”

Image: Skawennati at the first CyberPowWow event at Galerie Orboro, 1999. Courtesy of Skawennati.

Skawennati’s avatar xox, who often sports pigtails, a black floral shirt, a tutu and combat boots, appears in many of her works. She considers her avatar to be in the lineage of dolls she cherished growing up: the corn husk doll, the Barbie—“all playthings that allow us to imagine ourselves in other bodies, with other abilities and limitations. What my ancestors played with; what I played with; and what my descendants will play with.”

Excerpt from “My Life As An Avatar”, Skawennati & xox, 2016.

Excerpt from “The Peacemaker Returns,” 2017.

In 1994, when opportunities for Indigenous artists were scarce, she formed the Indigenous art collective Nation to Nation with Ryan Rice and Eric Robertson, whose events, guerilla exhibitions, and workshops included “CyberPowWow,” (1997-2004) “an Aboriginally determined territory in cyberspace,” that presented works by Indigenous artists in one of the first major online exhibitions.

Image: CPW2K artists and curator Candice Hopkins (candice hopkins) at the CyberPowWow 2K Banff residency: Sheila Urbanoski (), Archer Pechawis (archerpechawis), r e a, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew (sitting down at the computer), Michelle Nahanee, Trevor Van Weeren (Trevor Van Weeren), Travis Neel (Travis Neel). Photographer unremembered. Courtesy of Skawennati.

Image: Installation view, “Rhizome Presents: CyberPowWow” at the New Museum, New York City, 2022. Courtesy of Cameron Kelly McLeod and Rhizome.

For Skawennati, the theme of Indigenous approaches to technology has carried into the many facets of her practice: notably in her work as co-founder and director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a studio that supports online Indigenous creative exp

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