August 25, 2011 at 11:50am
My conversation with Paul Chan, A Thing Remade, is now live on Rhizome. We began this project following a piece I wrote for the May issue of Frieze on his publishing house, Badlands Unlimited, as I realized that I had, in fact, been downloading files and texts from the online analog to his practice, National Philistine, for well over a decade. The online distribution model thing is not new, in other words!
Bonus points to those who make it through the whole interview (which is admittedly epic) to the last question, wherein I ask Paul what it’s like to convene with the ghost of Saddam Hussein. We went there.
BONUS: Paul dug up some old school GIFs from his archives and re-released them for Rhizome’s audience, including the one above, Cursor (2000).
July 13, 2011 at 12:55pm
Come Hangout
with me, Rhizome’s Senior Editor Joanne McNeil and New York Times tech reporter Jenna Wortham. Tonight. 8 pm. On Google+—the universally-available Facebook 2.343624. There will be rose and kale salad and talk of the Internet. Beyond that, I can’t make promises.
June 30, 2011 at 5:26pm
I interviewed publisher and cultural polyglot James Bridle for Rhizome. He did not want to talk about images. I, however, do. Next time around, perhaps!
SH: The role of the image in electronic book publishing is a complicated one, as each e-reader presents a particular set of challenges in terms of color, resolution, and scale. Given the primary role of the image in many artist-produced publications, how are you responding to these challenges within your own project?
JB: I don’t have much to say on this, sorry.
September 1, 2010 at 1:04am
Triple Canopy’s ninth issue is online, drawing its editorial premise, in part, from The Medium Was the Tedium, a panel discussion co-hosted by Rhizome and TC at the New Museum back in February. A few late-night, “best of” bullet points:
+ A Note on Unplaced Movements: I’m generally not one for collectively-written editorials. But! Smart thinking about online publishing, as always.
+ The Medium and the Tedium: Mel Bochner’s presentation from the Rhizome panel, “an account of conceptual art and its mediums.”
+ Shadow, Glare: Once installed on the user’s desktop, artist Erin Shirreff ‘s first digital artwork alters on-screen business-as-usual by casting shadows across their screen without interfering with the computer’s operating system. The project is downloadable here, for free.
+ Also, a few pithy Annotations on performance art and Berlin-based journal O32c’s new online archive, which gives the much-revered Aspen (1965-1971) a fairly thorough treatment.
Image: Erin Shirreff , Signature, 2010, archival pigment print, 23 1/2 x 32 inches with fold.
July 30, 2010 at 10:20am
From artist Adam Sajkowski’s statement on his multimedia project, Les 400 Clicks (2008), as blogged recently by Rhizome’s Ceci Moss:
Les 400 Clicks is a multimedia project referencing Francois Truffaut’s 1959 French New Wave classic, Les 400 Coups (The 400 Blows). The original film has been reduced to 400 still frames taken arbitrarily from throughout the entire film, which can be played through in order by clicking the mouse, 400 times. This action is also synchronized with the film’s original title score.
+ Les 400 Clicks (2008) – Adam Sajowski (Rhizome)
