Theme music by Kev Bewersdorf. Recorded at Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Scoring and mixing by Ultraviolet Audio.

Organized and moderated by Amy Brost (MoMA)

Panel notes, further resources, and auto-transcribed Q&A session (not included in this video) can be found at https://sites.rhizome.org/panel-caring-for-collections-of-software-based-art/

Opening June 24th on Feral File, Console Spirituality is curated by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop), a Paris- and Tokyo-based duo whose practice centers on digital art, internet culture, and video games. Their curatorial approach draws from gaming subcultures, technostalgia, and worldbuilding—exploring how the narrative structures and symbolic systems of games shape digital visual culture and challenge the conventions of contemporary art.

The exhibition brings together five artists working at the intersection of game logic, glitch aesthetics, and digital mythmaking. Works by Emi Kusano, Keiken & Gabriel Massan, John Provencher, and Sabato Visconti channel the emotional power and ritual intensity of video games—and they’re so much more than images. Each is a portal into worlds shaped by identity, memory, technostalgia, and speculative faith. Born from the same conditions that have made gaming a dominant cultural form of the 21st century, these artworks glitch existing systems, render new ones, and ask what it means to make art in an age when our gods are avatars and our temples are rendered in Unity.

visit the exhibition: https://feralfile.com/explore/exhibitions/console-spirituality-m6j

Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) is an archival project that catalogs 80+ networks that preceded or existed outside of the internet. In this talk, author Lori Emerson will share some this boldly creative taxonomy of our networked world.

Lori Emerson is Professor of Media Studies; Director of the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program; and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. She is also Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson is author of Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025), co-author with Darren Wershler and Jussi Parikka of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press June, 2014), and editor of numerous collections.

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Rhizome’s program is made possible by Teiger Foundation for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, NYSCA, Onassis ONX, and DCLA. Rhizome World was Made Possible By
Water Street Partners / WSA, Digital Counsel, Duggal Visual Solutions, Rhizome Council
New Museum, NEW INC, Mezcal Rosaluna