Open Score: The State of Art & Technology https://video-new.rhizome.org/c/open_score/videos Open Score was an annual symposium that explored the state of art and technology. Convening luminary artists, curators, researchers, and writers to discuss how technology is transforming culture, the first edition of Open Score considered how artists responded to new conditions of surveillance and hypervisibility; how social media’s mass creativity interfaced with branding and identity for individual artists; how the quality and texture of art criticism evolved in a digital age; and what the future of internet art might be in light of a broader assimilation of digital technologies. Supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Open Score: Art and Technology 2016 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the groundbreaking initiative Experiments in Art and Technology. The conference’s title was taken from Rauschenberg’s live performance Open Score during one of E.A.T.’s most iconic events, "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering." Thu, 28 May 2026 12:40:46 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video-new.rhizome.org Open Score: The State of Art & Technology https://video-new.rhizome.org/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://video-new.rhizome.org/c/open_score/videos All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video-new.rhizome.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. https://video-new.rhizome.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=39 <![CDATA[Open Score: Out of Isolation]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/s5SFFNstoUpEajmAee8SQz https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/s5SFFNstoUpEajmAee8SQz Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:44:39 GMT Session 3: Out of Isolation
What is the internet’s potential for creating new social infrastructures?

Amid the claim that society has never been more interconnected, many continue to be hidden or to hide—within the walls of prisons, through the apparatuses that sequester the sick and disabled, because public life is too dangerous and too hostile, because colonization and globalization have rendered communities diffuse and divided. Even those with relative access and security can understand themselves to be alone. Yet, against and out of the institutions and ideologies that structure isolation, artists and activists seek to connect people and communities. This panel will ask a group of artists, all of whom take social life as both their medium and subject: How might we use digital space to create networks of care and interdependence, as well as structural transformation and economic redistribution? What digitally-driven strategies do we have for reducing the harm of systemic physical and emotional isolation? Why is art (as it is inflected by technology) still a space for seeking liberatory possibilities, even as the state attempts to foreclose the possibility of liberation for so many?

Speakers: Christopher Glazek, activist and writer; Jamal T. Lewis, filmmaker and artist; Elizabeth Mputu, artist; and Christopher Kulendran Thomas, artist.

Moderator: Grace Dunham

]]> Open Score: The State of Art & Technology nonadult Open Score: Out of Isolation Session 3: Out of Isolation What is the internet’s potential for creating new social infrastructures? Amid the claim that society has never been more interconnected, many continue to be hidden or to hide—within the walls of prisons, through th... <![CDATA[Open Score: Together in Electric Dreams]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/kDkcSswXUJ1eMaYFGZdBeq https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/kDkcSswXUJ1eMaYFGZdBeq Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:49:13 GMT Documentation from Open Score: The State of Art & Technology, a day-long conference organized by the New Museum and Rhizome, December 10, 2016.

Session 2: Together in Electric Dreams
How can artists open up new ways of relating to AI systems?

Machine intelligence is often figured in popular culture and software applications in the form of the virtual assistant, often female, performing automated emotional labor on behalf of a user. This anthropomorphized, gendered, subservient form of AI bears little resemblance to the diverse forms of machine intelligence that will one day organize many facets of our world. Computation already allows for the automation of crucial aspects of cognitive labor under capitalism, making the task of understanding new theories of mind, and their implications, all the more imperative. Speculating about and planning for the effects of new kinds of intelligence requires greater leaps of the imagination. The panel will ask: how might artists develop new images, new language, and new ways of relating to machine intelligence? What new forms of identity and intersubjectivity might emerge from this process?

Speakers: Katherine Cross, writer; Ian Cheng, artist; Sondra Perry, artist; and Patricia Reed, artist.

Moderator: Nora Khan

]]> Open Score: The State of Art & Technology nonadult Open Score: Together in Electric Dreams Documentation from Open Score: The State of Art & Technology, a day-long conference organized by the New Museum and Rhizome, December 10, 2016. Session 2: Together in Electric Dreams How can artists open up new ways of relating to AI systems?...