Net Art Anthology events https://video-new.rhizome.org/c/net_art_anthology_events/videos Net Art Anthology is Rhizome’s ambitious project to retell the history of a field of artistic practice in which even the most influential works often fade into obscurity as a result of technological obsolescence. This channel contains events, presentations, and panel discussions bringing together artists who articulated early and divergent artistic approaches to the internet, ranging from performance to activism to narrative to folkloric cultures. Thu, 28 May 2026 09:26:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video-new.rhizome.org Net Art Anthology events https://video-new.rhizome.org/lazy-static/avatars/da52c544-d90f-440b-80a1-119758c0eec2.webp https://video-new.rhizome.org/c/net_art_anthology_events/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=52 <![CDATA[Lets Talk Net Art]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/8BcVNAQ6g7BrpC6bECAirv https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/8BcVNAQ6g7BrpC6bECAirv Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:52:28 GMT This event, presented alongside the exhibition “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics,” featured video clips and presentations exploring several early artistic experiments with networks, illuminating their particular stakes, and addressing their relatively overlooked status in cultural memory. Featuring a talk by art critic and theorist Josephine Bosma, who showed how exploring this early history brings net art, in her words, “into focus as a hugely diverse field in which online and offline works and practices intermingle and co-exist, while older strategies and technologies never really die.”

A presentation by art historian Philip Glahn explored Mobile Image’s Electronic Cafe ’84 (1984), an experiment in multimedia telecollaboration that allowed content to be created and shared among hubs in neighborhoods across Los Angeles.

]]> Net Art Anthology events Art nonadult Lets Talk Net Art This event, presented alongside the exhibition “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics,” featured video clips and presentations exploring several early artistic experiments with networks, illuminating their particular stakes, and address... <![CDATA[Net Art Anthology: Distribution and Disappearance After 9/11]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/kcYCJkGABzXG5gMb3kytu2 https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/kcYCJkGABzXG5gMb3kytu2 Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:07:17 GMT Marking the conclusion of Chapter Two of Net Art Anthology, this presentation and discussion convenes artists and scholars to revisit the network culture that emerged in the post-9/11 moment and its relevance for artists. The 9/11 attacks were a pivotal moment in the internet’s role in public life in the US, one of the first times that a national tragedy would be consumed and processed online at such a massive scale. In this context, a number of contemporary artists began to grapple with the ways in which content had begun to acquire meaning and power through its circulation in this emerging network, even as it was subject to endless duplication, deterioration, and manipulation. They sought ways to intervene in this complex ensemble, harnessing its capacity to produce and propagate meaning and exploring its blind spots and limitations. Together, these works reflect a moment in which artists were beginning to reckon with the internet as a pervasive social and cultural force, setting up lines of inquiry that remain equally urgent in the present.

Following a screening of Seth Price’s Rejected or Unused Clips, Arranged in Order of Importance (2003), David Joselit explores Price’s approach to image circulation as articulated in his seminal work Dispersion (2002-ongoing.) Rhizome’s Assistant Curator of Net Art Aria Dean presents William Pope.L’s work Distributing Martin (2000-2005) followed by Mariam Ghani presents How to See the Disappeared: A warm database (a 2004 collaboration with Chitra Ganesh). Finally, Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.org, explain what they learned by putting their lives—or at least, the entire contents of their desktop computer—into circulation as an artistic act for the online performance work Life Sharing (2000-2003).

Recorded November 3rd, 2017 at the New Museum.

]]> Net Art Anthology events nonadult Net Art Anthology: Distribution and Disappearance After 9/11 Marking the conclusion of Chapter Two of Net Art Anthology, this presentation and discussion convenes artists and scholars to revisit the network culture that emerged in the post-9/11 moment and its relevance for artists. The 9/11 attacks were a p... <![CDATA[Consensual Hallucinations: Early Online Writing from The Thing BBS Archives]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/3E2RPjbGaDCpSyypkgMExK https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/3E2RPjbGaDCpSyypkgMExK Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:36:03 GMT Founded in New York City in 1991, The Thing was a Bulletin Board System–a forum where users could post and exchange messages–focusing on contemporary art and cultural theory. Among the tens of thousands of BBSes that flourished from the late 1970s to the 1990s, The Thing was notable for its design and community dynamics. Considered by its founder Wolfgang Staehle to be a kind of social sculpture, The Thing included features such as an anonymized chatroom, and it was a hub for online experimental writing. This history is little known, because most of the messages posted on The Thing BBS have been lost or otherwise inaccessible for many years.
During his tenure as Rhizome’s digital conservator, Ben Fino-Radin began a research project to locate missing archives from The Thing BBS. He succeeded in securing a WordPerfect file containing a screen dump of more than 400 pages of messages saved by a hacker named Blackhawk, former sysadmin of The Thing. With the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rhizome has undertaken a project to recover, make accessible, and study this material. This event marks the launch of a web-based interface to offer access to a number of the recovered threads from this research process.
This online event brings together Lori Emerson, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab, The Thing’s founder Wolfgang Staehle, and Rhizome Artistic Director Michael Connor to discuss the early years of The Thing BBS and the community dynamics and cultural practices that it gave rise to.

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]]> Net Art Anthology events Art nonadult Consensual Hallucinations: Early Online Writing from The Thing BBS Archives Founded in New York City in 1991, The Thing was a Bulletin Board System–a forum where users could post and exchange messages–focusing on contemporary art and cultural theory. Among the tens of thousands of BBSes that flourished from the late 1970s... <![CDATA[Lets Talk Net Art]]> https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/hCtabeiXZ8h1VCmtTuP85i https://video-new.rhizome.org/w/hCtabeiXZ8h1VCmtTuP85i Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:45:57 GMT March 21, 2019
Organized alongside the Art Happens Here exhibition, Lets Talk Net Art dives into Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology which retells the history of art created with computer technology. Presenters including Josephine Bosma, author of Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art, share their thoughts on digital media and art.

]]> Net Art Anthology events Art nonadult Lets Talk Net Art March 21, 2019 Organized alongside the Art Happens Here exhibition, Lets Talk Net Art dives into Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology which retells the history of art created with computer technology. Presenters including Josephine Bosma, author of Nettit...