Presenting clips from a digitized VHS produced in 2001 that provides a brief history of Rhizome’s roots and how the organization champions artists through its digital art archive and programs.

“Rhizome.org started in 1996 as an email discussion list for the international new media art community. As of July 2001, almost 8,000 people in 80 countries subscribe to our email services. Rhizome NetArt News is a daily email bulletin with short blurbs on new NetArt sites, shows, and events. Selected articles from Rhizome Raw are posted each week on our website and added to our website.”

Rhizome Forever Module 02 features Poncili Creación, an experimental puppetry troupe from Puerto Rico that forges new worlds from repurposed materials. At the recent rhizome forever party in New York City, the duo migrated the audience from the main performance space to a carpeted area, where hundreds of people sat amphitheater-style to watch the puppets in action. This module provides a glimpse of that moment.

This CGI sculpture features documentation of a live performance by Laser Days, a real-time rendering, worldbuilding studio co-founded by Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim, from the rhizome forever party in May 2024. The act featured a bespoke combination of live illustration modulated by stable diffusion, all running on a trusty, behind-curtain TouchDesigner setup.

Documentation GIF by Sidewalkkilla.

presenting…the teaser video from the rhizome forever party co-organized with @29speedway, as seen in both paper magazine and document journal !

fragments of instagram clips created by Bri Griffin spliced with custom sound by Ex Wiish ~ a piece of the twice sold out, diverse night of digital art and performance that featured young boy dancing group, poncili creacion, umfang, elekhlekha, fussy ltd, joe george, txtbooks, and primary information.

The Rhizome Forever party is simultaneously cybernetic and organic; a reflection of realities possible when gathering bodies, colors, lasers, sensors, screens, and slime. Traversing between sound art, improvisation, and noise by way of cross-genre manipulation, you’ll find glimpses of this night later commodified into smaller, compressed, and digitally consumable forms. However, these acts are best experienced IRL and by a collective audience in their entirety.

Look out for Puerto Rican experimental puppetry troupe, Poncili Creación, Swiss collective Young Boy Dancing Group, a group consisting of 2023 Microgrant Recipients, elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ will be presenting 'Jitr จิตร: extended gong ensemble', an installation by Laser Days, and a set by the co-founder Discwoman, UMFANG.