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ArtBase

Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2460 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends. We welcome submissions to the ArtBase; they are reviewed by our curatorial staff on a monthly basis. We welcome submissions to the ArtBase; they are reviewed by our curatorial staff on a monthly basis.

Our classification system consists of terms that artists assign to their work. Artists choose from Rhizome's vocabulary of new media terms as well as adding their own terms. When new terms reach a certain level of popularity they become part of Rhizome's vocabulary.

Rhizome also supports Creative Commons licenses, which allow creators to shift the terms of copyright from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved," therefore enabling authors to mark their creative works with the cultural freedoms they abide by. Rhizome's hope is that through the use of these licenses, artists will have greater access to each other's work in furtherance of their goals.

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Latest Additions

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
December 28th, 2008, 1:44 pm -- created November 17, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
December 28th, 2008, 1:38 pm -- created December 20, 2008
December 28th, 2008, 1:07 pm -- created June 1, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
December 17th, 2008, 3:43 pm -- created November 30, 1999

Artist: Mouchette

Rhizome Terms: Animation, Appropriation, Body, Net art, Network

Artist Terms: cat, murder, violence

December 17th, 2008, 3:41 pm -- created November 24, 2008
December 17th, 2008, 3:41 pm -- created March 27, 1999
Monday, December 15, 2008
December 15th, 2008, 11:24 am -- created December 10, 2008
December 15th, 2008, 11:08 am -- created December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
December 10th, 2008, 3:31 pm -- created November 30, 1999

Artist: Alexei Shulgin

Rhizome Terms: Game, Interactive art, Internet, Net art

Artist Terms: aesthetic, formalist

December 10th, 2008, 3:30 pm -- created November 30, 1999
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
December 3rd, 2008, 12:30 pm -- created November 30, 1999
December 3rd, 2008, 12:27 pm -- created June 30, 1997

Artist: Robbin Murphy

Rhizome Terms: Animation, Database, Digital, Net art, Video

Artist Terms: Osiris, safe, sand, sea, sky

December 3rd, 2008, 12:26 pm -- created November 24, 2008
December 3rd, 2008, 12:07 pm -- created November 9, 2008
December 3rd, 2008, 12:05 pm -- created November 30, 2008
December 3rd, 2008, 12:02 pm -- created January 1, 2001
Friday, November 28, 2008
November 28th, 2008, 1:45 pm -- created October 1, 2007
November 28th, 2008, 1:44 pm -- created November 24, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
November 19th, 2008, 11:23 am -- created June 9, 2007
November 19th, 2008, 11:18 am -- created November 13, 2008
November 19th, 2008, 11:15 am -- created November 13, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
November 3rd, 2008, 5:57 pm -- created March 30, 2008
November 3rd, 2008, 5:51 pm -- created October 30, 2007
November 3rd, 2008, 5:48 pm -- created September 1, 2002
November 3rd, 2008, 5:42 pm -- created September 1, 2008
Browse the ArtBase by Artist, by Title, by Active Terms, or by Creation Date beta

Forging the Future VocabWiki

As part of the Forging the Future initiative and in collaboration with Franklin Furnace, Rhizome's ArtBase terms have been collectivley defined and expanded upon on at the Forging the Future VocabWiki. We ecnourage our users to continue this process by collaborating on the wiki.

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