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Rhizome Vocabulary

Our system of classification 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 Terms

Below is a cloud of the terms Rhizome makes available for artists when submiting their works to ArtBase. They were formulated when the ArtBase was founded in 1999. The font-size indicates the relative popularity of terms.

3D Abstract access Actions allegory Animation Anti-art Appropriation archive artificial life Artistic collaboration art world audio bio body broadcast browser CD-ROM censorship cinema Collaborative collider colonialism commercialization community Conceptual Conceptual art conference contextual corporate CuSeeMe Database death design desire DHTML digital disappearance Documentary download education email Event exhibition film Flash Formalist fund futurism game gender Generative Generative art globalization historical History homepage HTML identity immersion information map Information visualization installation interact Interactive art interface Internet Java Javascript labor language live machine marginality media activism meme memory Montage MP3 Narrative nature netart network nostalgia Off-line offline Participatory performance Perl posthuman postmodern privacy public space publish queer QuickTime radio Readymade RealPlayer resistance responsibility robot rumor security Shockwave Social classes social space software space surveillance tactical tactical media Technology technophobia Telematic television Text Third World underground utopia video Virtual Virtual reality Visual VRML War

Artist Terms

Below is a cloud of the top 100 terms used by artists over the last year to describe artworks in the Artbase. The font-size indicates the relative popularity of terms.

aggregation algorithms Andy Warhol architecture arteries A Thousand Plateaus Audubon and His Journals by Maria R. Audubon bare bioart Birds of North America by Audubon Birds of NYC by Fisher and Bezener body body without organs cables Caitlin Denny CAVE immersive environment cell phone camera phone cellular slime mold chemotactic cell movement closed circuits ColourLight Time Event ColourMetrics Colours Cornell Lab of Ornithology Daedalus data Dictyostelium Discoideum dissection domain size ecosystems energy ethics verses aesthetics Event Evolution of Language by Juan Uriagereka Existence flashforward flow Game gene flow Genesis and Geometry of the Labyrinth by Patrick C genetics genome Geometric Maze Designs by Carol Pracna Adcock Graphics Human Symmetry Perception and Its Computational An humor infrastructure Initiation Module installation interactive interface IPhone Android Phones Mobile Device Art App a Joe McKay jordan tate Light Waving machine Maze Generation and Solution by Helen Dodd Mazes and Labyrinths:Their History and Development Mind and Maze:Spatial Cognition and Environmental mobile phone mutation naked neural cell precursor or stem cell Neurobiology of Birdsong by Zeigler and Marler new laws based on DNA modification for plants/anim new media art New York City Parker Ito pattern formation pigment cells puzzles reaction-diffusion Robert Smithson Roy LaGrone Scale self Smithsonian Anacostia Museum sound art Space spatial patterning Stokes Field Guides to birds structure sunset symmetry Symmetry by Hermann Weyl technical environment The Amazing Book of Mazes by Adrian Fisher Through the Labyrinth by Hermann Kern Time transgenic unwanted mutations user-defined video game. Washington D.C. Why Birds Sing by David Rothenberg Wild Birds and their Music by Matthews windows YouTube Zebrafish

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Abstract Animation cinema Conceptual Conceptual art digital film Game HTML Identity Initiation Module Interactive art Joe McKay Machine Montage performance Public space QuickTime Readymade Resistance Roy LaGrone Smithsonian Anacostia Museum Social classes Surveillance Tactical Technology video video game. Virtual Washington D.C.

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Forging the Future VocabWiki

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

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