ArtBase
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.
algorithm
Amsterdam
animation
art
avatar
Bioart
blog
body
California
Canada
city
code
collage
collection
community
Conceptual
Contemporary
email
evolution
experience
Eyebeam
Flash
game
glitch
global
globalization
greyisgood
Gustave Courbet
hektor.net
HTML
humour
hypertext
Illuminations
image
information
interactive
interface
Internet
intervention
Italy
Ithaca
Javascript
Johnson Museum
Landscape
leonardo
London
L'origine du Monde
Love
mapping
Marcel Duchamp
matrix
memory
Montreal
mosaic
movement
MTAA
multimedia
Narrative
Nathaniel Stern
nature
net.art
network
New York
New York City
noir
noise
NY
[odys]elicit
open source
performance
photography
php
pollution
Processing
programming
random
Reflections
religion
remix
Reynald Drouhin
science
search engine
Second Life
self portrait
Sequel to History
simulation
sound art
South Africa
space
Susan Collins
text
time
travel
US
video
Walter Benjamin
War
webart
webcam
youtube
