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Rhizome at the New Museum

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Rhizome is an online community and publication  “dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.” The site includes contemporary examples of works investigating the intersection of art, technology and culture, with an archive dating back to the early 1990s.

Art Across the Airwaves: Resonance 104.4

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The world’s first radio arts station, London’s Resonance 104.4fm promotes a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural dialogue about the arts, history and society. Resonance fosters experimentation in visual and sonic arts, and functions as an invisible gallery collecting and reflecting upon works of art that are new, undiscovered, forgotten or even impossible in order to discover meaning in human-object, human-human relations.

Reed College Artists’ Book Website

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Reed College Artists’ Book website is an online reference guide to artists‘ books and the significant role they have played among the avant-garde of Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the United States, from the turn of the last century to the present. The Reed College collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon.

Building Algorithms

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Alisa Andrasek/Biothing, Model for Mesonic Emission/Seroussi Pavilion Paris, 2007

Andrasek’s Mesonic Emission is a design project is generated by an algorithm drawing  upon the behaviors of electro-magnetic fields.  Her work appears in Transitory Objects,” the latest exhibit at Vienna’s influential Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Gallery. The curators placed contemporary art besides architectural  objects and question “how boundaries have collapsed between architectural objects, conceptual art, and theoretical science.” Read Seed Magazine’s review of the exhibit here.

ARTstor Releases MOMA Exhibition Images from 1929 to 2000 Installations

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In collaboration with MOMA, ARTstor has released the final series of exhibition photographs from the Museum’s Archives. This latest installment includes over 7,000 images dating from 1978 to 2000. With approximately 16,700 images, the complete Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection documents major exhibitions held at the museum from 1929 to 2000.

In addition, ARTstor has incorporated new images of Islamic and South Asian art from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic art, the Roy Lichtenstein collection made available through the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, 9,234 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art, and 5,500 images of European art and architecture photographed for the MET by William Keighley.

IMA Introduces Art Babble

Art Babble

Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Babble “is a destination for art content online.” Art Babble incorporates videos that include interviews with artists and museum curators, and popular art programming–a collection comprised through partnerships with PBS, LACMA, MOMA, the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Art Babble is a unique tool for accessing video resources regarding contemporary and modern art.

Read more at The New York Times.