🚨TODAY! 🚨 @exonemo's The Last Acres of the Internet, part of the exhibition WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! (WWW!), goes to auction at 12 PM ET ⭑ Closes 24 hours after the first bid ⭑ Starting at $24, on Fellowship →🔗 fellowship.xyz/artwork/exone… ⭑ Proceeds directly support @rhizome's work as a memory institution for digital art. The work offers the web's least desirable real estate for sale. While short domain names sell for colossal amounts, like land in Manhattan, exonemo trades in the opposite: the duo registers meaningless domain names of 63 characters, the maximum length permitted, and grows an HTML wilderness generated from random strings on each one. Whoever buys a website owns both the domain and its wilderness, free to build there as they wish. Bidding opens at $24, the sum Dutch colonial director Peter Minuit is said to have paid the Lenape for Manhattan Island in 1626. In contrast to artists raised within today's platform economy, exonemo reflect on what was lost as the web became centralized, asking who holds its territory and what remains for those arriving next. To explore the full project, visit → the-last-acres-of-the-intern…

🚨Tomorrow! @exonemo's The Last Acres of the Internet goes to auction. ⭑ Opens Sunday at 12 PM ET ⭑ Closes 24 hours after the first bid ⭑ Starting at $24, on Fellowship → 🔗fellowship.xyz/artwork/exone… ⭑ Proceeds directly support @rhizome's work as a memory institution for digital art.

WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!) Now on view at 📍 39 Great Jones St, NY @artxcode_io @rhizome Piece → "Humans Not Invited" (2019) by @Damjanski 🔗 humansnotinvited.com This artwork upends the traditional hierarchy of the internet by excluding human users and welcoming only artificial agents. Operating as a "reverse CAPTCHA," the web-based installation forces visitors to complete a visual recognition test specifically calibrated to fail human perception while remaining legible to automated scripts.

WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!) Now on view at 📍 39 Great Jones St, NY @artxcode_io @rhizome Piece → "papertoilet" by @newrafael papertoilet.com/ paper toilet .com is a website-as-artwork consisting of an interactive depiction of a roll of toilet paper. The artwork is stark in its simplicity, both visually and interactively, as the only animations consist of unrolling the toilet paper via a mouse scroll and double clicking to restart the experience. In its unadorned candor, paper toilet .com is a reminder of how the internet was, and still can be, a rich site of experimentation and play, rather than algorithmic flattening and optimization. In the artist’s own words, paper toilet .com was made for “Interactivity for its own sake, not towards any goal other than the interaction itself.”

WWW! Theme 3/4 → ⭑ Poetic Computing ⭑ WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! (WWW!) is on view in New York through September 27, and online the exhibition is organized into four themes, each a distinct path through thirty years of art on the web. ⭑ Anarchy ⭑ Abstraction ⭑ Poetic Computing ⭑ Ghosts We're introducing them one by one. Today: Poetic Computing In response to the centralization of the internet, webmasters, creative coders and artists began to informally organise a new movement towards reclaiming a more personal and expressive web. Sometimes referred to as Poetic Computing, this return to learning how to make one’s own website focuses on the slow and laborious task of hand-coding, personalization, decolonizing, decentralizing, and expressing one’s individuality. The movement advocates for code as a medium for narrative and care, proof that an internet serving diverse communities is still within reach. Through landscapes, correspondence, games and journeys, these works invite a different kind of attention. You might linger, lose your way, encounter a stranger or find yourself implicated in someone else’s story. Against the familiar routines of posting and scrolling, these artists make room for intimacy and uncertainty, asking what kinds of connections a website might still make possible. See the works in this theme below ↓

WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!) Now on view at 📍 39 Great Jones St, NY @artxcode_io @rhizome Piece → "Metaverse Landscapes: Patchwork" by @dennnnnnnnny 🔗metaverselandscapespatchwork…

WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!) Now on view at 📍 39 Great Jones St, NY @artxcode_io @rhizome Piece → "Monogrid 0.1 (2021 - 2026)" by @kimasendorf 🔗teh.kim/demos/m01/ Before Kim Asendorf’s famous series, Monogrid, was sealed into a fully-fledged body of work, there was Monogrid 0.1. In this deceptively simple artwork, two algorithms share a single surface, one pushing the pixels out of place, the other reinstating them at their origin, creating a momentum reminiscent of a camera pan or stop-motion animation. Every Monogrid that followed was written on top of it. The work is testament to Asendorf’s laser-focus on the form of a pixel itself, and how an artist can embrace it with bottomless curiosity and still be synonymous with simplicity, in the likes of Mondrian and Malevich who came before him, only by other means.

A look inside WWW!, now open at 39 Great Jones Street. Presented by @artxcode_io in partnership with @rhizome for Rhizome's 30th anniversary, and curated by @sofiagarcia_io of ARTXCODE and @bennavkim and @benoittokyo of LAN Party, the show brings together twenty artists to celebrate the website as an artistic medium, from the playful interventions of 1990s net.art pioneers to the poetic web experiments of artists working in today's algorithmically saturated internet. Thank you to everyone who came out 🙂‍↕️🫰check out the photos below On view through September 27 · 39 Great Jones St, NY Online at websiteswebsiteswebsites.net

WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!) Now on view at 📍 39 Great Jones St, NY @artxcode_io @rhizome Piece → "Wrong!" (1999) by Auriea Harvey 🔗entropy8.com/wrong/

gm! Yesterday in NY for the opening of WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES (WWW!). @rhizome @artxcode_io @sofiagarcia_io @bennavkim @benoit_tokyo_