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Below are the top 200 terms used over the last year to describe artworks in the Artbase. The font-size indicates the relative popularity of terms. The color indicates whether the phrase is a Rhizome term or an Artist term. Only the five most recent artworks are shown here. To see more art for one term, click "more".

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.

Active Terms over the last year

3D
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Abstract
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Access
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Actions
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allegory
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Animation
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Anti-art
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Appropriation
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archive
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art
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artificial life
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Artistic collaboration
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art world
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audio
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bio
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body
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broadcast
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cinema
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collaborative
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commercialization
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community
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Conceptual
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Conceptual art
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contextual
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Database
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death
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design
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desire
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DHTML
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digital
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disappearance
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Documentary
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Education
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Email
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Event
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exhibition
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film
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Flash
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Futurism
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Game
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gender
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Generative
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Generative art
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globalization
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historical
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History
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HTML
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identity
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immersion
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Information visualization
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installation
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interact
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Interactive art
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interface
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Internet
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Javascript
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Labor
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landscape
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language
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live
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London
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Machine
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media activism
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Meme
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memory
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Montage
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MP3
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Narrative
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nature
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Net art
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Network
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offline
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Participatory
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performance
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Perl
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photography
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Posthuman
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postmodern
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privacy
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public space
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QuickTime
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Readymade
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resistance
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responsibility
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security
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Social classes
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social space
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Software
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space
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surveillance
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tactical
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Technology
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television
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Text
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utopia
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video
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Virtual
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Virtual reality
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Visual
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War
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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 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.

Member-Curated Exhibitions

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Curated by: Melanie Fredericks
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Carbon Copy – Dibujos a ciegas
Curated by: Manuel Olias
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Heroes
Curated by: Can Henne

There have always been heroes. Spiritual Heroes are coming. Who are they? Where do they come from? And above all, what are they doing before they were...

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