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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.

6 rules advertising animation archive art art history Belgrade boredomresearch.net browser art browser as canvas canada code code art Collaborative collection color commerce Contemporary culture Dan Phiffer death digital canvas electronic literature ellieharrison email emotion England environment Eyebeam Flash flickr found images game GIF glitch Google Gregoire Zabe greyisgood grid homage HTML information Interactive interface Internet Javascript Joseph Goebbels JPEG landscape legality life Locative Media London mapping Martin John Callanan memory movement music Narrative nature netart online open source Participatory pattern personality photography php poetics poetry privacy Processing Readymade RFID Rhizome RSS San Diego scripting search Second Life Serbia Situationists six rules surveillance system text time touching transformation travel UK urban hacktivism walking Walter Benjamin War web art World Trade Center www.ellieharrison.com YouTube 9/11

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allegory Animation Appropriation archive Artistic collaboration audio bio body cinema community Conceptual Conceptual art digital Event HTML Interactive art Internet memory Montage nature Net art network performance public space social space surveillance Technology video Visual 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.

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