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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 action Africa Clua Nieto Amsterdam art history Belgrade browser art browser as canvas bufo bufotenine Bufo Toad Capital Christian Marc Schmidt clinic communication Creative Commons Culture deconstruction digital canvas distributed drugs Duchamp ellieharrison embodied England flaneur flaneurie flickr found images gaming geometric GIF Google Gregoire Zabe greyisgood hallucination hallucinatory homage HTML improvisation information installation institutional interactive intervention JavaScript John Cage Josephine Dorado JPEG landscape Locative Media London mapping Martin John Callanan Mechanical Turk memory Modern Life netart networked performance online Participatory pattern pharmacology photography psychoactive psychogeography psychotropic relational aesthetics San Diego scripting Search Second Life Serbia service Situationists six rules social sculpture Sol LeWitt spiral Telematic text touching Travel tunnel tunneling UK Waag Society walking wall drawing Walter Benjamin wanderment war web Webcam wikipedia www.ellieharrison.com YouTube youtube.com 2006 2008

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Abstract Animation Anti-art Appropriation audio bio body broadcast Community Conceptual Conceptual art contextual digital Event historical History Interactive art Internet Labor Language Net art Readymade security surveillance Technology television Text 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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