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Rhizome is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting digital art and culture. Their online archive contains a vast collection of net art, early internet media, and experimental digital works, many created by female artists exploring themes of identity, representation, and technology.

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Is Rhizome an artwork, a museum, or an organization?

Rhizome is a nonprofit digital-art organization rather than one individual artwork. It was founded in 1996 and has been affiliated with the New Museum in New York since 2003.

What is stored in Rhizome's ArtBase?

ArtBase is an archive of born-digital art, including websites, software, browser works, and projects that depend on obsolete internet technologies. It preserves works whose original hosting, plug-ins, or interactive behavior might otherwise disappear.

How does Rhizome preserve old net art that no longer runs in modern browsers?

Rhizome uses approaches such as emulation, migration, documentation, and its browser-based Webrecorder technology. These methods can capture not just screenshots but the navigable behavior and network resources of an interactive work.

How is Rhizome different from Internet Archive?

Internet Archive preserves an enormous range of websites, books, software, and media, while Rhizome concentrates specifically on digital art and its cultural context. Rhizome's ArtBase also involves curatorial records and conservation decisions tailored to individual artworks.

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