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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:01:36 +0000
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** THE THING BBS: RESTORED & CONTEXTUALIZED BY RHIZOME
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Founded in New York City in 1991, The Thing was a Bulletin Board System—a forum where users could post and exchange messages—focusing on contemporary art and cultural theory. Among the tens of thousands of BBSes that flourished from the late 1970s to the 1990s, The Thing was notable for its design and community dynamics. Considered by its founder Wolfgang Staehle a kind of social sculpture, The Thing became one of the first digital platforms for art, but its history is little known since most of the messages posted have been lost or otherwise have become inaccessible for many years.

With the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, New Museum affiliate Rhizome has undertaken a project to recover, make accessible, and study this landmark BBS.

On the occasion of an online exhibition of newly excavated materials from The Thing, RSVP to join us online for two live events (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=b7f199fff5&e=8734a8f0d3) :

July 21, 2PM: Consensual Hallucinations: Early Online Writing from The Thing BBS Archives (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=93c556b17c&e=8734a8f0d3)
July 23, 2PM: Phantom Threads: Restoring The Thing BBS (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=dd7f2db3f6&e=8734a8f0d3)

** SCREENS SERIES ONLINE
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“Screens Series Online: Rodrigo Valenzuela (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=95a2f9258b&e=8734a8f0d3) ” continues the New Museum’s Screens Series, a platform for the presentation of new video works by emerging contemporary artists. While we are closed to the public, we’re pleased to present Diamond Box (2013), originally screened as part of “Screens Series: Rodrigo Valenzuela (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=6fdaee7f2b&e=8734a8f0d3) ,” which was on view at the New Museum from May 21–July 21, 2019.

In his videos and photo-based works, Rodrigo Valenzuela addresses issues and experiences common to working-class people living in the United States, paying special attention to recent immigrants and those of Latinx heritage. Valenzuela, who immigrated to the US and worked odd jobs as an undocumented laborer before returning to school to study art, brings to his works a keen awareness of the challenges faced by people who have entered the country in the hope of a better life.

** STUDIO VISIT: PAWEŁ ALTHAMER
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For his virtual studio visit, artist Paweł Althamer, who had a solo show (https://newmuseum.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c6bf7cce2a64f8749424edd72&id=c22a7bde6e&e=8734a8f0d3)  at the New Museum in 2014, gives us a peek at his latest sculpture created for the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw.

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IMAGES (FROM TOP TO BOTTOM): Participants in The Thing circa 1993. Courtesy of Wolfgang Staehle; Wong Ping, The Other Side, 2015 (still). Two-channel animation, sound, color; 8 min. Courtesy Courtesy the artist, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong / Shanghai and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles

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