Introducing Rhizome World, a month-long exhibition and weekly events celebrating software art hosted by Water Street Projects and taking place across two floors of the WSA building in the Financial District of lower Manhattan (161 Water St., NYC) from April 18 to May 11, 2025. In keeping with Rhizome’s networked approach, the exhibition will showcase past and present software-based artworks in conjunction with public activations throughout the show’s run. EXHIBITION DETAILS & PARTNERS  The installations in this exhibition evoke the breadth and depth of artistic experimentation with software, providing a temporary home for an alternative art world, one marked by technological experimentation, promiscuous collaboration, and subversive creativity, long marginalized by mainstream institutions. With Rhizome Executive Director Michael Connor acting as lead curator, Rhizome World will present a number of archival projects and commissions, some organized with Rhizome’s friends and collaborators, including: 

Rhizome’s new restoration of Image Atlas, a landmark project developed by Taryn Simon with Aaron Swartz as part of the 7x7 conference in 2012, preserved in partnership with Université de Montréal’s Department of Computer Science and Operations Research; 

Casco Viejo, a 2021 generative artwork by artist Ix Shells (Itzel Yard) shown at large scale across the windows of WSA;

a selection of artworks from the Rhizome Artbase; including Porpentine Charity Heartscape and Neotenomie, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Cory Arcangel;

artworks created using the programming language p5.js, which over the past decade plus has transformed access to code as a creative medium, supported by Generative Art Fund and selected by Rhizome friends, a project that will continue with a new partnership between Rhizome and Processing Foundation to create more expansive archives of Processing and p5.js communities and histories;

an installation of MSCHF’s Tax Heaven 3000, a visual dating simulator that ac