The Download (2015–2018)

The Download was an ongoing series of commissioned works that I curated for Rhizome. The project presented posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as the space of exhibition. Each artist’s contribution was zipped up and posted for download. The Download offered the JPG, the TXT, the PDF, and other file types by artists who view the file format itself as substrate. These works were free to own, print, share, and perform under your own conditions.

Commissioned works by: Christopher Clary, Morehshin Allahyari, Lance Wakeling, Elisa Giardina Papa, Dennis Cooper, Sheida Soleimani, Julia Weist and Nestor Siré. Essays for each commission can be read in the Writing section of this website.