The Bowery at golden hour, the stack rising over the restaurant supply stores, two MLow cabs with THE MARKS on their roof screens, a scaffold wheatpasted with more of them. The lobby, where THE MARKS hang by the door and the whole Anthology plays on one wall. Chapter 1, 1984 to 1998, on beige terminals and Netscape. Chapter 2, the Flash years. Chapter 3, Web 2.0 and the surf clubs. Chapter 4, the feed, on phones the size of people. Chapter 5, the reprise, and the servers that keep the old web online. Then the Sky Room: MLow's Impermanent Vision, a sovereign Open Eye Flower that watches you, and the Lower East Side melting outside the glass. Every floor ends in a threshold into its own era.
SKATE MODE: every floor is a skate spot, with three goals in each of the 8 rooms, 24 goals in all. K or the SKATE button switches any time.
Desktop: WASD to walk, mouse to look, click anything, V for the vertical clip of any room, M for sound, Z for binoculars, N for a line on the floor to the next door, [ and ] for the previous and next room, R for a random room, or pick one from the list. K to skate: W pushes, S brakes, A and D steer, SPACE ollies, 1, 2 and 3 flip, C picks your rider. Phone: left thumb walks, right thumb looks, tap anything, ROOMS for the list.The cast of the rooms. Every one of them skates.
8 rooms, one hundred works, built by NEW YORKERS by MLow. The Anthology is Rhizome's (2016 to 2019); the images are the preview images Rhizome publishes for each work, shown with credit, and every screen opens the work itself on anthology.rhizome.org. The building is a remix of SANAA's New Museum (2007). Not affiliated with Rhizome or the New Museum.