etymology of aesthetics

From Wikipedia:

The term Aesthetics was coined by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735, in German. Æsthetik (modern spelling Ästhetik), was derived from the Greek aisthetikos “esthetic-sensitive-sentient”, from aisthese-aisthanomai “to perceive-feel-sense”.

 

flaming log .com

new piece: flaming log .com

 

popcorn painting installation

popcorn painting

popcorn painting

popcorn painting

Installation of Popcorn Painting .com at the Schunk museum tent.

 

exhibiting at Pinkpop music festival

This weekend, my piece popcorn painting will be shown at the Schunk museum tent inside the Pinkpop music festival. Participating artists: Anna Bjerger, Graham Dolphin, Stanley Donwood, Charlotte Dumas, Cheryll Dunn, Ugnius Gelguda, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Edward Lipski, My Barbarian, Cleon Peterson, Rafaël Rozendaal, Donja Saed, Deanna Templeton, Helen Verhoeven.

 

la tempestad magazine

The cool people of La Tempestad magazine just released their new issue with a feature on internet art.
Thank you Oscar Benassini! Vai Avanti on the cover! English version here.

 

Richard Branson interviews Rafaël Rozendaal for Velcro magazine

sky gradient

I think we should talk about traveling.
Yes! I love traveling so much. I remember flying to Rio as a small child and feeling so cool. I like being in transit. I like the change of scenery. I love looking out of the window of a moving vehicle. You’re sitting there and the world passes by while you eat a banana. I think most of my work is exactly that, a browser window that behaves like a window in a moving vehicle. I don’t like to analyze my own work but that seems pretty obvious. Read the rest of this entry »

 

dollar poster

dollar poster rafael rozendaal

signed offset poster on glossy paper, 84 x 59 cm (33 x 23 inches)
based on my piece stagnation means decline .com
shipped via regular mail in a cardboard tube.

25 euros + 10 euros shipping worldwide (34 + 14 U$D)


 

ice n easy

2009 ice n easy

 

kunsthalle athena opening tomorrow

Opening party kunsthalle athena – the bar, Thursday 13 may, 20:00, keramikou 28, keramikos metaxourgio.

KUNSTHALLE ATHENA-THE BAR will host a variety of events related both to the city of Athens and the newly launched Kunsthalle: Site and conceptually specific works, responsive public performances, screenings, as well as Athenian pop archives, an Athens book archive, dj-sets and concerts, selected Athenian blogs, magazine launches, even an artwork–taxi service, will come together with DIY catering activity within the specially designed interior (one of the artworks) of the venue. The content of this event-cum-exhibition – or better, the bar itself- will be the outcome of what can only be described as a collective offer: that of artists, curators, theoreticians, choreographers, friends of KUNSTHALLE ATHENA, and hopefully the public, in order to put ideas into orbit.

Merging everyday life and art can take many different forms. KUNSTHALLE ATHENA-THE BAR prefers the form of a fleeting get-together. This is the moment to say what you think and think what you say, a moment to make friends and a moment to repeat. You are invited to be part of it as you make it happen!

Participating Artists: Aids-3D, Alexandros Georgiou, Penelope Georgiou, Alexandros Mistriotis, This is Amateur, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Annika Larsson, Christina Dimitriadis, Christos Lialios, Dimitra Vamiali, Forte, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Helga Wretman, Iraklis Renieris, Lo-Fi, Hior Chronik, Jenny Marketou, Joulia Strauss, Juliette Bonneviot, Kostas Tsioukas, Lydia Dambassina, Manolis Baboussis, Marc Bijl, Matthieu Laurette, Olaf Nicolai, Panos Koutras, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Paul Zografakis, Heinrich Spaeth, Rafael Rozendaal, Robert Pettena, Socratis Socratous, Vvork, Warren Neidich, Ylva Ogland, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yorgos Stamkopoulos.

 

flash art article

Article in the current edition of flash art. Thank you Christophe Boutin.