RR haiku 109

so much to say

not sure

how to say it

 

New Website! Silent Silence .com

silent silence .com

New website: Silent Silence .com, collection of MOTI Museum, Breda.

Coding by Reinier Feijen, thanks!

 

New website! (Chrome Plugin) Abstract Browsing .net

abstract browsing

 

Forever Infinite .com

christina latina rafael rozendaal wedding

 

New website! Never Nowhere .com

never nowhere

 

RR haiku 108

too much

too many

too think

 

RR haiku 107

a red stain

on my brand new

white suit

 

RR haiku 106

nothing

never

nowhere

 

RR haiku 105

imagine

loving

everything

 

New website! Trying Trying .com

trying trying

 

RR haiku 104

whatever i do

there is always more

to be done

 

Almost Nothing Hardly Anything, solo show at Steve Turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

2014 almost nothing hardly anything steve turner LA

 

RR haiku 103

morning cold

just before

the sun rises

 

RR haiku 102

what

where

right there

 

Human Being Journal

photo by clement pascal

This is an archive of an article in Human Being Journal #5.
Text by Tag Christof, Photography by Clement Pascal.

In the early 1980s, Sherrie Levine gained notoriety for her groundbreaking exhibition After Walker Evans. She had photographed a number of the FSA master’s Great Depression-era photographs (notably all taken before she was born in 1947) and then hung and presented them, in all seriousness, as her original work. She had shot and developed the actual photos on display, so in a strictly ontological sense, the work was hers. But unlike earlier appropriation work, Levine made no attempt to disguise or alter the source. Instead, she made a game of subverting originality by calling it out in the exhibition’s title. The art world bristled. Was it still life? Was it original? Was it just shameless, lazy theft? And what did any of this mean for the value of a photograph as a piece of art?

Fast forward a few decades and art history has sided squarely with Levine. But the work of a new generation of digital artists is begging a similar set of questions around reproducibility, value and ownership. Rafae?l Rozendaal is among their foremost pioneers, having worked on the web prolifically since around the turn of the millennium. He trained as a conventional artist, but since 2001 has been buying up clever domain names on which to set up interactive artworks. The sites are singular — each contains one engaging scenario rendered in bright and proudly RGB palettes, and invites the user into a bit of unexpected usability. Among them are whitetrash.nl, pleasetouchme. com, hotdoom.com, beefchickenpork.com and several others.

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RR haiku 101

not here

not there

somewhere

 

RR haiku 100

i should be

at a beach

right now

 

RR haiku 099

amazing

incredible

see you later

 

RR haiku 098

thank you socks

for making sure my feet

don’t touch my shoes

 

RR haiku 097

almost nothing

hardly anything

barely something