Popular Screen Sizes (60″, 55″, 46″, 40″, 32″, 27″, 24″, 21″, 17″, 15″, 13″, 10″, 7″, 3.5″)
installation by Rafaël Rozendaal
at Nordin Gallery Stockholm, November 2011.

I’ve had this game-idea for a while:

You enter a really dirty house, and you have to clean it. That is the game.

There would be different weapons; vacuum cleaner, mop, rag, sponges, etc. There is clutter, dust, grime, you name it.

A few months ago I started working with 3 volunteers: Lee Putney, Walter Latimer & Manuel Morales. They helped with visual research, collecting all their finding in this blog. It has been filling up with weird images, videos and clips of video games related to the depiction of cleaning in 3D computer space. Ideally I want the game to be a browser based 3D game but the technologies I saw (webGL & Unity plugin) seem buggy. I am not sure how/when this video game will be made but in the mean time please check the blog… it’s awesome.

W139RADIO with Rafael Rozendaal @ Red Light Radio 07-28-2011 by Red Light Radio

Dear readers, last night I played a selection of music from films I like, on the occasion of my exhibition at W139. Thank you to Red Light Radio & Jesper. Tracklist:

1. So Kaburagi – Nikkatsu Theme + Drifter Theme Instrumental (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)
2. Ennio Morricone – Bad Orchestra (Once Upon A Time In The West, 1968)
3. David Lynch & John Neff – Go Get Some (Mulholland Drive, 2001)
4. John Carpenter – Moochie’s Death (Christine, 1983)
5. John Carpenter – Main Title (Assault On Precinct 13, 1976)
6. David Paich (Toto) – Paul Meets Chani (Dune, 1984)
7. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – The Gentle Hum of Anxiety (The Social Network, 2010)
8. Johnny Hawker – Romper Stomper Theme (Romper Stomper, 1992)
9. Johnny Hawker – Dead Nazi March (Romper Stomper, 1992)
10. Popol Vuh – Die Nacht Der Himmel (Nosferatu, 1979)
11. Popol Vuh – On The Way (Nosferatu, 1979)
12. Nino Rota – L’Uccello Magico (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, 1976)
13. Ennio Morricone – Death Rattle (Once Upon A Time In The West, 1968)
14. Vangelis – Main Title And Prologue (Blade Runner, 1982)
15. Vangelis – The Prodigal Son Brings Death (Blade Runner, 1982)
16. Wagner – Die Walkure, Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now, 1979)

Domain Names 2010 – 2001 by Rafaël Rozendaal
Book Launch and Signing

Wednesday, March 16
from 6 to 9 pm
Gloria Maria Gallery
Via Watt 32, 20143 Milan
T +39 02 8708 854

Gloria Maria Gallery is pleased to host the launch of Domain Names 2010 – 2001, a new book by visionary Dutch internet Artist, Rafaël Rozendaal. Published by independent publishing house Automatic Books from Venice, the book shows 60 domain names that the artist has registered over the course of ten years. Each domain name represents a unique artwork, a website that is always there. The domain names are the title of the work, but also their location. Some of the domain names have been sold to collectors, some are still available. This book seals ten years of life and work in one desirable object: Domain Names 2010 – 2001.

Here is a set of songs I’ve compiled just for you.
I hope to make a movie one day, and this might be the soundtrack.

Track list:
01: Nino Rota, La Poupee Automate
02: Carpathian Forest, Through the black veil of the Burgo pass
03: Xasthur, Intro
04: Thrones, Acris Ventor
05: Angelo Badalamenti, Fats Revisited
06: Aki Tsuyuko, First Idea
07: Aphex Twin, Curtains
08: Blasphemy, Winds of the Black Godz

A book based on Big Long Now .com published by Atomic Activities.

From the back cover:

AA: Hi Rafaël, how have you been?
RR: Very good, so good, better and better.
AA: Better than before?
RR: Definitely. I actually thought I was happy before, but I fooled myself.
AA: Fooled yourself?
RR: I thought I was happy, I really believed it, so maybe I was. But I’m so much happier now so how could I have been happy at the time? It’s hard to trust my own memory, and it’s hard to measure my own feelings. But I’m very sure I’m happy now.

oil on canvas, 130 x 89 cm.

Self portrait on Sunset Blvd, 2007

enamel on canvas, 135 x 100 cm.

No Disk, three dvd players showing their default screensaver.

black & silver enamel on canvas, 151 x 122 cm.

A book based on I am very very sorry .com, published by Onestar Press.