I made a new art website: Into Time .us

This website is part of the Hugo and Carla Brown art collection Cobra to Contemporary,
which is based in The Hague, Holland.

The Cobra to Contemporary collection includes works starting from the Cobra movement through pop-art to now. You can read more about their collection on artnews.org.

I’m happy to be part of a collection that includes amazing artists like Karel Appel and Andy Warhol.

Programming of Into Time .us by Reinier Feijen.

Together with Luuk Bouwman (ex Aux Raus), I started a band called Cold Void.

This is all very new to me and that makes it very exciting.
I’m happy to share our first song, Cold Void:

Video walkthrough of my exhibition Everything Always Everywhere that opened September 8, 2012, at Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles.

Popular Screen Sizes, 2012. Fourteen mirrors, 2 1/2 x 46 1/2 feet

Popular Screen Sizes, 2012. Fourteen mirrors, 2 1/2 x 46 1/2 feet

Falling Falling, 2012. Three digital projections, broken mirror and sound.

Falling Falling, 2012. Three digital projections, broken mirror and sound.

I’m on my way to Los Angeles.

I’m happy to go there again and eat some tacos.

I will also work on my exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary, hope to see you there!

I am happy to let you know about my exhibition
“Everything Always Everywhere”
at Steve Turner Contemporary.

I will be there and I hope to see you!

Press release:

Rafaël Rozendaal
Everything Always Everywhere
September 8 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 6 – 8 PM
Steve Turner Contemporary
6026 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Steve Turner Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles that represents the work of emerging and established contemporary artists. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11- 6. Please contact the gallery for further information.

I’m happy to be part of the group exhibition Bright Lights After Armageddon, curated by Mark Brown.

The show features works by Anne de Vries, Michael Bell Smith, Travess Smalley and me.
I love all of the artists in the show and I think you will too.

Opening:
Thursday, September 13, 7 – 9 pm
Pablo’s Birthday
25 Cleveland Place, New York

Here is the exhibition text by Mark Brown:

What if we are living in the end times, but as Joseph Campbell wrote, “Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end”? What if rather than an all-consuming fire, Armageddon is a scintillating brightness, illuminating the first stirrings of a much better future? Could the day after Armageddon be the most beautiful day ever?

Maybe it is all a matter of a change in perception. If the Apocalypse is soon to come, perhaps we should be welcoming Armageddon. As in the Hindu myth, where the destruction of the world at the end of the restless and turbulent satya yuga era ushers in a new world of peace and enlightenment, the day after Armageddon may be much brighter than the day before.

I love finding ideas, so I try to find methods to push myself… more ideas, better ideas, whatever that means.

I like using a sketchbook to get ideas out of my head. Usually sketching helps, so now I made a deal with myself: every day, for at least an hour, I have sit somewhere without internet and sketch for an hour.

So far it has helped a bit, but it is also very daunting. After all, this is the era of self publishing. You don’t need a movie studio to make a film, you don’t need a publisher to share your novel with the world. Just put it on the internet.

The tools are cheaper and easier every day, and the only limit is your own motivation and talent.

This is great, but is also very intimidating.

When I sit and I have a pen in my hand but there are no ideas, it’s not a great feeling.

When the ideas do come, it makes me happy.

Over the next two months I will be releasing one animated .gif per week as an online project for AND festival. This is the first one.

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an energetic regional festival of new cinema, digital culture and art in Liverpool.

On this photo you see the certificate/contract for likethisforever.com.

I sell my websites as unique art pieces. The collector receives a certificate, a backup disk with source files, and ownership of the domain name.

Part of the sale is still “physical”. I still print the contract on paper and I still burn a disk. But that will change, from now on it will be a digitally signed pdf certificate and I’ll email the files.

I think it’s cooler that way.

Jonas Lund created The Paint Shop .biz, a very simple website to quickly make and sell a digital painting. While you paint, other users paint simultaneously on the same digital canvas. Social painting…

When you’re happy, just hit “Sign & sell the painting”, and your work is offered for sale on the gallery page. That’s it!

The sold images are printed on canvas and shipped worldwide.

Check out my painting, it sold for 114 Euros. Easy money 🙂

Nice use of Facebook Timeline, very comprehensive:

Bleep’s guide to Electronic Music is a visual and audio guide through the historical emergence of electronic music by looking at landmark figures, inventors, musicians, producers, record labels and bands from the 19th century up to present day.

Our aim with this selection of music is to show the length and breadth of the medium, providing a snapshot of the genres forms and styles, and the development of the artform. Whilst there are omissions (e.g. Kraftwerk) and compromises that we have had to make, we hope that we achieve our aims and we do some justice to the variety of music that we love.

Christina in Florida via Skype

Hello you,

I’m looking for an intern.

I’m always traveling, so it will be an online based internship. I’m looking for someone to help out with visual research and animation tests. Ideally someone who is good at finding images, taking photos, drawing and animating.

If you are interested, please send me an email with examples of your work. You can send a link or a pdf or whatever you think is the best way to show what you do.

Looking forward to hearing from you, have a nice weekend!

I’m getting ready to move to another country, so I’ve been sorting out my belongings. Every year I open my boxes and throw away a bunch of things I don’t need.

I love the feeling of getting rid of stuff.

This shirt, for which I designed the “eyes” print, was part of the Christophe Lemaire collection of 2007.

Projections on all the walls.
Mirrors on floor & ceiling.

According to Wikipedia:
“Composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art.”

Works of art usually have a fixed size. The artist will carefully position all the elements until a perfect tension is found.

What if the medium does not have a fixed size? How do you deal with composition?

Everybody uses their browser in their own way. Websites are viewed in various dimensions. This is an interesting moment for artists. Composition has been exhausted, many artists in many media have explored all the options, leaving little room for invention. But now you can make art objects (websites) that adapt.
A good website acts like gas, using all available space.

I’ve always tried to make websites that work any way you want them to, small, large, square, tall, flat. Some of my websites stretch, some scale, some crop, and some rearrange according to your browser size.

My approach (vector based generative images) is one possibility, but I think there are many ways to deal with composing images for a browser. Art historians of the world, please be alert, there are probably a lot of artists right now inventing ways to deal with “the liquid canvas”.

eat more vegetables
eat less meat
make more money
work on my posture
spend more time in nature
have a political opinion
give to charity
fix my parent’s computers
not worry