I made a new website: Open This Window .com

I was invited by curator by Lauren Cornell and the New Museum to show a selection of my websites on Seoul Square, the world’s largest LED screen, measuring an impressive 80 x 100 meters. The event happened on May 24, 2012 and was produced by Calvin Klein.

I always thought moving images are very versatile. They are energy based, not atom based, just like music. You can listen to a song at home, while you run, in a club, or in a huge stadium.
It doesn’t change the song, it does change the experience.

Works shown on Seoul Square:
Much Better Than This .com (Collection of Almar & Margot van der Krogt)
Falling Falling .com
Like This Forever .com (Collection of Allen & Overy)
Towards and Beyond.com

Music by Cold Void (Rafaël Rozendaal & Luuk Bouwman)

A big thank you to everyone involved…

The building you see in this photo is not only a building, it is also the biggest screen in Korea, measuring a whopping 80 x 100 meters! I am very excited to be part of a video program selected by Lauren Cornell of the New Museum. Other artists include Michael Bell Smith and Takeshi Murata.

The building is covered in LED’s and on May 24, from 8 to 11 PM, you will see one of the world’s biggest art screenings ever.

If you happen to be in Seoul tomorrow, please stop by Seoul Station. Seoul Square is right in front of it.

Supported by Calvin Klein.

I’m on Instagram. My user name is Newrafael.

I resisted Instagram as long as i could… I’m already running out of time as it is. Social media are incredibly fun, but also incredibly distracting. All this Tweeting and Facebooking when I could be making REAL WORK…

But then again what is real work?

Perhaps micropublishing is a more honest and direct connection between humans. Instead of professionals trying to make big and well constructed works, everybody is sharing every thought, our minds… more and more connected. Perhaps micropublishing is about enjoying the process and not about results. I’m not sure…

BYOB MOCA LA was a lot of fun…
See for yourself in this beautiful video.

It is a documentation of the event, but it also explains what BYOB is in a few sentences.
For all of you who are curious, read the BYOB Manual and organize your own one-night-exhibition.

Video produced by Ways & Means,
Directed by Stephen Pagano,
Photography by Tom Salvaggio & Stephen Pagano.

Above is a screenshot from my Google Analytics.
It shows the visits of all my art websites combined.

In the last 30 days;
Visits: 6,244,131
Unique Visitors: 5,754,938

These 6 million people are enjoying my art. Amazing!

Thank you for clicking!

Hi everyone, I made a new website: Inner Doubts .com

This week is #DIGART week at The Creators Project. That means various articles and discussions on digital art and how to monetize it. I wrote a blog post about selling artworks in domain names, you can read it here.

Here it is: a new mini documentary on “what I do”. It is a nice interview in a hotel in New York.

The Creators Project did a great job of editing my thoughts. A lot of what I’m talking about here had been running back and forth through my head for a while. I tried many times to put it in writing but I couldn’t make it into a coherent story.

I’m very happy that they were able to fit the whole story into 6 minutes and 12 seconds.

From the press release:

Postmasters is pleased to announce: RICHTERIANA
GREG ALLEN, DAVID DIAO, RORY DONALDSON, HASAN ELAHI, FABIAN MARCACCIO, RAFAËL ROZENDAAL.

Rafael Rozendaal’s www.colorflip.com site presents a digital monochrome abstraction which transforms with a touch into sheets of color. The virtual stack, theoretically infinite, lasts as long as the viewer keeps turning. Rozendaal’s motif echoes Gerhard Richter’s Umgeschlagenes Blatt (Turned Sheet) series of 1965-67 one of the artist’s earliest forays into both monochrome and the relationship between representation and abstraction. After at least 15 paintings, Richter’s Turned Sheet series culminated in an offset print, which the artist intended to be unlimited edition, but which he terminated after signing 739 copies.

May 12 – June 16, 2012
opening reception, saturday, may 12, 6-8
459 West 19th Street, New York

Installation by Rafaël Rozendaal
Mirrors, computers, projectors.
Museu Imagem e Sol, Sao Paulo, 2012

Rafaël Rozendaal – artist talk
Friday, April 13, 20:00h
Comuna
R. Sorocaba, 585 – Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 22271-110, Brazil

Installation with projectors and broken mirrors by Rafaël Rozendaal.
Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Nova Festival.

I made a new piece: Violent Power .com

Commisioned by Kunstverein Arnsberg

“Everything Dies”
Exhibition by Rafaël Rozendaal at Kunstverein Arnsberg,
curated by Vlado Velkov, April 2012.

This Friday my exhibition “Everything Dies” opens at Kunstverein Arnsberg in Germany.
There will be mirrors, there will be projectors, and I will be there too.

Opening: Friday, March 30, 19:00h
Exhibition: March 30 – May 20
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Königstraße 24, Arnsberg, Deutschland

Sponsoren: RWE, Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Marianne Cramer, Stadt Arnsberg, Interprint GmbH, Sparkasse Arnsberg-Sundern. Freundeskreis: Dieter Henrici, Berlet-Elektrofachmarkt, Menke Gebäudereinigung, Gebro Haustechnik, Wesco, Zakowski Generalplanung.

This weekend all weekend a hackathon art music technology event in San Francisco.
Organized by The Creators Project (Vice Magazine + Intel).

Who would have thought I would be showing work together with David Bowie 🙂

This weekend it is time for the Resonate Festival in Belgrade, Serbia.
I’m excited to speak in a lineup of great artists, designers, musicians and technologists.

See you there!