tunnel sketch
new! doublesided poster
I am happy to announce a new doublesided poster in my shop.
One side is printed in six color offset to get the best result for the gradients. The other side is printed in four colors and silver foil. You can see more detailed photos here.
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doublesided signed poster by rafaël rozendaal 4 color offset + silver foil on glossy paper, 96 x 66 cm. (36 x 26 inches) shipped via regular mail in a cardboard tube Price: $58.99 / €44.99 |
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Red Light Radio
Red Light Radio is an online radio station broadcasting from a former prostitution window in the red light district of Amsterdam. I will be DJ-ing tonight from 8 to 9 PM CET. You will be able to stream the live broadcast from redlightradio.net. If you want to check it later find the broadcast archive on soundcloud.
BYOB Portland
Tonight!!! BYOB Portland
Curated by Brenna Murphy and Christian “Megazord” Oldham.
Sunday, December 19, 7-10 PM
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland, OR 97214
BYOB is an open exhibition format I created to enable anyone to make a huge exhibition without any budget:
It’s very simple:
– find a space
– invite many artists
– ask them to bring their projectors
Please read the BYOB FAQ if you want to organize your own BYOB.
thank you ewoudt
Thank you Ewoudt Boonstra for purchasing this drawing and making a nice photo of it. Peace!
BYOB LA documentation
The fourth BYOB took place at the Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery at USC
on November 19, 2010. It was curated by Chris Coy and Guthrie Lonergan.
metal album covers
If you would ask me “What kind of exhibition would you really like to see?”, it would be a thorough survey of original artwork used on metal album covers. I know very little about the artists and how these images were made. I wonder if it would be a disappointment to see the originals. After all, they were created to be reproduced. But I have a feeling seeing them together would be wonderful and unique experience.
oath of the homunculi exhibition toronto canada
InterAccess is pleased to present Oath of the Homunculi, a group exhibition examining the use of scale in electronic and digital media, featuring the work of Robert Hengeveld, Rafaël Rozendaal, Paul Slocum, and Soft Turns, curated by Alex Snukal and Jennifer Cherniack.
Saturday, November 27, 2010 – Saturday, January 22, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, November 26, 7pm
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8, Canada
BYOB NYC at spencer brownstone gallery
BYOB is a series of one-night-exhibitions inviting artists to ring their own projecting equipment. This one happened on November 12, 2010 at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York.
Curated by Rafaël Rozendaal, participating artists: Agnes Bolt, Artie Vierkant, Billy Rennekamp, Britta Thie, Brian Close, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Charles Broskoski, Damon Zucconi, Duncan Malashock, Daniel Chew, Dena Yago, Hayley Silverman, Jeremy Bailey, Jesse England, Joel Holmberg, John Michael Boling, Joyce Jordan, Kari Altmann, Krist Wood, Mai Ueda, Marlous Borm, Michelle Ceja, Mike Ruiz, Rene Abythe, Riley Harmon, Ryder Ripps, Sarah Weis & Arturo Cubacub, Tom Moody, Travess Smalley, Travis Hallenbeck, Wojciech Kosma.
problems of depiction: interactivity
Shown above is a still from Harm van den Dorpel’s Ethereal Self .com.
This website is an interactive depiction of a diamond.
It is a depiction because it looks like a diamond, but it is not a diamond, it is a representation of a diamond in 2-dimensional space.
It is interactive because it uses your webcam to create the illusion of light reflecting through a diamond.
When you move, the image changes.
Interactive depiction has been thoroughly explored in video games. Mario starts running when you press a button, and he runs faster when you hold 2 buttons. But video games are always goal oriented.
Interactivity is usually a means to an end. What if it is a destination?
When we look into the world, we are not distant observers, we are involved. Interactivity is an important dimension of representation, and an important part of our perception. Interactive depiction is an area that has hardly been explored in art. Hopefully we have only seen the beginning of it. There are many gestures and subjects still untouched.
thank you very much exhibition in berlin
Please come to my opening next Friday, THANK YOU VERY MUCH at the Future Gallery in Berlin.
It will be the world premiere of a new piece.
PDF link to press release
The Future Gallery
Friday, October 8th, 6 – 10 pm
Hasenheide 56, Berlin
spencer brownstone gallery .com
As part of their “Untitled” group exhibition, I’ve made an intervention on spencer brownstone gallery .com. The “non-show” is happening now, featuring works by: Skip Arnold, David Brooks, Dan Colen, Tessa Farmer, Jeff Gabel, Valerie Hegarty, Aaron King, William Lamson, Tony Matelli, Mathieu Mercier, Jason Middlebrook, Olivier Mosset, Jaime Pitarch, Rafael Rozendaal, Tom Sachs, Noah Sheldon, Richard Wentworth, Martin Wohrl.
my first encounters with the world wide web
I was familiar with computers since I was small, and I had seen the internet on TV… but it’s harder to show a website on TV than to show TV on a website. My first real internet experience was at the library, I was 16 years old. I surfed a bit, mostly looking for interviews with bands. It was terribly slow, but I enjoyed it already. A few months later our home computer got a dial-up connection and I got more into it. I would write down my favorite websites on a piece of paper, I did not know about browser bookmarks…
Dutch progressive broadcasting station VPRO used to have a website with “Lifesavers”. Lifesavers were something that “does not happen in a book, does not happen on TV, an experience specific to the internet.”
It was a series of experimental websites by artists such as Peter Luining and Han Hoogerbrugge, exploring what a website could be, and playing with the slow connections of the internet, turning it into a strength.
I still love small files.
(this is part of a forthcoming interview by Johanna Bergmark)
“Perfect Vacuum” at Galeri Pictura, Sweden
“Perfect Vacuum”, solo exhibition at Galeri Pictura, Lund, Sweden.
perfect vacuum opening this friday
RAFAËL ROZENDAAL – PERFECT VACUUM
Opening Friday 17/9, 18-20 pm
Galleri Pictura, Svartbrödersgatan 3, Lund, Sweden
September 18 – October 9
Curated by Johanna Bergmark
Rafaël Rozendaal creates stylistically simple animations which often tend to have subtle undertones of melancholy and humor. While disarmingly simple in design, many of Rafaël Rozendaal’s pieces unfold in complexity through their boldness of concept. Many of the works challenge the viewers initial response; repetitative patterns and images give way to more complex relationships and a meditative awareness. Through deceptively modest interactions using only the mouse, the viewer can expand many of the pieces and affect the shape and course of events. Rozendaal’s work often twists banal situations like dropping a stone into an endless hole or emptying a roll of toilet paper. Travel on a deserted road, turn right or left. Which way you choose doesn’t really matter, the road leads nowhere.
The artist sees the computer not only as a tool, but as an actual place that exists in parallel with the material world. A place somewhere between fantasy and reality. Inaccessible, but infinite. The computer screen becomes a window that explore and opens up new ways to represent the outside world.
Images of the physical world are mediated through Rozendaal’s work to question viewers perceptions and examination the perfunctory act of clicking your way through a work of art or from website to website. Drawing attention to the users active participation and physical presence, the mouse and keyboard become extensions of your own body and the works consolidate the viewers presence into a position in his virtual world.
Rafaël Rozendaal does not tell stories or claim to communicate with the viewer, instead he hopes to trigger ideas or feelings. He wants them to be ”independent entities that are part of peoples lives and can be used or seen in any way. Like having a tree in your garden.”
Galleri Pictura will display an installation consisting of the work ‘Hybrid Moment’ and drawings.
Rafaël Rozendaal (b. 1980) was born and raised in the Netherlands but has lived and held exhibitions all over the world. Los Angeles, Barcelona, Tokyo and London amongst others. He creates websites as art pieces and sells their domains as collectibles. Perfect Vacuum at Galleri Pictura is his first exhibition in Sweden.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Art on Network and part in Full Pull ’10.
With support from Royal Netherlands Embassy.
speed show amsterdam
Thursday, 16th of September 2010, Opening 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Speed show is a new type of exhibition that takes place in internet cafes around the world.
Aram Bartholl is organizing Vol. 3 “Peace” in Amsterdam with works by: Constant Dullaart, Evan Roth, Guthrie Lonergan, Jan Robert Leegte, JODI, Jon Rafman, Peter Luining, Rafaël Rozendaal, Timur Si-Qin.
gallery collection TSCA
If you are in Tokyo, TSCA gallery is presenting their artists in the exhibition “Gallery Collection”.
My piece Le Duchamp will be shown.
August 28 – September 25, 2010
TSCA, 3-3 Wakaba-cho, Kashiwa-shi,
Chiba, 277-0024, Japan
BYOB event in berlin tonight
Tonight, from 9 PM: Together with Anne de Vries I am organizing an event called BYOB: Bring your own beamer. We’ve invited 25 artists who will all bring their own beamer (projector) to show their work. The entire space will be filled with moving image on the walls, floor and ceiling. Hope to see you there!
July 20th 2010 from 21:00 to 01:00, in Bureau Friederich projectstudio, Holzmarktstraße 14, Berlin-Mitte.
Participating artists:
AIDS-3D, Alexandra Domanovic, Andreas Angelidakis, Andrew Keaton, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Constant Dullaart, Dafna Maimon, Darri Lorenzen, Emile Zile, Hayley Silverman, Helga Wretman, Jaime Whipple, Juliette Bonneviot, Kari Altmann, Katja Novitskova, Kinga Kielczynska, Lindsay Lawson, Mai Ueda, Mike Ruiz, Oliver Laric, Rafaël Rozendaal, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Timur Si-Qin, Voin de Voin, Wojciech Kosma
article in parool newspaper
On the occasion of the yes for sure exhibition at NIMk, Dutch newspaper Het Parool published a nice article on me. Daniel Bertina, thank you for your excellent journalism.
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.
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.
motif magazine launch
Online culture magazine Motif just launched. On the cover: my piece into time .com, and an interview with me here.
