I am excited to announce that I had 15,140,159 web visits in 2011!

Thank you all for clicking, it truly means a lot.

I wish you a happy and prosperous 2012,

Rafaël Rozendaal.

Falling Falling with mirrors
installation by Rafaël Rozendaal
at Nordin Gallery Stockholm, November 2011.

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.

Dylan Romer shot a nice video at BYOB Miami using the Time Pile iPhone app.
More Time Pile videos here.
I think this app is perfect for documenting a BYOB,
more true to the experience than regular video.

Vice Magazine presents Art Talk, a series of short documentaries on contemporary artists.
In this episode they followed me around at my exhibition at W139 and BYOB Amsterdam.
Thank you to Jan van Tienen and everyone at Vice, peace!

Gif by Brandy Carstens

Recently I started streaming music instead of playing mp3’s. There is something very satisfying about deleting files, knowing that they will always be available somewhere. The only memory I have to allocate is the memory in my own head, I just have to remember names.
I can’t wait till all my digital is in the cloud. I won’t need harddisks, backups, just some passwords and I can work anywhere on any computer. Maybe at some point I won’t need a computer, just accessing the cloud through telepathy?

The Frieze art fair is what it is: a gigantic jewelry store, filled with shiny conformist art pieces designed to make rich people look educated. Most of the fair was very boring, if you ask me. However, in a far corner, there was a dark room full of young people making a mess; the LuckyPDF TV studio, a Trojan horse filled with internet culture.

LuckyPDF is made up of the artists James Early, John Hill, Ollie Hogan and Yuri Pattison. They create internet TV shows, working together with a big network of performance/video/internet artists. Above you can watch episode 2 which I presented, but also check episode 1 hosted by Paul Pieroni and episode 3 hosted by Jeremy Bailey. The broadcasts are very messy, full of glitches and bugs, but watch anyway because there are some great moments. It was really fun to be part of and I hope that shows.

Lucky PDF is an art collective from London, and they are organizing LUCK PDF TV for the Frieze art fair, inviting over 50 artists to do lots of different things and editing it all to daily art TV broadcasts. I will be doing One Question Interviews on camera, asking Important Art People 1 question each.

see you there!

BYOB keeps on growing. I’ve selected a few photos for you to enjoy.

BYOB Amsterdam, photo by Idan Shilon

BYOB Amsterdam, photo by Idan Shilon

BYOB Venezia, photo by Riley Harmon

BYOB London

BYOB Paris

BYOB NYC, photo by Rafaël Rozendaal

BYOB Boston

BYOB Austin, photo by Ben Aqua

BYOB LA, photo by C-Coy

BYOB Berlin, photo by Anne de Vries

new piece: falling falling .com
commisioned by l’oeil de links.

You can find me on Google+.

“The Shift”, solo show at W139 Amsterdam.

Visitor moves: sound of a mosquito
Visitor doesn’t move: silence

Open till 9th of September 2011.

Dear you,

I am looking for an intern in Berlin.

Someone who is happy / organized / loves computers / doesn’t smoke.

There are lots of things to do and learn. This internship would involve helping out with BYOB activities & archive and doing research for new website pieces, and anything else that comes up.

I would love to hear from you, please send me an email if you are interested.

Thank you everyone who came out to see the show yesterday!
Photo by René Andreasi Bassi.

Saturday July 30, at 3 pm, I will do an artist talk/ lecture at W139. I will talk about my online works, translating/ optimizing web pieces for exhibition spaces, BYOB, web strategies, social networks, and I will close it all off with a new series called “Youtube Associations”. That means I play a Youtube on the projection screen, and everyone in the audience is invited to choose the next one, playing all kinds of videos for about an hour. I did it a few weeks ago at a talk in Chicago and I was amazed how much fun it was.

Hope to see you there!

W139, Warmoestraat 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“The Shift” opens July 29, 9 pm.
Artist talk July 30, 3 pm.

By Travess Smalley.

By Guthrie Lonergan & Chris Coy.

By Daniel Swan.

By Jeronimo Jiminez.

By Chris Collins.

By Vakki.

Ideally the work is not a manifestation of an idea, the work is the idea.