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 |
Front side:
Back side:
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.
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 Boonstra for purchasing this drawing and making a nice photo of it. Peace!
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.
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.
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 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.
This Thursday, I will participate in an art show in an internet cafe in Hong Kong:
SPEED SHOW HK – PEEP SHOW!
Curated by Hitomi Hasegawa
Date: 18 November 2010 (Thur)
Time: 7pm-10pm
Venue: Fresh Cyber Café
Address: Flat C, Floor 2, King Tao Building, 94-100 Lockhart Road, Wanchai (Press 2C for Entry)
BYOB (bring your own beamer) curated by Angelo Plessas.
Tonight at Kunsthalle Athena.
Saturday, 23rd of October 2010
from 8pm – until it lasts
Kerameikou 28 Str, Kerameikos – Metaxourgeio, Athens
BYOB is a DIY style night of projections. Over 35 artists will get together and bring their own projecting equipment to create a huge one-night-exhibition for zero budget.
Participating artists: Alexandros Georgiou, Alexandros Psychoulis, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Billy Rennekamp, Dimitris Foutris, Dimitris Papadatos, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Eftihis Patsourakis, Emile Zile, Irini Karayannopoulou, Ioanna Myrka, Georgia Sagri, Katerina Kana, Kostis Velonis, Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas, Mai Ueda, Makis Faros, Mano Plizzi, Maria Papadimitriou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Poka-yio, RafaËl Rozendaal, Sifis Lykakis, Spiros Hadjidjanos, The Erasers, Theo Michael, Theodoros D Giannakis, This Is Amateur, Vassilis Patmios Karouk.
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.
Am I drawn to it?
Do I feel a strong attraction or connection?
Does it trigger a series of thoughts?
Does it change my thoughts?
Does it set a mood?
Does it amplify my emotions?
Does it encourage me to make something?
Does it provide new information?
Is it beautiful?
Does it intensify perception?
What is the level of abstraction?
Does it awaken memories?
Does it make me curious?
Do I want more of it?
Does it summarize an era?
Is it innovative?
Does it stand out?
Do I remember it after 10 minutes?
Does it surprise me?
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
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.
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”, solo exhibition at Galeri Pictura, Lund, Sweden.
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.
A few years ago someone emailed me: “Would it be OK if I got your kissing piece tattooed on my chest?” “Sure” I replied. A few months later he emailed me this photo.
This weekend is the first edition of Tilburg Ink, part of the Incubate Festival for independent culture.
In the tattoo world, the one who handles the needle is considered the artist. From the perspective of the fine arts this is a unique situation because the ‘tattoo artist’ merely makes a copy of an already existing image. Ten contemporary artists such as Ronald de Bloeme, Marc Bijl, Rafael Rozendaal and Thomas I’Anson will create their own designs for tattoos. This collection will be presented in the traditional way, on so-called “flash sheets”. Incubate will distribute these to tattoo shops throughout the Netherlands. This project will theoretically create an infinite number of copies of these artist’s works.
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.
This poster will be available at my show in Sweden next week, I will keep you posted.
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
Happening now! August 20 – 24, Art Taipei, the main art fair of Taiwan.
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art will be showing my work and many others in booth C05. Thank you!
A one night exhibition: several artists showing their work with their own beamer.
The first BYOB event took place on July 20th 2010 in Berlin.
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
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.
Opening Friday 25th June, 6-9pm:
Binary Code View: Rob Smith, Rafaël Rozendaal, Anthony Gross
The Agency Gallery in London
26th June – 30th July 2010
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.
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.
