More than 15 million web visits in 2011

gold record

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.

 

Finger Battle

michelangelo finger battle

 

BYOB Miami video & Time Piles iPhone app

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.

 

Haircut at Okura Hotel Amsterdam

okura haircut

Yonekura is a Japanese barber shop at Hotel Okura Amsterdam. This is the place to come for a relaxing head and shoulder massage and a Japanese-style haircut. Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, +31 (0)20 6795462

 

in progress pt 2

stockholm nordin gallery

stockholm nordin gallery

 

in progress

stockholm mirrors

 

“New Information” my solo show at Nordin Gallery, Stockholm, opening this Saturday

rafael rozendaal new information stockholm nordin gallery

Rafaël Rozendaal – New Information
19 November – 18 December
Opening SATURDAY November 19, 17.00-20.00
Nordin Gallery, Tulegatan 19, 11353, Stockholm

Nordin Gallery is happy to present Rafaël Rozendaal’s first solo exhibition in Stockholm.

The center piece of the exhibition “Popular Screen Sizes” is a series of mirrors in the sizes of screens. Screens are our window to a dream world, and they come in many sizes. In this site specific installation we see a range of mirrors carefully placed from big screen TV size all the way down to a phone screen.

Rafaël Rozendaal has always used the internet as his first stage, but increasingly mirrors have been playing an important role in his
gallery exhibitions. “My medium is moving light, and mirrors amplify this light. They are a metaphor for representation and they introduce a sense of cleanliness to exhibition spaces. Real space collects dust, but mirrors add a more shining light”.

The exhibition will feature mirrors, projections, and drawings. All of these gestures are connections between the viewer and the artist, not necessarily communicating but transmitting energy.

 

“Art Talk”, Vice Magazine made a short movie about me

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!

rafael rozendaal art talk vice magazine

 

2 projections in Munich

At Peer to Space in Munich

 

into time installation .gif

into time installation

Gif by Brandy Carstens

 

goodbye files

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?

 

ongoing

ongoing

 

My exhibition opens tomorrow in New York

with nyc rafael rozendaal

Opening tomorrow! 7 – 9 pm. My exhibition at With project space, 141 Division Street, New York NY 10002.

The show consists of mirrors and projections crammed in a tiny space. I will rearrange the exhibition for one week, making it a different installation every day.

 

Lucky PDF TV from Frieze art fair

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.

 

One Question Interviews at Frieze art fair

Microphone

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!

 

Theory of Everything exhibition in Grenoble, France

theory of everything

I’m in a group show, “Theory of Everything”, curated by Luca Pozzi
It opens this Thursday, September 29, in CAB, Grenoble, France.

 

Tonight my websites live on Raitunes Italian radio

raitunes

Tonight, September 23, live, 10:45 PM CET. A live webcast of my websites with different selections of electronic music.
Follow me on Facebook, I will post all relevant links live.

 

10 BYOB photos

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

01 byob amsterdam photo by idan shilon_mg_0008
BYOB Amsterdam, photo by Idan Shilon

02 byob amsterdam photo by idan shilon_mg_0111
BYOB Amsterdam, photo by Idan Shilon

03 byob-venice-photo-by-riley-harmon-01
BYOB Venezia, photo by Riley Harmon

04 BYOB London 2011-3
BYOB London

05 byob paris 01
BYOB Paris

06 byob-nyc-2-photoby-rafael-rozendaal
BYOB NYC, photo by Rafaël Rozendaal

07 byob boston kara_stokowski_ryan_greene
BYOB Boston

08 byob-austin-photoby-Ben Aqua
BYOB Austin, photo by Ben Aqua

09 BYOB_LA_photoby-C-Coy-artist-PascualSisto
BYOB LA, photo by C-Coy

10 byob berlin 2 photo by Anne de Vries
BYOB Berlin, photo by Anne de Vries

 

new piece: falling falling .com

falling falling .com by rafael rozendaal

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

 

Article in +81 Magazine from Japan

+81 magazine

+81 magazine

+81 magazine

 

BYOB Amsterdam

byob amsterdam

 

BYOB Tokyo 2011 video

Thank you to everyone involved for a great event, Japan is the best!

 

BYOB Tokyo

BYOB Tokyo gif by Hisashi Okawa

This Saturday, BYOB Tokyo!

I just flew in today, and I’m very excited to be here and very excited that BYOB is finally happening in Tokyo, AKA the coolest place in the world. Happy to see friends and I will be enjoying amazing food all week, which you can follow on Twitter.

 

bird names

bird names

 

find me on google+

rafael rozendaal google plus

You can find me on Google+.

 

intern request

tcb-elvis-logo

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.

 

a photo from last night’s opening

w139 shift opening photo by rene andreasi bassi

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

 

new piece: tossing turning .com

tossing turning .com

New piece: tossing turning .com (turn sound up)

 

artist talk this saturday in amsterdam at W139

lecture rafael rozendaal

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.

 

friday july 29 my opening at W139 amsterdam

rafael rozendaal w139 outside

Exactly one week from now, Friday July 29,
is the opening of my exhibition “The Shift” at W139 in Amsterdam, Warmoestraat 139.

I’m not going to tell you what I will show, it’s a surprise, but it’s a brand new installation and it’s different from what I’ve done so far. Hope to see you there!

 

filming

shooting commercial

I’m not at liberty to disclose what I am holding in my hand here…
I’m starring in an ad, more info in a few weeks.

 

seoul korea media pole exhibition

2011 korea media pole

 

soon

soon

soon2

 

my favorite BYOB gifs

by travess smalley

By Travess Smalley.

 

by guthrie lonergan & chris coy

By Guthrie Lonergan & Chris Coy.

 

by daniel swan

By Daniel Swan.

 

by Jeronimo Jiminez

By Jeronimo Jiminez.

 

By Chris Collins

By Chris Collins.

 

by vakki

By Vakki.

 

 

my facebook audience

facebook audience