Rafaël Rozendaal: links
A source ledger for the artist who made the browser an abstract pictorial space, developed a contract that kept privately owned websites public, and carried the same systems into textiles, installations, and on-chain generative editions.
Works and the artist's own sites
Rozendaal's current official site presents browser works, exhibitions, physical works, writings, and recent projects.
newrafael.workThe artist's long-running portfolio preserves his website works, texts, biography, exhibitions, and project archives.
newrafael.comThe Art Website Sales Contract formalises private ownership while requiring an acquired website to remain publicly accessible.
Art Website Sales Contractinto time .com is the 2010 browser work in which visitor clicks divide a field of changing gradients.
into time .commuch better than this .com is the animated browser work later presented across Times Square's electronic billboards.
much better than this .comThe BYOB archive documents the open exhibition format Rozendaal initiated around participants bringing their own projectors.
BYOB WorldwideIn the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile records Rozendaal's biography, recognition, and seven projects in the foundational set.
Rafaël Rozendaal on Art BlocksEndless Nameless is a 1,000-work Curated study of subdivision, colour pairing, and composition released in July 2021.
Endless NamelessDive is a 333-work Playground project released in November 2021.
DiveNon Either is a 100-work Playground project released in February 2022.
Non EitherCorners is a 64-work Playground project released in April 2022.
CornersPolychrome Music, made with Danny Wolfers, joins 400 generative visual systems to infinite three-channel compositions.
Polychrome MusicIntersections is a 300-work Playground project released in October 2022.
IntersectionsTwist is a 250-work Presents project released in January 2024.
TwistJeff Davis interviews Rozendaal on website works, domain ownership, NFTs, composition, and the making of Endless Nameless.
In Conversation on Endless NamelessJeff Davis speaks with Rozendaal and Danny Wolfers about abstraction, early computer sound, and the visual-musical system of Polychrome Music.
In Conversation on Polychrome MusicMuseums and institutions
The Whitney documents Almost There, a 2015-17 sunrise and sunset commission that temporarily eclipsed the museum's website.
Rafaël Rozendaal: Almost ThereThe Whitney collection record documents the acquisition and display of the tapestry Abstract Browsing 17 03 05 (Google).
Abstract Browsing 17 03 05 (Google)MoMA's announcement describes Light, a 135 KB installation of real-time browser works presented on the museum's Digital Wall.
Light: Rafaël RozendaalCentre Pompidou's collection record documents Horizon 31 as a 2021 on-chain SVG acquired in 2023.
Horizon 31Museum Folkwang's exhibition page presents Color, Code, Communication and its 1,000-square-metre installation of 81 Horizons.
Color, Code, CommunicationMuseum Folkwang's English release details the first monographic NFT exhibition by Rozendaal in a European museum.
Museum Folkwang exhibition releaseThe exhibition microsite explains the 29 KB visual and musical generator behind Polychrome Music.
Polychrome Music at Museum FolkwangTowada Art Center's GENEROSITY presented websites, tapestries, haiku, and installations in Rozendaal's first public-institution solo show.
GENEROSITYEYE Filmmuseum's artist-talk page surveys Rozendaal's evolution from web-only practice to textiles, installations, writing, and lectures.
Rafaël Rozendaal artist talkThe European Patent Office collection explains how the Abstract Browsing plug-in translates web pages into geometric tapestries.
Rafaël Rozendaal at the EPORhizome's Net Art Anthology reconstructs into time .com, its Flash-to-JavaScript migration, and its place in browser-art history.
into time .com: Net Art AnthologyThe New Museum's release records the 164 ETH gift generated through the Endless Nameless sale for Rhizome.
Rhizome receives the Endless Nameless giftGalleries and exhibitions
Fellowship marks the opening of Books at Upstream Gallery and connects its blank pages to creative possibility and focused attention.
Now on view: BooksUpstream Gallery presents Books, a new series of diptych paintings that uses a vertical division to turn paired monochrome colour fields into open pages.
Bookse-flux's announcement frames Color, Code, Communication across browser works, NFTs, immersive installation, and public space.
Color, Code, CommunicationInsomnia at Bonniers Konsthall presented fifteen Rozendaal websites as works that remain active and accessible around the clock.
InsomniaUpstream Gallery documents Anti Social at Postmasters and the connection between Abstract Browsing, weaving, and computing.
Anti SocialUpstream records the sold-out release of Polychrome Music, its three-channel music engine, and Rhizome beneficiary structure.
Polychrome Music releaseUpstream places Rozendaal's work in the Whitney exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art.
Programmed at the WhitneyUpstream documents Rozendaal's commissioned tapestries in Colour & Abstraction at TextielMuseum Tilburg.
Colour & AbstractionThe Armory Show presentation joined website works and lenticular paintings as digital and physical systems of changing colour.
Rafaël Rozendaal at The Armory ShowUpstream documents three Abstract Browsing tapestries in Between Pixel and Pigment at Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
Between Pixel and PigmentThe Postmasters biography lists Rozendaal's solo exhibitions, museum presentations, collections, commissions, and publications.
Rafaël Rozendaal biographyInterviews
Fellowship interviews Rozendaal about the changing meaning of digital art, his browser-based practice, and the relationship between code, painting, and institutional display.
Rafaël Rozendaal interviewPhillips visits Rozendaal's studio to discuss the formal possibilities of web composition and the auction of ifnoyes.com.
PADDLES ON!: In the StudioKABK's lecture page introduces Rozendaal's practice across browsers, ownership, visitors, exhibitions, and BYOB.
The internet as a canvasVICE's early artist talk presents Rozendaal on the internet as a museum, interactive websites, drawings, installations, and BYOB.
Art Talk: Rafaël RozendaalPress and criticism
Artnet reports how the 1,000-work Endless Nameless sale produced the largest individual gift in Rhizome's history.
Rozendaal gives Rhizome its largest giftFAD reports the smart-contract transfer of 164 ETH from Endless Nameless to Rhizome.
Rhizome receives historic donationVICE examines Rozendaal's Sleep Mode exhibition and his argument for screensavers as moving paintings.
The art of the screensaverVICE documents the Stedelijk Museum edition of BYOB and the format's worldwide expansion.
BYOB at the StedelijkProfiles and archives
Wikipedia surveys Rozendaal's biography, browser works, Art Website Sales Contract, BYOB, physical works, and NFTs.
Rafaël RozendaalThe net-art.org archive situates Rozendaal's discrete domains and public-ownership stipulation within browser-art history.
Rafaël Rozendaal at net-art.orgRhizome's archived VVORK record preserves an early critical presentation of itwillneverbethesame.com.
itwillneverbethesame.com at VVORKMOTZKO documents eleven collected works by Rozendaal, including Endless Nameless, Corners, and Polychrome Music.
Rafaël Rozendaal at MOTZKOVideo
Museum Folkwang's event archive documents BYOB as Rozendaal's open projector-based exhibition format.
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