Rafaël Rozendaal

Rafaël Rozendaal (born 1980) is a Dutch-Brazilian visual artist currently living and working in New York City. He is known as a pioneer of Internet Art.[1]

BYOB

Rozendaal founded BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer),[2] an open source exhibition concept. The idea is that anyone can create an exhibition of media art with or without budget. The manual of BYOB reads: " 1) Find a space, 2) Invite many artists, 3) Ask them to bring their projector." With this concept Rozendaal wanted to bring the internet to a real life physical space and allow viewers to "‘walk through the internet". Since its beginning in 2010, more than 150 BYOB events[3] were organized around the world. In 2011, BYOB was the theme of the II Internet Pavilion for the Venice Biennale [4]

Selling websites

Rozendaal is one of the first artists to sell websites as art objects.[5] His websites are sold to art collectors, who then own the domain name of that given work. Both the artist and the collector sign a contract that the work has to remain publicly accessible. The name of the collector is placed in the source code and the title of the webpage. Rozendaal created the Art Website Sales Contract,[6] which is a public document that can be used by any artist or collector to help in the selling of public website art. In 2013, Rozendaal’s www.ifnoyes.com website sold at an auction at Phillips (auctioneers) in New York for $3,500.[7][8][9]

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)

In August 2021 Rozendaal launched an NFT project titled Endless Nameless, which consisted of 1,000 artworks generated by an algorithm on the Ethereum blockchain. Half of the proceeds of the sale were donated to the arts nonprofit Rhizome, resulting in a donation of 164 Ether (approximately $430,000 at time of donation).[10]. This is the largest private donation in Rhizome's history.[11]

Collections

Publications

2019 Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal,[15]
2017 Everything Always Everywhere,[16]
2016 Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal,[17]
2015 Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal,[18]
2013 Spheres Rafaël Rozendaal,[19]
2011 Domain Book,[20]
2010 big long now book[21]
2003 I am very very sorry book[22]

References
  1. "Pioneering net artist Rafaël Rozendaal on the freedom the internet affords him above any other medium".
  2. "BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)". Byobworldwide.com. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  3. "BYOB Worldwide - Google Maps". Goo.gl. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  4. "PadiglioneInternet.com".
  5. "Artist Rafael Rozendaal Sells Web Art Through Domains | The Creators Project". The Creators Project. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  6. "art website sales contract .com by rafaël rozendaal, 2011". Artwebsitesalescontract.com. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  7. Siner, Emily (3 November 2013). "If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones". NPR. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  8. Sifferlin, Alexandra (2013-10-21). "Digital Art Clicks on the Auction Block". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  9. "Rafaël Rozendaal's Liquid Websites". Rhizome. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  10. "An Artist Just Sold 1,000 NFTs to Give Digital Art Nonprofit Rhizome the Biggest Gift in Its 25-Year History". artnet.com. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  11. "Announcing the "Endless Nameless" Gift from Rafaël Rozendaal". rhizome.org. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  12. "iamveryverysorry.com - Rafaël Rozendaal". www.stedelijk.nl. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  13. "RR Haiku 061 » Towada Art Center". towadaartcenter.com. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  14. "Rafaël Rozendaal: Sunrise/Sunset".
  15. "Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal". Spheres Projects, 2019.
  16. "Everything Always Everywhere Rafaël Rozendaal". Valiz, 2017.
  17. "Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal". Rollo Press, 2016.
  18. Haiku Rafaël Rozendaal (first version published with Mu art foundation), 2015
  19. "Spheres Rafaël Rozendaal". Spheres Projects, 2013.
  20. "Domain Book Rafaël Rozendaal". Automatic Books, 2011.
  21. "Big Long Now". Atomic Activity, 2010.
  22. "I am Very Very Sorry". One Star Press, 2003.
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