POST BY KAREN ARCHEY
Rafaël Rozendaal, electricboogiewoogie.com, 2009. Screencapture AFC
Rafaël Rozendaal’s new Mondrian-inspired website electricboogiewoogie.com prompted our list of netart inspired by geometric abstract painting. While most of these links are taken from the ultra-sophisticated Mondrian, Lewitt or Albers, we hope to see netart inspired by painters Francis Bacon, H.R. Giger or Odd Nerdrum. Yes, we mean in a funny, self-reflexive kind of way.
Jon Rafman, Lewitt 2, 2007
We love this piece! At first I thought it was some sort of homosexual symbol for zebras, but the site’s title redirected me.
Chris Collins, After Albers, 2007
Warning: A beautiful gif that might crash your browser.
Christopher Blum, Floating Color Bands and Arcs in Six Directions, 2005
We can’t directly link to this since Christopher Blum uses FLASH for some reason, but check out his Lewitt video.
C.J. Yeh, myData=myMondrian. Link credit: Rhizome
While most of the links in this edition consist of videos or animated gifs, C.J. Yeh’s work continually takes art historical references, making them into interactive programs.
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I really enjoyed this post and it made me think about a lot of things:
1) Nothing does hard-edged abstraction like a computer monitor! That shit looks so good.
2) I like the use of motion in the first 2 pieces. Although the images are animated nothing really changes, if you were to look at them 5 or 10 minutes later they would essentially be the same. Movement in this context functions as visual phenomenon, something akin to texture and specifically unique to the monitor’s format. It encourages me to evaluate what’s happening on the screen like I would the surface of a painting.
3) I appreciate that in Rafaël Rozendaal’s piece there is a little square next to the url in the browser and also on the tab that flashes and changes color. It makes me wonder about the range of possibilities for altering the frame with net based art. At some point a time will come when artists be able to change the shape of the browser or choose to do away with it all together.
4) I would like to see pieces in this genre as screen savers. Some artists may cringe thinking this will cheapen the work like when a museum puts a favorite piece on tee shirt or mug. However having a real work of art that appears regularly in an ambient sort of way mimics how people actually live with physical works of art. It would allow the viewer to engage with a piece over and over again so that their perception of it evolves over time.
I really enjoyed this post and it made me think about a lot of things:
1) Nothing does hard-edged abstraction like a computer monitor! That shit looks so good.
2) I like the use of motion in the first 2 pieces. Although the images are animated nothing really changes, if you were to look at them 5 or 10 minutes later they would essentially be the same. Movement in this context functions as visual phenomenon, something akin to texture and specifically unique to the monitor’s format. It encourages me to evaluate what’s happening on the screen like I would the surface of a painting.
3) I appreciate that in Rafaël Rozendaal’s piece there is a little square next to the url in the browser and also on the tab that flashes and changes color. It makes me wonder about the range of possibilities for altering the frame with net based art. At some point a time will come when artists be able to change the shape of the browser or choose to do away with it all together.
4) I would like to see pieces in this genre as screen savers. Some artists may cringe thinking this will cheapen the work like when a museum puts a favorite piece on tee shirt or mug. However having a real work of art that appears regularly in an ambient sort of way mimics how people actually live with physical works of art. It would allow the viewer to engage with a piece over and over again so that their perception of it evolves over time.
Thanks for the headsup on Rafaël Rozendaal’s work. Very helpful! Writing about old v new media & this is a terrif illustration (electricboogiewoogie)…
Thanks for the headsup on Rafaël Rozendaal’s work. Very helpful! Writing about old v new media & this is a terrif illustration (electricboogiewoogie)…
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