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Artist Interview: DINCA asks Rafaël Rozendaal One Question

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:31:37 +0000

Rafaël Rozendaal is a Netherlands-based artist who creates exceptional work; his art arouses that of computer art, cyberspace, and other forms that defy classification. His art is verily digital: Rozendaal also has created a number of concept-computer art websites. Part of Rozendaal’s work is computer-generated animations, and his animations are way good, and he has made many. I currently am running one of Rafaël’s screensavers — you should too — check them out here. Also of note, Rozendaal is currently selling signed prints of his “Dollar Poster” painting. Also of note: Rozendaal, inside of his mouth on the inner lip, has a tattoo that reads “internet.” He loves the internet (don’t we all?).

One of those websites is Rozendaal’s One Question Interview, a blog where Rozendaal interviews great artists, artists of all mediums, asking them just one question.

dinca.org decided to turn the table on Rafaël — do the olde tyme switcheroo — asking Rafaël just one question.

The Interview:

dinca: Your computer chair: how nice is your computer chair, do you like your computer chair, what does it look like, how many hours do you spend sitting upon it a day — and does your back ever hurt?

Rozendaal: i used to have a regular chair, a wooden office chair on wheels. i’ve
had that chair since 1998. but after a while i started moving around,
from country to country, so i was a guest in various chairs, small,
large, hard and soft. in 2005 i returned to the wooden chair on
wheels. my back never hurts but sometimes my wrists and shoulders feel
bad. i decided to research a bit and bought an expensive adjustable
chair. it didnt help. what helped was when i had more money in my bank
account, all pains disappeared.

i try not to sit too much, but i end up w about 6 hours a day.

End of Interview.

More:

Recent work from Rozendaal: www.freedomfromfearandworry.com

One Question Interview

Rafaël Rozendaal Website

Brief Thoughts on Collision (2005) by Max Hattler

Andrew Rosinski — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:58:50 +0000

Max Hattler, 2005, U.K. & Germany, 2 min, color

Collision is a short, award-winning animation from Max Hattler, a London-and-Germany-based animator and artist, whose work we have blogged before, e.g., 1) 1923 (2010), and 2) Live A/V Performance by Max Hattler & Noriko Okaku. Hattler’s minimalist approach to graphical forms, pattern, and the RGB color palette are bright.

Collision deploys a deft arsenal of shapes on path, stars-and-kaliedoscope-striping geometry, with textures and forms culled from the ensigns of Americana and Islamism. Animators crackle and explode; pattern and cadence enkindle war paradoxes between the U.S. Government, the special interests of the U.S. Gov. (some say Israel), and their Islamic adversaries. The sound design is slick and significant, and this crackle-crisp sound imbues extrasensory depth, while punctuating the graphic.

I presume this was made in-part with Adobe After Affects: We must note that Collision was made in 2005, which is many year before the ubiquitous use of kaleideoscoping in digital motion graphics software nowaday — therefore, here is true innovation in our current epoch of digital motion design. The film has won copious awards and nominations, and has screened at a hundred or so film festivals and events of note.

In this day and age of Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya and so forth, you can make a compelling short film without even touching a camera — and without money — and without actors. The challenge isn’t money or what software you have, it’s a matter of your work innovating or replicating. Something to consider, aspiring film makers.

Know your thesis, antithesis, and conceptualize themes before designing motion. Do that, and you make great work like this.

CREDITS

Directed and animated by Max Hattler © 2005
Production: Royal College of Art
Additional animation: Ian Mackinnon
Sound design: Max Hattler
Sound mix: Christopher Wilson
35mm film recording: Andreas Schellenberg, Pictorion das werk
Available formats: 35mm, HD, Beta SP, DVD
Length: 2’30″

Official site: http://www.maxhattler.com/collision

That’s Hot | ’80s Video Art

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:45:32 +0000

Video art from the early ’80s – an ocean of technicolored bits + shapes. Plenty of rainbow gradients and tracer images. A fun ride.

Video by G.G. Aries
Edited by: G.G. Aries & Mark Allen
Music by: Larry Gibbs from California Images