being human in a digital world
somewhere between art and design
aggregative, dispersed and speculative objects
My work can appear in many different forms and places.
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Artwork created for the 20-year anniversary of Journal of Visual Art Practice. A peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis.
I have appropriated a small part of Newton’s translation to create a new textual artwork, and by doing so I am following the process of ongoing translations that this text has brought about.
Nearly 1,000 Artists present an online exhibition of a worldwide game of TELEPHONE
ONLINE LAUNCH: April 10, 2021.
Drawing: Tis True Without Lying 2020; Ink on paper, In collaboration with drawing robot. 420 x 297mm
Tis True without Lying will be exhibited later this year in the online exhibition Telephone. The ART and CAKE magazine has a nice preview on this exhibition and features also a fantastic interview with the organiser Nathan Langston.
Artist’s Book, Digital edition
Jane Birkin & Walter van Rijn, To Perform: SO: To Speak (2020)
52 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, ISBN 978-1-9164523-3-6.
New drawings with my drawing robot: Being Android_text1 series and Being Android_text2 series.
Hortus is a new project, which involves research into the early Renaissance Botanic Gardens of Padua (IT) and Leiden (NL). I’m very glad to receive the a-n Artist Bursary so I can start my project with visiting these sites and their libraries.
Top image: Walter van Rijn, Labyrinth_WD5, 2020, Collage with ink, digital print, vinyl, aluminium panel 800 x 600 x20 mm, Font Being Human. The works in the series Labyrinth consists of repetitions of text and coloured lines creating intricate abstract patterns and architectural spaces seen […]
The Detoxification of UGLD, A Selection Of 25, is a statement on Human Rights and Art in the form of quotes. It comments on our current cultural-political situation through quotes.
At The Other Art Fair I will launch my new artist’s book “A_Selection_Of_25_From_JHG_By_*:bot_(2018)” in a very limited edition of 25. The publication (and my show during the art fair) is a continuation of my dispersal practice, but this time in a commercial context.
I have a stand at The Other Art Fair, from 14 – 17 March 2019. Location: The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
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