being human in a digital world
somewhere between art and design
aggregative, dispersed and speculative objects
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UGLyD wall drawing (2017) graphite, John Hansard Gallery. Testing out possiblities for wall drawings after the artwork time frames I created for the JHG Exhibition Archive. In this archive I have created for each exhibition and artwork an infographic that shows the time frame of […]
Text from artist’s book: A_Selection_Of_66_From_JHG : Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion (2018)
It introduces the terms unconsumable, global, luxury and dispersion, in relation to my artist’s practice and my upcoming exhibition at the Hansard Gallery.
Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion (UGLyD) is a project that collects and disperses artwork titles related to an exhibition history. In collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, Walter van Rijn has aggregated more than 5000 artwork titles from work exhibited in the gallery at the Highfield Campus from the first exhibition in 1980 till the last in 2016.
Playing with letters, words, language and human rights… Being Human (2016) Font software with OFL (SIL Open Font License)
The new font I am going to use for the Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion project is called Being Human.
I have recently published my thesis online at the academia website. Here is the abstract and link to download.
![Tape: Caution Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion. Self Adhesive Vinyl Tape, 50mm x 60m. Printed red text with SymLogiDIN font. Walter van Rijn 2015-2018 [8.4.4.02]](https://waltervanrijn.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/mg_4440-e1484561674908.jpg?w=700&h=700&crop=1)
Tape: Caution Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion. Self adhesive vinyl Tape. 55mm x 66m. White vinyl printed tape in red text with SymLogiDin font. Multiple. See also: multiple-uglyd-packaging-tape-with-dispenser/
For this exhibition I archived and catalogued all the physical remains of the artwork I produced during my doctoral research. All objects are boxed up and delivered to the gallery. The condition and display in which these objects are shown is contingent on the choices […]
The TITLE(date) project aggregates artwork titles and other metadata from art collections and exhibitions. Art collections in the widest sense can be the works of one artist, an art institutional or private art collection, a collection of ‘favourite’ work on a phone. For now it […]
I have archived several collections of artwork titles at SourceForge. UGLyD Walter van Rijn: contains a list of titles from my own works, created during my PhD thesis TITLE(date) Hansard: contains a database of artwork titles exhibited between 1 March 2003 and 17 August 2013 […]
This tool or module was created in 2012 to get an idea what the result might be if you substitute or add words in the place of letters. I created a simple substitution software in AWK to see or read the result. Depending on the […]
Yes we’re open. Exhibition at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL in 2012. Online and gallery based collaboration showing digital prints and audio at the last exhibition of the institute.
