Rafaël Rozendaal – the Internet Artist
Rafaël Rozendaal is a 30ish year old artist, descended from a Brazilian Presient, who uses the internet as his main medium. One of his most popular works being papertoilet.com. He creates sites and sells the domain name with a “contract stating the website must remain open to the public.” He has some of the most interesting websites out there, here are some of my favorites…
http://www.allicandois.com (this site should have the menu bar for all of his works)
http://www.jellotime.com/
http://www.wewillattack.com/
http://www.hotdoom.com/
He also runs onequestioninterview.com where he had interviewed the band YACHT, who are very popular for their song remixes. I think they may of had the best interview on the site.
Rafaël has a blog where you can check out some of his real-world art. He has some great works in galleries all over the world.
“My work is not “about” something. If it was, it would have a short explanation next to it, telling you what to think or feel when you watch it. I hope that my pieces become independent entities that are part of peoples lives and can be used or seen in any way. Like having a tree in your garden.” – Rafaël Rozendaal
