The Digital Archive According to Rafaël Rozendaal and Jan Willem Tulp
Het Nieuwe Instituut ventured outside the architectural collection by inviting artist Rafaël Rozendaal and data designer Jan Willem Tulp to share their visions and experiences regarding the digital archive. Rozendaal did so on the basis of his own digital-art archive, Jan Willem Tulp drawed on his expertise to suggest ways of improving access to physical and digital archives through visualisations.
6 July 2017 19:30 - 21:00
The Digital Archive according to Jan Willem Tulp
The Digital Archive according to Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal is a visual artist. The internet is his canvas and his websites attract more than 50 million unique visitors per year. His practice also includes installations, lenticular prints, lectures and haiku. He was one of the first artists to sell a website as an art object to a collector. Rozendaal also founded the open source exhibition concept BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer). He is the curator of the exhibition _Sleep Mode. The Art of the Screensaver_, currently in Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Watch the film produced by LIMA of a browsing session of all Rafaël Rozendaal's websites as a reference for the future restoration of his archive.
Jan Willem Tulp
Jan Willem Tulp is a data experience designer and creates custom data visualisations for clients such as Scientific American, Nature, World Economic Forum, Philips and Schiphol Airport. In 2011 he founded his own studio: TULP Interactive. Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut he is working on a data visualisation of the metadata of the Dutch State Archive for Architecture and Urban Planning.
Also see the article _The Future of Digital Sustainability_