Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2011. (click pictures to enlarge)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2011. (click pictures to enlarge)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Made specifically for The Giving Garden, a one night only event curated by Abner Preis at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2009.
A collection of 9 misspelled e-mail subject lines I found in my digital inbox. The misspellings are used to fool spamfilters into delivering the message in my e-mail inbox. Quite often these emails are about sex and selling viagra but for some reason the sex words are always spelled correct. Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2009.
A sculpture that can be used in any kind of group exhibition no matter what the theme is, who the other exhibiting artists are or what works they are presenting. The piece will always be appropriate and fitting.
The texts are computer generated sentences that spambots leave in the comment sections on websites to pretend that they are participating in a discussion. The goal of this pretence is to generate traffic to the spambot operator’s website.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Developed for the exhibition Pictures in the reflection of a golden horn: Take #2 curated by Henny Overbeek at the Fabriek in Eindhoven.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2009.
A piece I made for the Echt tHEMA groupshow at NP3 in Groningen. It was a show where artists were invited to reflect on the practice of themed group exhibitions.
Or as their website puts it:
“tHEMA is a content research with a visual, virtual, or theoretical basis. tHEMA is a research inside/outside the context of a strictly composed theme-exhibition. tHEMA is searching for the fundamental principles of the theme exhibition and the endless repetition of demarcating and framing of ideas.”
Over a period of 6 weeks artists were invited to come to the exhibition space to reflect on what was going on. As I was one of the first to do so the only thing present in the space was the exhibition logo painted on one of the walls. After careful consideration I decided to add two dutch words.
The letter font is the same as used by Hema, a Dutch chain of stores.
More information about the show at NP3.nu/index.php?/projects/null–thema/
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2009.
Piece made for the smallest gallery of the Netherlands, De Aanschouw. Every friday night they put up a new show.
Cool, vet and added are three of the most popular words used on the Dutch part of Fotolog, the popular online picture journal. Some of Rotterdam’s more fanatic fotologgers hang out in the same street as the gallery is in so it seemed appropriate to take these three words out of their virtual context and transplant them into the real world. Turned out that one of the founders of De Aanschouw was the first person in Rotterdam to have a Fotolog account. He even met his wife through Fotolog.
