Our second #Freedom series of #REDboard2017 is by Dutch artist and researcher Walter van Rijn has a QR code download of his Being Human typeface incorporated into the artwork for street download.
“How Can You & I” is Walter’s response to that of Freedom and can be seen over in East Hull, on Holderness Rd until week of 11th September.
Freedom in the 21st Century?
What progress have we made as a human species?
What progress have we made since the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights in 1948?
What we know is that we need to keep fighting for the Human Rights. They might be officially
declared at the United Nations, but many institutions and governments see them as an obstacle.
For this reason, in response to our Freedom season, Wlater has created a font (Being-Human) that includes the main terms of the
declaration within the letters of the font. By using this font we can write any text and have a mini
version of the declaration included and dispersed.
The font has an open licence so everyone can download it and use it.
New off-site exhibition.
Thanks Lou!
Preview Exhibition Archive ipad & book
Its not finished yet, but up and running.
Test version on ipad of John Hansard Gallery Exhibition Archive: TITLE(date)016, a relational database with details from exhibitions held at the John Hansard Gallery between 1980-2016 (from first till the last exhibition at the Highfield campus site).
Followed by a test print of the same material in a static form, as artist’s book.
Walter van Rijn (2016) John Hansard Gallery Exhibition Archive 1999-1980.
Second volume in progress (first volume covers 2016-2000). These books are a printout of a dynamic digital archive of exhibition data from exhibitions held at the John Hansard Gallery at its current location at Highfield Southampton. It gives primary data for 156 Exhibitions, 3673 artworks by 889 artists. Exhibition titles and dates, exhibition info such as curators, funding and press releases. It also lists the exhibited artworks, dates and details, and artists.
Besides a digital database, a printed version has its uses, isn’t it?
Walter van Rijn (2016) John Hansard Gallery Exhibition Archive 2016-2000.
First volume in progress. Second volume covers 1999-1980. These books are a printout of a dynamic digital archive of exhibition data from exhibitions held at the John Hansard Gallery at its current location at Highfield Southampton. 2016-2000 lists primary data from 106 exhibitions, 1708 artworks and 623 artists.
Boxes with exhibition papers keep piling up. So much to go through to find the data I need. Then the papers need to scanned, and processed before I can input this data into a databse.
The tedious bit before the fun starts: data input.
Nadia and Ros are sorting out the records. Wouldn’t this be a great installation?
Boxes, folders, files. Pre-digital era material to be sorted.
text-mode