Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion

Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion (UGLyD) is a project that collects and disperses artwork titles from art collections or exhibitions. In collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, Walter van Rijn is aggregating artwork titles from work exhibited in the gallery from the beginning in 1980 till its move to a new location in 2016. Based on this material, van Rijn is creating an ongoing reimagining and re-materialisation of the gallery's archive in many different forms: digital, physical, hybrid objects and events.

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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. 

Download Being Human typeface here

Walter van Rijn website

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New off-site exhibition. 

Thanks Lou!

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Being-Human Font. Download from the FontLibrary

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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The tedious bit before the fun starts: data input.

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Nadia and Ros are sorting out the records. Wouldn’t this be a great installation?

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Boxes, folders, files. Pre-digital era material to be sorted.

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Working on the John Hansard Gallery’s archive. Pre-digital era.

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Three ringtones to make a gallery office on your phone: one ringtone called 'Open' for receiving work, one called 'Closed' for sending work, and one called 'Circulating.’

How to load the sounds to your phone: The download files are in mp3 format for android phones. For iphone simply replace/rename .mp3 with .m4r and upload it to your iTunes (on a desktop computer). Sync your phone and it should be available under settings > sounds.

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Plate And The Pot No Stoneware Of Bowl Painting Unkown In Flowers Black Figure Figures Glaze Landscape With Blue On White (2016) Walter van Rijn.

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top photo: Steve Shrimpton below: Walter van Rijn

The exhibition history and the archive of the gallery reflect what has happened on this site over time. The gallery space might look like a neutral ‘white box’, where past events are constantly erased, but every time artists, curators, gallery staff and the public are brought together against all odds they (re)create a very particular dialogue. My project collects what the artists have shown (in the form of their artwork titles) and what the gallery has produced to mediate it (for example in the form of gallery guides) over a long period of time (1980-2016).

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The research and development of this project leads to data (on the Hansard Gallery’s exhibition history) that will be made public with a Creative Commons Licence with the aim to give an as wide as possible public access. For instance by making it downloadable from sourceforge.

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msgfile-mag.pd (2014) Walter van Rijn

A pilot version of this project: Software written with PureData, which generates the visualisation of a database, using computer, AV equipment and the SymLogiDIN font. The software & hardware apparatus creates and ongoing visualisation of one title after the other, unpacking the exhibition history one work at a time. One manifestation of this work was exhibited in 2014 at the Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library on the University of Southampton’s main campus. In this exhibition a computer and monitor was used which date from the same time as the first set of data (2003) Apple Power Mac G4, with OS X 10.3, and Pro Nitron monitor 17/750. A short sequence is on video published at Vimeo. [ https://vimeo.com/86928133 ]