Walter Van Rijn
Walter van Rijn, artist, born in 1960 the Netherlands, works and lives in the U.K.
RijN is currently studying at the Winchester School of Art - MA Fine Art by Project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He is questioning identity and place through interaction with different technologies. The main mediums are installation, sound, video, CAD modelling and digital print.
His work has a strong emphasis on dialogue between material (sensory, tactile, hands on activities and drawing) and immaterial (conceptual, digital, virtual, sonic, unembodied) technologies, or between action and thought. This working practice often involves displacement, relocation, remediation, subversion, appropriation and adaptation. The audience in Rijn’s installations has an active role which allows them to take part in the actualisation of the work. Van Rijn works often in collaboration, and for his MA Fine Art he is working with uncertainty analyst Dr. Robin Hankin (NOCS) who was able to model Rijn’s manual way of drawing an ellipse with 3 foci. Hankin’s algorithm made it possible to draw the ellipse digitally and it opened new areas of research and application.
Selected Exhibitions:
2006: Wormhole Saloon, showed installation ACCESS DENIED, Whitechapel Gallery London.
2006/7: 60x60 Vox Novus, New York U.S. Selected Ellipse 5.3 to be part of the 60x60 project
2006: SoundLAB Edition IV [http://soundlab.newmediafest.org] based in Cologne Germany: Global networking project showing soundart: selected Pigment on Bark.
2006: Drawing Spaces: Picturing Knowledge. Hartley Library Southampton U.K. Investigates and tests the potential of drawing as a meeting place between people and disciplines. An initiative by Mitchell Bould & Harper.
2005: Strange Strolls. A sound project for the Fremantle Festival, Western Australia.