Fellowship talks with @newrafael Rafaël Rozendaal is a digital artist who has spent over two decades exploring what it means to make and distribute art in this digital age. He was among the first artists to treat the website as a canvas, creating works that live on domain names, publicly accessible to anyone in the world, while still existing as collectible objects. His work has been exhibited at @MuseumModernArt, the @whitneymuseum, @PompidouMetz, the @StedelijkMuseum Amsterdam, and the @NamJunePaikArt Center Seoul, among others. We sat down with Rozendaal at his studio in New York to talk about perception, the act of making digital art, and what it means to be an artist today. In the first section, Rozendaal traces his foundational thinking about what art is actually for. He argues that art's purpose is not beauty, but a heightened awareness, a way of zooming in on something until it reveals itself. In the second part, Rozendaal reflects on why he waited so long to paint, and what happened when he finally did. He compares the infinite subjectivity of paint to the rule-based logic of code, and finds unexpected freedom in the constraints of both. In the final part, Rozendaal steps back and looks at the broader picture. Any artist today is in some way a digital artist, he argues, the question is how much you emphasize it. But those who have built their practice around technology carry a specific responsibility: they need to understand how attention works, how systems are designed, and how images move through the world. That knowledge, he believes, is not just a technical skill. It's an ethical one. ↓🎧 Watch the full conversation below

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