Category Archives: Selected Work

A universe of…

This project was about visualizing periodic bills (like energy, telephone or cable tv) in the future. I was asked to look somewhat ahead and design how such a thing would look in the 2030′s. From literal to philosophical, I ended up envisioning a world in which every object would have an ‘online’ identity, a digital [...]

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Mathematical Typography

I’ve gone astray experimenting with math & typography. For each specific math subject I try to create a family of type renderings. Basic geometry, “spatial relationships”: Specific colors correspond to the the angle of the 20 million lines drawn. Trigonotype: The type is constructed out of a lot of translated (co)sines. Derivatives: dx/dy type Along [...]

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TodaysArt 09: Typographic Gun

At the TodaysArt festival at the Hague the public library featured an installation we developed along the lines of the festival’s “conflict” theme. During the night hours, we project on the windows an aggressive dreammachine-like flickering. Since the very moment paper press was invented, type has been a weapon, with paper being the battleground. The [...]

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Project: Human Nature (VU Amsterdam)

In collaboration with Architecture History students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam we were asked to develop a cultural comment on the urban development in the Amsterdam Zuidas. This area, originally meant as an commercial district, was now been made ready for residents. Our projects should be part of the gentrification process. But all culture aside, [...]

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Project: The Typographic Voice Kiosk

Sunday November 24th 2010 11.00 – 17.00 Project Space Onomatopee Kanaalstraat 8, Eindhoven Free entrance THE KIOSK showcases the work that was created within the scope of the ‘Typographic Voice’ minor, which ran through the months of september to december 2009 at the ArtEZ Academy of Arts Arnhem. This minor focused on the changing role [...]

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Time Surface

Here are some stills & video from a project I’m currently working on. The blocks symbolize events that float trough time. The present is represented by the pink surface, through which the events break on their journey from future to past. Time Surface from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo. It’s funny that now I posted this, [...]

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Project: Meta Perspective

Meta Perspective from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo. My goal was to use the simple rules of perspective (objects in the distance appear to move slower) to create a rhytmic pattern for audio & visuals. The projection is developed in processing in which a landscape photo is animated into moving slices which speed corresponds to their [...]

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The face of the European Union

This *digital sculpture* should visualize the conflict of the european identity; the ambiguous relationship of Europe with its residents. To the outside, Europe cares to look united and whole, but inside Europe no-one feels himself to be “european”. The face of the EU from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo. It’s simply a collection of 27 points [...]

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Project: Dynamics in Color

Originally started as a personal project, an ongoing research into movement, I started separating RGB channels of shot footage. This technique I used earlier to obtain stereoscopic film, but this time the 3D component played no part. When B&W footage was split into its RGB components, a subtle delay of a few frames visualized motion [...]

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Social Words

This is a visualisation of all 1015 English three-letter-words, structured according to their usage in the English language. I set out to map all the words according to their ‘alikeness’. Words as cat, hat, and bat should be placed on equal distance from each other as they have two letters on two positions in common. [...]

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