Artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) explores the dawn of a new nature that is evolving from technological innovations by creating social designs that instinctively respond to sound and movement. Roosegaarde’s remarkable works of art function as an exploration of the dynamic relation between architecture, people, and technology.
His sculptures, such as Dune and Intimacy, are tactile high-tech environments in which viewer and space become one. This connection, established between ideology and technology, results in what Roosegaarde calls “techno-poetry”.
Roosegaarde has won the Dutch Design Award, Design for Asia Award and China's Most Successful Design Award. He has been the focus of exhibitions at the Tate Modern, the National Museum in Tokyo, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and various public spaces in Rotterdam and Hong Kong.
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Born in Nieuwkoop NL (1979). Works and lives in Rotterdam NL and Shanghai CN.
Education
2003-2005, Berlage Institute, Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture, Rotterdam, NL.
2001-2003, Academy of Fine Arts (cum laude), Enschede, NL.
1997-1999, Arnhem Institute for the Arts, Arnhem, NL.
Exhibitions
Previous international exhibitions have been shown at Tate Modern London, Victoria & Albert Museum, and National Museum Tokyo.
Lectures
Previous lectures have been given at Delft University, Triennale Milano, University Aalborg Denmark, and Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Moscow.
Publications
Roosegaarde's work has been widely published, including Architectural Design, A+U, Bright, Dezeen, Domus, and NRC Handelsblad.
