Jan Robert Leegte

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Jan Robert Leegte (born 1973) is a Dutch artist, who lives and works in Amsterdam.

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He was one of the first Dutch artists to make art on and for the internet starting in the 1990s. [1] Today, he makes art both on the internet, in the form of websites as in offline media, like prints, sculptures and projections.

A recurring theme in his work is the sculptural materiality of interfaces and computer programs, like the graphic design of cursors, menu and scroll bars. [2]

Biography

Jan Robert Leegte first studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, before he switched to the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam where he studied fine arts and interaction design.

Since 1997, Leegte has made art in the form of websites, that he connects to art historical movements like minimalism, land art and conceptualism. An example is the recreation of Spiral Jetty (1970), a land-art work by the American artist Robert Smithson, that Leegte rebuilt in the platform game Minecraft to explore the online possibilities of land art. [3] [4]

Since 2002, he has translated his online work to offline materials. In his sculptures and projections, he gives a materiality to online phenomena, like scrollbars and selection boxes.

Leegte teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the ArtEZ University of Arts in Arnhem.

Exhibitions (selection)

Notes

  1. ↑ Vos, Lisa (8 September 2016). "HTML is mijn steen en beitel". NRC Handelsblad .
  2. ↑ Karthaus, Jade (22 January 2015). "Born Digital". www.metropolism.com.
  3. ↑ Cousijn, Marian. "Negen kunstwerken over de natuur die je gezien moet hebben, gewoon op je laptop". De Correspondent .
  4. ↑ "Land Art in The Netherlands". www.metropolism.com.
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