Han Hoogerbrugge is an amazing digital artist with extreme talent. He has created several series online that are interactive. He is well known and a very respectable artist. He started as a painter and cartoonist from Rotterdam. In 1996 he started working with the internet creating his first series Modern Living Neurotica. This was the first piece I came across from him and I fell in love with his work.
On his website hoogerbrugge.com under Work there is an animation tab that has five online pieces, Nails, Hotel, Spin, Flow and Modern Living/ Neurotica. These series are interactive and flash shorts that have an experimental and slightly creepy feel to them. I think he is touching on life and death throughout his work. How people make choices in life and the consequences. He uses playfully creative ways to express himself.
Everything about his work is mesmerizing and makes me want to see more. I found his main site and saw he has also created instillations and videos. One of his instillations is shown as a dialog with instructions as well as a video that shows how it works. There is another on of his works is a projected animation on an LED-wall at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen. Where viewers can text words to him and then displayed on the wall. He manages to make each of his pieces as interactive as possible and playful so people want to see more.
There are also his humorous stills and books that viewers can buy on his website. From pillboxes to posters and silkscreen’s, there is a little something for everyone. He is also on Wikipedia, where it tells a little bit about him and all the websites connected to Han. There is something special about this artist and a little addicting as well. I cannot seem to stop looking at his work over and over again.
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