The ANTIDESIGN

Here is an interesting and currently ongoing project by artist Roman Ondák. "Taking place" is a temporal work existing an interior gallery space. Each visitor to the gallery room has an opportunity to have their name recorded at their height, along with the date. The concept is the slow formation of a black line at the average height. The only names that are at all legible after a while are the names of those who are true outliers. This project is 'taking place' at the temporary stedelijk until January 9, 2011.

"taking place" pictures from designboom

This piece was not created by the artist, bringing up once again the ever present question of 'what is art', but the design of the infographic itself is art. The concept is a new convenient way of recording data that is designed in such a way that the mean becomes obvious and the outliers become known.


This installation is actually a current rendering of this concept. It was previously presented at MoMa in 2007 under the title "Measuring the Universe". Roman Ondák's gained notoriety in the world of art and design from this concept, and has become quite a name to know.