MoMA - Light: Rafaël Rozendaal
Tue, Jun 03
|MoMA
Enter a screen-sized universe of motion and color. Light: Rafaël Rozendaal transforms code into digital poetry in this immersive MoMA installation of browser-based art.
Time & Location
Jun 03, 2025, 7:00 AM – Sep 30, 2025, 10:50 PM
MoMA, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA
About the event
On view through Fall 2025
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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What if code could feel like paint?In Light, artist Rafaël Rozendaal brings his groundbreaking web-based animations into the physical realm, scaling up the browser into a nearly 25-foot screen at MoMA. Since the early 2000s, Rozendaal has worked at the intersection of art and code, creating self-contained websites that move, pulse, and breathe—each one a looping, algorithmic universe made from just a few kilobytes.
Each piece begins not with software, but with paper—storyboards that Rozendaal translates into lines of code, giving shape to artworks that are resolution-independent and built to withstand the fast evolution of digital media. These animations, normally viewed on personal devices, are here magnified to architectural scale—turning MoMA’s space into a luminous portal where digital abstraction merges with physical experience.
Viewers are invited to experience a rotating selection of Rozendaal’s websites, sampled for two to three minutes each, in…