Thirty-something Dutch artist Roel Wouters studied graphic and typographic design in the Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam, and is into crafting his own tools. He is also “currently investigating the outsourcing of control,” or introducing unpredictable elements into his projects “in order to leave space for emerging, surprising results that reveal processes directly connected to the world around us.” (Artist’s statements: yeah!)
One of Wouters’s projects is Conditional Design, a term which refers to an approach that values processes over products and studies things that adapt to their environment. Areas of interest include internet memes, the concept of abstraction, something called “human programming” and X.
The project is defined by a manifesto and practiced by Wouters and three of his designer acquaintances. Check out the below video by Wouters for a taste of his philosophy, and meanwhile revel in the fact that the artist’s name sounds exactly like the noise that someone makes when they’re talking underwater.
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