HARM VAN DEN DORPEL

Harm van den Dorpel, based in Berlin, is an artist dedicated to discovering emergent aesthetics by composing software and language, borrowing from disparate fields such as genetics and blockchain. His broad practice includes sculpture, installation, works on paper, computer generated graphics and software. Rooted in the conceptual heritage of net.art, Van den Dorpel’s works often simulate neural networks. The role of technology in his works is a means to an end: a tool to increase the understanding of our experience. “I seek to produce works that explore not only the technological hardware we use in our daily lives, but how we use it, the modalities of interface that are created, enabled, facilitated and restricted by the advance of technology.”

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Decompress / Embrace Redundancy, 2019

Ultra Chrome HD print on Hahnemühle paper

Size: 100 x 100 cm(not framed)

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Exhibited at “Automan und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019

Harm van den Dorpel
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Untitled, 2019

UltraChrome HD print on Hahnemühle paper

Size: 50 x 50 cm (framed)

Unique

Exhibited at “Automan und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019

Harm van den Dorpel
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Multi Dimensional Zoom,2019

UltraChrome HD print on Hahnemühle paper

Size: 50 x 50 cm (framed)

Unique

Exhibited at “Automan und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019

Harm van den Dorpel
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Event Listeners, 2015

Screensaver for Mac OS x

generative lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy,

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Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019

Harm van den Dorpel
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C.C. Rashes, 2018

Ultrachrome HD digital print on Hahnemühle paper

Size: 115 x 155 cm

Unique

Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019

Description:

These specimen find their form by a process of exchanging information with each other. Two works are taken from a determined population and communicate - gossip if you will - by flipping a node of their nested structure. The direction in this process is geared towards the greatest diversity: each specimen wants to be as different from all the other as possible. As the total amount of information shared among all specimen in the population does not increase over time but is merely recombined towards an optimal diverse distribution, the linear history of state changes (snapshots) can be compared to a blockchain ledger. The chromosomes of the specimen are stored as nested recursive "tree" structures, similar to those used in language analysis or linguistics.

Harm van den Dorpel
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W.D. Sensualist, 2018

Ultrachrome HD digital print on Hahnemühle paper

Size: 115 x 155 cm

Unique

Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019

Description:

These specimen find their form by a process of exchanging information with each other. Two works are taken from a determined population and communicate - gossip if you will - by flipping a node of their nested structure. The direction in this process is geared towards the greatest diversity: each specimen wants to be as different from all the other as possible. As the total amount of information shared among all specimen in the population does not increase over time but is merely recombined towards an optimal diverse distribution, the linear history of state changes (snapshots) can be compared to a blockchain ledger. The chromosomes of the specimen are stored as nested recursive "tree" structures, similar to those used in language analysis or linguistics.