Leaky Abstraction

The title refers to the most common species of woodworm, which is actually a 🪲

Anobium

Every twelve seconds, a new composition is seeded directly from Ethereum block hashes, synchronizing viewers worldwide in a shared visual experience. The work’s deliberate instability and absence of memory reflect Harm’s broader artistic philosophy, highlighting the inherent impermanence and poetic potential of generative digital art.

Release scheduled for August 2025.


Quantizer

Stairs and Crosses

Created with the Mutant Garden algorithm.   

8000 × 8000 px, RGB PNG, 63 MB

Plotter drawing on paper with pencil hand drawing. Composition generated with the Mutant Garden algorithm.

Quadra

Alithea

Four generative animations inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain. 

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

Anni

By Harm van den Dorpel, 2024 - 4/4

Generative animation inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain.

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

By Harm van den Dorpel, 2024 - 3/4

Generative animation inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain.

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

By Harm van den Dorpel, 2024 - 2/4

Generative animation inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain.

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

By Harm van den Dorpel, 2024 - 1/4

Generative animation inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain.

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

A generative two-phase animation, inspired by Buddhist sand drawings, and this one in particular on the Endless Knot symbol. An exercise in patience and reflection on impermanence.


A full screen software piece, infinitely reconstructing the temporal development of a selection of touchpad drawings.

By Rita Vitorelli (drawings)   
and Harm van den Dorpel (programming), 2016.  

This Ethereum NFT version was programmed and deployed in 2018. A maximum of 100 tokens can be minted.   

The artists retain all copyrights of the assets referenced by this NFT.

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Leaky Abstraction

Anobium

Quantizer

Stairs and Crosses

Soft Shield

Quadra

Alithea

Anni

Anni 4

Anni 3

Anni 2

Anni 1

Anicca 2

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