Okazaki, Sakamoto, van den Dorpel, Murayama

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition Cloud Writings by Harm van den Dorpel. This marks his first solo exhibition at the gallery and features a series of works including new pieces unveiled for the first time in Japan. In this exhibition, van den Dorpel presents algorithmic drawings shaped by his generative practice and the ideas of female artists active in minimalism and conceptual art in the late 20th century.

<a href='https://tsca.jp/exhibition/harm-van-den-dorpel-cloud-writings/' target='_blank'>Gallery Website...</a>

Photos by Shu Nakagawa

Cloud Writings

https://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/harm/lze6zr7eJqcjr721D5HZd/spike-70-harm-van-den-dorpel.pdf

In this conversation, curator Tina Rivers Ryan and I explore generativity, in every sense of the term. Can it be an entry-point for tokenised work to stay fluid and subvert the market? 

Originally published in Spike Art Quarterly #70 from January 2022.

[Download PDF (4.6 MB)](https://eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/harm/lze6zr7eJqcjr721D5HZd/spike-70-harm-van-den-dorpel.pdf)

The Squircle of Life

Comes with <a href='https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0x51d057ca378600ba5bd0e33e4f6b5663d1dccf53/0'  target='_blank'>Arweave SVG NFT</a>

Chroma Husk

Wednesday, April 3 2019, 14:47:47 CEST

Stained Unravel

Comes with [Arweave SVG NFT](https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0x51d057ca378600ba5bd0e33e4f6b5663d1dccf53/2)

Sealed Solids

Photographic exposure on metallic paper, mounted behind acrylic glass, aluminium frame. Dimensions are measured diagonally.

Nacre

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy.<br /><br />In 2015 the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna acquired Event Listeners, becoming <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel-3995/">the first museum in the world</a> to buy a work of art with bitcoin — an early precursor of what would later be called an NFT. In 2018 the collection was migrated from ascribe to Ethereum.

Event Listeners

With help of an AI, all my writing, notes, exhibition texts and press releases, have been transformed into an ever evolving wiki.

This new website is the 2026 version of Dissociations, a project I began 2010. It is an ongoing generative online artist studio, now operating as a self-configuring wiki maintained in collaboration with an LLM. It serves simultaneously as a second brain for my artistic practice and as a public knowledge base for those seeking a deep engagement with work and reasoning.

In 2013, the project was commissioned as part of the New Museum's 'First Look' online exhibition series (co-organized with Rhizome), curated by Lauren Cornell.

[dissociations.com](https://dissociations.com/)

Dissociations

Comes with <a href='https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0x51d057ca378600ba5bd0e33e4f6b5663d1dccf53/4'  target='_blank'>Arweave SVG NFT</a>

Archive Static

Tract

Swath

Person in a Field

Lacelove

Named after an [Autechre track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F665Mkc0D0).

Altibzz

Shroud

Vapour

Été

Fait Divers

After Charlotte Posenenske. Comes with an Arweave source NFT.

Rasterbild

left gallery was an online gallery I co-founded in Berlin in 2015 and ran until it closed in March 2022. It produced and sold works of art as downloadable objects: a file — an image, a video, a PDF, a font, a piece of software — published in a limited edition. Once purchased, the buyer received a cryptographic token as proof of ownership, while the file itself stayed theirs to keep, to copy, and to open with whatever software they liked.

It started from a plain observation: the works I was making were files, and the art world had no honest way to sell them. Rather than translating a file into an object, left gallery sold it as one.

It was also one of the earliest proto-NFT marketplaces: an online marketplace for blockchain-ascribed artworks, open two years before the ERC-721 standard existed and six before the art world learned the word NFT. The first editions were ascribed on Bitcoin through ascribe.io, later ones minted as ERC-721 tokens on Ethereum.

The gallery published work by artists including Rafaël Rozendaal and Viktor Timofeev, and took residence in institutions — among them Stroom Den Haag, for the exhibition "rite of access".

left gallery

Crystallophobia

Blush Array II

Unheard Estimator

Anni

Generative software installation, dimensions variable.

Installed across 1 to 6 screens, each rendering the same work at an increasing level of resolution or granularity. Pictured is a 4-screen configuration at resolutions 1, 2, 4, and 6.

At a set interval, all screens simultaneously rebuild from top to bottom, governed by the same mutating rules and colour palette.

Edition of 3 + 1AP. Each edition supports between 1 and 6 screens. As a multichannel software installation, the work is not suited to NFT distribution.

Photos by Shu Nakagawa

Activity