A series of eventually 8 two-phase animations, inspired by Buddhist sand drawings: an exercise in patience and reflection on impermanence.    


The Pali word for impermanence, anicca, is a compound word consisting of "a" meaning non-, and "nicca" meaning "constant, continuous, permanent". While 'nicca' is the concept of continuity and permanence, 'anicca' refers to its exact opposite; the absence of permanence and continuity. 

Anicca

Selected editions of generative animations. Artworks were offered in collaborations with left gallery, Upstream Gallery, and Lohaus Sominsky. Some of these were acquired by institutional art collections such as the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Kadist Foundation.

Software Editions

100 fully generative on-chain and animated SVG compositions by Harm van den Dorpel. Released in collaboration with Bright Moments.

A new version of Markov's Window from 2004, but now fully on-chain. The collection consists of generative animated recursive SVG files, calculated by Solidity code. This 100 tokens collection has different colour palettes, and employs blending modes and filters to further enhance painterly potentials.

Venster

Processed images from metal, grunge & shoegaze memories. An addendum to, or spill over from the Struggle for Pleasure series. Four of these are materialized as wall pieces. Released in collaboration with Verse, curated by Leyla Fakhr.

Swallow, only Shallow

Simple operations like mirroring and rotation, akin to minimal music approaches, paradoxically results in intricate, transcendental compositions. Released in collaboration with Verse, curated by Leyla Fakhr.

This fullscreen software autosurfs the massive genealogy of the 'Death Imitates Language' project, containing the first 12.000 specimen, bred by a genetic algorithm, and selected by micro-feedback of the artist.

Struggle for Pleasure

Curated early outputs of the Mutant Garden algorithm.

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Protoseeders

32 tokens, gradually released over time - still one to go! Each unique token is animated, coloured, and nested, as a ‘setting’ of a computer programme created by me.  A window into aesthetic memories (the final token is to be completed still).

Markov's Dream

Folia is proud to announce the minting of four seminal works from the catalog of Harm van den Dorpel: Three works from the artist’s “Pixel Sorters” series (2005–2018), Blob.gif, Dansemacabre.gif, and Bison.gif; in addition we will also be minting Lasso.swf. One artist proof has been minted from each.

Pixelsorters

A collection about velocity and perception, created by Harm van den Dorpel in collaboration with Fingerprints DAO & Mercedes-Benz NXT, 2023.

Maschine

Still images, sometimes one-of-one, sometimes in edition

JPGs

Phantom Crush is a collection of 130 generative portraits based on pastel drawings on paper by artist Enver Hadzijaj, programmed by Harm van den Dorpel.

Phantom Crush

A remake of a Flash animation I once made in 2008, but now 100% on-chain: no IPFS, no webservers, no dependencies. All code is contained in the smart contract. Responsive and Interactive.

Field

A fully on-chain spin-off of Markov's Dream: Orb. Colours, amount of rings, rotation speed and curvature of the rotating nested squircles are determined on mint and remain fixed.

Orb (lite)

The inaugural commission by Chemsex Benelux in 2022. Indiscreet Units consists of a selection of 266+ hue-rotating flags, stored on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS.

Indiscreet Units

A selection from massive genealogy of the 'Death Imitates Language' project, containing the first 12.000 specimen, bred by a genetic algorithm, and selected by micro-feedback of the artist.

Autobreeder (lite)

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy.

Event Listeners

Generated with an early implementation of Cartesian genetic programming.

Colour Configurations

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.



Monaco Mix

Mutant Garden Seeder consists of 512+1 generative unique Ethereum NFTs by artist Harm van den Dorpel, released in collaboration with Folia in 2021.