Our Inner Child

Systems of Belief

Sammeln

Okazaki, Sakamoto, van den Dorpel, Murayama

Screens and Skin

Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus

Asking for a Friend

Vienna Biennale

Serif

This is a new version of my work [Markov's Window](https://harm.work/work/markovs-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" means "window" in Dutch.

See this [longer text](https://harm.work/writing/venster) about this series.

Venster #0

Crowd (II)

Landscape

A Man

Blow Out

Crowd

Array

Attractor

Desert Sky

Struggle for Pleasure #50

Struggle for Pleasure #44

Struggle for Pleasure #39

Struggle for Pleasure #35

Struggle for Pleasure #30

Struggle for Pleasure #9

Struggle for Pleasure #7

Struggle for Pleasure #5

Struggle for Pleasure #16

Enhanced 2023 remake of the [classic 2004 Flash version](https://harm.work/work/markovs-window).

Unlike its 2004 predecessor, this generative animation employs repetitions of components that maintain a reference to a single instance, creating synchronised patterns that mutate over time, and gradually get detached to mutate on their own, breaking the pattern.

Markov's Window 2023

A simple sub-dividing algorithm working in time, populating squares with sequences from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Diagnostics

Reminiscent of image burn-in often encountered on public signage screens and ATMs.

Spawn (Colour Inversion Study)

1000 interactive spinning wheel-like structures, commissioned by Mercedes-Benz, inspired by my observation that car wheels seem to spin backwards when filmed.

[Read more about this work…](https://harm.work/writing/maschine)

Maschine

Phantom Crush is a collection of 130 generative portraits based on pastel drawings on paper by artist [Enver Hadzijaj](http://www.enverhadzijaj.de/), programmed by Harm van den Dorpel.

Phantom Crush

A remake of a Flash animation from 2008, but now 100% on-chain: no IPFS, no web servers, no dependencies ✲ responsive and interactive.

The background gradient and spinner colour adapt to your system settings for dark or light mode.

Field 1

Field 2

A remake of a Flash animation from 2008, but now 100% on-chain: no IPFS, no web servers, no dependencies ✲ responsive and interactive.

Field 3

Field 4

Field 5

A remake of a Flash animation from 2008, but now 100% on-chain: no IPFS, no web servers, no dependencies ✲ responsive and interactive

Field 6

Markov's Dream: Keta

Twenty-five drawings, each based on a work by Fernand Léger, drawn with a laptop touchpad, overlapping in time, in ever changing order, by Harm van den Dorpel.

This work was commissioned by the Triton Foundation Collection, in collaboration with Upstream Gallery. Premiered at the Kröller Müller museum alongside original paintings by Léger.

Fernand

Monochrome algorithmic animation of figure 14 of the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome patent from 1965

Geodesic Dome Patent Drawing (Fig. 14)

Markov's Dream: On-brand

Markov's Dream: Spawn

Markov's Dream: Softenon (V)

Markov's Dream: Hedphelym

Markov's Dream: Orb

Rendered in 2017, remastered and minted in 2022.

Protorb

Based on the original IBM CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) 16-colour palette from 1981

Markov's Dream: CGA

This NFT is a fully on-chain spin-off of Markov's Dream: Orb. Its colours, amount of rings, rotation speed and curvature are determined on mint and remain fixed. The animated vector graphics that compose this artwork are entirely generated by the Solidity code that the smart contract was programmed in. It does not rely on any web server or off-chain storage solution like IPFS, which means that this artwork is indestructible and will live on as long as the Ethereum blockchain exists.

Holders of Mutant Garden Seeder were eligible for a free mint of Orb (lite). Holders of Markov's Dream received their tokens airdropped. Further minting schedule will be announced on Twitter.

A maximum of 512 tokens could be minted.

[View minting page](https://markovs-dream.harm.work/orb-lite)

Markov's Dream: Orb (lite)

Indiscreet Units consists of a selection of 266+ unique hue-rotating flags stored on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS.


Indiscreet Units

"Markov’s Dream" is a series of 32 generative animations, composed by subdividing rounded squares and various transformations. This 2022 work is a remake of my 2004 work “Markov’s Window”.

Markov's Dream

Shunned Mass

Shy Overture (triplet)

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

Mutant Garden Seeder

High resolution render of the Mutant Garden algorithm, manually calibrated. When this one was made the renderer did not use Gaussian blur yet. Its composition primarily benefits from the alternating AB/BA grid structures and its colours from a balanced pastel palette (HSL colour space).

12000×12000px

Alternate Ploy

Early high resolution render of the Mutant Garden algorithm, manually retouched.

9331×9331px

By Harm van den Dorpel, 2020

(title by William Kherbek)

Neural Dust

While developing the Mutant Garden algorithm based on Cartesian Genetic Programming, my programming error produced this unexpected recursive structure.

8000×8000px

Mutant Garden (early bug)

“Temporality is” is an artwork in the form of screensaver that uses Gaussian smoothing, a function used in noise reduction for digital images, and a frozen loading spinner, to adorn live uploaded images scraped from photo sharing sites. The images are shown for a random number of seconds before disappearing. The blurring effect and static circle emulate a frozen moment in time, eliciting a sense of disruption in the viewer waiting for the theatricality that has become standard in UX culture. The work renders the mundane as a digital artefact without opulence but with an almost unnerving sense of pause in time that requires a still appreciation of a moment where nothing happens (Terence Sharpe).

The work requires an active internet connection.


Temporality is

Crud

Rendered using Cartesian genetic programming

Friendly Conglomerate

Partition

Photo taken of my screen while reading the Business Insider RSS feed. Cropped to square.

Created with the Nested Exchange algorithm (remastered in 2023)

Segfault

Blob

Danse Macabre

This fullscreen software autosurfs the massive genealogy of the 'death imitates language' project, containing the entire population, bred by a genetic algorithm, and selected by micro-feedback of the artist

offline, duration infinite, not interactive, silent, macOS


Autobreeder

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

25 drawings by Rita Vitorelli
concept and programming by Harm van den Dorpel

This artwork was initially deployed on the bitcoin blockchain using the service Ascribe in 2016.
The Ethereum NFT version was programmed and deployed in 2018. A maximum of 100 tokens could be minted.



Monaco Mix

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy

A significant amount of editions were acquired by the museum of applied arts in vienna with bitcoin, making this the [first work of art ever sold to a museum with bitcoin](http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/24/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel/).

Event Listeners

A found low resolution image (60×96 pixels) of a rug, enlarged factor 6 with my self-invented diagonal enlarger algorithm, then enlarged 4 times with a regular nearest neighbour enlarger.

A found GIF image (50×50 pixels) of a panda, enlarged factor 100 (5000×5000 pixels) with a self-invented diagonal enlarger algorithm.

Panda

A found GIF image (50×50 pixels) of a pizza, enlarged factor 100 (5000×5000 pixels) with a self-invented diagonal enlarger algorithm.

Pizza

Found images of a yellow helicopter and a room with cacti, and 104 times the "a" in Times New Roman (italic), superimposed using blending modes. The title is a regular expression which would exactly match the repeating characters in the image.

I once printed this collage and poured synthetic toxic resin over it, but I destroyed that work.

NFT