Sammeln

Okazaki, Sakamoto, van den Dorpel, Murayama

Screens and Skin

Rendered in 2017, remastered and minted in 2022.

Protorb

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


Indiscreet Units

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)

"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

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).

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Alternate Ploy

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

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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.

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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

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

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