Just-in-Time

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

A website where users can live breed and mutate specimen.

Mutant .garden

Hyphenation is a typographic operation: by dividing words (usually at the end of a line on a page) with a dash ("-"), information can be fit efficiently on a piece of paper. The written word is chopped up, based on semi-systematic hyphenation rules, that mimic the sound in our minds, when we trace and pronounce the words with our eyes.

Unlike paper, on the internet there are no finite bounds. text can flow freely on the screen, expanded by scrollbars. In this work, an automated computer voice is programmed to (clumsily) read out the word segments. this brings the text on the webpage back to its printed predecessor, and from print back to spoken word.


Hyphenation .xyz

Dark Calendar .com

Hybrid Vigor .bio

This website contains an enormous population of speculative works. Each of these works is generated by inheriting sequences of information — a sort of DNA — from its ancestors. These ‘genetic’ codes determine which elements appear in the work and in what form or constellation. The population changes over time by means of subjective ('natural') selection by the artist: micro feedback or 'likes' about which of the works can live on, which ones should die, and who can procreate. This feedback, combined with visitor statistics and simulated aging, causes the genetic program to mutate and (arguably) improve over time.

When creatures reach their optimal state they are 'frozen' and potentially translated into physical objects.

Death Imitates Language online genealogy

eAR is a location-based augmented reality sound and text piece in the form of first-person fiction. It presents a series of dramatized field recordings from a digitally mediated environment together with commentary inspired by the Let's Play format.

Sound by Ville Haimala, text by Jenna Sutela, design and programming by Harm van den Dorpel. 

eAR (PAN 72)

Deli Near .Info

A generative online artist studio.

Connections between text and images are generated by manual training. I made a page that showed me 3 items ad random, from which I had to eliminate one that intuitively belonged the least in this set of 3. From all these dismissive dissociations, the mathematical inverse was calculated, which would supposedly reveal unconsciously the most interesting and relevant associations.

<a href='https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/harm-van-den-dorpel-dissociations' target='_blank'>At the New Museum</a>

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