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

Mutant Garden

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

Algues Artificielles

Death Imitates Language online genealogy

Hybrid Vigor .bio

Death Imitates Language

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.

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)

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

Dissociations .com

Dissociations for everyone.   

A social media network

Deli Near .Info

Strategies

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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