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)

32 tokens, gradually released over time, of which the last one is still to be released. 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

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)

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

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.

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.

Indiscreet Units

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

Struggle for Pleasure

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 SOLOS, curated by Leyla Fakhr.

Swallow, only Shallow

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

JPGs

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

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

Maschine

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy.

Event Listeners

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

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

Mutant Garden Autobreeder

Curated early outputs of the Mutant Garden algorithm.

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Protoseeders

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

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

Four generative animations inspired by the work "Study for Camino Real" by Anni Albers from 1967. Each triangle (cell) its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells. This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automaton and a Markov chain. 

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, touching triangles transition to one shared colour, forming groups.

Anni

Every twelve seconds, a new composition is seeded directly from Ethereum block hashes, synchronizing viewers worldwide in a shared visual experience. The work’s deliberate instability and absence of memory reflect Harm’s broader artistic philosophy, highlighting the inherent impermanence and poetic potential of generative digital art. 

Quantizer

Generative animations built upon a cellular automaton in the tradition of Conway's Game of Life, where a minimal set of rules gives rise to extraordinary complexity, and where death is not failure but the system's natural feature. Presented in collaboration with Nguyen Wahed and Interface Gallery.

Stained Unravel

The vector source files behind my pen-plotted drawings. Each SVG is a score: instructions handed to a mechanical plotter, which interprets and performs them in ink on paper. What the machine produces might differ from what the file describes. Stored permanently on Arweave, bundled with the plotted drawing.

harmvandendorpel.eth

Archive Static

Stitched Gaze

Sealed Solids

Hatched Lining

Mother of Pearl

Quantizer ༡༨༧

Quantizer ༡༥༨

Quantizer ༡༡༨

Quantizer ༦༦

Quantizer ༣༣

Soft Shield

Anni 3

Anni 2

Anicca 2

Venster #42

A Vale of Tears

Vortex

Person in a Field

Struggle for Pleasure #19

Struggle for Pleasure #37

Tokens

Spawn (Colour Inversion Study)

CGA (palette 1)

Maschine ₁₉

Maschine ₁₈

Maschine ₁₄

Maschine ₉

Shega

Ash

Hekurane

Jess

Saprina

Erind

Gjon

Diella

Blendar

Lartime

Besian

Nestan

Edrin

Molos

Dijana

Partition

Merch Clouds (19/32)

Rug

Masked Éclat

Orb (lite) #14

On-brand

Jam

Softenon (V)

Keta

Goat.jpg (3/3)

Goat.jpg (2/3)

Goat.jpg (1/3)

Kodama (II)

Owl.jpg (3/3)

Owl.jpg (2/3)

Owl.jpg (1/3)

Rotorelief

Markov's Dream (II)

Softenon (III)

Vanuatu

Transplant – 2/2

Transplant – AP

Vpeti Jedjenn Shtonk

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