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)

Mutant Garden Autobreeder

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

Mutant Garden Seeder

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

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

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.<br /><br />In 2015 the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna acquired Event Listeners, becoming <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel-3995/">the first museum in the world</a> to buy a work of art with bitcoin — an early precursor of what would later be called an NFT. In 2018 the collection was migrated from ascribe to Ethereum.

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.

Struggle for Pleasure

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

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. 

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Venster #64

Venster #32

Struggle for Pleasure #111

Struggle for Pleasure #38

Maschine ₆₀₈

Maschine ₅₁₃

Maschine ₅₁₂

Maschine ₅₁₁

Jessie

Festar

Orb (lite) #75

Orb (lite) #28

Orb (lite) #180

Orb (lite) #108

Orb (lite) #106

Orb (lite) #376

Orb (lite) #369

Bulge

Markov's Dream (IV)

Guernsey

Benin

Temporality is 84/100

Shezel

Monaco Mix #13

Event Listeners

Event Listeners

Brady Wordamir Xaus