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

A remake of a Flash animation I once made in 2008, but now 100% on-chain: no IPFS, no webservers, no dependencies. All code is contained in the smart contract. Responsive and Interactive.

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.

Field

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

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

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 #24

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Venster #22

Pockets

Feier

Everyonce

Maschine ₂₉₇

Maschine ₂₉₆

Maschine ₂₉₅

Field 2

Fernand

Orb (lite) #219

Orb (lite) #181

Orb (lite) #186

Lemine

Sihel

Coila

Alline

Ainissa

Kylnia

Letud

Micela

Salle

Event Listeners