Harm van den Dorpel (born 1981) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist. His work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, the United States, Italy, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. His broad practice includes the creation of sculpture, collage, computer animation, computer generated graphics
and interaction design. In 2015 he co-founded Left Gallery based in Berlin. He is regarded a key figure in
Post-Internet
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Definition
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art.
Work
In his work, he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives and guide the artist in aesthetic decision taking, leading to a symbiosis of man-machine art creation. Using computer programming, he describes traditional notions in art, such as for example the free use of intuition and expression. Conclusions from this research are then fed back in the production of new work. His ultimate goal is to reveal the reasoning structure of his own consciousness, and his implicit associations and assumptions. In this process, he borrows ideas from psychoanalysis, the writing of
Jacques Derrida
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, and Artificial Intelligence (which he studied).
He's had institutional exhibitions a
Museum Kurhaus Kleve the
New Museum
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History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-nam ...
in New York, The
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art or UCCA () is a leading Chinese independent institution of contemporary art. Founded in 2007 and located at the heart of the 798 Art District in Beijing, China, it welcomes more than one million visitors a year. ...
in Beijing, China, the
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
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, and the
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
In 2015
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) acquired Harm van den Dorpel's
screensaver
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''Event Listeners'' and thereby became the first
museum
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to purchase a work of art using
bitcoin
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s.
Between 2006 and 2010 he has been a creative programming teacher and interaction design teacher at private training centres and at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academie in Amsterdam.
Solo exhibitions
2016
Death Imitates Language at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2015
IOU at Narrative Projects, London
Just In Time at American Medium, New York
Ambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
Loomer at Young Projects, Los Angeles
2014
Emergent Conclusions – room.thecomposingrooms.com
2013
Release Early, Release Often, Delegate Everything You Can, be Open to the Point of Promiscuity at Abrons Art Center, New York
2012
About at Wilkinson Gallery, London
The Mews Project Space, London
References
External links
Artist page on Neumeister Bar-Am*
1981 births
Living people
Dutch conceptual artists
Artists from Zaanstad
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