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Harm van den Dorpel

Summary

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[1][2] and interaction design. In 2015 he co-founded Left Gallery based in Berlin.[3] He is regarded a key figure in Post-Internet art.[4]

Harm van den Dorpel
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Zaandam, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Known forConceptual art, installation art, sculpture, collage, Internet art, Postinternet art
Awardsnet based award, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel (2016)
Websiteharmvandendorpel.com

Work edit

In his work he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives[5] 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.[6] 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, and Artificial Intelligence (which he studied).[7]

He's had institutional exhibitions at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, the New Museum[8] in New York, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing,[9] China, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.

In 2015 MAK - Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) acquired Harm van den Dorpel's screensaver Event Listeners and thereby became the first museum to purchase a work of art using bitcoins.[10]

Between 2006 - 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.[11]

Solo exhibitions edit

2016 edit

Death Imitates Language at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin

2015 edit

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 edit

Emergent Conclusions – room.thecomposingrooms.com

2013 edit

Release Early, Release Often, Delegate Everything You Can, be Open to the Point of Promiscuity at Abrons Art Center, New York

2012 edit

About at Wilkinson Gallery, London
The Mews Project Space, London

References edit

  1. ^ "Deep Tissue". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.
  2. ^ "Ethereal Self".
  3. ^ "Harm van den Dorpel". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  4. ^ "Post Internet". Gene McHugh.
  5. ^ "Dissociations at the New Museum".
  6. ^ "Interview Dazed and Confused". 13 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Interview Creators Project".
  8. ^ "Free at the New Museum".
  9. ^ "Art Post-Internet at the Ullens Center".
  10. ^ "MAK Vienna Becomes First Museum to Use Bitcoin to Acquire Art, a Harm van den Dorpel". 24 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Staff page Rietveld Academie".[permanent dead link]

External links edit

  • Artist page on Neumeister Bar-Am
  • Official website