Harm van den Dorpel

Harm van den Dorpel (born 1981 in Zaandam, The Netherlands) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist.

His work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, the United States, Italy, United Kingdom and Holland.

His broad practice includes the creation of sculpture, collage, computer animation, computer generated graphics ^[1][2] and interaction design. He is regarded a key figure in Post-Internet art.^[3]

In his work he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives ^[4] 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.^[5] 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).^[6]

He’s had institutional exhibitions at the New Museum ^[7] in New York, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing,^[8] China, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.

Harm van den Dorpel is represented by gallery Neumeister Bar-Am ^[9] in Berlin, and American Medium ^[10] in New York.

From 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]

References

External links

• Official website