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INTERVIEW
Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation
00:40 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel
01:35 - Working with plotters
05:06 - Creative beginnings
08:45 - A grounding in early AI
11:20 - From tech to art school
13:50 - The shifting context around digital presentation
16:10 - The development of post-internet art
18:00 - Separating sales and practice
22:40 - Markov's Window
25:00 - Establishing Left Gallery and discovering blockchain
30:33 - The stress of managing a Gallery
32:01 - The importance of true digital ownership
35:29 - Mutant Garden Seeder
38:15 - Exploring Quantizer
40:40 - Algorithmic archeology
42:45 - Dithering and Quantizer's traits
46:42 - Two seeds and a double system
50:20 - The reason for artist curation
52:02 - Mandalas, Buddhism and the influence on Quantizer
56:00 - Transience and permanence
58:20 - Surprise born from a system
01:04:10 - Meditation machines
01:08:12 - The relationship between an artists practice and the market
01:09:55 - Defining the digital and physical worlds
01:12:40 - Preserving a digital work
01:15:43 - The thinking behind the series size
01:19:45 - What's next?
Harm van den Dorpel
Harm van den Dorpel is an artist dedicated to discovering emergent aesthetics by composing software and language, borrowing from disparate fields such as genetics and blockchain.
Van den Dorpel's work has been exhibited in the collections of, among others, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MAK Vienna, Victoria & Albert Museum London, and ZKM Karlsruhe. Selected (group) exhibitions include the New...
