Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation — tiny tiny change but maybe better

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?