Constant Dullaart

Dullaart was born and raised in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands. He attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1997 to 2002, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in the year 2007–2008. After his graduation in 1997 he settled as artist in Amsterdam. From 2010 to 2015 he lived in Berlin.

Dullaart drew some attention with his work series Jennifer in Paradise{{cite web |url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/constant-dullaart/ |title=Constant Dullaart |date=November 2013 |author=Louisa Elderton |publisher=Frieze |access-date=15 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124216/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/constant-dullaart/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web| url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/constant-dullaart-delivers-the-worlds-first-photoshopped-image/ |title=Constant Dullaart Delivers the World's First Photoshopped Image |date=4 May 2014 |author=Johnny Magdaleno |publisher=Motherboard |access-date=7 March 2015}}{{cite web| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579248123722291000 |title=How Our Camera-Phone Nation is Inspiring Artists |date=12 December 2013 |author=Ellen Gamerman |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=7 March 2015}}{{cite web| url=http://dismagazine.com/blog/65287/constant-dullaart-at-carroll-fletcher/ |title=Constant Dullaart at Carroll / Fletcher |date=10 July 2014 |author=Jeppe Ugelvig |magazine=DIS Magazine |access-date=7 March 2015}} which "seeks to expose the technological structures that inform modern visual culture".{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/13/photoshop-first-image-jennifer-in-paradise-photography-artefact-knoll-dullaart |title=Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image |date=13 June 2014 |author=Comstock, Gordon |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=7 March 2015}}

He is also known for distributing 2.5 million bought Instagram followers amongst a personal selection of active art-world Instagram accounts.{{cite web| url=http://espacevirtuel.jeudepaume.org/constant-dullaart-high-retention-slow-delivery-2474/ |title=Constant Dullaart: HIGH RETENTION, SLOW DELIVERY |date=26 September 2014 |author=Dr. Inke Arns |publisher=Jeu de Paume|access-date=15 March 2015}}

A 4 month long durational performance commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt got the attention of several media outlets when Dullaart raised a virtual army of thousands of fake Facebook profiles, using the names of Hessian (soldier)s from the Hetrina archive{{cite web| url=http://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/subjects/index/sn/hetrina |title=Hessian Troops in America |date=March 2013 |author=Stefan Aumann, Prof. Dr. Holger Gräf |publisher=Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde|access-date=10 October 2016}} of the Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen.{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34765936 |title=Facebook 'fake army' launched by artist |date=10 November 2015 |author=Zoe Kleinman |publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 October 2016}}{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/09/army-for-hire-the-artist-employing-ghost-soldiers-to-invade-facebook-constant-dullaart|title=Army for hire: the artist employing ghost soldiers to invade Facebook |date=9 November 2015 |author=Jonathan Jones |newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=10 October 2016}}

He was awarded the Prix Net Art in late 2015{{cite web| url=http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/nov/16/announcing-the-winner-of-the-10000-prix-net-art-constant-dullaart/ |title= Announcing the Winner of the $10,000 Prix Net Art: Constant Dullaart| date=16 November 2015|publisher=Rhizome|accessdate=10 October 2016}} with the following jury statement:

{{blockquote|"The fluidity of boundaries between artist and tech communities and questions of authorship, virtuosity, and the performativity of art in a mediated environment are an important aspect of the work of the winner of the 2015 Prix Net Art, Constant Dullaart. Dullaart's work stays firmly yet defiantly within the realm of contemporary art, but from a position profoundly informed by the conditions of new media networks—technical as well as cultural, social, economical, and political networks. Dullaart strives for an honest, respectful, yet unembellished approach to the materials and conditions of the network. At the same time his work is full of humor, wit, and critical commentary."}}

• {{cite web| url=http://dismagazine.com/dystopia/67039/constant-dullaart-100000-followers-for-everyone/ |title=Constant Dullaart: 100.000 Followers for everyone! |date=29 September 2014 |author=Constant Dullaart |magazine=DIS Magazine|accessdate=15 March 2015}}
• {{cite web| url=http://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/declaration/ |title=Declaration |date=2 November 2015 |author=Constant Dullaart |publisher=Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt|access-date=10 October 2016}}
• {{cite web| url=http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/5/letter-jennifer-knoll/ |title=A letter to Jennifer Knoll |date=5 September 2013 |author=Constant Dullaart |publisher=Rhizome|access-date=15 March 2015}}

2019

• Profile Wars, Cirl.Art, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam
• dull.lifeTM - hack, hustle, historicize, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
• Link in Bio, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
• Stadstriënnale Hasselt / Genk, Screen it, Hasselt
• Uncanny Values, MAK, Vienna
• Screen it! at Art Brussels, Brussels
• Festival van de Controle, Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt Behind the Screen, Kindl, Berlin
• Influencers, Galerie Hussenot, Paris

2018

• Cultural Matter: Constant Dullaart, LIMA, Amsterdam
• Constant Dullaart 100.000 Followers for Everyone, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam
• The Armory Show New York with Upstream Gallery
• Strasbourg Biennale, Strasbourg, France
• Agency, Nome Gallery, Berlin
• All I Know is What's on the Internet, The Photographers Gallery, London
• Algorithmic Superstructures, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
• Berlin Zentrum der Netzkunst - Damals und Heute, Panke Gallery, Berlin
• I Was Raised On The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• When Facts don't Matter, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore
• From ZERO to 2018, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam

2017

• Electronic Superhighway, MAAT, Lisbon
• Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Windows, Basel
• Collecting Europe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• How to Disappear Completely, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• Human/Digital: a Symbiotic Love Affair, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• Transmediale, Berlin

2016

• Deep Epoch, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
• Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• MU, Eindhoven,
• Smart Objects, Los Angeles

2015

• The Possibility of an Army, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
• Jennifer, Futura, Prague
• Opening Time, London
• Filter economy and quantified social capital, Dutch National Bank, Amsterdam
• ABC with Future Gallery, Berlin
• The Censored Internet, Aksioma, Ljubliana

2014

• High Retention Slow Delivery, Jeu de Paume-espace virtuel, Paris
• Stringendo, Vanishing Mediators, Carroll / Fletcher, London
• Brave New Panderers, XPO Gallery, Paris

2013

• Jennifer in Paradise, Future Gallery, Berlin
• Jennifer in Paradise, Import Projects, Berlin

2012

• Onomatopoeia, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
• HEALING, Fabio Paris Gallery, Brescia, Italy
• Treffpunkt Internet, speedshow, Berlin

{{Reflist}}

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• [http://www.constantdullaart.com/ Official website]
• [http://jennifer.ps/ Jennifer in Photoshop, Constant Dullaart, 2014]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20161010215154/https://prix-netart.org/ Official Prix Net Art website]
• [http://army.cheap/ The possibility of an Army, Constant Dullaart 2016]
• [http://mesodiplosis.otdac.org/ Mesodiplosis, Constant Dullaart 2015]
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7517-the_possibility_of_an_army/ Chaos Computer Club Conference 32C3, talk, 2015]

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Category:1979 births

Category:Living people

Category:Dutch conceptual artists

Category:People from Leiderdorp