Harm van den Dorpel

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| birth_place = Zaandam, Netherlands

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| nationality = Dutch

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| awards = net based award, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel (2016)

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| website = {{URL|harmvandendorpel.com}}

| field = Conceptual art, installation art, sculpture, collage, Internet art, Postinternet art

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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{{cite web|url=http://deeptis.su/|title=Deep Tissue|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413142135/http://deeptis.su/|archivedate=2014-04-13}}{{cite web|url=http://etherealself.com/|title=Ethereal Self}} and interaction design. In 2015 he co-founded Left Gallery based in Berlin.{{Cite web |title=Harm van den Dorpel |url=http://www.upstreamgallery.nl/artists/45/harm-van-den-dorpel |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=upstreamgallery.nl}} He is regarded a key figure in Post-Internet art.{{cite web|url=http://122909a.com/?cat=222 |title=Post Internet |publisher=Gene McHugh}}

Work

In his work, he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/harm-van-den-dorpel-dissociations |title=Dissociations at the New Museum}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/10371/1/bas-van-den-hurk-harm-van-den-dorpel| title=Interview Dazed and Confused| date=13 May 2011}} 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).{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/harm-van-den-dorpels-post-internet-art/|title=Interview Creators Project|date=18 February 2015 }}

He's had institutional exhibitions at [http://www.museumkurhaus.de/de/10437.html?from=ausstellungenArchiv Museum Kurhaus Kleve], the New Museum{{cite web|url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/1092|title=Free at the New Museum}} in New York, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing,{{cite web|url=http://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/art-post-internet/|title=Art Post-Internet at the Ullens Center}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/24/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel/|title=MAK Vienna Becomes First Museum to Use Bitcoin to Acquire Art, a Harm van den Dorpel|date=24 April 2015}}

Between 2006 and 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.{{cite web |date=February 2, 2020 |title=Staff page Rietveld Academie |url=http://www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl/student/harm-jan-van-den-dorpel}}{{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes|url=https://www.instagram.com/aris_walton_}}