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Harm van den Dorpel

@harmvddorpel

artist tending to emergence, a practice of algorithmic archeology

 Berlin
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Joined July 2009
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Entfaltung ✸ comes out of deep research into Emma Kunz: her writing, the eyewitness accounts, a structural analysis of her drawings, months of programming, and my own drawing by plotter+hand. With @Interface_art and @LOHAUSGALLERY at Art Basel Miami Beach, 4-6 December.
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Interface Gallery, in collaboration with Lohaus Gallery, presents *Entfaltung* (2026) by @harmvddorpel at @ArtBasel Miami Beach – Zero 10: Generation, curated by @karenarchey and @eli_schein . 4–6 December 2026 VIP: 2–3 December 36 unique generative works + 12 hand-finished plotter drawings. /1
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Honoured to show my work alongside my peers as part of Vera Molnár’s exhibition at the @V_and_A. Many thanks to curator Melanie Lenz and the team for this thoughtful presentation.
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Exhibition: Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnár and Generative Art – Harm van den Dorpel

Exhibition: Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnár and Generative Art – Harm van den Dorpel

Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnár and Generative Art brings together over 50 works by Vera Molnár (1924–2023) and contemporary practitioners at the V&A in

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Entfaltung (topological identity)
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Achillea Millefolium, 2026 This work began with a photograph I took of a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium) growing by the roadside near my studio in spring. I formulated an algorithm to derive the grain of the plant: the directions in which its stems, leaves and flowers run, the course of its fibres and veins. These directions were reconstructed as Bézier curves in light green, dark green, orange-pink and yellow, and drawn onto paper with a pen plotter. The plant appears four times, and from left to right the number of curves increases. It grows again, not organically, but through accumulation in granularity. What begins as a sparse network of lines gradually becomes dense fields of colour: from drawn towards painted. Plotter drawing on watercolour paper – 58 × 84 cm · 23 × 33 in – unique edition
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Work: Achillea Millefolium – Harm van den Dorpel

Work: Achillea Millefolium – Harm van den Dorpel

This work began with a photograph I took of a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium) growing by the roadside near my studio in spring. I formulated an algorit

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I have just typeset harm.work/series in the most perfect font in the world – thank you @abcdinamo and @AREdotNA – I love the alternative glyphs for the "a" and "I".
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Areal

We initially designed Areal as a bespoke typeface for [Are.na](https://www.are.na/), to replace Arial, the typeface they had been using for almost 15 years. Areal, a “revival” of Arial, is based on...

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Death Imitates Language 🔁 2016 A population of speculative works. Each generated by inheriting sequences of information from their ancestors. These genetic codes determine which elements appear in the work and in what form or constellation. When creatures reach their optimal state they are 'frozen' and translated into physical objects. deathimitateslanguage.harmva…
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Series: Death Imitates Language – Harm van den Dorpel

Series: Death Imitates Language – Harm van den Dorpel

A series of works exploring the development of meaning in generative aesthetics using micro feedback and a genetic algorithm. It consists of a website and

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Nethermind Quilt, 2025 🔁 Hand-mixed inks laid down as hatching, the stroke angle switching with each block to build gradients out of punctuated lines. Plotter on watercolour paper, output of the Quantizer algorithm. harm.work/work/nethermind-qu… 📷 Shu Nakagawa @TSCATokyo
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Tusk Bubble 🔁 2019 Created with the Lexachast algorithm, used as cover artwork for "Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas – Lexachast" (PAN 83) unminted as of yet
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Lexachast, by Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas

Lexachast, by Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas

9 track album

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Softenon (III) 🔁 2022 Layered and nested rounded squares, radial and linear gradients, colours tend to green and blue. - Colours: random (blue bias) - Fill: linear & radial gradients - Behaviour: stationary - Max. nesting depth: 4 - Breathing: translucence & volume - Outlines: never
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NFT: Softenon (III) – Harm van den Dorpel

NFT: Softenon (III) – Harm van den Dorpel

Layered and nested rounded squares, radial and linear gradients, colours tend to green and blue. By Harm van den Dorpel, 2022

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Just deployed full text search on my LLM wiki dissociations.com/
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Träuma 🔁 2019 Created with the Lexachast algorithm – edition of 100 – tez
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Work: Träuma – Harm van den Dorpel

Work: Träuma – Harm van den Dorpel

Created with the Lexachast algorithm, 2019 Edition of 100 View on objkt.com

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Sleeve Feathers 🔁 2019 Created with the Lexachast algorithm – edition of 12 – tez
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Work: Sleeve Feathers – Harm van den Dorpel

Work: Sleeve Feathers – Harm van den Dorpel

Created with the Lexachast algorithm, 2019 Edition of 12 View on objkt.com

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