Career
His work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, the United States, Italy, United Kingdom and Holland. His broad practice includes the creation of sculpture, collage, computer animation, computer generated graphics and interaction design. He is regarded a key figure in Post-Internet art
In his work he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives 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. Conclusions from this research are then federal 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).
He’s had institutional exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
Harm van den Dorpel is represented by gallery Neumeister Bar-Am in Berlin, and American Medium in New New York
