About the artist:

Harm van den Dorpel (b. 1981) develops a practice centred on dynamic systems that continuously shift and adapt within technological environments. Working across media including drawing, sculpture, computer-generated imagery, and custom software, he constructs frameworks in which artworks evolve over time through algorithmic structures, recursion, and feedback mechanisms.

Van den Dorpel is widely regarded as a key figure within Post-Internet and generative art. His work investigates the relationship between human intuition and machine logic, often allowing algorithmic processes to participate in aesthetic decision-making and the formation of the final artwork.

He is also recognized as an early pioneer in the integration of blockchain technology into contemporary art. In 2015, the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna acquired his work Event Listeners using Bitcoin, marking the first time a museum purchased an artwork through blockchain technology, an event widely regarded as a foundational moment in the history of NFTs and digital art. Van den Dorpel lives and works in Berlin. His work is held in major institutional collections including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MAK Vienna, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and ZKM Karlsruhe. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the New Museum and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.

In 2015 he founded left gallery, an online platform dedicated to commissioning, producing, and distributing downloadable digital artworks, which played an important role in the early market infrastructure for digital and blockchain-based art.