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Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation


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00:40 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel 

01:35 - Working with plotters 

05:06 - Creative beginnings 

08:45 - A grounding in early AI 

11:20 - From tech to art school 

13:50 - The shifting context around digital presentation

16:10 - The development of post-internet art 

18:00 - Separating sales and practice 

22:40 - Markov's Window 

25:00 - Establishing Left gallery and discovering blockchain 

30:33 - The stress of managing a gallery 

32:01 - The importance of true digital ownership 

35:29 - Mutant Garden Seeder 

38:15 - Exploring Quantizer 

40:40 - Algorithmic archeology 

42:45 - Dithering and Quantizer's traits 

46:42 - Two seeds and a double system 

50:20 - The reason for artist curation 

52:02 - Mandalas, Buddhism and the influence on Quantizer 

56:00 - Transience and permanence 

58:20 - Surprise born from a system 

01:04:10 - Meditation machines 

01:08:12 - The relationship between an artists practice and the market 

01:09:55 - Defining the digital and physical worlds 

01:12:40 - Preserving a digital work 

01:15:43 - The thinking behind the series size 

01:19:45 - What's next? 

Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel  

Quantizer: https://verse.works/series/quantizer-by-harm-van-den-dorpel?itemId=2f5761c0-0e42-4457-a844-6bd9f854adf5

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