harm van den dorpel

work by harm van den dorpel. see more here.

[all harm van den dorpel.]

harm van den dorpel

work in progress by harm van den dorpel. "digital images of synthetic lens flares transferred to analogue slides." see more here.

[all harm van den dorpel. from the series sudden flare in total darkness. 2009.]

this weekend

Today is the opening day of IN REAL LIFE. Hope to see you there. Here's all the great stuff going on this weekend:

At Capricious Space
103 Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11211
(between Bedford and Berry)
718.384.1208

Saturday 7 March

12–4pm
VVORK

VVORK will invite a male stripper to the gallery space whose task will be to perform a 4-hour slow strip while surfing the internet.

4–8pm
Ffffound

Renda Morton and Samuel Sherman, contributors to the website Ffffound, will assemble and go about ffffounding as usual, except in public, and for 4 hours straight.

8–10pm
Opening / Roundtable Discussion: Browser As Exhibition Space

Participants from the exhibition IN REAL LIFE including Art Fag City, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb, Why + Wherefore, and others will collectively discuss the concept of browser as exhibition space. Moderated by Laurel Ptak. Reception to follow.

Sunday 8 March

12–4pm
Private Circulation

Lance Wakeling will email the fifteenth installment of Private Circulation, featuring a project by artist Martijn Hendriks. There will be coffee and tea as well as a 4-hour slideshow and mix tape session.

4–8pm
Club Internet

All members of Club Internet will be invited to sit behind their computers, either at home or in the gallery, as Harm van den Dorpel announces the curatorial criteria for them to create a new work on the spot and participate in an opening party—all within 4 hours. The resulting show will remain online for one month at clubinternet.org.

Full details about IN REAL LIFE here.

harm van den dorpel

recent work by harm van den dorpel. see more here.

[all harm van den dorpel. saturation transition. 2009.]

video • youtube

constant dullaart: falling youtube from youtube as subject

ben coonley: acetylsalicylic acid (bufferin™)

pash: moonwalk

julien levesque: most viewed, all time, all category, all language

ginger anyhow: dave dancing at my bday party

harm van den dorpel: youtube loop

seecoy: matrYOshki

meta youtube work by constant dullaart, ben coonley, pash*, julien levesque, ginger anyhow, seecoy, and harm van den dorpel. thanks to john for the links. please also see ed halter's piece at rhizome on the subject.

video is a brand-new weekly column by michael bühler-rose that appears each friday on i heart photograph.

club internet 4.0

more brilliance from club internet: keep it simple stupid, curated by constant dullaart. see the full exhibition here. and read a review of the show over at art fag city right here.

[all from club internet 4.0: k.i.s.s. 2008. top to bottom: jonathan puckey. delaunay raster. harm van den dorpel. forest/lines. chris coy. excaliber. victor boullet. digression.]

club internet

club internet's latest exhibition launched yesterday: the oracle show curated by harm van den dorpel. featuring work by aids-3d, kari altmann, charles broskoski, carl burgess, jeff carey, chris collins, aleksandra domanovic, harm van den dorpel, constant dullaart, joel holmberg, infobeard, oliver laric, guthrie lonergan, ilia ovechkin, rafael rozendaal, travess smalley, tntet, damon zucconi. up through july 12th see it here.

[all club internet. from the oracle show. top to bottom: dreamcaptchas by kari altmann. still from edge transfer by damon zucconi. still from resurrections by harm van den dorpel.]

interview • harm van den dorpel

i heart photograph: is this image part of a larger project, and if so, could you explain the basic ideas/impulse behind the work?

harm van den dorpel: this work is part of my project 'semantics'. it is a series of manipulated found images. after applying one action or manipulation i put them back online. in computer programming 'semantics' is opposed to 'syntax'. when i look at media i am always struck by the (stupidity of) visual conventions and expectations; these are these syntactic rules. purposely i generate a syntax error in the visual language of the photos. after the images are processed on a lower layer, they become mine, and carry completely other meaning or emotions.

i.h.p.: the way the image is collaged, it reminds me of natural history displays, except what's being presented is very unnatural and not explained like things in those museums are. i'm wondering if you could talk about the image in relation to ideas of display and (natural) history.

h.v.d.d.: the reason i like to use pictures of animals is because they are close to humans (i tend to consider human beings partly animals too). there's one big distinction when using footage of animals rather than people: photos of animals are not portraits. they are anonymous illustrations of a species. therefore nobody will wonder why i chose this particular ostrich. in this manipulated photo, which i call a reconfiguration, i try to create a confusion between real and impossible. until what point do we still believe a representation? the cliché thought about ostriches is their hiding behavior, putting their head in the ground. i like to do this too in my work. by hiding or taking the original meaning away, the only meaning left is that of a bare and empty visual language. i think there is a lot of beauty in these residues.

[photo: reconfigurations (ostrich) by harm van den dorpel. 2008. see more of harm's work here.]

interview is a weekly column by nicholas grider that appears each tuesday on i heart photograph.

harm van den dorpel

woah, totally amazing work by dutch artist harm van den dorpel. these are stills from found photo animations. be sure to watch the full animations of these here and here and peek at all the other interesting stuff harm is up to right here.

[all harm van den dorpel. 2007. top (left to right): still from resurrection 2. still from sleepwalker 3. bottom (left to right): still from sleepwalker 1. still from resurrection 1.]