Harm van den Dorpel
I do not believe that knowledge is embedded in documents, just as beauty is not embedded in objects. Beauty and knowledge are created by joining and creating complex relationships between creators, viewers, contexts, histories, etc.
Harm van den Dorpel via Metropolis M, 2016
Harm van den Dorpel’s (1981, the Netherlands) broad practice includes sculpture, installation, works on paper, computer generated graphics and software. Rooted in the conceptual heritage of net.art, Van den Dorpel’s work often simulates neural networks. Yet technology is just a means to an end: a tool to increase the understanding of our experience, in all its subjective complexity and shifting structures, in which the syntax underlying the tool might grant some insight.
