Work from Harm van den Dorpel included in Sothebys auction

Emyelle (Mutant Garden Seeder #2) by Harm van den Dorpel included in Sotheby’s 'Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors' auction, their second dedicated NFT sale.

Where traditional artistic mediums require the artist to create the work with their own hand, Van den Dorpel rather programs software and trains it by looping continuous feedback through its output in order to produce works with unpredictable aesthetic outcomes. As many people nowadays equate artificial intelligence with neural networks, the artist wants to highlight other moments in this recent history of computation, approaching it as algorithmic archeology. The latest installment in the artist’s inquiry into the history of computation is Mutant Garden, which uses an existing algorithm called ‘Cartesian Genetic Programming’

Publication date: 8 Oct '21