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

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?
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