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harm van den dorpel

harm van den dorpel -lrb- born 1981 in zaandam , the netherlands -rrb- is a berlin-based conceptual artist .
his work has been exhibited internationally in germany , the united states , italy , united kingdom and holland .
his broad practice includes the creation of sculpture , collage , computer animation , computer generated graphics and interaction design .
he is regarded a key figure in post-internet art .
in his work he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives and guide the artist in aesthetic decision taking , leading to a symbiosis of man-machine art creation .
using computer programming he describes traditional notions in art , such as for example the free use of intuition and expression .
conclusions from this research are then fed back in the production of new work .
his ultimate goal is to reveal the reasoning structure of his own consciousness , and his implicit associations and assumptions .
in this process he borrows ideas from psychoanalysis , the writing of jacques derrida , and artificial intelligence -lrb- which he studied -rrb- .
he 's had institutional exhibitions at the new museum in new york , the ullens center for contemporary art in beijing , china , the museum of modern art , warsaw , and the netherlands media art institute , amsterdam .
harm van den dorpel is represented by gallery neumeister bar-am in berlin , and american medium in new york .
from 2006 - 2010 he has been a creative programming teacher and interaction design teacher at private training centres and at the gerrit rietveld art academie in amsterdam .
