Dissociations

An LLM-maintained wiki layer on top of Harm van den Dorpel's twenty-year archive — a second brain for the practice and a public reading room. The numbered notes in sources/ are the raw stratum; the pages below synthesize, cross-reference, and connect.

Start here

• The Practice in Propositions — the artist statement in Tractatus form; seven propositions distilling the practice as a truth-finding procedure
• About — what this site is; 2010 origin; New Museum First Look; 2026 LLM mutation
• The Generative Threshold — analytical cross-cut; initiated not composed; taste, compression, the loom genealogy
• Future Directions — explicitly speculative; four open territories

Frames of thinking

Conceptual scaffolds the practice runs on.

• Recursion and Self-Reference — self-containing structures; the Endless Knot; stop-conditions across the practice
• The Semiotic Square — New/Old/Same/Different; the N→∞ matrix; relevance as the displaced problem
• Assemblage Identity — DeLanda; everything vs. anything; Agamben's profane order; interval space
• Sculpture and the Object — why an algorithmic artist makes 3D objects; the Assemblages (2011–18); object-oriented ontology; Revenge of the Spheres
• The Four Master Tropes — Vico → Burke → White; NIMK 2011; collage-aphorism
• Randomness and Pattern — information as pattern; workmanship of uncertainty
• Mediation and the Archive — flickering signifiers; documentation as constitutive
• Impulse, Risk, Method — discovery vs. decision; navigation as ontology

Form and geometry

Recurring shapes, surfaces, and structural devices.

• The Lozenge — Mondriaan's tableau-losange; Dibbets; Markov's Window; Venster (2024); Endless Knot
• The Squircle — superellipse; the humanising rounded corner as ideology
• Sacred Geometry — loom / mandala / stained glass / heraldry / cellular automaton; Anicca (2025)
• Quantization and Dithering — Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Sierra3; CGA / ZX Spectrum / Apple II; Quantizer (2025)
• Afterimage — Duchamp's Rotoreliefs; shoegaze; tinnitus; persistence after stimulus

Process and method

How the work is made.

• Process Legibility — the construction of an image is the image; tested not executed
• Evolutionary Logic — Cartesian Genetic Programming; fitness functions; algorithmic archaeology
• Subconscious Computation — the algorithm as device for following the deepest impulse
• Protocol, Taste, and Systems — taste as through-line, personal → collective → systemic
• Meditative Labour — four-mode taxonomy of hand and machine; Kapitulation → Beads → Fernand
• Release Early, Release Often — Eric Raymond's open-source credo as artistic stance
• Limit Experience — Bataille; Agamben; Chemsex Benelux (2022)

Bodies of work

Named series and projects.

• Death Imitates Language — taste as fitness function; biopolitics of the algorithm; Autobreeder
• Algues Artificielles — first explicit fitness function; convergent breeding; Hans Arp
• Senescenence (2026) — cellular automaton; death as system feature; loom genealogy
• Stained Unravel — 23-state morphological vocabulary; positional compare, temporal staining, edge merging
• Markov's Dream Palette — a single RGB palette from 2004 returning through 2026; palette as memory

Reference

• Works Overview — chronological catalog; medium trajectory; exhibition history
• Wiki Health Report — open issues; maintenance principles

Conversations and writings

Ingested external texts: interviews, reviews, catalog essays.

• CGP — Julian F. Miller interview — life is a 3.5 billion year old technology; non-coding genes; halting
• Outland — Sutela conversation (2021) — pixel-sorters; DNA as recursive zip; library-as-agar
• ZORA ZINE — Subdued Iconoclasm (2021) — theology and the unconscious; Event Listeners history
• Tokenising Sustainability (2021) — personal NFT history 2015–21; ascribe.io; PoW vs. PoS
• Spike #70 — The Squircle of Life — Tina Rivers Ryan; fitness functions across the practice
• Artforum — Context Switch (2022) — Adina Glickstein's review; mandala vs. doomscroll
• Verse Twitter Spaces (2024) — pixel as interpolation; Dieter Roth as closest affinity
• Verse SOLOS London — Struggle for Pleasure (2024) — hermetic vs. gentle; pleasure through resistance
• Magicians Conceal, Artists Reveal — ars celare artem inverted; protocol art as endpoint
• TSCA Tokyo — Cloud Writings (2026) — first Japan solo; plotter as philosophical necessity
• Mandala Q&A — Goro Murayama (2026) — Tibetan sand mandala; Jung; Anicca
• Upstream — Our Inner Child (2023) — Inner Child therapy; Endless Knot; compression vs. decompression
• Angles Morts — with Vera Molnár (2024) — four female precursors; weaving; Cloud Writings premiere
• Narrative Projects — IOU (2015) — thermopaper; heat as mark; earliest blockchain provenance claim
• Loomer — LA (2015) — first LA solo; post-internet label retired
• Abrons Arts Center — Release Early (2013) — first US solo; Karen Archey
• Strategies (2010/2011) — collage-manifesto; non-dialectical simultaneity; hauntology
• Field (2008/2023) — Flash animation ported on-chain; Actionscript → Solidity

This is a wiki by Harm van den Dorpel Ⓗ Created with Claude