Press release for 'Loomer', my first solo show in Los Angeles, 2015, I will be presenting an array of formerly unmaterialized poster collages, presented in space with sculptures and animations, many of which span the past five years.

When writing texts for my own exhibitions, I used to pretend and write them in the third person: 'the artist', 'Van den Dorpel', 'he'. An outsider perspective suggests neutrality, and protects me from explaining my own work.

After studying artificial intelligence, I graduated art school in 2006. I still hesitate to call myself an artist. At obligatory gatherings I prefer to say I'm a computer programmer, which is more tangible.

Often people approach explanations in terms of 'found imagery', which is 'culled' from the internet. I never minded the label 'post internet' but know it is not sustainable. The fact that the internet is my material doesn't mean much anymore. It's 2015 and modes of appropriation are default.

Shared blobs, organised algorithmically. I can't be productive without programming a system. What the work is about, runs ahead of myself, and I will never quite fully catch up with it (even though I suspect it's always about the same).

I'm leaning over, approaching too close, breathing over the edge of my own screen. Small drops of spit land on it. There is still a potentiality in the 'new', regardless how quickly it condensates into a 'known', which then slips through my fingers again.