Harm van den Dorpel @ Narrative Projects, Nov 10 – Dec 19

, 9 November 2015
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Harm van den Dorpel‘s IOU solo exhibition is showing at London’s Narrative Projects, opening November 10 and running to December 19.

The Netherlands-born and Berlin-based artist’s show includes a press release that carries on a rather personal though politically relevant rundown of a history of free information becoming increasingly monetised and therefore restricted, from Trent Reznor’s obscure Ghosts series, released on Creative Commons, to Google’s cessation of RSS protocol, along with its step towards a “structured (semantic) web”.

The works on show at IOU will consist of large sheets of thermosensitive paper, applying the same principal of thermal paper receipts that use heat instead of ink for a printing method that will slowly disappear in what the press release calls, “a ghostly transaction timestamped in the supposedly perpetual blockchain, our only hope”.

See the Facebook event page for details. **

Harm van den Dorpel, 'Untitled' from the In Exile series (2013). Digital print on paper and glass, 105x105cm. Image courtesy the artist.
Harm van den Dorpel, ‘Untitled’ from the In Exile series (2013). Image courtesy the artist.

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Harm van den Dorpel‘s IOU solo exhibition is showing at London’s Narrative Projects, opening November 10 and running to December 19.

The Netherlands-born and Berlin-based artist’s show includes a press release that carries on a rather personal though politically relevant rundown of a history of free information becoming increasingly monetised and therefore restricted, from Trent Reznor’s obscure Ghosts series, released on Creative Commons, to Google’s cessation of RSS protocol, along with its step towards a “structured (semantic) web”.

The works on show at IOU will consist of large sheets of thermosensitive paper, applying the same principal of thermal paper receipts that use heat instead of ink for a printing method that will slowly disappear in what the press release calls, “a ghostly transaction timestamped in the supposedly perpetual blockchain, our only hope”.

See the Facebook event page for details. **

Harm van den Dorpel, 'Untitled' from the In Exile series (2013). Digital print on paper and glass, 105x105cm. Image courtesy the artist.
Harm van den Dorpel, ‘Untitled’ from the In Exile series (2013). Image courtesy the artist.
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