Quantizer ༧༡
2025
Quantizer #71 (2025) by Harm van den Dorpel is part of the Quantizer series — a generative, on-chain artwork where new compositions are seeded every twelve seconds directly from Ethereum block hashes. This creates a continuously evolving, shared visual experience synchronized across all viewers worldwide. The work embodies van den Dorpel’s long-standing interest in instability, impermanence, and the poetic potential of generative systems. With no persistent memory, each moment is unique and fleeting, reflecting broader themes of digital ephemerality and real-time blockchain aesthetics.
- Medium
- Generative Art, NFT (Etherium)
- Signed
- Yes
Notes
This piece might be titled "Quantizer ༧༡", created in 2022
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Casey Reas
American · b. 1972
Reas creates generative software artworks that use algorithmic processes and computational systems to produce continuously evolving visual compositions, directly paralleling van den Dorpel's use of blockchain data as a generative seed for emergent, impermanent imagery.
Rafaël Rozendaal
Dutch/Japanese · b. 1980
Rozendaal works at the intersection of internet infrastructure, real time visual systems, and NFT based artworks, sharing van den Dorpel's commitment to using networked technology as both medium and conceptual framework for ephemeral, synchronized visual experiences.
Tyler Hobbs
American · b. 1987
Hobbs is renowned for on chain generative art series where algorithmic parameters produce unique, seeded compositions at the moment of minting, closely mirroring van den Dorpel's approach of using Ethereum block data to generate transient and unrepeatable visual outputs.
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