Last summer, the artist’s latest NFT collection, Quantizer, launched on the platform Verse and sold out in the first presale. Van den Dorpel kept a few works from that series, three of which are now shown for the first time as a special edition in this exhibition. Each digital artwork is paired with a material snapshot in space. While Van den Dorpel has created physical versions of his NFTs before, this marks the first time they are presented as interconnected parts of a single whole.

Quantizer is a generative artwork. Every twelve seconds, a new composition is seeded directly from Ethereum block hashes, synchronising viewers worldwide in a shared visual experience. The work’s deliberate instability and absence of memory reflect Van den Dorpel’s broader artistic philosophy, emphasising the inherent impermanence and poetic potential of generative digital art.

Image: (mock up) Quantizer #187, 2025
Special edition NFT + unique physical artwork
Digital: Generative animation, NFT
Physical: Photographic exposure on metallic paper in black aluminium
Digital: Infinite duration, dimensions variable
Physical: 41.5 x 41.5 x 2.5 cm