Upstream Gallery

Techniek: Quantizer #158, 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

Formaat: 41,5 x 41,5 x 2,5 cm

Editie: uniek werk

Prijsklasse: € 4.000 - € 6.000

Status: te koop

Quantizer #158, 2025

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.