Constant Dullaart‘s (NL, 1979) practice reflects on the broad cultural and social effects of communication and image processing technologies, from performatively distributing artificial social capital and poems on social media to completing a staff-pick Kickstarter campaign or setting up a new social media company.
His work includes online performances, custom routers, startups, armies, redestributed found images. Frequently juxtaposing or consolidating technically dichotomized presentation realms. Currently running https://common.garden and recently showing new work based on Berthold Brecht's 'Vergnügen' for Open Secret at KW.
Teaching
2015 - 2020 Werkplaats Typografie, advisor / tutor, Artez, Arnhem, NL
2016 - 2018 Visiting advisor Jan van Eyck academy, Maastricht, NL
2017 Visiting professor; CUNY DIAP, RISD, GSU, United States
2005 – 2011 Gerrit Rietveld academie VAV, professor/ mentor, Amsterdam, NL
2006 - 2007 Visiting Tutor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
The Tool as a Medium, The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL
2020
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2019
DullLife™, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Profile Wars, Circl, Amsterdam, NL Nein Gag, Panke.gallery, Berlin, DE
2018
100.000 Followers For Everyone, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL Cultural Matter, LIMA, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Adversarial Protean, Project Probe, Arnhem, NL
2016
Synthesizing the Preferred Inputs, Future Gallery, Berlin, DE Deep Epoch, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015
The Possibility of an Army, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
Jennifer, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Opening Times, London, United Kingdom
Filter economy and quantified social capital, Dutch National Bank, Amsterdam, NL
ABC with Future Gallery, Berlin, DE
The Censored Internet, Aksioma, Ljubliana, Slovenia
2014
Art Basel Miami with Carroll / Fletcher, Miami, USA
High Retention Slow Delivery, Jeu de Paume-espace virtuel, Paris, France
Stringendo, Vanishing Mediators, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
A leap into the void, GameC, Bergamo, IT
2022
How to win at Photography, Photographers Gallery, London UK
abandon all hope ye who enter here, transmediale, Berlin, DE
Ostfriesland Bienale, NL/DE IDFA doclab, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Open Secret, KW Berlin, DE
PROOF OF ART, OÖ Landes-Kultur GMBH, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, AU
150 -'Calculating Control’ by Zentrum für Netzkunst, panke.gallery, Berlin, DE
Tomorrow, Office Impart, Berlin DE Artificial Intelligence, Hygiene Museum, Dresden DE
How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur CH
New Viewings #34, Barbara Thumm, Berlin DE
Diversity United, Berlin DE
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, US
Art Rotterdam, Upstream Gallery, NL
2020
opencoil.show at Berlin Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin DE
Come Closer! Office Impart, Berlin, DE
The New Outside, https://upstream.gallery, Amsterdam NL
Versammlungsfreiheit, Villa Shöningen, Potsdam, DE
Die Zukunft der SPD, Zwinger Gallery Berlin, DE
Diversity United, Moscow – Berlin - Paris, RU
Art in the age of Anxiety, Sjarjah, UAE
Eintritt in ein Lebewesen Von der Sozialen Skulptur zum Plattform-Kapitalismus, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2019
Art after Social Media, Museum of fine Arts, Leipzig, DE
Do or Delegate, Onomatopee, NL
Behind the screen, Kindl, Berlin, DE
Uncanny Valley, Vienna Biennale, Austria Tropez Tropez, Berlin, DE
Strasbourg Biennale, France
Who Does What, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
All I Know Is Whats On The Internet, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Screen Spaces, Nieuwe Instituut & Anthology Film Archives, NYC, US
2018
I Was Raised On The Internet, MCA, Chicago, United States
When Facts Don't Matter, St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
Bienne Festival of Photography, Bienne, Switzerland From Zero to 2018, Upstream, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Electronic Super Highway, MAAT, Lissabon, Portugal Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Human / Digital: A symbiotic love affair, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
Windows, Basel, Switzerland Alien Matter, Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Collecting Europe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2016
Looking at one thing and thinking of something else An Exhibition in Four Parts, Part Two: Observations, Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK
How to dissapear completely, Garage Rotterdam, NL
UKCycle Music and Art Festival, K pavogur, Iceland
Merciless Separation - for Public Works, Utrecht Central Station, Utrecht, NL
Final Goods, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
Electronic Super Highway, Whitechapel, London, UK
Art Cologne, Future Gallery, DE
Neo Liberal Lulz, CarrollFletcher, London, UK
2015
Find your Beach, Kurator, Rapperswill, Switzerland Follow, Fact, Liverpool, UK
Sign of the Times, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, NL
Kvalitar, Prague, Czech Republic Planet Hype, Museum of the Image, Breda, NL
Then they form us, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, USA
YouTube, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Algorithmic Rubbish, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL
Mijn Vlakke Land, Foto Museum Antwerpen, Belgium Muse, Frans Hals museum / de Hallen, Haarlem, NL
When I give, I give myself, van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Výstava, Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic Panopticon, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, USA
PEBCAK IMHO, HEK / Liste 2015, Basel, Switzerland Hamster Hipster Handy, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
Digital // Analog: Indifferenz, Motorenhalle, Dresden, DE
2014
Böse Clowns, HMKV, Dortmund, DE
BALCONISM, MoMart, Amsterdam, NL
The Fluidity Aspect, TodaysArt 2014, The Hague, NL
Megarave, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
Treasure of Lima, TBA21, Vienna, Austria
Net.Art painters and poets, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Les Immaterieux for instance, Kunstverrein Dusseldorf, DE
net.art Painters and Poets, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
COMING SOON: Real Imaginary Futures, Bureau Europa Maastricht, NL
Surplus Living, KM Temporaer, Berlin, DE
Online / Offline / Encoding Everyday Life, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2013
Casting a Wide net, Postmasters, New York, USA
Come all ye Faithful, Seedorf residence, Zurich, Switzerland
Young Bohemia, Moscow Bienale, RU
Computer Run, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland
Summer Splash 2, DAM, Berlin, DE
Offline-art: Hardcore, Kasseler Kunstverrein, DE
Tactical Magick, Cast Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Sight and Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, USA
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitious authorship, Carroll Fletcher, London, UK
SECONDO ANNIVERSARIO, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
From Here on, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE
Sight & Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
Art Geneve, Future Gallery, Genevea, Switzerland
Offline Art, Xpo Gallery, Paris, France
In that weird Age, Club Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2012
Analogital, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, USA
Online Mythologies, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, RU
Collect the Wwworld, 319 Scholes, New York, USA
Not by Default, [DAM], Berlin, DE
Hot, DVD deaddrop, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Streamlines, Kansas Gallery, New York, USA
Collect the Wwworld, Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel, Switzerland
From here on, Fotomuseum, Antwerpen, Belgium
DOTCOM, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
GIF’s 4 life, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland
Tranceiver, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha. USA
In-compatible, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
The rescue of the Effects, General Public, Berlin, DE
Selected Film/Video Screenings
2013
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2011
Prosume this, Berlin, DE Lost & Found, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Lost & Found in the New Museum, New York, USA
Just add Water, by Pascual Sisto, DeSoto Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Secret Life, part of Version Festival, by Ola Vasiljeva, Chicago, USA
Mirror Site by Jon Rafman, MWNM, New York, USA
Selected Curatorial projects
2013
Another Fluxconcert in Amsterdam (Googleism), NASA, Amsterdam, NL
2011
Interfacial Gesture Salon, CSS Bard with Laurel Ptak, USA
2010
Public Interfacial Gesture Salon, Berlin, DE and Vienna, Austria
2009
Versions, NIMK, Amsterdam, NL
Video Vortex, Cimatics, Atomium Brussels, Belgium
Lost & Found, New Museum, New York, USA
Contemporary Semantics Beta, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2008-9
Lost and Found, Amsterdam, NL
2008
K.I.S.S, www.clubinternet.org CYCLUS DVD, Mr motley magazine, NL
2006
The €10.000 show, w139, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Lectures, Performances, Debates and Seminars
2023
The tool as a vessel for culture, Spike magazine at Sohohouse Berlin, DE
2022
The tool as a medium, IDFA @ brakke Grond, Amsterdam NL
2020
De internet marathon, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
2019
The instagram Bot Industrial Complex, Photographers Gallery, London, UK KeyNote for Dutch Culture
2017
Dulling Down - The Obsolescence of Intelligence, Transmediale, HWK, Berlin, DE
How Do Neural Networks Access Culture? Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2016
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Workshop museum Tamayo, Mexico city, Mexico
Lecture 'Media Catastrophe' HKM, Cologne, DE
Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
Net-Art materiality, panel, Whitechapel, London, UK
Beasts, Bodies and Bots, Studium Generale, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2015
Competing with the outsourced, Mertz Academy, Stuttgart, DE
Writing Workshop, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Neo Liberal Lulz, Stroom, Den Haag, NL
Art as Start up? Spike magazine at Paris Internationale, Paris, France
Lunchbytes conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Lafayette Re:Source, Paris, France
Les Immat riaux: towards the virtual with J.-F. Lyotard, Courtauld institute London, UK
Internetional, Witte de With, Showroom Mamma, V2, Rotterdam, NL
Share this, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2014
Do You Follow? Art in Circulation #2, Rhizome/ICA, London, UK
Society: Utopia, Lunch Bytes #1 Seminar, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Marc Berville Projects Paris, France
2012
MIACA, Hong Kong
PAF, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Digital October, Moscow, RU
OCT design Museum, Shenzhen, China
Guangzhou art academy, Guangzhou, China
Global Art Forum, Dubai, UAE
New Silent Series, New Museum, New York, USA
Utah Moca, Saltlake City, USA
The Influencers, Barcelona, Spain Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2011
Visual responses to a colonized medium, Museum für Angewante Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Awards
2015
Prix Net-Art, Rhizome, TASML, Chronus
Residencies
2022
Open Space, the Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL
2017
ISCP, residency with Mondriaan Foundation, New York, USA
2014
Opening Times, London, UK
2013
[ space ] residency with Goethe Institute, London, UK 2012 OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2010
Quartier 21, Museums Quartier Vienna, Austria Shortfuse, UK
2007
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
Commissions
2020
https://detour.world Open! Amsterdam NL
Touch-ING, ING Group HQ, Amsterdam, NL Chorus for Jigsaw / Rhizome NYC, US
2016
Merciless Separation, Public Works, Utrecht Central Station, Utrecht, NL
2015
OTDAC.org, London, UK
2012
Anamorvista, E-Permanent, Brighton Digital Festival, UK
2009
Readymades.net for IMPAKT online
www.atisd.at, Webart guide for children, for NIMK, NL
