Constant Dullaart
Dutch artist and curator
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Constant Dullaart (born 7 March 1979 in Leiderdorp) is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator.[1] His work examines the cultural and social effects of communication and image-processing technologies, as well as the power structures of major internet corporations.[2]
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7 March 1979
Constant Dullaart | |
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Constant Dullaart, Crypto Design Challenge 2016 | |
| Born | Constant Klaas Willem Dullaart 7 March 1979 Leiderdorp, Netherlands |
| Education | Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam |
| Known for | Conceptual art, Net Art |
| Notable work | The Revolving Internet, Jennifer in Paradise, The Death of the URL, High Retention, Slow Delivery, The Possibility of an Army |
| Awards | Prix Net Art 2015 |
Biography
Dullaart was born and raised in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands. He attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1997 to 2002.[3] He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 2007 to 2008.[4] Since 2023, Dullaart has been professor of Networked Materiality at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.[5]
Dullaart's 2013 work series Jennifer in Paradise uses and reworks the image used as the first photograph to demonstrate Photoshop.[6][7]
He is also known for distributing 2.5 million bought Instagram followers amongst a personal selection of active art-world Instagram accounts.[8]
In 2015, for a four-month durational performance commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Dullaart created thousands of fake Facebook profiles using the names of Hessian soldiers from the Hetrina archive[9] of the Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen.[10][11]
In 2015, Dullaart received the Prix Net Art.[12]
Selected works
- The Revolving Internet (2010), a browser-based work in which the Google search interface rotates while retaining its functionality.[13]
- Jennifer in Paradise (2013), a series based on the image used to demonstrate early versions of Photoshop, which Dullaart reworked in digital and physical forms.[14][15]
- The Death of the URL (2013), a web-based work using an unusually long .xxx domain name as a commentary on changing patterns of navigating the web and the growing role of platforms such as Google and Facebook.[16]
- High Retention, Slow Delivery (2014), an online social-media intervention in which artificial followers were distributed among users in order to disrupt follower counts as measures of popularity.[17]
- The Possibility of an Army (2015), an online performance commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt that used fake Facebook accounts based on historical Hessian soldiers to examine digital identity and social-media metrics.[18][19]
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2025 – Choose Your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web, ZKM, Karlsruhe[20]
- 2019 – Link in Bio, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig[21]
- 2019 – Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence & You, MAK, Vienna[22]
- 2019 – Behind the Screen, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin[23]
- 2019 – Festival van de Controle, Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt[24]
- 2018 – Cultural Matter: Constant Dullaart, LI-MA, Amsterdam[25]
- 2018 – Follower Profiles, Foam, Amsterdam[26]
- 2018 – I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago[27]
- 2017 – Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe[28]
- 2017 – Collecting Europe, Victoria and Albert Museum, London[29]
- 2015 – The Possibility of an Army, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt[30]
- 2014 – High Retention, Slow Delivery, Jeu de Paume, Paris[31]
- 2013 – Jennifer in Paradise, Future Gallery and Import Projects, Berlin[32]
