Constant dullaart biography

Biography.
Biography.
He examines the boundaries of manipulating Google, Facebook and Instagram and started his own tech company Dulltech™ with Kickstarter.

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Artist Details

Biography

Constant Dullaart was born in 1979 in Ledierdrop, The Netherlands. He graduated in 2002 from Gerrit Rietveld Academie and in 2008 from Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, both in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (2013); FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018); and Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2020). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Off the record, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009); Online Mythologies, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia (2012); Collecting Europe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (2014); and How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2022). Dullaart currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Bio updated as of 2023.

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A Conversation with Constant Dullaart

Laura Wallace

Constant Dullaart is a conceptual artist using the platforms and tools of the Internet as a space of inquiry and critique about technology’s impact on the world. From distributing millions of purchased Instagram followers to famous art world Instagram accounts to creating an army of thousands of fake Facebook profiles, Dullaart’s work critically and witfully examines that networks and structures that inform and govern our lives and identities as we become represented in the digital era. We sat down for a conversation in his Brooklyn studio, where he is a current member of the ISCP residency program, courtesy of the Mondriaan Fund.

Brett Wallace: What was your origin in art?

Constant Dullaart: When I was 12, I became fascinated with video on TV. I had this vision of hearing a conversation inside the plane while you watched the plane take off from the outside. You would never hear that in a natural situation, but now you would be allowed to hear it. I realized you could add another conversation to it about something else

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Constant Dullaart

Dutch artist and curator

Constant Dullaart
Constant Dullaart, Crypto Design Challenge 2016
Born	Constant Klaas Willem Dullaart (1979-03-07) 7 March 1979 (age 45) Leiderdorp, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Education	Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Known for	Conceptual art, Net Art
Notable work	The Revolving Internet, Jennifer in Paradise series, Social Media Socialism, The Death of the URL
Movement	Balconism, Postinternet
Awards	Prix Net Art 2015
Patron(s)	Mondriaan Fonds

Constant Dullaart (born Leiderdorp, 7 March 1979) is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator.^[1] His work is deeply connected to the Internet.

Biography

Dullaart was born and raised in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands. He attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1997 to 2002, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in the year 2007–2008. After his graduation in 1997 he settled as artist in Amsterdam. From 2010 to 2015 he lived in Berlin.