Constant Dullaart (Dutch, b. 1979) is a conceptual and internet artist whose work examines how social and cultural values are shaped by the tools and platforms of the internet, from Google and YouTube to Facebook and Instagram.,,He trained at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Rijksakademie, and lives and works in Berlin.,
His early works manipulated the interfaces of everyday internet services, flipping and rotating the homepages of Google and YouTube in projects such as The Revolving Internet to make viewers rethink the software they use daily.In 2013 he released The Death of the URL, a webpage whose address refreshed so rapidly that panicked viewers emailed him fearing they had lost control of their browser.That year he also began the series Jennifer in Paradise, revisiting the first photo ever photoshopped.,At Transmediale 2012 he presented HEALED, a video that used Photoshop's spot-healing brush to erase every frame of the first television footage of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire, and he co-founded net.artdatabase.org with Robert Sakrowsky to document and archive net art.
In 2012, during a residency at OCAT Shenzhen, he founded DullTech™, a fully operational technology start-up whose media player was pitched to “get rid of remote controls, expensive AV professionals, stress and drama”, a project that doubled as a performative artwork shown in the 2016 group exhibition “Neoliberal Lulz” at Carroll/Fletcher, London.In 2017, at Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference at the New Museum in New York, he worked with Chris Paik, a partner at the venture capital firm Thrive Capital, to explore what he called “the commodification of your attention”, creating a Twitter account for the Blade Runner character Roy Batty that drew 13,000 bot-driven retweets before he deleted it.In 2015 he won the second Prix Net Art, a $10,000 award for artists working primarily online, with that year's exhibitions spanning Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and Postmasters in New York.
Dullaart made early blockchain-based work on ascribe.io in 2014, years before NFTs entered the mainstream, and later released work through his own project aura.lol, active from 2022.,He built the platform common.garden for artist-run social exhibitions, and has researched how phenomena such as glossolalia and apophenia might bridge human and machine communication as Professor of Networked Materialities at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg.,In 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he had the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow remove a work of his featuring the Ukrainian flag.
