Harm van den Dorpel’s “Mutant Garden” opens at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, surveying the artist’s research into evolutionary algorithms. The show, like van den Dorpel’s eponymous software, is divided into a “garden” for breeding artwork (image: Mutant Garden Autobreeder, 2021) and a “lab” for sharing process. “The tension between simplicity of computational rules and complexity in outcome, holds the key to understanding life, and by extension, our aesthetic appreciation of it.”