DAM Projects

About DAM Projects

Art of the digital age from 1965 until now!

The founder and managing director of DAM Projects is Wolf Lieser. After several years as a freelance art consultant and gallery owner in Wiesbaden, he founded the Digital Art Museum in 1998 as an online-only museum, which was a groundbreaking innovation at the time, and developed it in collaboration with London's Metropolitan University. At the same time, Wolf Lieser ran the Colville Place Gallery in London together with Keith Watson, the first gallery to specialise in digital art. This was followed in 2003 by the founding of the DAM Gallery (now DAM Projects) in Berlin and the DAM DIGITAL ART AWARD in 2005. Since 2006, DAM has been cooperating with the Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, where digital art is shown to the public several times a day on the large video screen in the inner courtyard.

DAM Projects emerged from the Digital Art Museum, a virtual museum and archive dedicated to documenting and communicating this influential, avant-garde art form. It is the declared aim of DAM Projects - as an economic extension of the scientific orientation of the Digital Art Museum - to communicate digital art and make it comprehensively available. Together with the DAM DIGITAL ART AWARD, which was created in honour of important pioneers, these three pillars form the overall DAM concept.

In addition to graphics, animation, software art and interactive art, the artistic positions and thematic explorations of DAM Projects encompass the full spectrum of algorithmic, programmed art: from the pioneers and their plotter drawings generated with specially programmed algorithms to the first net artists in the early days of the internet to today's new generation of digital natives and the post-digital age. The main conceptual interest has always been the influence of coding and the digital on culture and society.

Since its invention, the computer has had an ever-increasing influence on everyday human life in most areas of life. Today, it epitomises our time like almost nothing else. Digital art moves freely at the interfaces of art, science and technology. On the semiotic, informatic basis of algorithms, it unfolds, in all its manifestations, a conceptually enormously multi-layered expressiveness. Programming an algorithm means first rationalising a complex, abstract concept and then coding it systematically and stringently. A computer-generated work of art is like being written in an encrypted language that can be visually deciphered via the image, adding new, artistic and conceptual levels of meaning.

Between the historical foundations and trend-setting developments, DAM Projects identifies and conveys positions of digital art of lasting art-historical value.

Founder and managing director: Wolf Lieser