Jan Robert Leegte: links

Official portfolio, a chronological archive of works from the 1997 scrollbar pieces to 2025.

The artist's running list of exhibitions and events.

Scrollbar Composition (2000), the live web work whose scrollbars jump at random, now in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam collection.

JPEG (2022), the project page defining compressionism: vanilla JavaScript triggering the browser's compression algorithm.

Window (2022), compositions built from standard HTML DOM elements, an homage to 1997 interface aesthetics.

Waves, a generative web work in the artist's online series.

Web (Doteunmc), a browser-based work by the artist.

JPEG on Art Blocks, 275 editions, Art Blocks Presents, 2022.

Window on Art Blocks, 404 editions, 2022.

Van Gogh Museum solo presentation Compressed Landscapes, part of the Van Gogh Inspires series, 2021.

The Van Gogh Museum's press release announcing Leegte's digital work.

European Patent Office art collection, on the real-time landscape simulators including Performing a Landscape (2020).

Digital Canon entry on Scrollbar Composition (2000) and its place in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Rhizome ArtBase, the preservation record of Leegte's net.art including untitled[scrollbars].

Upstream Gallery (Amsterdam) artist page, biography and selected exhibitions.

Joint Upstream Gallery and Office Impart presentation at Art Basel Zero 10, Basel, June 2026.

Sculpting the Internet, a solo exhibition on digital materiality at Upstream Gallery.

Mountains and Drop Shadows, Upstream Focus presentation of the generative drop-shadow works.

Inside | Outside, a Leegte exhibition at Upstream Gallery.

Upstream Gallery announcement of the Window release on Art Blocks, 2022.

An NFT group exhibition curated by Jan Robert Leegte for Upstream Gallery.

Upstream Gallery on Compressed Landscapes at the Van Gogh Museum.

Upstream Gallery on Leegte presenting Wanderer and Ornament at Paris Photo 2025 with Office Impart.

VERSE exhibition page for Mountains and Drop Shadows, London, 2023.

Neumeister Bar-Am exhibition page for Google Maps as a Sculpture (2017), Würfel BLN, Berlin.

MutualArt listing for the Mountains and Drop Shadows exhibition.

Anika Meier for Right Click Save: Leegte on three decades of net art, the return to digitally native work through blockchain, JPEG's source-free compression logic, and generative editions as singular works with many instances.

Rhizome interview with Leegte on CONT3XT.NET and his sculptural engagement with the virtual.

FAKEWHALE in conversation with Leegte on his career, first net art, and references to Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman.

FAKEWHALE on the curated release of Walled Garden and its model of shared spatial ownership.

VERSE journal interview, Leegte on pushing the boundaries of net art.

GalleryViewer interview, digital media as subjects in their own right.

OFFICE IMPART interview with the artist on his practice and digital materials.

Hyperallergic on how Leegte's algorithmic images channel Van Gogh.

ArtDependence on the Van Gogh Museum's presentation of Compressed Landscapes.

ArtsTalk Magazine on the Van Gogh Museum presentation.

Furtherfield on Sculpting the Internet and digital materiality.

Carroll / Fletcher Onscreen feature on the artist.

LI-MA symposium report citing Wanderer (2025) as a model for self-archiving through blockchain.

Wikipedia entry on the Dutch net artist, biography and exhibitions.

Le Random artist profile, biography and generative works.

net-art.org profile of the artist.

Rhizome tag archive collecting coverage of Leegte.

Pixxelpoint festival profile, on Scrollbars (Floor Piece) (1999) and the move to gallery installation.

MOTZKO documents ten collected works by Leegte, including Window, Web, JPEG, Ornament, and Walled Garden.

Compressed Landscapes, video on the Van Gogh Museum project.

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