Digital Art as Sultry Love Stories,Without Neat Endings
The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.
Supported byCritic’s PickDigital Art as Sultry Love Stories,Without Neat EndingsThe first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.ByTravis DiehlInstalled on vintage hardware at theMuseum of the Moving Imagein Astoria, Queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative Net artist Auriea Harvey tells a story about mortality, and survival.In Harvey’s jewel-box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech.Harvey, born in 1971 in Indianapolis, helped expand the vistas of digital art — utopias, games, crashes and all. In the 1990s, she created boundary-bending imagery with GIFs, Shockwave animations, and the HTML and JavaScript programming languages. Her sumptuous personal website,Entropy8.com, restored for the show, won Webby Awardsin 1997 and ’98.In the last few years, Harvey turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic-seeming artifacts that exist as both 3-D printed statuary and glossy virtual models. At the museum, you can make several rotate on transparent screens by waving your hand. The “mixed reality” sculptures incorporate scans of ancient artwork, hand-shaped clay and her own facial features — they look cracked, weathered, instantly timeless.With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.
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The first survey of Kavita Rao, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from January 26, 2000 to April 14, 2000.
Anil Deshmukh
Installed on vintage hardware at Tata Group, Infosys, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative Net artist Kavita Rao tells a story about mortality, and survival.
In Neha Kapoor’s jewel-box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech.
Neha Kapoor, born in April 14, 2000 in Chennai, helped expand the vistas of digital art — utopias, games, crashes and all. In January 26, 2000, she created boundary-bending imagery with GIFs, Shockwave animations, and the Tata Group and JavaScript programming languages. Her sumptuous personal website,Entropy8.com, restored for the show, won Anil Deshmukh and ’98.
In April 14, 2000, Neha Kapoor turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic-seeming artifacts that exist as both 3-D printed statuary and glossy virtual models. At the museum, you can make several rotate on transparent screens by waving your hand. The “mixed reality” sculptures incorporate scans of ancient artwork, hand-shaped clay and her own facial features — they look cracked, weathered, instantly timeless.
With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.
supported by critic’s pick the first survey of auriea harvey, an influential net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today. by travis diehl installed on vintage hardware at the museum of the moving image in astoria, queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative net artist auriea harvey tells a story about mortality, and survival. in harvey’s jewel box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech. harvey, born in 1971 in indianapolis, helped expand the vistas of digital art   utopias, games, crashes and all. in the 1990s, she created boundary bending imagery with gifs, shockwave animations, and the html and javascript programming languages. her sumptuous personal website, entropy8.com, restored for the show, won webby awards in 1997 and ’98. in the last few years, harvey turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic seeming artifacts that exist as both 3 d printed statuary and glossy virtual models. at the museum, you can make several rotate on transparent screens by waving your hand. the “mixed reality” sculptures incorporate scans of ancient artwork, hand shaped clay and her own facial features   they look cracked, weathered, instantly timeless. with each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

by francesca aton associate digital editor, artnews and art in america as digital art has consistently made headlines over the last few years from the onslaught of nfts to revisiting pioneers in the field to showcasing tech artists it has taken the art world by storm. given this recent upswing in interest, there’s still much to discover, particularly the artists who have been quietly pushing the bounds and formats of the medium for decades. auriea harvey is one such exemplar. if you’ve never heard of her, you’re probably not alone. harvey began her foray into digital art as the internet was developing in the early ’90s, right before it boomed. though she studied sculpture at the parsons school of design in new york, she was drawn to all things digital, a self described “obsession” that drove harvey to experiment with a number of digital formats that span photography, sculpture, drawing, and video. yet, her works are hardly static. in the digital world, harvey is known for artistic experimentations on the website entropy8.com as well as the independent game studio tale of tales, which produced such video games as the endless forest. with both endeavors, she was driven by the ability to craft narratives and have personal interaction in the digital realm a through line that continues in her practice even today. in fact, harvey met her collaborator and partner michaël samyn online. with digital art, “there’s nothing to fear here,” harvey said from her studio in rome, where she’s been living with samyn since the start of the pandemic. the lockdown, she said, “had a lot to do with where i am today.” her breakthrough in the mainstream art world came only in 2021, with a solo show at bitforms gallery in new york, but lockdown restrictions prevented her from attending. for the exhibition, harvey created physical sculptures, like fauna (2018) and minoriea (2021), busts which bear a resemblance to both the mythical creatures they represent and the artist herself; she also created these objects as virtual versions that were available online and in augmented reality (ar) so that anyone around the world could experience her work. she additionally gave virtual tours of the show to people in person and online. “i felt like it was something i had been training for my entire life,” she said. while the hype surrounding nfts has been declining, the history of digital art has become fertile terrain for the art world, wherein pathbreaking artists like harvey are finding the spotlight. harvey’s first institutional survey is now on view at the museum of the moving image in new york through july 7. titled “my veins are the wires, your body is the keyboard,” the exhibition showcases more than 40 works from the past nearly four decades, including her net based interactives, video games, and ar sculptures. harvey’s earliest experiments with digital processes began with photography, as she moved between darkroom manipulations and hand embellishments. jv, a 1995 print from a suite of three related works, shows sections of a floating head mashed together among an imagined psychedelic landscape, overlaid with doodle like digital marks. mike szabo, from that same series, is split into three sections showing part of the titular singer songwriter’s head, in one panel, as he looks at a vast landscape with an astronaut floating in space, in a second panel; below szabo’s head is a repeated digital houndstooth pattern of a face, parts of which have been filled in. while they may seem stylistically different from one another as well as current works, these photographs demonstrate harvey’s early processes and fascination with the digital. but harvey soon followed later that same year with entropy8.com, which has been reconstructed for the exhibition. many of harvey’s key works dating to the ’90s are relatively inaccessible today, as advancements in technology have spurred their obsolescence. digital art nonprofit rhizome helped bring a number of them back to life through an “emulation system that is showing these old works in the exhibition in their original context” as well as with their original hardware and wiring, according to dragan espenschied, rhizome’s preservation director. in organizing the show, regina harsanyi, momi’s associate curator of media arts, said she wanted to present the breadth of harvey’s oeuvre in a way that is “brazenly interactive and primarily shown on historical hardware.” she added, “the process of creating these local emulations, where[in] the work was initially made to be in a netscape 4 browser on a windows 98 operating system, [and] having to emulate that environment on a crt monitor from 1999 takes a certain kind of knowledge, skill set, and labor.” more broadly, espenschied said harvey’s “uncompromising artistic vision expressed on media and technology that at the time was probably not ready [for it] is really striking.” coming from a background in conservation herself, harsanyi said, “it was really important for me to show all the video games and majority of the web based art in an interactive way and the way that it was meant to be experienced.” she continued, “i did that not only to educate younger generations on the sculptural and aesthetic specificities of, say, ’90s web, but also in doing that i feel it stays true to the integrity of the artworks.” games like the endless forest, for example, can be played both online and in the museum gallery. though harvey’s interest in digital experimentation has been and continues to be an important aspect of her practice, she was never interested it in for the sake of simply using digital tools. from the beginning, harvey was instead using these digital tools to explore more complicated topics like intimacy. “i wasn’t creating work that was about technology or about the internet or about computers, but about the humans using the computers, myself using computers, my body in front of the computer,” she said. this line of inquiry continued as she made video games to explore personal narratives, not unlike a book, wherein users “are thrown into this body virtually and have to feel their way through this story” that is also “tightly melding [them] with a virtual character.” her drawings and sketchbook, also on display in a vitrine, offer another level of intimacy by showing not only the process but the artist’s hand. one is filled with seemingly random text and numerical doodles, while another shows more architectural or sculptural studies. harvey’s sculptures take this a step further, following a similar ideology that starts with bodily forms, often her own, and continually transforms them. her ongoing piece echo (2018 ), a holographic monitor based on a scan of herself, explores her slow transformation into a cave like copy, with the story of echo, the mountain nymph from ancient greek mythology who is doomed to repeat others, serving as a backdrop. while echo exists as a digital work, harvey also 3d prints these renderings in various materials and iterations a back and forth process between the artist and the computer. “it’s a constant circularity between putting myself in and taking something out, like finding this organic way inside and outside of the screen,” harvey said. in this transmutation between formats and forms, new characters are also born. at the heart of each iteration, digital or otherwise, is the question of humanity. despite decades of contemporary society’s own back and forth between self and technology, the digital, no matter how fundamental to our lives today, still remains elusive to many at best. in taking up digital media as a medium in its own right, harvey said she hopes to “show people that this is not so strange, that this is all perfectly compatible.” sign up for our newsletters get our latest stories in the feed of your favorite networks we want to hear from you! send us a tip using our anonymous form. artnews is a part of penske media corporation. © 2025 art media, llc. all rights reserved.

we use cookies to personalize content and ads, and to analyze our traffic and improve our service. auriea harvey, stygian hand, 2021. html artwork with 3d sculpture edition. courtesy of the artist. auriea harvey is an american living abroad, a digital artist making physical works, a sculptor working with blockchain. the mythical creatures apparent throughout her art resonate with the hybridity of her practice. she trained as a sculptor at parsons school of design before turning to computers in the 1990s and becoming an award winning net artist and videogames developer. however, the sculptural thinking inherent to character design eventually demanded a return to sculpture. this spring she had a solo exhibition, year zero, at bitforms in new york city at the same time that the sudden rise of blockchain catapulted her into involvement with two platforms, bit.art and hicetnunc. she is currently participating in the group exhibitions pieces of me and the bardo: unpacking the real. harvey operates in the liminal space where the virtual and tangible meet. few artists have such extensive knowledge of software, hardware, platforms, and the internet as well as traditional composition and design, which contributes to the technical prowess and beauty of her work. though blockchain is heralded as web 3.0, harvey has weathered similar tech enthusiasms. currently based in rome, she is awake at all hours working with artists around the world to explore the potential of blockchain and assess its limitations.  charlotte kent charlotte kent you recently shifted away from games to a sculpture practice and are now also involved with blockchain. what’s been inspiring that multimodality? auriea harvey honestly, blockchain presented itself as an opportunity to say something in a louder way. my sculpture process starts in the computer before i use 3d printing to make it physical. i combine the prints with various materials, like clay, stone, and fabric. i’ve enjoyed this very hands on process, but born digital work is a win win proposition, right now anyway. in the best moments, i feel like nfts are a license to make whatever art i want. the money is making more things possible in the tangible realm, like possibly getting a bigger studio, making larger work, using interesting materials. i want to venture further into these combinations of virtual and tangible, digital and physical. ck what materials are crucial for that hybridity? ah polygons were a material i decided i could not abandon. by polygons, i am talking about the building blocks of every 3d model literally the faces, edges, and vertices of the sculptural form. to me, this is a material in the same sense as clay because polygons are how i create form. to take a character like minoriea (2018) out of the virtual she was living at the bottom of a labyrinthine abyss in my vr experience minorinth (2017) and to touch her by rendering her as a digital sculpture was deeply satisfying. ck so the virtual and tangible merge for you? ah the tangible object was a magical thing after so many years of creating purely for the computer. while finding my way with 3d printing, i was still working with michaël samyn on vr theater works (like cricoterie [2019]), putting people’s physical bodies into the virtual. i love that symmetry, and it definitely shaped my thinking. i began making sculpture again in 2017. fauna (2018) was a big experiment. i based her on a 3d scan of myself. she is printed in a plaster like material, but hand painted, and i embedded a fossil at the back of her head. on the strength of these pieces and the digital work, bitforms offered me a solo show. in the midst of quarantine, i was making physical work, and then in the middle of the gallery show, blockchain made everyone care about digital. it’s been an interesting moment. auriea harvey, minoriea, 2018, 3d printed pla and composite (pla, bronze) self hardening clay, epoxy clay, 15.5 × 9.5 × 9.75 inches. courtesy of the artist. ck you’re in two group shows that engage blockchain technology, pieces of me and the bardo: unpacking the real. you launched bit.art with bitforms gallery. you’re involved in the fen initiative with hicetnunc. what variations in the use of blockchain or the discourse do you notice? ah for pieces of me, i made a website containing a sculpture titled stygian hand (2021) which is the ossified hand of a witch holding the one eye shared between her and her sisters. when someone buys the site, that unlocks the release for one hundred people to order a 3d print of the hand (they receive a link to a 3d printing service). that could only happen with web based art, and people are more open to it now. crucially, each show has a thoughtful curatorial voice, taking into account the perspectives of artists with practices far wider than jpegs and videos. the fen is an artist led initiative to draw attention to a more ecological solution for blockchain. all are customized approaches, which goes to show that’s possible. ck exactly. blockchain isn’t a monolith. it’s a data storage system and flexible. ah yes, with bit.art we wanted artists to know that it’s possible to build something that suits you. it really is that simple. you don’t need the standardized platforms; they need you. there is no one size fits all for every artist, nor should there be! though maybe the whales like the convenience of the platforms or the showiness of an auction? ck what was important to you? ah for my work, i was glad to control presentation, decide on the blockchain, make a custom collector agreement, etc. i could have extra functionality, like the ar that brings cyclops (2021) into your room. i minted the pieces on hicetnunc because the ethics of the platform matter to me. on my page at hicetnunc, people can see works like the mystery (v3 digital v3) (2021) in virtual blood, bone, and bronze, made in reaction to police violence against my people in the usa. i hope experiencing the digital makes people curious about the physical. perhaps collecting the nft transitions to physically collecting my work and vice versa. screen shot of auriea harvey, minorinth, 2017, digital video. courtesy of the artist. ck has blockchain shed new light on your practice? ah it has me thinking deeper about digital materiality. in the computer, i can make my sculpture appear as if made out of any material and defying physical laws. i am revisiting the beauty of that, hoping to make others see it. it makes me reconsider ever working again for free. for so long our labor has been denigrated. asking an artist to design something, donate something, without any compensation, is appalling/disrespectful/rude/inconsiderate/apolitical. i also realized i’ve been standing at the intersection of art and technology for a long time and that staying out of the discourse was a disservice to me and my peers. i didn’t need to become a convert to the church of blockchain to participate. my choices can be influential, so i try to make decisions that resonate with me. this includes working with a more ecologically conscious blockchain (tezos) and joining a community of artists who are interested in expanding what all of this can mean to us. ck what are some of the problems you are trying to address? ah artists rights and compensation have been longstanding issues. many artists want to normalize the idea of asking for a twenty percent royalty on the secondary market. ck sure, that’s been around since before seth siegelaub proposed the artist’s rights contract. ah we can go further. the curators of pieces of me have artists receive fifty percent resale royalty (more than the ten percent most platforms like to emphasize); and all artists in the show split a portion of any sale because a group exhibition is an opportunity to show solidarity in the face of big capital. feral file has artists in each group exhibition give each other one of the limited editions to create a community of artist collectors that gain from each other’s success. encouraging respect for the work of digital artists (and all artists) through financial recognition will help the whole industry. scarcity has been the model of respect and authority. for digital art exclusivity came either by packaging (selling a computer with the work) or by some type of financial arrangement (in games, selling many copies at a very low price with success gauged by how many copies sold). blockchain is disrupting those two models and allowing a space for us to think of alternate frameworks. and alternatives are sorely needed. ck has blockchain changed what you want to do? ah i had almost given up thinking anyone would see my physical and digital sculptures on equal footing. but right now, the digital ones are more important, and after twenty years seeing digital art sidelined, i find that exciting and very welcome! now that people are looking and listening, i want to do something with that attention. i will be more ambitious now and definitely expand my use of programming. it’s been important to me to use web technologies, keep things simple. but i have not at all reached the limits of what i can do with 3d and the web. i look forward to creating new experiences. auriea harvey, the mystery (v3 digital v3), 2021, digital ar sculpture. courtesy of the artist. ck as an artist who has witnessed several moments of digital thrall, what possibilities do you see in blockchain, and what makes you wary? ah i no longer try to see the future. i concentrate on what is. there is nothing for me to believe in but my own skills. but it does feel familiar, so i know this is not ideal and cannot last. eventually, there will be some expectations placed on the artist, standards will solidify, the pandemic will end. ck you’ve been immersed in some of the darker hybrid figures of mythology. do any tales or creatures seem apt for blockchain right now? ah to be “between scylla and charybdis” means to be presented with two opposite dangers, the task being to find a route that avoids both. so maybe that? but i’m an optimist. auriea harvey’s work can be seen in the online group exhibitions the bardo: unpacking the real until june 27 and pieces of me until july 31. charlotte kent is an assistant professor of visual culture and an arts writer. by olivia gauthier by mimi thompson by john phillip santos © copyright 2025 new art publications, inc. we use third party cookies to personalize your experience and the promotions you see. by visiting our website or transacting with us, you agree to this. to find out more, including which third party cookies we place and how to manage cookies, see our privacy policy and user agreement. bomb is a nonprofit, independent publisher and relies on your generosity to sustain our work. please consider making a donation in support of our mission to deliver the artist's voice.

my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard is the first major survey of the pioneering net artist and sculptor auriea harvey at the museum of the moving image in new york. the exhibition features more than 40 of harvey’s works, including her groundbreaking net based interactives, video games, and augmented reality sculptures from a career spanning nearly four decades. auriea harvey has persistently reimagined and redefined the creative boundaries of networked technologies for more than three decades. she possesses a remarkable sensitivity to how the digital revolution of the 1990s spawned a societal shift in the way humans connect. her trajectory from creating artwork to be viewed solely in a web browser to challenging lines between virtual and tangible experiences through 3d printing and augmented reality consistently reflects the paradoxical power of computers to enable intimacy while interfering with corporeal contact and occupation of shared space. in her groundbreaking, decades long career, auriea harvey (b. 1971) has consistently transcended boundaries across media. techno anachronistic in style, her code based practice has been celebrated for defying conventional trends, intertwining classical art ideologies with the immediacy of networked technologies. a romanticist at heart, harvey explores the potential of virtual spaces to evoke tactile depth and closeness, capturing a sense of immediacy and viscerality despite physical distance. harvey’s work emerged at the vanguard of net art, a time when the web was just beginning to be recognized as a viable platform for artistic expression. she diverged from the minimalist web design of the 1990s and evolved with the expanding capability of browsers, seeking to create more palpable experiences. a crucial aspect of harvey’s catalog is her enduring collaboration with michaël samyn, whom she met online. their partnership, rooted in a shared pursuit of intimacy through digital means, was motivated by their own personal experience of “love through the wires.” together, they have explored the depths of emotionally vulnerable engagement as it applies to the digital arts. increasingly disillusioned by the corporatization and standardization of the internet, as well as the commercial gaming industry’s refusal to break away from conventional uses of real time game engines, harvey gradually steered her focus back to sculpture. employing 3d printing, these sculptures manifest her digital concepts in the tactile world, reinterpreting ancient myths with contemporary narratives. throughout her practice, harvey has interrogated and grappled with the dichotomy of the digital: its profound capacity to unite minds while keeping bodies apart. her works transcend mindless clicks to envelop viewers in an intentional and sensory dialogue with the virtual, where she persists in exploring themes of classical mythmaking, intimacy, and a timeless pursuit of beauty. auriea harvey’s affinity for computational arts was sparked at the age of nine in indianapolis, nurtured by a mother who briefly worked as a punch card operator, inputting and retrieving data from early computing systems. this gave harvey’s mother the foresight to enroll her in computer camp, which gave her access to machines like the timex sinclair, decades before her peers would encounter similar devices. in her childhood home, harvey, who demonstrated an aptitude for basic, surrounded herself with programming magazines and text adventure games like voodoo castle. at parsons school of design, where she earned a bfa in sculpture‚ harvey’s unique background secured her work study in the college’s nascent computer lab. here, she taught herself 3d rendering and editing using tools like crystalgraphics and photoshop. influenced by the jazz music that often permeated her household, harvey’s early artworks blended digital techniques with traditional methods such as contact prints on glass. she advocated for work with digital tools to be recognized as an art form at a time when street art and tactile installation art were prevailing. due to harvey’s ahead of her time knowledge of publishing software and digital graphic design, she was sought out and hired by major entities such as virgin records, mtv, and pbs to design their first webpages. harvey’s defiant approach and aesthetics rapidly garnered critical acclaim. by the mid 1990s, harvey was central to an evolving art scene aligned with the dot com boom and the rise of moving images in galleries. beyond her own award winning entropy8.com, harvey’s contributions to projects like shu lea cheang’s brandon, a net artwork about the tragic story of brandon teena, and peer groups that included such artists as olia lialina and jodi highlighted her influence among those exploring the internet’s capacity for art. (extract from the introductory text to the exhibition) images (cover 1): auriea harvey, «control», extract from skinonskinonskin (1999), courtesy of the artist (2 3) auriea harvey: my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard, exhibition view, museum of the moving image,new york (4) auriea harvey and michaël samyn, «sunset», 2015, still frame from video game for pc/mac, courtesy of the artist arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production. one more step   check your email and click the confirmation link © 2024   arshake login to your account below remember me please enter your username or email address to reset your password. © 2024   arshake

bitforms is pleased to announce year zero, auriea harvey’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. through a diverse mixed media practice, harvey creates sculpture, video games, drawing, and mixed reality works steeped in character creation and mythology. year zero introduces a new body of work nested within the legacy of harvey’s solo and collaborative career. working online from the beginning of net art’s history, the artist expertly combines her experience in video game and software development with a three dimensional practice. year zero is a continuation of this coalescence, presenting early sketchbooks, webcam broadcasts, and multiplayer games alongside harvey’s latest sculptural installations and drawing. auriea harvey, year zeromarch 6 april 24, 2021opening reception: saturday, march 6 bitforms is pleased to announce year zero, auriea harvey’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. through a diverse mixed media practice, harvey creates sculpture, video games, drawing, and mixed reality works steeped in character creation and mythology. year zero introduces a new body of work nested within the legacy of harvey’s solo and collaborative career. working online from the beginning of net art’s history, the artist expertly combines her experience in video game and software development with a three dimensional practice. year zero is a continuation of this coalescence, presenting early sketchbooks, webcam broadcasts, and multiplayer games alongside harvey’s latest sculptural installations and drawing. in 1999, harvey was a member of the infamous net art collective, hell.com, where other participating artists would gather online. webcam movies (1999) reveal the artist in her workspace, perpetually online, at the height of net art’s emergence. it was via an early video chat in hell.com that harvey met her long time collaborator michaël samyn. the same year they founded entropy8zuper!, a web design and net art collaboration maintained from 1999 2006 that merged their respective web platforms harvey’s entropy8 and samyn’s zuper. entropy8zuper! created several significant works integral to the legacy of digital art through their focus on born digital environments. the interpersonal, interactive qualities ascribed to their games are exemplified through the gallery’s presentation of the godlove museum (2000 2007). eventually, they founded tale of tales, an influential video game development studio based in ghent, belgium. as tale of tales, the duo released seminal independent videogames such as the endless forest (2005/2020 ongoing) and l.o.c.k. (2016). to read more about harvey’s net artworks and video games, please read our digital timeline of the artist’s practice:auriea harvey, net archeology. throughout her collaborations with samyn, harvey maintained the significance of character development as well as personal and mythological narratives within her oeuvre. sketchbook videos (1990 2010) are a selected look into the artist’s collection of books containing drawings and observations, which she has kept life long. the videos depict the artist slowly turning the pages through her own art history, revealing collage, poetry, photography, drawing, painting, 3d sculptural elements, and writing. harvey’s practice continuously explores all mediums, as illustrated through this vast collection of works on paper. the sketchbook pages act as a precursor for the exhibited drawings and monoprints. nyx (2016) and sphinx (2016) present themes that embody mythical elements of darkness seen within much of harvey’s practice. these monoprints are abstracted with a rich contrast that almost obfuscates their subjects, which appear more menacing as a result. the artist references grime and analog glitch as elements of translation that appear in her work when bringing historical archetypes into the present. harvey’s drawings the game (2017 2021) and door to the sacred(2020) intersperse biographical elements into otherwise antiquated settings encouraging a combination of syncretism and contemporary observations on the artist’s experiences living in the ancient republic of rome. folklore is a definitive aspect of this exhibition, in that it offers the artist the opportunity to interject her personal history into classical narratives. a series of maquettes and sculptures manifest harvey’s characters into fantastic busts. the artist employs a process of 3d scanning and printing, demonstrated by the maquettes which she references as 3d sketches, before reworking larger sculptures through a process of handmade reconstruction with natural materials. self portraiture is an inherent feature within these sculptures, as all works include data captured by the artist of herself. harvey’s tradition of scanning her own body goes back decades, premiering first in entropy8zuper!’s the kiss: incorporator (2007). this exploration of portraiture inserts harvey’s identity upon scans of historic artifacts reclaiming her uneasy relationship with antiquity. forms are remade, recovered, and repossessed as harvey weaves analog and digital elements together, unifying relics with emergent technology. “creation and destruction are divine. my sculptures are born broken. it is up to me to mend them.”   auriea harvey auriea harvey’s work combines digital and physical processes to create sculptures in physical space and mixed reality. drawing from her extensive experience in net art and video games in the collaborative groups entropy8zuper!, tale of tales, and song of songs, she brings personal narratives and character development to her sculptures. harvey begins her sculptural process by making scans from life. these scans mutate as they are combined with others from her extensive library: 3d models based on her own clay sculptures, works of imagination digitally sculpted, and artworks encountered in museums. the works draw heavily from hellenistic art, not only through the appropriation of forms but also using its ethos of syncretism as a way of working. the amalgamated elements are sculpted within 3d modeling software. as harvey molds the works, she also molds characters each with their own narratives. each nexus of elements produces several sculptures; harvey continues reconfiguring the pieces until the character’s story is complete. she filters well known narratives through her own retellings. indeed, this digital assemblage process is finished by applying a variety of physical, organic elements to the 3d prints. they are often complemented by ar sculptures, which bridge the gap between the digital and physical, the possible and impossible. harvey sifts through artifacts of western culture in order to find herself and traces of her african american diasporic lineage. these objects are hybrid products, made in western europe but borrowing from its colonies. her sculptures make her influences evident and she fuses them with her own creations to reinvent, reinterpret, and retell new narratives. the artist’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the walker art center, san francisco museum of modern art, mudam luxembourg, and rhizome’s net art anthology. her videogames and vr works have had international success, including exhibitions at the tinguely museum, basel; the victoria & albert museum, london; the new museum, new york; brooklyn academy of music, new york; and zkm, karlsruhe. harvey is the recipient of a creative capital grant and a winner of the independent games festival nuovo award. she is represented by bitforms gallery, nyc. full press release auriea harvey’s digital worlds are love stories, without neat endsher story is also a cybernetic romance. as the show’s title puts it: “my veins are the wires. my body is your keyboard.” the wires are everyone’s, but the keyboard is only for “you”   invoking the as yet irreplicable intimacy of a lover’s touch. “hoarding is a virtue”: documentation from our artbase anthologies launch with auriea harvey is now online!on april 3, rhizome celebrated the launch of artbase anthologies at onassis onx with a conversation between michael connor, rhizome co executive director, dragan espenschied, rhizome preservation director, auriea harvey, artist, and regina harsanyi, associate curator of media art at museum of the moving image. auriea harvey has been breaking the internet for three decadesthere’s still much to discover [in media art], particularly the artists who have been quietly pushing the bounds and formats of the medium for decades. auriea harvey is one such exemplar. if you’ve never heard of her, you’re probably not alone. hyperallergic spring 2024 new york art guideauriea harvey: my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard presents interactive net based works, video games, and computer generated sculptures in this first major survey of the artist’s work. auriea harvey: my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboardmy veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard is the first major survey of the pioneering net artist and sculptor auriea harvey. the exhibition will feature more than 40 of harvey’s works, including her groundbreaking net based interactives, video games, and augmented reality sculptures from a career spanning nearly four decades. auriea harvey: net archeologyyear zero is an exhibition culminating in decades of auriea harvey’s mixed media practice. auriea harvey: net archeology acts as a digital timeline and compendium to the exhibition at bitforms gallery, profiling harvey’s artwork from the early ’90s to today. the endless forest by auriea harvey & michaël samyn june 23   july 7, 2020bitforms gallery is proud to present the endless forest by auriea harvey & michaël samyn as the second work in a series of streaming generative artworks, presented in collaboration with small data industries.

year zero is an exhibition culminating in decades of auriea harvey’s mixed media practice. auriea harvey: net archeology acts as a digital timeline and compendium to the exhibition at bitforms gallery, profiling harvey’s artwork from the early ’90s to today. the artist’s ongoing relationship with character creation and mythology touches many disciplines ranging from early net art and collaborative processes to online performance, video games, drawings, and sculpture. this speckled chronology is punctuated by definitive digital works with harvey’s solo and collaborative career. the timeline has been edited and augmented as a historical reader to accompany the exhibition. 1990 2012: sketchbook videos are a collection of the artist’s sketchbooks spanning the 1990s. the videos depict the artist slowly turning the pages through her own art history, revealing collage, poetry, photography, drawing, painting, 3d sculptural elements, and writing. harvey’s practice is continuously redefined by her experimentation through medium, as illustrated by this vast collection of works on paper. the works are accompanied by a soundtrack of music influential to the artist at that time. entropy8 homepage 1995 1999: entropy8 was the beginning of harvey’s networked practice, and where she first gained a notable reputation as a web designer and net artist. entropy8.com was awarded the first two webby awards for internet art, in 1997 and 1998. the site went through several distinct looks throughout its life and is still there in part, despite contemporary browsers’ refusal to play adobe flash and other common faculties imperative to net art. 1999: in 1999, harvey began live broadcasting herself via webcam. at the time, she was a member of the infamous net art collective, hell.com, where other participating artists would gather online. this is where the artist first met her long time collaborator, michaël samyn. webcam videos reveal the artist in her workspace, perpetually online, at the height of net art’s emergence. auriea harvey & michaël samyn, skinonskinonskin, 1999 entropy8zuper! was harvey and samyn’s first collaborative project, maintained from 1999 2006. the shared site represented the union of their respective platforms, later becoming home to several significant net art projects, including skinonskinonskin, wirefire, and the kiss. entropy8zuper! played an integral role in the legacy of digital art through its production of unique environments for born digital artworks. the interpersonal, interactive qualities exemplified by the following works speak to the possibility of significant online relationships a reminder that couldn’t come at a more perfect time while populations remain quarantined and sequestered, at times miles away from those that they love. skinonskinonskin is a series of digital love letters between artists harvey and samyn. first created on hell.com, the site was the first online pay per view artwork. the artwork follows the artists’ correspondence through photos, video, and webpages, chronicling their growing relationship and the connection they shared online. users could pay to view the works on a subscription basis, uniting the qualities of publication and witness intrinsic to the internet with the depth and fortitude of harvey and samyn’s bond. skinonskinonskin is now viewable as an emulated website as part of rhzome.org’s net art anthology. read more about skinonskinonskin as written by rindon johnson for rhizome. auriea harvey & michaël samyn, wirefire, 1999 2003 wirefire was an online per­for­mance that occurred weekly on thurs­day night at mid­night (gmt) from 1999 2003. it was the first recurring online performance of its time. in her description of the work, harvey describes the performances as technoromanticism, a way to impress the internet as a site of human connection, not a cold machine. wirefire was handmade with flash and javascript to include interactive elements, rollovers, on click mouse commands, and file sharing, that was previously inaccessible in text only chat. as with skinonskinonskin, public interaction with this work was fundamental to nurture the community aspect of this performance and others on entropy8zuper! after each performance, the artists would each take a commemorative documentary photograph. view the collection of wirefire portraits and documentation of a variety of live performances. auriea harvey & michaël samyn, the godlove museum, 2000 2007 2000: the godlove museum, hosted on entropy8zuper!, presents web based works that mix the personal lives of the authors with the mythical texts of the bible. the series traces stories of creation and divinity to utterances of war and death, infusing politics and current events into classic parables. the godlove museum includes five works: genesis (1999), exodus (1999), leviticus (2000), numbers (2002) and deuteronomy (2006), which were entirely remade from web 1.0 into a standalone application in 2006. the site was awarded the first sfmoma prize for excellence in online art. the new york times covered the award ceremony, which culminated in a legendary non verbal acceptance speech (yes, that is bill viola presenting the award). auriea harvey & michaël samyn the kiss: incorporator, 2007 the kiss: incorporator is made from 3d scans of harvey and samyn’s naked bodies, kissing. created with early body scanning technology, and ripe with machine errors in its attempt to scan one body instead of two, this work represents an important milestone of harvey’s first use of 3d scanning, a practice that is now emblematic within much of her sculptural work. harvey describes the work on her website, writing, “the result is a single mesh of two painfully stitched together naked human bodies, welded together in an eternal, devouring kiss. the kiss: incorporator allows you to navigate the cavernous ‘ocean of blood’ inside of this mesh, through a three dimensional soundscape of industrial and natural sound loops and towards the single eternally beating machine heart, shared by both bodies.” auriea harvey & michaël samyn, eden.garden, 2001 eden.garden was commissioned by sfmoma for the exhibition, 010101: art in technological times. the exhibition was one of the first to present both an irl and online experience, inviting over 35 artists for participation. in her description of the game, harvey writes, “eden.garden works like a browser. you feed it a url and it interprets the data. the text becomes the engine that drives the dance of the main characters. and the code defines the world.” the project itself is no longer viewable, but image documentation shares the colorful environments and iconography of the website. after the completion of this work, harvey and samyn shifted their focus to video games, finding the potential for interactive work stifled within the museum and gallery circuit. 2003: the artists founded tale of tales as a video game development studio they ran out of belgium. their goal came almost as a manifesto, described by the artists as follows, “our goal is to create elegant and emotionally rich art for a computer’s interactive entertainment. as artists, we focus on beauty and joy. we want to create art for people. that is why we distribute our work online, and cheaply. as designers, we hope that videogames can be as diverse and meaningful as any other medium. we want to create playful experiences that appeal to both gamers and non gamers. we try to design expressive interfaces to access engaging poetic narratives through simple controls.” auriea harvey & michaël samyn, the endless forest, 2005 2021/ongoing 2005: the endless forest is the first online multiplayer game made by tale of tales. within this game, there are no goals to achieve or rules to follow. players run through the forest as deer, interacting and meeting others in a magical forest on the internet. all communication takes place via sounds and body language. occasionally forest deities appear, seasons change, and celestial events take place. the work is also capable of self playing mode, which is how it is displayed within year zero. this mode, referred to as deer observation mode, oscillates between a peacefully sleeping deer to variable glimpses of the lush forest environment and social interactions with other users. 2008: the graveyard is a pure distillation of the tales of tales philosophy, “made at a time when all videogames were 23 hours long and involved combat, we gave the world a game about being an old woman who visits a cemetery. free download, but pay 5 dollars for death.” this work encouraged poetry and contemplation within an industry tailored to fast paced narratives and violence. tale of tales prioritizes artistry over action. this piece was featured in the victoria and albert museum’s 2018 exhibition, videogames: design/play/disrupt, alongside another tales of tales’ work, realtime art manfiesto (2006). read a review of the exhibition in frieze magazine. 2011: bientôt l’été is a beach simulation. created within the purview of lonely space travelers, the work is based on the writing of marguerite duras. players are lost in space, looking for a man, or a woman, to talk to, in french, if possible. bientôt l’été is a videogame for two players. two players who pretend to be lovers. they pretend to be lovers separated from each other by lightyears of deep space. they have lonely walks along the shore of a simulated ocean, thinking wistful thoughts of each other. view video documentation of the work. 2013: luxuria superbia is an entirely different kind of game. presented as a brightly colored, arcade style game, it invites users to interact with stimulating gestures via touch screen or joystick. hinting towards physical connection, each level is measured by touch and time. the artists describe it as positive, optimistic, joyous, encouraging, and perhaps even instructional. awarded the nuovo award at the independent games festival in san francisco. soundtrack by walter hus. view the video trailer and read an interview between gamastura and the artists. 2016: l.o.c.k (loci omnes caelesistis kyries) shifts between a simple diagram and a fascinating machine. exhibited in the gallery as video documentation of an interactive videogame, the original work is intended for touch screen users to experience by cyclically tracing through astral domains. l.o.c.k represents the entire universe of traditional christian cosmology: twelve heavenly spheres with the earth at its center. visitors circle through each spherical environment, guided by mystical surroundings on their way to earth. music by walter hus. this work was commissioned by la triennale di milano. auriea harvey, minorinth, 2017 2017: minorinth is a labyrinthine world, originally created as a virtual reality experience. as viewers witness the procession of the virtual world, they have two options: raise their arms to fly above the maze and sit atop the trees, or hold their arms down to descend into a subterranean cavern where a minotaurus dances with her own shadow. the central character of the minotaur developed in this vr work informed harevey’s sculpture minoriea (2018) on view in the gallery. expressed in video, sculpture, and augmented reality sculpture, the minotaur is a chimerical 3d portrait, personifying harvey’s animistic mystery. 2020: year zero presents a new series of work made with harvey’s hybrid practice of 3d scanning and printing. cyclops, ram, ox, minoriea, fauna, and messenger explore the characters who live inside the worlds and mythologies harvey alters. these works are both physical and virtual entities, seen on display in the central ziggurat in the gallery and accessible via qr code. forms are remade, recovered, and repossessed as harvey weaves analog and digital elements together, unifying relics with emergent technology.

account deadline for applications is tuesday 18 february to attend our free art writing course, in collaboration with bergen kunsthall and office for contemporary art norway at this year’s fair, artists including doug aitken and lenworth mcintosh look to la’s past, present and future as a city led by community and creativity at museum of the moving image, new york, a retrospective of the artist reveals an enchantment with technology’s possibilities and a disillusionment with its uses the first museum survey devoted to auriea harvey   a relentlessly experimental artist who was prescient about digital media’s capacity to reshape experiences of intimacy and embodiment   is overdue but worth the wait. chronologically charting nearly four decades of the artist’s work with emergent technologies, ‘my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard’ encompasses net art, video games and digital sculpture, contextualized with sketchbooks and ephemera. explorations of worldbuilding lore (in games and life) and the interpenetration of the virtual and the physical constitute compelling throughlines, as pivots in media that coincide with phenomena like the rise of web 2.0 or gamergate suggest a shuttling between enchantment with technology’s possibilities and disillusionment with its uses. auriea harvey, freezing, 1999, still from skinonskinonskin. courtesy: the artist projected at the exhibition’s mouth, webcam movies (2021) scales up glitchy, black and white excerpts from a live webcam broadcast of the artist at her desk (typing, resting her head, absent from her chair) that spanned 1998 99. in centring harvey   who, as a black woman, holds an identity that remains underrepresented in tech   the proto livestream also highlighted the underlying presence of socially coded physical bodies in digital space. in 1999, harvey met belgian artist michaël samyn on the net art environment hell.com (1995 2009) and they began exchanging interactive ‘love letters’ in a clandestine directory they built on the server /no/such/place/exists/seasidemotel/. they aggregated these dispatches in skinonskinonskin (1999) and made them publicly available via pay per view inspired by porn e commerce. alluding to the artists’ physical separation at that time, the work is displayed on monitors in opposing cubicles. harvey moved to belgium, and the couple fused their web platforms into entropy8zuper!, hosting collaborative projects like wirefire (1999 2003), a real time online performance series that aired weekly. concerned with incipient notions of ‘liveness’ online and constructed using pre existing material, wirefire collaged videos, images and sound with live webcam footage and text chats; audience members were represented by dust motes. a projection of wirefire’s stream of associative scenes   including a painting of holofernes being bombarded by balls labelled ‘touch me’   doesn’t provide the full experience: clicking ‘touch me’ originally triggered visual and sonic explosions. auriea harvey and michaël samyn (tales of tales), the endless forest​​​, 2006 ongoing, online game still. courtesy: the artist the pair founded the game studio tale of tales in 2002, well before game engines regularly featured in artists’ toolkits and digital games were culturally anointed by blockbuster exhibitions. in their first online multiplayer game, the endless forest (2005/2023), players’ avatars are deer wandering a woodland with no set objectives, using only body language to communicate. writing in gamer theory (2007), mckenzie wark suggests that there is no ‘outside’ to gaming in a bleakly gamified society; through gaming, we might critically reimagine the game space we typically inhabit. i grab a controller and pronk through the trees, probing this tranquil world’s logics and limits, learning the shape of my agency within its bounds. (prominently projected on the wall, my journey becomes an arthouse video game livestream.) auriea harvey, ‘my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard’, 2024, exhibition view. courtesy: thanassi karageorgiou/momi more recently, harvey has turned her attention to transforming mythological characters from her virtual reality project minorinth (2017) into sculptures. describing her material as ‘sculpted math’, harvey combines 3d scans   of herself, clay models and greco roman statues   with digital forms she has built. she 3d prints these amalgamations in composites of materials such as bronze and plastic before hand finishing them. like a myth, which often lacks a singular source and mutates with retellings, these works trouble the notion of an origin and flout completion. fauna v1 dv1 (2018), a 3d printed bust of a faun based on a minorinth avatar, is presented alongside a 3d model version that can be rotated via a gesture activated touchscreen, and an ar version on my phone that, characteristically of such exhibitions, refuses to load. that is, until i open my phone’s browser at the end of the day   and find that the impish creature has followed me home. auriea harvey's ‘my veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard’ is on view at the museum of the moving image, new york, until 7 july main image: auriea harvey and michaël samyn, sunset, 2015, video game still. courtesy: the artists cassie packard is a new york based writer and assistant editor of frieze. she is a recipient of the 2024 rabkin prize for art writing and the author of art rules (2023). a tight retrospective at white cube, new york, transcends and mystifies in equal measure featuring sound machines and satellites, the artist’s show at andrew kreps gallery, new york challenges the supposed neutrality of ‘white noise’ spanning five decades, a show at the museum of contemporary art, chicago, traces the evolving relationship between painting and invention it may be a fool’s errand to mount an exhibition devoted to this conceptual artist   but new york’s artists space (mostly) pulls it off the artist’s sparse, poetic show at perrotin, los angeles, approaches post minimalism as a vehicle for historical remembrance as a survey opens at kasmin, new york, the artist discusses bathroom graffiti, donald trump and her time as a guerrilla girl at glenstone museum, potomac, the artist identifies violence at the core of american society   and risks reinscribing it in a playful exhibition at fondazione prada, milan, the artist presents a model for creative collaboration a tight retrospective at white cube, new york, transcends and mystifies in equal measure at grimm gallery, london, the artist depicts everyday objects to highlight the insidious presence of colonialist legacies at museum of contemporary art tokyo, the late composer’s sound installations commingle with restagings and responses © frieze 2024 cookie settings | do not sell my personal information

recent and archived work by travis diehl for the new york times for freedoms’ billboards could surprise, comfort or confuse. now the group is asking, where do we go from here? by travis diehl “vital signs: artists and the body” draws from moma’s 20th century collection to show that identity is broader than physical form. but in skipping social media the show can’t go far enough. by travis diehl some collectors treat artworks like poker chips and flip work by young artists. that’s not brian donnelly. now his finds star in a show. by travis diehl this week in newly reviewed, travis diehl covers samuel hindolo’s bohemian atmospheres, kristin walsh’s shiny engines and janiva ellis’s cataclysm and pop. by zoë hopkins and travis diehl a retrospective pairing teresita fernández and robert smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization. by travis diehl an acre of wheat designed by the artist agnes denes has cropped up at a new exhibition space in montana, where agriculture is rapidly giving way to development. by travis diehl and will warasila harun farocki, a german artist and documentarian, spent his career unpacking how consumer and military technology intermingle in even the most mundane images. by travis diehl a show at the american folk art museum spotlights a catalan doctor’s revolutionary contributions to 20th century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and art brut. by travis diehl inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these new york artists are searching for answers in good faith. by travis diehl the first survey of auriea harvey, an influential net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today. by travis diehl
supported by critic’s pick the first survey of auriea harvey, an influential net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today. by travis diehl installed on vintage hardware at the museum of the moving image in astoria, queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative net artist auriea harvey tells a story about mortality, and survival. in harvey’s jewel box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech. harvey, born in 1971 in indianapolis, helped expand the vistas of digital art   utopias, games, crashes and all. in the 1990s, she created boundary bending imagery with gifs, shockwave animations, and the html and javascript programming languages. her sumptuous personal website, entropy8.com, restored for the show, won webby awards in 1997 and ’98. in the last few years, harvey turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic seeming artifacts that exist as both 3 d printed statuary and glossy virtual models. at the museum, you can make several rotate on transparent screens by waving your hand. the “mixed reality” sculptures incorporate scans of ancient artwork, hand shaped clay and her own facial features   they look cracked, weathered, instantly timeless. with each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

 by francesca aton associate digital editor, artnews and art in america as digital art has consistently made headlines over the last few years from the onslaught of nfts to revisiting pioneers in the field to showcasing tech artists it has taken the art world by storm. given this recent upswing in interest, there’s still much to discover, particularly the artists who have been quietly pushing the bounds and formats of the medium for decades. auriea harvey is one such exemplar. if you’ve never heard of her, you’re probably not alone. harvey began her foray into digital art as the internet was developing in the early ’90s, right before it boomed. though she studied sculpture at the parsons school of design in new york, she was drawn to all things digital, a self described “obsession” that drove harvey to experiment with a number of digital formats that span photography, sculpture, drawing, and video. yet, her works are hardly static. in the digital world, harvey is known for artistic experimentations on the website entropy8.com as well as the independent game studio tale of tales, which produced such video games as the endless forest. with both endeavors, she was driven by the ability to craft narratives and have personal interaction in the digital realm a through line that continues in her practice even today. in fact, harvey met her collaborator and partner michaël samyn online.