Auriea Harvey (American, b. 1971) makes sculptures that move between digital and physical form, 3D-printing figures from a virtual model she treats as the real artwork, with the physical object serving as its archive.,Her practice grew out of Internet art and video games she made with Michaël Samynunder the names Entropy8Zuper!, Tale of Tales, and Song of Songs.,
Harvey met Michaël Samyn online in 1999 while making skinonskinonskin, a collaborative site preserved in Rhizome's Net Art Anthology.,After the pair's browser-based Eden.Garden 1.0, 2001, appeared in SFMoMA's exhibition “010101: Art in Technological Times”, they left net art to found the video game studio Tale of Tales, producing nine interactive games over thirteen years.,Among them were The Endless Forest, 2005, The Graveyard, 2008, and The Path, 2009, games in which players could embody an animal, an elderly woman nearing death, or six teenage girls growing up.
Around 2017 Harvey began developing Minoreia, a half-woman, half-bull avatar based on a scan of her own body, who recurs throughout her later work.,Her sculpture Ox exists as both a physical object and a virtual model, and elements of its characters recur in SITE1, 2023, a virtual fly-through she made for the Whitney Museum's artport.That year her work also appeared in the Whitney Museum's group exhibition “Refigured” alongside Morehshin Allahyari, American Artist, Zach Blas, Jemima Wyman, and Rachel Rossin.
In 2024 Harvey made Black Ship, a 3D-printed sculpture of a ship propelled through the waves by enslaved Africans, paired with a mural and a geolocated augmented reality experience. She developed the work from conversations about slavery held with an early version of the AI image generator Midjourney, before the word was banned as a prompt term. The sculpture was shown in “Apophenia, Interruptions: Artists and Artificial Intelligence at Work” at the Centre Pompidou.That year the Museum of the Moving Image opened a solo exhibition of her work, “My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard”, featuring her sculpture Echo and its companion open edition Echo: Core, minted on Tezos.,,
In 2025 Harvey and Michaël Samyn reunited to make the generative artwork Generato non creato for the charity exhibition “Cure³”, released on the platform fx(hash), its title drawn from the Nicene Creed and its imagery based on the monstrances used to display the Eucharist.,Harvey lives and works in Rome, and her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, SFMoMA, and Rhizome's Net Art Anthology.,
