Dev Harlan is a self-taught, New York-based artist working in sculpture, installation and digital media, tracing how technology moves from raw mineral to discarded relic embedded in Earth's strata. Harlan grew up in Silicon Valley, left school for the dot-com boom in San Francisco, and later returned to study Earth Science at Columbia University.
Early work drew on video programming, hardware hacking and repurposed discarded technology, an approach Harlan describes as lacking a critical framework at the time. After moving to New York, Harlan shifted the practice toward sculpture and large-scale video projection, and took an influential course with American Artist at the School for Poetic Computation. A residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona introduced casting and 3D scanning of desert rock formations, an engagement deepened by later residencies in Joshua Tree.
