iMAL

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Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology

Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey — Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey

Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey
Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey

We are digital artists learning how to love.

Auriea studied sculpture at Parson's in New York and Michael graphic design at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. They have used computers since Windows 3.1 and Mac System 7. When the web was born, Auriea started entropy8.com and Michael zuper.com. In 1999 they met online as members of the hell.com artists collective and promptly merged both art and life. As Entropy8Zuper! the net.art duo created projects such as Skinonskinonskin and The Godlove Museum, currently on rhizome.org. In 2000 the couple received the SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art. A few years later, Harvey and Samyn turned to videogames as Tale of Tales and published art game classics as The Endless Forest, The Graveyard and The Path. In 2014 their Luxuria Superbia won the IGF Nuovo prize and in 2018 Indiecade gave them the Trailblazer award. Since 2015, Michael has focused on virtual reality and Auriea on digital sculpture. In 2019 the couple moved from Ghent to Rome. In January of 2024 they married in the Catholic Church.

song-of-songs.org
tale-of-tales.com
auriea.art
michaelsamyn.art

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