AURIEA HARVEY & MICHAEL SAMYN - CURRICULUM VITAE

BIOGRAPHY

Auriea Harvey
Born 1971 in Indianapolis, IN, USA; B.F.A., Sculpture, Parsons School of Design, New York City, USA
http://entropy8.com

Michaël Samyn
Born 1968 in Poperinge, Belgium; Graphic Design, Sint Lucas, Gent, Belgium
http://zuper.com

Entropy8Zuper!
Founded in 1999
From the merger of entropy8.com (founded 1995) and zuper.com (founded 1995); Self-employed designers of hypermedia projects, Independent artists using new media and the internet
http://entropy8zuper.org

Tale of Tales
Founded in 2002
Computer game design, research & development studio specializing in interactive narrative
http://tale-of-tales.com

SPONSORS

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (LU), Design Vlaanderen (BE), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (BE), Creative Capital (USA), Jan van Eyck Academy (NL), Authorities of Flanders (BE), Ada.web (USA)

COLLECTIONS

Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA), Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (LU), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Bank of Belgium

CLIENTS

Walker Art Center, MTV, Lifetime Television, Leo Burnett, Eyebeam, Design Flanders, Museum of Sex, NYC, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Virgin Records, Mute Records, Fractal Building Systems, PBS/POV, Netherlands Design Institute, Doors of Perception, Hard Reality, ABC Television, Saatchi & Saatchi

EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, AWARDS, JURIES

2009
Screen/Play, Imagine, 19 April 2009, Amsterdam
Victorian Circus, 22 March 2009, Amsterdam
Game on! Art in a game, 18 March - 4 April 2009, Buenos Aires
Ik R.I.P., 30 January 2009, Amsterdam
2008
European Innovative Games Award, nomination, November 6, Darmstadt
Digital Night , 18 October 2008, Saint-ExupŽry, Reims, France
IndieCade, Open Satellite, October 10 - 17, Bellevue, Washington, USA
Picnic, Amsterdam, 24-26 September
AVATAR the new you, 5 September to 4 October, Paddington, Australia
File, 4-31 August, SESI, Sao Paulo
IndieCade, showcase, 15-17 July, E3, Los Angeles
Le Cube Festival, 3-8 June, Issy-les-moulineaux, France
The Art of Play, 31 March - 1 April, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Play Cultures, 7 March - 8 April, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Belgrade
IGF Pavilion, GDC, 20-22 February, San Francisco
Gamezone, De Singel, 7-10 February 2008, Antwerpen
Jeugdfilmfestival, 2-10 February 2008, Antwerpen-Brugge
2007
Pecha Kucha, Flemish Parliament, 20 November 2007, Brussels
Nano Nu, Flemish Parliament, 9-10 November 2007, Brussels
Velocity, f.city Festival of Digital Culture, Lancaster, UK
Inmerso, Cyberlounge Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Play Cultures, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Vooruit 25 = feest!, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
Els Límits de la nature, Centre d'Art Panera, Lleida, Spain
Entropy8Zuper retrospective, Furtherfield, London
IndieCade, IndieCade, Game City, October 24-28, Nottingham
IndieCade, E for All, October 18-21, Los Angeles
IndieCade, E3, July 11-17, Santa Monica, California
Game Developers Conference, BGIn, San Francisco
3D Academy symposium, presentation
Nadine, presentation
144, The Game Is Up, Vooruit
Bradford Animation Festival, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
2006
Night Garden, mediamatic, Amsterdam
Mediaterra Festival, Technopolis, Athens
Eldorado (iGallerie), Mudam, Luxembourg
Pixel Me, Rasa, traveling, Belgium
Edge Conditions, San Jose Musum of Art, CA, USA
Game/Play, London/Derby/traveling, UK
Kunsttour, Lumière Cinema, Maastricht, Netherlands
Say it Now, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
Artefact festival, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
Realtime Art Manifesto, Mediaterra Festival, Athens
Beauty in the age of digital art, Okno, Brussels
Victorian Circus, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Smeulende Kwesties, STUK, Leuven
Creative Capital, New York City, USA, for The Path
2005
Argos Festival, Belgian Focus, Brussels
Tardis, Provincial Archeological Museum, Ename, Belgium
Innovative Game Design Symposium, Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht
Virtual Systems and Multimedia conference, Gent
The Breakthrough of Game Culture, Arminius, Rotterdam
2004
ALT+CTRL Festival of Independent and Alternative Games,
USC Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California
Villette Numerique, Paris
Stifo@The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
1000$ Home Page Prize, Art.Teleportacia Gallery
2003
DiGRA Level Up, Gamescape Exhibition, Utrecht
Argos Festival, Belgian Focus, Brussels
I-GONG, 3rd Seoul Media Arts Festival, Seoul
The Wartime project, Online
NY Digital Salon, Vectors: Digital Art of our Times
Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart
Habitar en (punto)net, Espai F, Barcelona
Roundtable on Games and Play, FoAM, Brussels
2002
Art Futura Festival, Barcelona
Flanders International Film Festival, Gent
Open Source Art Hack, New Museum, NYC
conversation03, Fondation Mudam, Luxembourg
Machine Centered Humans, Nieuwpoort Theater, Gent
2001
Korea Web Art Festival: Alone Together, Seoul
BodyBytes CYNET Art, Dresden
Make World Festival, Lothringer13 Gallery, Munich
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Mediaterra_01, Athens, Laviron, Belgrade, Maribor, Frankfurt
010101, San Francisco MOMA
Opera Totale Festival 6, Venice
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Belgisch Atelier Belge, Passage44, Brussels
Snowblossom House, Sonar Festival 01, Barcelona
HELLOCursor, Online
Subverting The Market, Michigan Uni Art Gallery
Race in Digital Space, USC/MIT, Cambridge, MA
Metabolics/Stoffweschel, Munich
BelCHI, Brussels
.culture Prize, Stichting voor Kunstpromotie, Brussels
2000
Art Entertainment Network, Walker Art Center
The Last Real Net Art Museum, Online
Postmasters Gallery, Group show, New York, NY
GMI Screen, Leicester Square, London
Refresh: The Art of the Screensaver, Online
Hvedekorn Magazine, Denmark, Issue 4/2000
DPI:Digitally Propelled Ideas, Kellog Gallery, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Henry Vandevelde Prize for Young Talent, VIZO, Brussels
SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for entropy8zuper.org
EDA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Berlinbeta 3.0: Welcome to another world, Berlin
Walwochen, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
AIGA, Seattle, WA
United Digital Artists, Edgewise Conference, New York, NY
Organization of Black Designers Conference, Atlanta, GA
1999
hell.com, Online
Net_condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Walker Art Center, Gallery9, Online
Terminals 2.0: Reconsidering The End, USC Santa Cruz
BAMcafé Live, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Institute for Contemporary Art, Group show, London
Absolut L.A. International Biennial, d5, LA, CA
Cybersisters Conference, Cambridge, Massachusettes
Digital Freedom, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, NY
Macworld Expo, The Creative World, Creating Digital Content, NY
I.D. Interactive Media Design Review, Silver, zuper.com
Cyber Lion, Cannes International Advertising Festival
Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium Grant,
Walker Art Center/Jerome Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, nomination
SF WOW Top 25 Women on the Web Award
New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Arts
Communication Arts Magazine, Interactive Design Annual
1998
La Biennale de Montreal 1998, CIAC, Montreal
Thunderlizard's Technique Conference, Monterey, CA
United Digital Artists, Edgewise Conference, Three For All, NY
Design Institute, The secret of the Tamagotchi, Amsterdam
Advanced Technology & Cultural Dissidence, Arteleku, San Sebastian
HISK, multimedia workshop, Antwerpen
Doors of Perception 3, Paradiso, Amsterdam
People's Choice, Webby Awards, for doorsofperception.com
Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual, entropy8.com
Webby Award, for http://entropy8.com website
1997
Form Art Competition, first prize
Mr. Net Art, third prize
New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Arts Fellowship
I.D. Magazine Interactive Media Review, Honorable Mention, entropy8.com
Webby Award, for http://entropy8.com
Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual, entropy8.com

PROJECTS

The Path, release date: 2009, Tale of Tales
www.tale-of-tales.com/ThePath
The Graveyard, 2008, Tale of Tales
www.tale-of-tales.com/TheGraveyard
The Endless Forest, 2005-ongoing, Tale of Tales
www.tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest
8, 2002-2004, Tale of Tales
www.tale-of-tales.com/8
The Godlove Museum, 1999-2006
www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove
skinonskinonskin, 1999
www.entropy8zuper.org/skinonskinonskin
Guernica, 2001 www.entropy8zuper.org/guernica
Sixteenpages.net, 2000
Commissioned by Hvedekorn Magazine
www.afsnitp.dk/onoff/Projects/
projectsentropya.html

www.sixteenpages.net
B-O-X, 2002
Commisioned by D-A-S-H
www.d-a-s-h.org/b-o-x
Al-Jahiz, 2000
Commissioned by Lifetime Television
www.entropy8zuper.org/html/drafts/al-jahiz/
Wirefire, 1999-2003
www.entropy8zuper.org/wirefire
Eden.Garden, 2001
Commisioned by The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
www.eden.garden1.1.projects.sfmoma.org

Complete list of older projects:
www.entropy8zuper.org/html/BLINK.php3

REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Eurogamer, review of The Path, April 2009
Telepolis, review of The Path, April 2009
Joystiq, review of The Path, March 2009
IGN, review of The Path, March 2009
Videogamer, review of The Path, March 2009
Ars Technica, review of The Path, March 2009
Rock, Paper, Shotgun, The Path, 2009
EDGE Magazine, Dec 2007, double spread The Path
we make money not art , Interview
Het Nieuwsblad, 25 feb 2006, review by Tom De Leur
De Morgen, 11 feb 2006, interview with Ward Daenen
The Lancet, Webby Award Winner A Standout
Nettime.org, Cross Interview with Olia Lialina
Rhizome.org, Alex Galloway interview with Michael
EDA/UCLA, E8Z! Live Presentation of works
CIAC Electronic Magazine , Spotlight Review
Radio 1 Belgium, Heldenmoed
Net-150, Interview (on occasion of BerlinBeta)
De Morgen, Newspaper interview with Auriea
Culturematic, Entropy8Zuper is two fools in love
Web Designing Magazine, Interview in japanese
Miss Marple, Interview with Domenica Quaranta


Recent press: tale-of-tales.com/blog/category/press/
Recent publications: tale-of-tales.com/blog/category/publications/
Old press archive: www.e8z.org/godlove/closer/pop/