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

Michaël Samyn Born 1968 in Poperinge, Belgium
Graphic Design, Sint Lucas, Gent, Be lgium

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

AWARDS

SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for entropy8zuper.org, 2000
Henry Vandevelde Prize for Young Talent, VIZO, Brussels, 2000
I.D. Interactive Media Design Review, Silver Award for Zuper! website, 1999
Cyber Lion, Cannes International Advertising Festival
People's Choice, Webby Awards, for doorsofperception.com website, 1998
Form Art Competition, first prize, 1997
Mr. Net Art, third prize, 1997
The Mining Company's "Best of the Net" award, for LOVE website, 1997
SF WOW Top 25 Women on the Web Award, 1999
Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium Grant, Walker Art Center/Jerome Foundation, 1999
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, nomination
Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual, for entropy8.com, 1998
Webby Award, for http://entropy8.com website, 1998
New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Arts Fellowship, 1997
I.D. Magazine Interactive Media Review, Honorable Mention, for entropy8.com, 1997
Webby Award, for http://entropy8.com, 1997
Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual, for entropy8.com, 1997

SELECT 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
  • INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS

  • Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
  • Design Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Belgium
  • Jan van Eyck Academy, Netherlands
  • Authorities of Flanders, Belgium
  • Ada.web, USA
  • EXHIBITIONS

    2006
    Eldorado, Mudam, Luxembourg
    Pixel Me, Rasa, traveling, Belgium
    Edge Conditions, ZeroOne, San Jose, USA
    Game/Play, traveling, UK
    Kunsttour, Lumière, Maastricht, Netherlands
    Say it Now, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
    Artefact festival, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
    2005
    Argos Festival, Belgian Focus, Brussels
    Tardis, Provincial Archeological Museum, Ename, Belgium
    Innovative Game Design Symposium, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
    2004
    Villette Numerique, Paris
    ALT+CTRL Festival of Independent and Alternative Games, USC Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California
    2003
    DiGRA Level Up Games Conference, Gamescape Exhibition, Utrecht
    Argos Festival, Belgian Focus, Brussels
    I-GONG Alternative Visual Culture Factory, 3rd Seoul Media Arts Festival, Seoul
    The Wartime project, Online
    New York Digital Salon, Vectors: Digital Art of our Times
    Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart
    Habitar en (punto)net, Espai F, Barcelona
    2002
    Art Futura Festival, Barcelona
    Flanders International Film Festival, Gent
    Open Source Art Hack, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
    2001
    Korea Web Art Festival: Alone Together, Seoul
    BodyBytes CYNET Art, Dresden
    Make World Festival: BORDER=0 LOCATION=YES, Lothringer13 Gallery, Munich
    World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
    Mediaterra_01 Moving Festival for Digital Culture, Athens, Laviron, Belgrade, Maribor, Frankfurt
    010101: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Opera Totale Festival 6, Venice
    Belgisch Atelier Belge, Passage44, Brussels
    Snowblossom House, Sonar Festival 01, Barcelona
    HELLOCursor, Online
    Subverting The Market, Central Michigan University Art Gallery
    Race in Digital Space, USC/MIT, Cambridge, MA
    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
    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
    New Media Centre/Institute for Contemporary Art, Group show, London
    Absolut L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational, d5 projects gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    1998
    La Biennale de Montreal 1998, CIAC, Montreal

    SELECT REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

    Complete press archive: www.e8z.org/godlove/closer/pop/

  • 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/Joe Bowers, Entropy8Zuper is two fools in love
  • Web Designing Magazine, Interview in japanese
  • Miss Marple, Interview with Domenica Quaranta (Italian)
  • SELECTED PROJECTS

    Complete project list:
    www.entropy8zuper.org/html/BLINK.php3


    The Godlove Museum, 1999-ongoing
    www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove
    Genesis
    www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove/fuxation
    Exodus
    www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove/sexpeace
    Leviticus
    www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove/
    it's_not_about_comfort_baby

    Numbers
    www.entropy8zuper.org/godlove/69
    Guernica, 2001, part of the
    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
    8, 2002-ongoing, Tale of Tales
    www.tale-of-tales.com/8
    The Endless Forest, 2005-ongoing, Tale of Tales
    http://www.tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest

    LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS

    Beauty in the age of digital art, Brussels, 2006
    Victorian Circus, Amsterdam, 2006
    Smeulende Kwesties, Leuven, 2006
    Virtual Systems and Multimedia conference, Gent, 2005
    The Breakthrough of Game Culture, Arminius, Rotterdam, 2005
    Innovative Game Design Symposium, Maastricht, 2005
    Stifo@The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2004
    Roundtable on Games and Play, FoAM, Brussels, 2003
    conversation03, Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, 2002
    Machine Centered Humans, Nieupoort Theater, Gent, 2002
    World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
    Metabolics/Stoffweschel, Munich, 2001
    BelCHI: Making the web useful, usable and enjoyable, Brussels, 2001
    EDA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
    Berlinbeta 3.0: Welcome to another world, Berlin
    Walwochen, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, 2000
    AIGA, Seattle, WA, 2000
    United Digital Artists, Edgewise Conference, New York, NY, 2000
    Organization of Black Designers Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2000
    Cybersisters Conference, Cambridge, Massachusettes, 1999
    Digital Freedom, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York, NY, 1999
    Macworld Expo, The Creative World, Creating Digital Content, New York, NY, 1998
    Thunderlizard's Technique Conference, Monterey, CA, 1998
    United Digital Artists, Edgewise Conference, Three For All, New York, NY, 1998
    Design Institute, The secret of the Tamagotchi lecture, Amsterdam, 1998
    Object vs Pixels, panel discussion, De Balie, Amsterdam, 1998
    Advanced Technology and Cultural Dissidence, Arteleku, San Sebastian, 1998
    HISK, multimedia workshop, Antwerpen, 1998
    Doors of Perception 3, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1998

    JURIES

    .culture Prize, Stichting voor Kunstpromotie, Brussels, 2001
    New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Arts, 1999
    Communication Arts Magazine, Interactive Design Annual, 1999
    1000$ Home Page Prize, Art.Teleportacia Gallery, 2004