Technology keeps advancing…and so does art…and so does Auriea Harvey.
Marvel at how everything mixes and matches at her My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, which opens at the Museum of the Moving Image on Friday, Feb. 2.
On display until July 7, the expo features more than 40 of Harvey’s works, including her groundbreaking, net-based interactives, video games, and augmented-reality sculptures.
General admission is $20, but seniors and students can enter for $12 and youngsters (ages three to 17) pay $10.
Born in Indianapolis, but currently based in Rome, Harvey’s trajectory reflects the paradox that computers enable intimacy on one hand while interfering with human contact and shared spaces on the other. As the Parsons School of Design grad creates her models, she molds characters with their own narratives. She begins by making scans from life. Then, the scans mutate as they’re sculpted and materialized.
Harvey’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Walker Art Center, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. Her video games and mixed reality works have exhibited at the Tinguely Museum, Basel; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the New Museum, Manhattan; and ZKM|The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
MoMI is located at 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
Made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard was organized by MoMI Associate Curator of Media Arts Regina Harsanyi with help from in-kind partners, which include 4THBIN, BARCO, bitforms Gallery, Blair Simmons, and ITP NYU. Digital art conservation is by Dragan Espenschied/Rhizome.
Images: Auriea Harvey