Studio Lecture Series: Auriea Harvey

Made possible by the Millicent Greenwell Clapp Studio Art Series Fund, this series invites an artist each quarter for a two-day visit consisting of studio critiques with our MFA students and an evening public lecture. This series continues to provide a dynamic platform for artists to engage with the Stanford community, fostering critical dialogue and creative exploration.

Up to and Including her Limits: digital materiality, physical space, spiritual peace
Using digital tools for my entire career, yet trained in analog art making, has at times lead to inner conflict but it has also led to the hybrid forms I create today. There are conclusions I can draw at this point in my career about what it means to be immersed in digital tools, building virtual worlds, and in the constant flow of technological change. What is the place of the artist in these technocratic and uncertain times with the rise of AI and increasing disempowerment of independent and open modes of production. At what point do we turn our backs on what is considered to be “the future” and look to our humanity for answers. This will be a serious discussion of faith and technology.

Auriea Harvey (US/BE,1971) Auriea Harvey is an artist based in Rome. A pioneer in net art since the early days of the World Wide Web, Harvey also co-founded the acclaimed studio Tale of Tales with Michael Samyn, where they created groundbreaking videogames that explored the poetic possibilities of world-building and interactive narrative.

Harvey's current focus is digital sculpture. She has expanded her practice into classical materials and formats working in installation and video, earth, bronze and marble, as a natural evolution of her longstanding interest in transformation of digital material into physical experience. Using polygons as her clay, she explores how we copy, paste, and save things, and what it means to be virtual or real.

Her work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions including the Tinguely Museum, the V&A, The New Museum and ZKM. She has shown with bitforms, and HEFT Gallery in New York. And her work is found in the Whitney Museum of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, KADIST, RfC NFT collection, and The Kramlich Collection, among others.

VISITOR INFORMATION
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for seating. Admission is free.

Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci@stanford.edu.

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