- Play video
Cricoterie, 2018
VR installation project
Copyright The Artist
About The Artwork
After they stopped developing videogames, Auriea and Michael decided to focus on VR with a new project Song of Songs.
Their first big project was came about through a residency with the @kantorfoundation which oversees the legacy of Polish playwright Tadeusz Kantor.
Far away from the games industry Auriea and Michael made Cricoterie, a virtual reality tribute to the Theatre of this legendary theatre maker. Cricoterie is conceived of as an installation on an actual Theatre stage, in which the immersed takes the place of Kantor in directing a chaotic production. What you see through the VR goggles is not what everyone else sees, there is a special view which is projected on a big screen for the audience.
You can download Cricoterie and find out more about their VR works at http://song-of-songs.org.
About Auriea Harvey
Auriea Harvey creates simulations and sculptures that traverse the physical and digital realms. Having probed the depths of net art and video games, Harvey's work today directs its attention towards digital sculpture, 3D printing, and mixed reality.
Harvey's works are presented as sculptures that blend digital and handmade production. Fusing art historical references with imagination, the artist works to "making the mythological world visible through form, interaction and immersion". As half of the artist duo which over time has been known as Entropy8 Zuper!/Tale of Tales/Song of Songs, Harvey is known for pioneering works in Internet Art, video games, and XR.
Living in Rome, Harvey is a Professor of Games at Kunsthochschule Kassel. She was part of the curated Christie’s auction PROOF OF SOVEREIGNTY in 2021 and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, SFMoMa, Lot 555 NFT Collection, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. Harvey's video games and VR works have had international success, with exhibitions at the Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; the New Museum, New York, US; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, US; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital grant and a winner of the Independent Games Festival Nuovo Award. She is represented by bitforms gallery, NYC.