Auriea Harvey, digital sculptor, thoughts on being a woman of color in the digital art space

Check out this clip from our chat on The Creative Metaverse Podcast with Auriea Harvey, digital sculptor, on being a woman of color in the digital art space. Vertex filmed this episode at the Leona Art Gallery in the heart of East Austin, TX with Auriea in Rome.
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Auriea Harvey is a digital sculptor producing simulations and objects that bridge physical and virtual space. Auriea Harvey is a boundary-breaking artist originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1989, Auriea moved to New York to study at the Parsons School of Design, where she received her BFA in sculpture. Before long, she began creating Internet art, video games, work in extended reality, and recently she moved on to NFTs. Auriea is now based in Rome, where she is calling from today.
Auriea Harvey is an artist producing simulations and sculptures that bridge physical and digital space. After plumbing the depths of net art and video games, she has now turned her attention to digital sculpture, 3D printing, and mixed reality.
The work is presented as sculptures that blend digital and handmade production. She is half of the artist duo Entropy8Zuper!/Tale of Tales/Song of Songs, known for their pioneering works in Internet art, video games, and XR. Auriea lives in Rome and is a Professor of Games at Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the RF.C Collection, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. Her video games and VR works have had international success, including exhibitions at the Tinguely Museum, Basel; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the New Museum, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and ZKM, Karlsruhe. 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.
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Really awesome! Each person brings their own backgrounds into our work.

[@RyanKingslienVertexSchool]

So true!

[@nicolem6399]

Thank you for this! She answered so many questions and so many worries I had about the industry. Great video! Hope to see more

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Glad it was helpful!