Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn met online in 1999 and promptly merged both art and life. As Entropy8Zuper! the net.art duo created projects such as Skinonskinonskin and The Godlove Museum, (which have recently been restored by rhizome.org.) In 2000 the couple received the SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art. A few years later, Harvey and Samyn turned to videogames as Tale of Tales and published art game classics as The Endless Forest, The Graveyard and The Path. In 2014 their Luxuria Superbia won the IGF Nuovo prize and in 2018 Indiecade gave them the Trailblazer award. Since 2015, Michael has focused on virtual reality and Auriea on digital sculpture. In 2019 the couple moved from Ghent to Rome. Their work can be found in the collections of The Whitney Museum and Walker Art Center.

“Generato non creato” is Auriea and Michael’s first collaborative art work since a few years and Michael’s first NFT-project. The work is inspired by historical ornamentation and specifically by the beautiful monstrances that contain the Blessed Sacrament during Eucharistic Adoration in Rome’s many churches. It is a homage to Saint Pope John Paul II who had a deep devotion to the Eucharist even when he suffered badly from severe Parkinson’s disease at the end of his life. The title of the work comes from the Nicene Creed of which fragments are displayed in the background. It refers to the son being generated from the father, not created like the rest of us.

Press A key to animate.
Press N key to generate.
Drag for cube.

This project is part of the digital section of Cure³ at Bonhams, curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti of reGEN.