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Residencies
2018BRUTUS / AVL Mundo, Atelier van Lieshout, Rotterdam
2014,
2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2011Artist in Residence, KIBU, Budapest
2010Visual Music Collaborative, Ghostly International and Eyebeam, New York City
Education
2012MFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2009BFA with Distinction, University of Oklahoma
Selected Solo * / Duo Projects
2021Pareidolia Clouds, Centraal Station, Amsterdam*
2018WIIWTHTWI:X, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Cockatoo Island, Sydney*
2018Exit the King 1962, The Villa AVL Mundo, Rotterdam*
2018PROJECT TMT : public participatory filming, Vondelbunker, Amsterdam*
2016DNK Ensemble with Riley Harmon Closing ceremony performance, James Beckett’s Palace Ruin, Amsterdam
2015Riley Harmon & Manuel DeLanda, the itch scratch itch cycle, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2015DNK Ensemble with Riley Harmon, Come Closer: public program rooftop Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2015Infinite Monkey Theorem, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam*
2013Poser at Figment, performance for launch of Warhol Museum’s Figment, Pittsburgh*
2012STRATA, concept and lead artist, with Bricolage Productions, Pittsburgh
2010Lag in a complex system, WORM/MODDR_, Museumsquartier, Vienna*
Selected Group Projects
2022Science Fiction Film Festival, London
2022European International Auction: Kyiv Biennial Emergency Support Initiative
2022From Limelight to Stage fright, Dead Darlings #14, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin
2021Love for Sale: Alles Moet Weg, Dead Darlings #13, W139, Amsterdam
2020Experimental Blue Shorts, Filmtheater Kriterion, Amsterdam
2019Bring Your Own Beamer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2018P2P, Herrmann Germann at Barbara Seiler and Annex 14 Löwenbräukunst, Zürich
2018Bubble Visions, TodaysArt, The Hague
2018What’s Wrong With This Picture? with Mike Bouchet, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Atelier van Lieshout, Rotterdam
2018European Forum on Culture, video on screens at de Balie, Centraal Station, and Leidseplein, Amsterdam
2018Christie's Fundraiser Auction, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
2018Unfair18, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2017The Wrong Biennale, Alicante
2018Prospects & Concepts, ArtRotterdam
2017The Gadling Society for Eternal Life (LARP), WG Terrein, Amsterdam
2017Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism with Pablo Garcia, Seoul
2017Birth as Criterion, 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC Ljubljana
2017ENTROPY, Dead Darlings #9, FOAM, Amsterdam
2017performance, Sociëteit Sexyland, NDSM, Amsterdam
2017Who’s Eye, traveling screening with Riley Harmon, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, Harry Dodge, and Stanya Kahn, Plymouth College of Art / Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2016Ghost Flowers, Hermann Germann Contemporary, Zürich
2016Bâtard, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2016Adele, organized by Bruno Zhu, Amsterdam
2016Annals of Floating Island, (performance for the work of Feng Chen) Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2016FestivTown, organized by Dan Walwin, Oosterpark, Amsterdam
2016Horse Dance of Resistance, screening, Lost & Found, KattenKabinet, Amsterdam
2016Focus>Berlin, KunstRAI, Amsterdam
2016Jumanji with Kris Lemsalu, Angelo Plessas, Sophie Jung, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent
2016The One Minutes at Intersections, ArtRotterdam
2015FLOTSAM JETSAM &, RijksakademieOpen, Amsterdam
2015Omnipresent Past, Paradocs, IDFA, in conversation with Bart Rutten, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam
2015performance, an abstract machine (the Invention of Morel) MOMART, Amsterdam
2015Personal Science Solution is For Me, MOMART, Amsterdam
2015Your Time Is Not My Time, De Appel, Amsterdam
2015Mega Armageddon Death - Long Version, selection by Nathaniel Mellors, traveling screening, The One Minutes at Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (CN), ArtRotterdam Intersections (NL), Open Day Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL), Primary, Nottingham (UK), Le Plafond, Amsterdam (NL), Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen (DK), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL), deBuren, Brussels (BE), Dortmunder U (DE), Drents Museum/CBK Assen (NL), East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL), Museum Hilversum (NL), Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL), SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)
2014a Method for Blue Logic, RijksakademieOpen, Amsterdam
2014Free Cinema, W139, Amsterdam
2013Il bardo di Timperley, BubbleByte.org, ArtLicks, London
2013New Media Caucus’s 10th Anniversary Video Programme, traveling screening
2012FreePlay Festival, Melbourne
2012Festival Shorts, Abandon Normal Devices, Cornerhouse Theater, Manchester
2012New Work, New Problems, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh
2012The You Inside of Me, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh
2012Cyborg Cabaret: Passion, Terror, Interdependence, New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh
2012Illuminating Data: Visualizing the Information that Moves Our World, TCNJ
2011Space Invaders, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2011Trace, Public InLight Commission, 1708 Gallery Richmond & The Kitchen New York City
2011Zero, One, Togetherness, curated by Lindsay Howard, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh
2011Proxy Or, with David Blandy, Riley Harmon, Graham Hudson, Seventeen Gallery, London
2011Padiglione Internet 2011, San Servolo, Venice Biennale
2011LPM, Cinema Aquila, Rome
2011Fresh Baked Goods, Bakery Square, Pittsburgh
2010Bring Your Own Beamer, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City
2010Bring Your Own Beamer, SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh
2010Digital Communities / Tele-internet, Ars Electronica, Linz
2010Space Invaders, Netherlands Media Art Institute (formerly Montevideo), Amsterdam
2010Quiet In The Land? Future Tenant, Pittsburgh
2009Space Invaders, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool
2009Future Places, Maus Habitos, Porto
2008Artbots, Trinity College Science Gallery, Dublin
2007Symbiosis: Contemporary Concepts in Art and Science, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City
2005NCAC Film Festival, Rubin Museum of Art, New York City
Selected Artist talks, Teaching, Research
2020panel discussion, Manufacturing Reality in Times of Crisis, Spui25, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2020panel discussion, for MFA candidates, Carnegie Mellon University
2019artist talk, Amarillo college, Amarillo
2018artist talk and tour, installation Exit the King 1962, BRUTUS/AVL Mundo, Rotterdam
2018panel discussion, Forum on European Culture, Amsterdam
2018visiting artist, workshop, ‘The Camera’, Experimental Cinema, for Gabriel Lester, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2018artist talk, ExtraExtra Magazine, Theater Rotterdam
2018artist talk, Hyper-normalisation and other distorted realities, KABK, Den Haag
2017artist talk and tour, 32nd Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
2015artist talk & workshop with masters students of AKV St. Joost @ Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
2013artist talk, Reverberant Extracts, University of Cincinnati
2013visiting artist, Contemporary Photography and Media Literacy, 2 courses, majors and non-majors, DAAP, University of Cincinnati
2012artist talks with Daniel Luchman, Carnegie Museum of Art, Lawrenceville Satellite, Pittsburgh
2009-
2012
Research Associate, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
Selected Bibliography
2023월간미술 MONTHLYART, Seoul, South Korea. August Print Edition.
2020Wicked Art Assignments. Valiz Publications. Amsterdam.
2018Grazia. The Festival of Dangerous Ideas takes aim at “Truth and Trust.” Nicholas Carolan. 4 September.
2018ArtViewer.org Special Feature Selectrion of works at ArtRotterdam 2018. 11 February
2018Metropolis M. Unfair18 Review. 30 March.
2018Metropolis M. Prospects and Concepts 2018. 10 Febuary.
2016De Groene Amsterdammer. Nr. 01-2016. “In Staat van Limbo.” Arjan Reinders. 6 January.
2016The Altars Where We Worship: the Religious Significance of Popular Culture. Westminster John Knox Press. Floyd-Thomas, Juan Marcial.
2016Metropolis M. Nr. 2-2016. "Who's Your Daddy And What Does He Do?"
2015NRC Handelsblad. “Tam en eigenwijs jong talent.” 27 November.
2013Vice. "Going Along For The Ride In Famous Hollywood Car Scenes" Kathleen Flood. 29 January.
2013Dramatist, The Technology Issue. Jan / Feb.
2013American Theatre Magazine, Cover, with Bricolage Productions, July / Aug Issue.
2012Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus. Dadaist Game Art: The Digital Ready-Made and Absurdist Appropriation. Gibson, Stephen. ISSN 1942-017X
2011Ludic Dissonance: Riley Harmon’s What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It, PAILTHORPE, B. in Hypermédias et Pratiques Numériques, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, France, Paris ISBN: 978-2-7462-3804-6
2011Neural. Issue 39. Italy. June.
2011Wired, Italy. “L'arte del montaggio e il gioco dei ruoli di Riley Harmon.” Matteo Bittanti. 13 June.
2011Vice. "Creativity Bytes: A Brief Guide To Video Game Art." Kevin Holmes. 16 February.
2010Halos and avatars: playing video games with God, Craig Detweiler. Westminster John Knox Press.
2009Guardian UK. “The Game of Art.” Keith Stuart. 4 December.
2008Rolling Stone, Italy. “Bloody Riley.” Matteo Bittanti. June Print Edition.
2008De Telegraaf. "Bloederig kunstwerk geinspireerd door game.” Amsterdam. 4 April.
Collections
Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, United States
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