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DEV HARLAN



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 * Wonder Valley / WYSIWYG (SVA Sculpture Center)
 * Speculative Cores
 * Eighteen (Usagi Gallery)
 * Hegemony Of Screensavers
 * Thin Natures (Expanded Art)
 * Mineral Consciousness
 * Five Body Problems
 * Areo Gardens
 * After Images (Northern-Southern Gallery)
 * Unremarkable Stars (Sharjah Art Museum)
 * After Sunset on the Information Super Getaway (Vasquez Gallery)
 * Eon Surf (Chris Henry Gallery)
 * Time Is A Vector (Chris Henry Gallery)
 * The Astral Flight Hangar (Chris Henry Gallery)
 * About


SELECTED WORKS




THE DITHERING, BUSINESS AS USUAL, I

The Dithering is a mediation on climate apathy presenting excerpts from the
inaugural IPCC Climate Assessment within the context of an emulated Macintosh II
desktop.

The first IPCC Climate Report was published in 1990. It contained many climate
predictions that remain accurate, and yet in the 35 years since its publication
there has been a tragically inadequate response to the ongoing climate crisis,
which author Kim Stanley Robinson described as the “decades of dithering” in the
speculative sci-fi novel 2312. This project aims to explore this first IPCC
document and related climate science of the 1990s within the context of an
obsolete desktop operating system from the same time period as a useful framing
of the techno-cultural moment in which climate predictions were largely ignored.

Dithering also has a specific meaning within computer graphics as an algorithm
for reducing color depth of an image while still preserving legibility. Relevant
to this project is the well known Atkinson dithering algorithm developed by
Apple to produce acceptable 1-bit images on its black and white computer systems
of the 1980s. The Dithering offers a double meaning, the technical sense in
which scientific images must be reduced in color depth to be legible, and the
ethical sense in which inaction and squabbling by government, industry and
society has produced irreparable harm to the Earth system.

The Dithering, Assemblage #4. Natural stone, rubber, foam, plaster, computer,
peripherals, custom software.




‘THIN NATURES’, TWO PERSON SHOW AT EXPANDED.ART

Afterlives III (Moving Image). Exhibited in two person show “Thin Natures” with
Christopher Coleman, Expanded.Art, Berlin.


RE/SOURCED, GROUP SHOW AT SVA FLATIRON GALLERY

Found Rock 5, WYSIWYG, (Installation view)



A group exhibition of sculpture, photography and mixed media artwork by four
alumni of SVA’s Artist Residency programs, curated by program coordinator Rachel
Gisela Cohen. “RE/SOURCED” features artworks by Sandra Erbacher, Dev Harlan,
Nancy Krakaur and Teri Gandy-Richardson. Exhibition 06/2022 at the SVA Flatiron
Gallery, NY.


‘AFTERLIVES III’, PART OF GROUP SHOW ‘TECHNO TERRAIN’ @ EXPANDED.ART

Exhibition view of Techno Terrain at Expanded.art, Berlin. In collaboration with
Objkt.one. Afterlives II by Dev Harlan (right). Controlled Burn by Rick Silva
(left). Afterlives II, 2023(detail)


ATTEMPTED E-WASTE GOLD RECOVERY AND REFERENCES

The video “Attempted E-Waste Gold Recovery and References” is documentation of
literally that. While researching issues around e-waste recycling I discovered
Youtube videos showing how to chemically isolate gold from scrap electronics. I
began dissembling old computers or electronics I found in the building trash and
saving anything metallic. While an artist in residence at JTHAR, I attempted to
chemically extract gold from the e-waste using household chemical products. The
final sample, of a small bead of melted Borox laced with an orange metallic
substance, is shown with stop motion photography. The final results are not
conclusive. The metal content, less than a gram, is likely gold but has not been
tested.


FIVE BODY PROBLEMS

In the digital short film series Five Body Problems, I use photogrammetry and 3D
animation to explore themes of landscape, technology and anthropogenic change.


OPEN STUDIO EXHIBIT @ SVA SUMMER RESIDENCY

Had a great experience with the SVA Sculpture and New Media Summer Residency. A
few images of new work with sculpture, found objects and video projection.

Read More ->


“POOLTIME!” PUBLIC ART PAVILION AND SCULPTURE IN FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK


POOLTIME is a public artwork by artists Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and Dev Harlan. In
conjunction with NYC Parks, the pavilion has been installed at the north end of
Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and will be exhibited until summer
2020. POOLTIME is a public pavilion and series of community programming centered
around the rich history of the Park as a site for the 1939 and 1964 World’s
Fairs. POOLTIME activates an underused public space and aims to discuss the
World’s Fair structures and their architectural lives and meaning
post-exhibition.

More Information here:
http://www.cherdevalonius.com/pooltime/


AND OTHER WORDLY NARRATIVES @ CHASHAMA

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My partner Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and I organized this two person show at the
Chashama gallery space in One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Come by and visit from May
21st – June 23rd!


“PARMENIDES I” AT SUNY OSWEGO SCULPTURE PROGRAM

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“Parmenides II” was selected for SUNY Oswego’s rotating public art program. The
8′ diameter aluminum sculpture has previously been exhibited indoors with video
projection. Outdoors it lives comfortably in its naked object hood. The
sculpture will be installed on campus for three years.


WONDER VALLEY IRON AGE SLAB I

The sculpture is a surface casting of exposed rock near the Iron Age mine site
in Wonder Valley. Video projection mapping uses tones and textures from
photogrammetry scans of this and other geological work.


“MINERAL CONSCIOUSNESS” @ GALLERY MADISON PARK

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Very excited to present this inaugural solo show at the new Gallery Madison Park
in New York. Look forward to more shows at their space this year:
https://www.gallerymadisonpark.com/


“AFTER IMAGES” AT NORTHERN-SOUTHERN GALLERY

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“After Images” is a two-person show with myself and painter Laura Lit, curated
by Phillip Niemeyer. The work is on view from January 20th – March 15th, 2018 at
Northern-Southern Gallery, Austin, TX.


JOSHUA TREE HIGHLANDS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (JTHAR), OPEN STUDIO

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I had a very productive time during the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
program this fall where I spent a month in southern California exploring some
new ideas. Here are a few of the things that happened…


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