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Aero Gardens I

Dev Harlan

Aero Gardens I

3D
Photogrammetry
Nature
Figurative
Meditative

This work is part of the Areo Gardens series, which reflects on the surreal and sublime qualities of natural geology throughout the solar system. Each short film depicts a stone sculpture garden on the surface of Mars, apparently defying the laws of physics. These digital representations aim to broaden our understanding of nature to include terrestrial landscapes and to consider the impacts of anthropocentric change beyond the Earth. Here, for example, invisible forces force large boulders to collide in a desert garden.

Areo Gardens I integrates 3D scans of natural rocks and rocks found on a remote hiking trail in Joshua Tree National Park. The scenery is a chain of Martian mountains near the Gale crater, currently explored by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The digital elevation data was obtained through the MRO/HiRise satellite program managed by NASA, JPL and the University of Arizona.

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Dev Harlan

United States of America

Dev Harlan grew up in Silicon Valley and is self-taught, developing a keen interest in experimental video subcultures at an early age, before taking sporadic courses in computer science at Berkeley, drawing in Santa Cruz, and earth sciences at Columbia. He then began producing works in sculpture, 3D animation, and video projection mapping. His practice explores themes such as posthumanism, anthropogenic transformations, and technological consumption through a combination of object assembly, video projection, and programming. He employs technology in a reflective manner and challenges the dichotomy between human techno-culture and the natural world, drawing on ecocriticism and climate science. His works are conceived as a gateway to the subconscious and suggest the existence of fictional objects endowed with their own radiant power, allowing the viewer’s imagination to speculate on the object’s origins. He draws inspiration from artists such as James Turrell and other figures of the Light and Space movement, who achieved the sublime through a minimalist and radical use of light.

Dev Harlan has exhibited in the United States and internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Christopher Henry Gallery and the Madison Park Gallery in New York, as well as group exhibitions at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates, “Ideas City” at the New Museum, the SVA Flatiron Gallery, and, more recently, at Art Dubai and the Wrong Biennial. He has completed several notable public art commissions, including an installation at the Los Angeles Central Library and a work for Canon USA. A 2020 finalist for the NYFA Digital Media Arts Fellowship, he also won the Mozaik Artist Grant in 2022 and served as an artist-in-residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and the SVA Sculpture & New Media Residency. His work has been featured in numerous publications and articles, including Rhizome, Wired News, The Creators Project, and Right Click Save.

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