PANEL DISCUSSION: Technology, Mysticism & Spirituality

Responding to Auriea Harvey’s current solo and group exhibitions in London - (This room is a sculpture called) PROHECY at arebyte’s Digital Art Centre and Subject to Change at Gazelli Art House - this event explores themes present in Harvey’s new body of work including the role of technology in shaping belief systems, and the use of avatars to represent techno-animism.

This event is organised in partnership with Gazelli Art House.

(This room is a sculpture called) PROHECY is on view at arebyte until December 21, 2025. The group exhibition Subject to Change at Gazelli Art House, London, ends on December 19, 2025.

Speakers:

Olivia Ema is a British-Nigerian digital artist, creative technologist and immersive designer. Her work exists at the intersections of spirituality, art, and technology. Engaging with digital avatars as muses and using real-time software to visualise sound through audio-reactivity, she uses technology as a canvas for storytelling rooted in culture and the sensory. Through her practice, she explores consciousness, identity and embodiment, uncovering the wisdom behind them. Her most recent work is being exhibited at the Outernet, where she uses AI to blend past, present and future in a celebration of Black British history and culture.

Sian Fan is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist based at Somerset House Studios. She has exhibited internationally with institutions including the V&A, Somerset House, Tate Modern, Mutek Barcelona,Kunsthal Rotterdam, and FACT Liverpool, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Meta. Her work combines movement, the body and technology to explore embodiment, identity and human experience. This manifests as a meshing of the physical and the virtual, taking form as sculpture, costume, performance, animation, installation, and new media. She is particularly interested in exploring her dual heritage, considering her experience being half Chinese and half British, and meditating on what it means to exist in between worlds.

Auriea Harvey is a Rome-based digital pioneer whose practice materialises virtual elements into physical reality. From her groundbreaking Internet art roots to contemporary 3D scanning and printing processes, she creates sculpture, software and installations that navigate between digital and tangible worlds. Her art historical influenced, technology-driven approach reimagines mythology, bodily transformation, and figurative traditions.

Paul Luckraft is a curator with 20 years’ experience across a range of organisations including FACT Liverpool, Modern Art Oxford; Urbis, Manchester; and Zabludowicz Collection, London. He is currently Head of Programme and Artist Liaison at Gazelli Art House, London. Recent projects include the exhibitions Subject to Change (2025), An Absent Presence: Jane McAdam Freud, Holly Stevenson & Louise Bourgeois (2025), Parallel Worlds at Gazelli Art House in Baku, Azerbaijan (2024) and a major commission by Libby Heaney for Frieze Sculpture 2024.

Read more about PROPHECY here. The exhibition is open to public from Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 6pm until 21 December 2025.