Porpentine Charity Heartscape

Bio

look at all this shit i did

Contact

xrafstar.juice@gmail.com
a picture of porpentine, aka a selfie of porpentine charity heartscape

Pieces

2023 - Cunt Toward Enemy
2022 - Serious Weakness
2022 - Honeydew Toxicity Event
2022 - Album art for UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU - Ada Rook
2021 - Low Kill Shelter
2021 - Relative Time Knife
2021 - Elf 9/11
2021 - 4/4 Sluts With Trample
2020 - Madness of the Coastal Structure
2020 - Dirty Wi-Fi - Strange Horizons
2019 - Quest of Mansion: Ferment of Down and Clover (for the London South Bank University keynote)
2019 - "The Furthest Point Without Crossing" - Contemporary Jewish Museum
2019 - Mega Biblion, Mega Kakon!
2018 - the shape you make when you want your bones to be closest to the surface
2018 - Thrall of the Dying Sun
2018 - The Maximum Softness Capable of Being Exerted by All Machinery - Montez Press
2017 - Universal Mental Illness Value of Food
2017 - Miniskirt World Network: Business Slut Online
2017 - Everyone I Know Wants To Be Castrated And Kill Their Family
2016 - Rat Shrine
2016 - World Hell Mall - Vice
2016 - Mall School - Vice
2016 - Girlwaste Comic
2016 - PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE
2016 - Homeopathic Essence of Porpentine
2016 - Midnight Museum
2016 - Vesp: A History of Sapphic Scaphism
2016 - Contributed to FINALS FANTASY: Speculative Projects for Game Art Students
2015 - Orifice Clique - Yearbook Office
2015 - Dream Crypt
2015 - Beautiful Frog
2015 - Trashzine
2015 - Neon Haze
2015 - Aria End
2015 - Eczema Angel Orifice
2015 - Bellular Hexatosis
2015 - This World Is Not My Home
2014 - Pink Zone
2014 - Skulljhabit
2014 - With Those We Love Alive
2014 - Begscape
2014 - Everything You Swallow Will One Day Come Up Like A Stone
2013 - Parasite - The New Inquiry
2013 - How To Speak Atlantean
2013 - Their Angelical Understanding
2013 - Ultra Business Tycoon III
2013 - Cry$tal Warrior Ke$ha
2013 - Armada
2012 - Howling Dogs
2012 - Cyberqueen

Honors

2018 - Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Fellow
2017 - AV Club, 35 greatest horror games of all time
2017 - Whitney Biennial
2017 - Rhizome's Prix Net Art Award
2016 - Tiptree Fellowship
2016 - Creative Capital Fellowship
2016 - Rhizome commission, "PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE"
2016 - Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
2014 - XYZZY Awards for Best Story, Best Individual NPC
2014 - Wordplay Festival Award
2013 - Indiecade Special Recognition Award
2013 - XYZZY Award for Best Writing
2012 - XYZZY Awards for Best Writing, Best Story

Exhibits

2023 - WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 - Multi-Species Girl Ricecorn Grazing, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 - Dire Jank, Apexart, NY
2019 - Black Cherry Locusts with Sterile Fudge Swirl, Telematics, SF, CA
2018 - almanac of girlswampwar territory & the _girls who swim as fertilizer through the warm soil cloaking the roots of the glorious tree of eugenics, YBCA, SF, CA
2018 - Curated space in re:art 2 yr anniversary show, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA, Illinois
2018 - Children of Revulsion, Killjoy Collective, Oregon
2018 - Dirtscraper, ICA, Virginia
2017 - Sporegloss Bug Train Xenophoria, Gray Area, SF, CA
2017 - Xenoplast Scanner, Cloaca, SF, CA
2017 - Tiny Bubbles, San Francisco Art Commission, SF
2017 - Whitney Biennial, NY
2017 - Trash Shrine, Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:,NY
2016 - VGA Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 - Deshaciendo Texto, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2016 - Vaporents, Voidoid Archive, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
2016 - Mother Lode, Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY.
2016 - The National Gallery of Denmark in connection with Rolf Nowotny's work Sur Pollen
2016 - PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE, Compliance Division, Portland, OR.
2016 - A Beautiful And Evil Place, Crossroads, San Francisco, CA.
2016 - PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE, First Look, New Museum, New York, NY.
2016 - The Mess, Ditch Projects. Eugene, OR.
2015 - Sur Pollen, Tranen, Hellerupe, Denmark
2015 - Hatching Darknet Queen, Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
2015 - Illuminus, Boston, MA
2015 - Bit Bash, Chicago, IL
2015 - Haxan Festival, Oakland, CA
2015 - Ars Independent Festival, Katowice, Poland
2015 - WordPlay Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 - IMAGES Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 - 3-Legged-Dog Art & Technology Center, New York, NY
2015 - Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
2015 - Illuminus Festival, Boston, MA
2014-2015 - EMP Museum, Seattle, WA
2014 - WordPlay Festival, Toronto, ON
2013-2014 - Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY
2013 - Indiecade, Los Angeles, CA

Press

"Dumb Fucking Sluts" Living Content 06/23/18
"Porpentine Charity Heartscape" Mask Magazine 05/29/17
"Workspace Interview" The Setup 03/21/17
"What Makes Art 'American' in 2017?" Village Voice 03/15/17
"Porpentine Charity Heartscape" Artforum 03/03/17
"Porpentine Charity Heartscape's New Novella is Science-Fiction About Living with Trauma, and Slime Sex " East Bay Express 11/22/16
"Finally: Somebody Built an Adventure Game Using Google Forms" Wired 09/06/16
"WorkStation: The spaces where 22 different game-makers build worlds" Gamasutra 08/01/16
"Doomed Plague Girls: A Cyber Studio Visit With New Media Artist Porpentine" Papermag 04/14/16
"Flesh & Twine" Bitch Magazine 08/11/15
"Gry: przypadki książkowe" HA!ART 51 03/2015
"Play Porpentine Charity Heartscape's Emotional, Irreverant Computer Games" Artspace 06/27/15
"Make Poetry in a Fuck Alley With Porpentine’s New Text-Based Adventure Game" ArtFCity 05/28/15
"Making 'With Those We Love Alive', a Game That Leaves its Mark on You" Animal New York 12/04/14
"Twine, the Video Game Technology for All" New York Times 11/13/14
"The joy of text – the fall and rise of interactive fiction" The Guardian 10/22/14
"Porpentine's Wonderful World of Slime" Giant Bomb 01/21/14
"Sup, Holmes? Ep 84 w/ Porpentine" Destructoid 11/19/13
"The poignant vocabulary of Porpentine's Ultra Business Tycoon III" Gamasutra 08/19/13
"Interview with Porpentine, author of howling dogs" Emily Short 11/23/12