Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn met online in 1999 and promptly merged both art and life. As Entropy8Zuper! the net.art duo created projects such as Skinonskinonskin and The Godlove Museum (recently restored by rhizome.org.). In 2000, the couple received the SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art. A few years later, Harvey and Samyn turned to video games as Tale of Tales and published art game classics such as The Endless Forest, The Graveyard and The Path. In 2014, their Luxuria Superbia won the IGF Nuovo prize and, in 2018, Indiecade gave them the Trailblazer award. Since 2015, Michaël has focused on virtual reality and Auriea on digital sculpture. In 2019, the couple moved from Ghent to Rome. Their work can be found in the collections of The Whitney Museum and Walker Art Center.

Generato non creato is Auriea and Michaël’s first collaborative artwork for a number of years and Michaël’s first NFT project.The work is inspired by historical ornamentation, specifically the beautiful monstrances that contain the Blessed Sacrament during Eucharistic Adoration in Rome’s many churches. It is a homage to Saint John Paul II, who was deeply devoted to the Eucharist even while suffering badly from severe Parkinson’s disease at the end of his life. The title of the work comes from the Nicene Creed of which fragments are displayed in the background. It refers to the Son being generated from the Father, not created like the rest of us.