Producing artwork since 1987
virocode is the collaborative practice of Andrea Mancuso, Claudia D’Auria, and Peter D’Auria. Their work explores the balance between the inorganic and the organic through an artmaking practice that seeks to capture and reveal blossoming forms of inorganic life.
For decades, virocode has investigated symbiotic relationships between the inorganic and organic—approaching these relationships without judgment and with an open-ended inquiry into our collective relationship to the Anthropocene. Through a wide lens, virocode considers the transformations taking place within the current epoch as transitional, suggesting that our entanglement with the non-biological has only just begun.
virocode has exhibited work in photography, video, installation, and digital art throughout the United States and Europe. Exhibitions and screenings include the Museum of Modern Art and Paul Robeson Gallery in the New York City metropolitan region; Artist Television Access, Artspace, Southern Exposure Gallery, and the Emanuel Walter and Etholl McBean Galleries in San Francisco; the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California; Diverseworks Art Space in Houston, Texas; the University of Arizona Art Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; Impakt Festival in the Netherlands; the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield Penney Art Center, CEPA Gallery, Squeaky Wheel, and Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York.
virocode began working together at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where they studied with Marion Faller, Paul Sharits, and Tony Conrad.
Andrea Mancuso received her PhD in Visual Studies and her BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MFA in Performance/New Genre from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied with Doug Hall, Margaret Crane, John Winet, Kathy Acker, and Tony Labat. She has taught contemporary art and film in Saudi Arabia and New York, is an Art21 Educator, and is currently an artist in residence at Daemen University in Buffalo, New York.
Peter D’Auria received a BA in Art and an MA in Pathology from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, as well as a Physician Assistant degree from Daemen College. He currently works in clinical practice in the Buffalo area.
Claudia D’Auria has exhibited her artwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York, YoungArts Jewel Box Gallery in Miami, Florida, and Box Gallery in Buffalo, New York. She graduated with a BArch from The Cooper Union in New York and was a resident artist at AZ West Studio in Joshua Tree, where she completed a thesis on the cultural impact of the colonial myth of “wilderness.” Claudia has worked for the Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time, Imagination of Space House on Governors Island, and Eric Forman Studio. She is currently an architectural designer working in Manhattan, New York.
See more of Claudia’s work at www.claudiadauria.com.
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Peter D’Auria and Andrea Mancuso
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Claudia D’Auria