Eden.Garden - Tale of Tales
Restoration of the pioneering web art work by Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn). Featured at Rhizome World NYC.
Role: Software restoration
About the Project
Eden.Garden is a pioneering web art work by Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn), created in the late 1990s. As one of the most significant works of early net art, it had become inaccessible due to technological change — dependent on obsolete browser technologies and web standards that no longer exist.
Restoration
The software restoration involved recreating the 1990s-era web environment needed for the work to function, recovering the original interaction mechanisms and visual elements in a contemporary technical context. The restored work was featured at Rhizome World in New York City (April 2025), with the credit: “software restoration: Marc Schütze (ZKM | Karlsruhe).”
Context
The restoration was part of the Choose Your Filter! exhibition at ZKM (February 1 - August 24, 2025), a collaboration with KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) on browser art conservation. Eden.Garden’s selection for Rhizome World — one of the most prestigious digital art venues internationally — demonstrates the viability of complex digital art restoration.