Martina Menegon
Martina Menegon is an Italian artist working predominantly with interactive and extended reality art. Her works create intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its phygital corporeality. Martina has been exhibited online and internationally in festivals, galleries and institutions such as MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (DE), Roehrs & Boetsch (CH), Les Rencontres d’Arles (FR), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (AT), FILE Festival (BR), WRO Biennale (PL), Parallel Vienna (AT), Virginia Bianchi Gallery (IT), and HeK - House of Electronic Arts (CH). Since 2020, Martina has been Vice Director and Curator at the CIVA Festival for New Media Art. Teaching since 2011, she is also a senior artist and lecturer in the Department of Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Last update on 10-03-2023
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Featured Artworks
With her series of 3D-scan selfies ‘Untouched’, Martina Menegon engages in an intimate process with her physical body, where she extends its reality to the digital sphere. Her poses translate into virtual sculptures whose glitches and flaws reveal the data lost as she records her body in movement. Despite their partiality and abstraction, these digital renditions of herself retain authenticity. They show her physical body « as is » without any retouching and change its context from a personal setting IRL to other virtual ones.
‘Untouched’ holds a performative nature and allows the artist to connect with her physical body at fixed times. The performative aspect of the work also extends to viewers whom the artist invites to manipulate the virtual sculptures through augmented reality.
untouched.2929769
2022
3D models and AR works
With her series of 3D-scan selfies ‘Untouched’, Martina Menegon engages in an intimate process with her physical body, where she extends its reality to the digital sphere. Her poses translate into virtual sculptures whose glitches and flaws reveal the data lost as she records her body in movement. Despite their partiality and abstraction, these digital renditions of herself retain authenticity. They show her physical body « as is » without any retouching and change its context from a personal setting IRL to other virtual ones.
‘Untouched’ holds a performative nature and allows the artist to connect with her physical body at fixed times. The performative aspect of the work also extends to viewers whom the artist invites to manipulate the virtual sculptures through augmented reality.
untouched.273069
2022
3D models and AR works
With her series of 3D-scan selfies ‘Untouched’, Martina Menegon engages in an intimate process with her physical body, where she extends its reality to the digital sphere. Her poses translate into virtual sculptures whose glitches and flaws reveal the data lost as she records her body in movement. Despite their partiality and abstraction, these digital renditions of herself retain authenticity. They show her physical body « as is » without any retouching and change its context from a personal setting IRL to other virtual ones.
‘Untouched’ holds a performative nature and allows the artist to connect with her physical body at fixed times. The performative aspect of the work also extends to viewers whom the artist invites to manipulate the virtual sculptures through augmented reality.
untouched.89059
2022
3D models and AR works
With her series of 3D-scan selfies ‘Untouched’, Martina Menegon engages in an intimate process with her physical body, where she extends its reality to the digital sphere. Her poses translate into virtual sculptures whose glitches and flaws reveal the data lost as she records her body in movement. Despite their partiality and abstraction, these digital renditions of herself retain authenticity. They show her physical body « as is » without any retouching and change its context from a personal setting IRL to other virtual ones.
‘Untouched’ holds a performative nature and allows the artist to connect with her physical body at fixed times. The performative aspect of the work also extends to viewers whom the artist invites to manipulate the virtual sculptures through augmented reality.
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2022
3D models and AR works
The Foundry
Opening of the exhibition "Do Not Touch"
09/04/22
Decentraland
Opening event of "Do Not Touch", a group show curated by Marie Chatel and Filippo Lorenzin featuring works created by Martina Menegon, Baron Lanteigne and Sasha Katz.
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Artist Talk: Sasha Katz and Martina Menegon
20/06/22
Online
Special artist talk with Sasha Katz and Martina Menegon about "Do Not Touch", a group show curated by Marie Chatel and Filippo Lorenzin.
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Do Not Touch is a group show curated by Marie Chatel and Filippo Lorenzin. Opened in Decentraland, the exhibition features works created by Martina Menegon, Baron Lanteigne and Sasha Katz.
“The exhibition focuses on material behaviours. Skin acts as a semi-permeable and sensory feature. It appears as a boundary, a space for connection and a sensor through which we interact for better or worse. In doing so, the show ponders a dialogue between human and post-human conditions; understanding and valuing different levels of mediation might be central to bringing touch back to the foreground of our everyday life and seeing the complementarity of tactile expressions online and off. ”
(Marie Chatel, curator)