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Martina Menegon
artist, curator, educator(She/Her)
Martina Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator and educator predominantly working with Interactive, Extended Reality and Net Art.
Martina Menegon currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
ALBA Gallery, Vienna (contact: office@albagallery.io)
ARTEMIS Gallery, Lisbon (contact: info@artemis-gallery.net)
EDUCATION
2007 - 2010 B.A., Visual and Performing Arts, IUAV University, Venice
2010 - 2016 Diploma, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
CURRENT POSITIONS
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2020 Senior Artist, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: “Digital Design & Virtuality”)
- 2020 Vice Director and Curator, CIVA Festival, Vienna
- 2020 Head of Extended Reality and Curator, Area for Virtual Art
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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2021 Guest Critic, Experimental Game Culture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: Embodied structures — Genderplay? A possible collaboration on Avatarik)
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2011 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Multimedia Arts, IUAV University, Venice
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2020 - 2021 Guest Lecturer, Institute for Experimental Architecture (./studio3), Innsbruck University, Innsbruck (Lecture: Virtual Reality)
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2018 - 2020 Univ.Assistant, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
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2016 - 2018 Univ. Lecturer, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
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2016 - 2019 Univ. Lecturer, Interactive and Time-Based Arts, Art University, Linz (Lecture: Introduction to Interactive Art)
- 2016 Univ. Lecturer, Master in Interactive Art, IUAV University, Venice (Lecture: Intro to MaxMSP and Unity3D)
WORKSHOPS
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- 2022 “Glitched Identity, Extended Self, Augmented Body”, Improper Walls, Vienna
- 2020 “The Uncanny Other”, Overkill Festival, online
- 2018 - 2021 “ChampdAction.LAbO”, deSingel, Antwerp
- 2019 “Digital Self Playground”, Interactive and Time-Based Arts, Art University, Linz
- 2018 “Virtual Reality Art”, Master in Advance Interaction, IAAC University, Barcellona
RESIDENCIES / RESEARCH
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- 2023 “Memories of Care”, The Algorithmic Gaze Research Lab, Antwerp
- 2023 “HackArtX Hackathon“, Ubisoft HQ, Paris
TALKS
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- 2023 “Objkt.one talks with Martina Menegon”, online
- 2023 “Trailblazing Realities: Female Pioneers in the History of Virtual Reality“, AA School of Architecture, London / online
- 2023 “Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges” symposium, HNK Rijeka Academy, Rijeka
- 2023 “Immersive Encounters. Journeying into Avatars & Social Virtual (Art) Worlds”, Summer School “Storytelling in Virtual Reality”, University of Antwerp / online
- 2023 “Challenging Physical Boundaries. exploring hybridity and site-specificity in digital art “, MMMAD Festival, Madrid
- 2023 “Objkt talks to: Martina Menegon”, online
- 2022 “AR, Augmented Reality”, TokenHausBerlin, online
- 2022 “discussing art nfts: presenting IN TOUCH Berlin”, verticalcrypto, online
- 2022 “Exhibiting Immersive Art (online and offline)”, XRMust, online
- 2022 “Glitched Identity, Extended Self, Augmented Body”, Improper Walls, Vienna
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH: Artist talk”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH: Curators and Artist Tour”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
- 2022 “Discussing Art NFTs: Interactive Art”, verticalcrypto, online
- 2022 CIVA Festival Curators Tour, Creative Days Vienna, Vienna / various locations
- 2021 “File Exchange 08: Martina Menegon”, Colette Robbins and Sophie Kahn, online
- 2021 “Virtual Reality Art”, SALOON Network, online
- 2021 “Metamorphosis 2.0”, Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, online
- 2021 Ludic Method Soirée, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2021 “Keeping up with the Metaverse”, synthesis gallery, re:publica, online
- 2020 “The Virtual as Public Space and Stage to Perform Identity”, ChampdAction.LAbO
- 2020 “The Contemporary Self and its Synthetic Corporeality”, Digital Arts, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2020 “synthesis WALKTHROUGHS: Martina Menegon”, synthesis gallery, online
- 2020 “The Contemporary Self and its Synthetic Corporeality”, KISD - Köln International School of Design
- 2020 “Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise”, Kara Agora - Online Art & Research Center, online
- 2020 “Digital Wine / S1E5 - Hubs and Metaverse”, Digital Wine, online
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka
- 2019 “Challenges of Humanity and the Creative Use of XR”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art Practice”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2019 “Culture & Creativity in the Digital Age”, Creative Days Vienna, REAKTOR, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art Practice”, Creative Days Vienna, REAKTOR, Vienna
- 2019 11th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience Harnack House, Berlin
- 2019“Walk-on-the-wild-side: Beyond Walking in Virtual Spaces”, Shared Walks: Social Design Symposium, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, Diagonale, Graz
- 2018 “Selfie Culture Symposium”, Art University, Linz
- 2018 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, IAM, Graz
- 2018 “Self-portrait and AI in Media Art”, Oberbank Donau-Forum, Linz
- 2017 “Mixed Reality Aesthetics”, London College of Fashion, London
- 2016 “Research Salon - Virtual Reality”, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2016 “Narration in Virtual Reality”, Retune Festival, Berlin
CURATORIAL
- 2023 “Intangible Care”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, Belvedere21, Vienna
- 2022 “#cyber-rituals @hyper-self”, Kargl Permanent, Vienna
- 2022 “Embodied Structures”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, Belvedere21, Vienna
- 2021 “Uncanny Reality Festival”, Symposium Lindabrunn
- 2021 “Free Spaces. A New Social”, Creative Days Vienna and sound:frame, online
- 2021 “Expanded Realities and Networked Voices”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, online
- 2020 “Experiencing Extended Realities”, Vienna Design Week, Area for Virtual Art, online
- 2019 “Poetics of Uncertainty: Claire Hentschker”, AFK, suzieshride, Vienna
- 2019 “Old Habits: Line F. Jensen”, AFK, suzieshride, Vienna
- 2019 “Hyperartefakte: Xavier Gschnitzer”, AFK, 36|Projectcell, Vienna
- 2019 “And When I: Enrico Zago”, AFK, 36|Projectcell, Vienna
COLLECTIONS / PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 - “Unsigned: Martina Menegon”, Francisco Carolinum Linz (digital collection)
- 2022 - “not again, not anymore”, UNPROTECTED, epoch.gallery, online
- 2022 - “untouched.257842“, video, ed 1/3, private collection (Germany)
- 2022 - “untouched (v.n.)”, Performing identities, performingidentities.net, online
- 2021 - “It’s a matter of Perspective”, The bardo: Unpacking the Real, Feral File, online
- 2021 - “familiar strangers”, Paradoxical objects. Video Sculpture Art from 1960 to today, peer-to-space, online
- 2020 - “so much for self control!”, SPAMM - SuPer Modern Art Museum, online
- 2020 - “all alone, together”, A Virtual Utopia, Area for Virtual Art, online
- 2019 - “the rapture of the self”, harddiskmuseum, online / various locations
- 2019 - “Heads off me!”, CUBE - Virtual Gallery for Virtual Art, Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zurig
- 2016 - “Virtual Narcissism”, Museum Of Virtual Art II, online
- 2016 - “I’ll Keep You Warm and Safe”, Paper-Thin V2 Gallery, online
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 “you know me so well”, Galeria 17, Pristina
- 2023 “I’m sorry I made you feel that way”, Discotec, Vienna
- 2023 “falling asleep”, objkt.one, online
- 2023 “Untouched”, TSI Harland Snodgrass Gallery / Alfred University, New York
- 2023 “It feels like home”, The Void / University of Victoria, Victoria - Canada
- 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, Cultural Information Center, Zagreb
- 2022 “familiar strangers”, DFC - Digital Francisco Carolinum, online
- 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, VRAL / Machinima Festival, online
- 2022 “untouched”, FILTRO / Metronom, Modena
- 2021 “when you are close to me I shiver”, Spark Art Fair, Marx Halle, Vienna
- 2021 “It feels like home”, HeK Net Works, HeK - House of Electronic Arts, online
- 2020 “when you are close to me I shiver”, MAK, Vienna and online
- 2020 “all alone, together”, Angewandte Schauraum / MQ, Vienna and online
- 2020 “What remains of myself”, k48, Vienna
- 2019 “Open Frame: Martina Menegon”, sound:frame and Artivive, Vienna
- 2018 “all around me are familiar faces, Zigutamve-Photography, Vienna
- 2017 “It suits me well”, GPL Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
- 2016 “Virtual Narcissism”, GPL Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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- 2024 “Beyond Human”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
- 2023 “And We Gonna Crash It When Nobody’s Home”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
- 2023 “Becoming-Machine“, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, Artsect DAO Gallery, London & online
- 2023 “Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges”, Gallery Kortil – HKD Exhibition, Rijeka
- 2023 “[DATUMS]“, XOR Space, online
- 2023 “Digital Dada”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
- 2023 ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen
- 2023 “Digital Dreams“, biennale ARTour, Musée de la Mine et du Développement durable, Bois-du-Luc / Belgium
- 2023 “More Than Human”, Blanc Art Space A1, Beijing
- 2023 “A BEATING HEART. FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART”, Expanded.Art, Berlin
- 2023 Tezos NFT Summit, Spring Studios, New York
- 2023 “CADENZA”, MEET Center, Milano and online
- 2023 “Performance Anxiety”, Verse Works, online
- 2023 “POSTGENDER. human after all”, Vellum LA x NFT Biennal, Los Angeles
- 2022 “A NEW BEGINNING”, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin
- 2022 “Virtually Real”, VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Köln, Germany
- 2022 “Unlimited Creations part 3”, Artemis Gallery, online
- 2022 “AN DER TAFEL - Visionen der Medienkunst 11”, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
- 2022 “ARNKEPHTCKFCR”, ALBA Gallery, JUPITER Hamburg, Hamburg
- 2022 “DIGITAL I - ARTEFAKTE”, Fotogalerie Wien, hosted by Ostlicht Galerie, Vienna
- 2022 DAFA Digital Art Fair, Hong Kong
- 2022 “IN TOUCH: ART IN THE AGE OF POST NFTism“, despace, Berlin
- 2022 “Post and experimental Photography on the Tezos Blockchain”, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2022 “DIGITAL SELF”, Jano Lapin Gallery, Toronto and online
- 2022 Kiaf - Korean International Art Fair, Seoul
- 2022 “Future Bodies”, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2022 ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen
- 2022 “Meta.space. Visions of space”, Francisco Carolinum, Linz
- 2022 “Unsigned”, online
- 2022 “UNPROTECTED”, Epoch Gallery, online
- 2022 “Kleiner Gottesgarten”, festival ORTSTERMIN, Berlin
- 2022 “LichtZeitLabor”, Kunsthalle Faust, Kröpke Uhr - Hannover
- 2022 “Unlimited Creation part 2”, Artemis Gallery, DIT., Vienna
- 2022 “Revolution V52 - L’odyssée Digitale”, Digital Zone, Marseille / L’unique - Musée Dehors, Caen
- 2022 “Nowhere in particular - experience near death experience”, Room69, RaumD / MQ, Vienna
- 2022 “Unlimited Creations”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
- 2022 “COPY ME!”, Galerie Wundersee, Düsseldorf
- 2022 “MELTING BO(UN)D(AR)IES”, Mock Jungle, Bologna
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
- 2022 “Take My Hand And I'll Show You What Was And Will Be”, ALBA Gallery, Vienna
- 2022 “UN/CUBE x VR: Six II Universes”, UN/CUBE, online
- 2022 “Rechannelled Corporeality”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, online
- 2021 “connections unplugged, bodies rewired”, das weisse haus, Vienna and online
- 2021 “Stack overflow: experience near death experience”, r00m69 x Wrong Biennale, New Art City, online
- 2021 “Incarnations”, Les Rencontres d’Arles, d’Arles and online
- 2021 “Warped Passages”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery x Dumbo Space, Bologna
- 2021 Tabor Film Festival, Veliki Tabor, Desinić
- 2021 Uncanny Reality Festival, Symposium Lindabrunn
- 2021 “Subterranean Virtualscapes”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, online
- 2021 “Art Layers”, Artribune, online
- 2021 “Bubbles and Borders - boundaries of digital freedom”, Leeremptyblank, online
- 2021 “Synthetic Corpo-reality”, MEET Center, Milano and online
- 2021 “Tautologies”, bb15, Linz
- 2020 “FEELINGS”, Synthesis Gallery, online
- 2020 “12th Atelier”, URXZone and Casa degli Artisti, online
- 2020 “A virtual Utopia, Area For Virtual Art”, online
- 2020 “Real Body - Virtual Body”, RectoVRso, online
- 2020 “FROM NOSE TO COAST”, _____TIM NOLAS, Vienna
- 2020 “Search for… Feminism”, VBKÖ, Vienna
- 2020 “Navigieren im Postdigitalen”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2019 “Körperwende: From Nam June Paik to Hiroshi Ishiguro”, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
- 2019 “Harddiskmuseum V.10”, EP7, Paris
- 2019 “Church of Ego”, U10, Belgrade
- 2019 “Lossless (Bodies)”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
- 2019 “Transmedia Art Made My Day”, Parallel Vienna,Vienna
- 2019 “Unsafe+Sounds Interlude”, Steinergasse 8, Vienna
- 2019 “Snap Your Identity”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
- 2019 “Toronto New Wave”, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
- 2019 “passing by”, University of Applied Arts - Atrium, Vienna
- 2019 “Sensorium Festival”, Pistori palace, Bratislava
- 2019 “Animated_currency_01.gif”, Suzie Shride, Vienna
- 2019 “VR Focus”, Diagonale, Graz
- 2019 “SPAMM Philosophy”, Mapils Gallery, Naples
- 2019 “Poison Ivy”, Franz-Josef-Kai 3, Vienna
- 2018 “This Could Be You”, Overkill Festival, Amsterdam
- 2018 “Mixed Reality Uncovered: AR & VR in the Art & Cultural sector”, CC De Grote Post, Oostende
- 2018 “Church of VR”, VR Days Europe, De Kromhouthal, Amsterdam
- 2018 “New Materialities in the Digital Age”, Harlesden High Street, London
- 2018 Process Festival, TYDE Studios, Dortmund
- 2018 Vienna Design Week, Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Sophienspital, Vienna
- 2018 Peephole Cinema, 97 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn
- 2018 Open Source Festival, Galopprennbahn, Düsseldorf
- 2018 FILE VR ART, Fiesp Cultural Center, São Paulo
- 2018 “Twisted Sides”, Art House Gallery, Brno
- 2018 re:publica 18, Station Berlin, Berlin
- 2018 “#LAYERS Contemporary Art in the Digital Era”, La Raffinerie, Brussels
- 2018 VR Days, Goethe Institute, Munich
- 2018 “Digital Sculpture - Follow the unknown”, Museum Ulm, Ulm
- 2017 GENERATE! Festival, Veranstaltungen der Shedhalle, Tübingen
- 2017 “Baa’17 Live Performance”, Filmcasino, Vienna
- 2017 “PROCESSING”, Gallery GPL Contemporary, Vienna
- 2017 “Empty Vessels || Vulnerable Bodies”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
- 2017 “Whitebox @ Artmuc”, Artmuc Kunstmesse, Munich
- 2017 “Symbols of Trouble”, Thayaland Gallery, Siegharts
- 2017 “Uncanny Conditions - Virtual Reality Exhibition”, whitebox, Munich
- 2017 “Bubbling Universes”, FILE Festival, Fiesp Cultural Center, São Paolo
- 2017 “Invasive - Video Art exhibition in private spaces”, medienkunstverein, Berlin
- 2017 “DREUSECHSFUENF #2”, Ateliertheater, Vienna
- 2017 “Foam Fusion”, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
- 2017 “Draft System”, WRO Biennale, Ballestrem Palace, Wrocław
- 2017 “Selfcity”, whitebox, Munich
- 2017 “Matter and Lightness”, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
- 2017 “Social Distortion”, ArtWall, Athens
- 2017 “Everything is a Remix”, whitebox, Munich
- 2016 “TEDxViennaSalon: The Future of Intimacy”, MAK, Vienna
- 2016 “(Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self”, University of Hull, Hull (UK)
- 2016 “Synthetic Resonances”, Assembly Point, London
- 2016 “Homeostasis Lab”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
- 2016 “To Draw a Bow to Bend a Line”, Fotogalerie, Vienna
PUBLICATION / PRESS
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- 2023 “HYBRID BODIES - about “falling asleep”, Kika Nicolela, Objkt.One
- 2023 Exploring Digital Bodies and Identities, Interview by Margaret Murphy, Expanded.Art
- 2023 Artist Spotlight: Exploring Digital Identities with Martina Menegon, Vellum LA
- 2022 “Play Matters”, Exhibition Essay, Martina Menegon
- 2022 Interview with Luca Miranda, VRAL / Milan Machinima Festival (online)
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH”, Marie Chatel, Filippo Lorenzin, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art
- 2022 “The affective flows of the sublime in Martina Menegon's new machinic subjectivity”, Grant Petrey, New Techno Humanities
- 2022 “Embodied Structures: Join the map to reinvent yourself”, Victor Cos Ortega, artmagazine.cc
- 2022 “La prima mostra nella galleria digitale di Virginia Bianchi”, Matteo Lupetti, Artribune
- 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, generazione critica
- 2022 “Embodied Structures: Curatorial Statement”, Martina Menegon and Eva Fischer, online
- 2021 “222 EMERGING ARTISTS WORTH INVESTING IN 2021”, critical essay by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart Editions, 2021
- 2021 “Art Layers: 10 art filters for Artribune. Interview with Martina Menegon”, Valentina Tanni, Artribune
- 2021 “Tangled Together in an Age of Virus”, Charlotte Kent, clotmag
- 2021 “The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real”, Charlotte Kent, The Brooklyn Rail
- 2021 Interview with Boris Magrini / HeK - House of Electronic Arts, online
- 2021 “LUDIFIED. Artistic Research in Audiovisual Composition, Performance and Perception”, Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg and Andreas Pirchner, the Green Box
- 2021 “The Art of Digital CurationCo-operative Stewardship of Net-Based Art”, Colin Post, Archivaria n.92
- 2021 Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation, Annet Dekker
- 2020 “Klimakrise in der Kunst: 'Vielleicht muss ein Werk schockieren'”, Barbara Schechtner, Die Presse (online)
- 2020 “Klimasorgen und Zukunftsängste auf die Leinwand”, Die Presse, p.25
- 2020 “exhibit!”, Kunstforum International n.270, p.313
- 2020 “A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art”, Tina Sauerländer, International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 5
- 2020 “Networked Alternatives: Digital Curation and Artistic Production on Artist-Run Platforms”, PhD Colin Post, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
- 2020 “When You Are Close To Me I Shiver”, Annemarie Harant and Roman Mesicek, Tonspur N
- 2020 “Virtuelle Konferenz Tools als Alternative zu Zoom und Co”, Andreas Fraunberger, www.jungeroemer.net
- 2020 “Digital Creative Talks #3 - Martina Menegon”, Andreas Fraunberger, www.jungeroemer.net
- 2019 “Snap Your Identity”, Justine Hoffmann / Kunstverein Wolfsburg
- 2018 “Martina Menegon in three dimensions”, Fabbula, Fisheye Magazine France n.28, p132
- 2018 “refresh02_#Layers”, Fabio Paris / iMal Brussels
- 2018 “The body is the message”, FILE Festival, São Paulo
- 2018 “Digital Sculpture. Follow the Unknown”, Institute of digital Art, Museum Ulm
- 2017 “selfciety. Self-presentation and self-perception in the digital age”, whiteBOX, Munich