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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

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

2021 Guest Critic, Experimental Game Culture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: Embodied structures — Genderplay? A possible collaboration on Avatarik)
2011 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Multimedia Arts, IUAV University, Venice
2020 - 2021 Guest Lecturer, Institute for Experimental Architecture (./studio3), Innsbruck University, Innsbruck (Lecture: Virtual Reality)
2018 - 2020 Univ.Assistant, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2016 - 2018 Univ. Lecturer, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
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

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Artworks {selection}

falling asleep

I'm sorry I made you feel that way

I am but an uneven terrain

one last click and i'll be gone

a point of no return

artist’s block

not again, not anymore

untouched

it feels like home

it’s a matter of perspective

all alone, together

when you are close to me I shiver

I looked around for you, but I could only find myself

on the other hand

keep in touch

Familiar Strangers

heads off me

all around me are familiar faces

plug your nose and try to hum

I’ll keep you warm and safe

It suits me well

Virtual Narcissism

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Martina Menegon

NFTs
︎︎︎objkt.com
︎︎︎objkt.one
︎︎︎epoch.gallery
︎︎︎feral file
︎︎︎verse.works

Bio
Curatorial
Collaborations
Teaching