Martina Menegon (she/her – Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator and educator living and working between Vienna and the cyberspace.
In her artistic practice, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its hybrid corporeality. Using (and misusing) game engines, algorithms and the virtual, she experiments with new forms of performative and glitched self-portraiture, exploring new simulated fluid identities and creating uncanny, interactive and disorienting experiences that become perceivable despite their virtual nature.
Martina’s work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, both online and offline, and can be found in various digital and offline collections, as well as in several permanent online spaces.
Martina graduated in Visual and Performing Arts (BA) at the IUAV University of Venice (IT) and in Media Art / Transmedia Art (BA / MA) at the University of Applied Arts – Die Angewandte in Vienna where she’s currently senior artist and lecturer. She has beenVice Director and Curator at the CIVA Festival for New Media Art in Vienna (2021-2023) and is Head of Extended Reality and Curator for the “Area for Virtual Art“ on behalf of sound:frame.
website: martinamenegon.xyz
Instagram: @martina.menegon
twitter: @martina_menegon
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This exhibition comes as a collaboration between Shtatëmbëdhjetë and Ars Electronica and is supported by:
Kryeqyteti Prishtina, SMART Balkans, Austrian Embassy Pristina, Ambasciata d’Italia a Pristina – Embassy of Italy in Pristina, Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Tirana and Sigma Vienna Insurance Group.