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Martina Menegon
Martina Menegon
Martina Menegon (she/her, Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator, lecturer, and researcher working between Vienna and cyberspace. Her practice explores the dynamics of embodiment within digital and extended realities, investigating the hybrid and chimeric nature of contemporary corporeality through intimate assemblages of physical and virtual elements.
Using (and often pushing the limits of) game engines, algorithms, and immersive technologies, she creates glitched self-portraits and interactive experiences that confront viewers with uncanny, affective, and often disorienting encounters. Her work reflects on identity and presence, highlighting the vulnerability of the hybrid body, the fragmentation of the self, and the poetics of the in-between.
In 2019, she founded the curatorial platform /afk, through which she has produced a series of solo exhibitions in Vienna, dedicated to local and international artistic practices in the fields of digital art and extended realities.
Using (and often pushing the limits of) game engines, algorithms, and immersive technologies, she creates glitched self-portraits and interactive experiences that confront viewers with uncanny, affective, and often disorienting encounters. Her work reflects on identity and presence, highlighting the vulnerability of the hybrid body, the fragmentation of the self, and the poetics of the in-between.
In 2019, she founded the curatorial platform /afk, through which she has produced a series of solo exhibitions in Vienna, dedicated to local and international artistic practices in the fields of digital art and extended realities.
MARTINA MENEGON
untouched. 7285252 (from the series untouched, 2021–ongoing), Video Installation, 5:00 min
untouched. 7285252 (from the series untouched, 2021–ongoing), Video Installation, 5:00 min
“untouched" is a work based on an evolving series of self-portraits created through 3D scanning and presented as online sculptures, augmented reality experiences, and video installations.
In the video submitted for competition, the artist’s body is captured in motion and appears on screen as an organic, almost abstract fragment of the original—an avatar that moves and unravels seamlessly before the viewer’s eyes. It generates fluid new identities and multiple autobiographical existences, where the glitch—produced by interrupting the scanning process—is not a technical flaw but a poetic tactic: a way to resist digital smoothness and perfection, revealing the instability and vulnerability of hybrid identity.
The figures are intentionally left raw, preserving the ruptures of the scanning process as aesthetic and emotional residues. These forms reject singularity and overlap into new, evolving shapes, opening a visual and experiential reflection on the digital self as something profoundly fluid and deeply intertwined with technology.
In the video submitted for competition, the artist’s body is captured in motion and appears on screen as an organic, almost abstract fragment of the original—an avatar that moves and unravels seamlessly before the viewer’s eyes. It generates fluid new identities and multiple autobiographical existences, where the glitch—produced by interrupting the scanning process—is not a technical flaw but a poetic tactic: a way to resist digital smoothness and perfection, revealing the instability and vulnerability of hybrid identity.
The figures are intentionally left raw, preserving the ruptures of the scanning process as aesthetic and emotional residues. These forms reject singularity and overlap into new, evolving shapes, opening a visual and experiential reflection on the digital self as something profoundly fluid and deeply intertwined with technology.