ONLINE LECTURE
organized
by the department of Digital Arts/ Prof. Ruth Schnell
Artists working with Virtual Reality as an artistic medium and form
of expression often embrace digital artefacts and imperfections that arise during the creational and computational process.
When these digital distortions are applied to the virtual bodies they trigger a sense of “intellectual
uncertainty” and uncanniness. In her talk, Martina Menegon will introduce her artistic practice and methodology and will walkthrough
the concept of synthetic corporeality and of avatars as perceivable entities in her works.
Martina
Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist working with Interactive and Mixed Reality Art to create intimate and complex assemblages
of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its synthetic corporeality. She is teaching at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna and regularly collaborates with Klaus Obermaier and Stefano D’Alessio, teaching multimedia
tools for interactive arts at the IUAV University in Venice and creating interactive performances and installations. Since
2019 she is directing :afk, curating Mixed Reality Art exhibitions in Vienna. She currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
