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.
