“one last click and I’ll be gone” is a series of self-portraits generated through a custom live simulation that monitors the artist's cursor’s movements and gestures. At every mouse click, a new clone of the artist’s digitised body is created. Trapped within the virtual and physical boundaries of the screen, these avatars are forced to follow the cursor’s position while struggling with the physics and limits of the virtual environment and leaving visual traces of their every movement.
Through this algorithmically driven simulation, left running while working in front of the computer, Martina Menegon creates a new and unpredictable kind of "phygital" self-portraiture. Throughout her screen time, the algorithm takes pictures, videos or 3D models of the running simulation at random intervals (saved with a timestamp in the title) and resets the virtual canvas. The results are unique impressions of the artist's virtual selves as well as her physical self mediated and embodied through a cursor or an interface. A self-portraiture that includes the digital, the physical and her intimate relation with computer and screens.
NFT Biennial x Vellum LA x UnicornDAO presents “POSTGENDER”. The exhibition aims to bring forth conversations about postgenderism between artists, collectives, curators and audiences.
POSTGENDER runs January 26 - February 12, 2023 at Vellum LA. Artworks will be presented on state-of-the-art LED Luma Canvas displays, and powered by Tezos.
Human after all. A collective of creatives moves past the paradigm of defined terminology into a transhumanist manifesto. We are the new undefined state of gender, one that presents fluid utopic dynamics in shaping oneness. What if we, as a culture, moved past traditional gender roles into new states of identity? What would we call it?
As technology and art pave the way for our identities which thrive in safe spaces beyond our physical bodies into celestial realms of avatar gender bending sources. We are anything we wish to be. The exhibition explores what it means for us as a collective of progressive individuals to develop a new language to overcome the paradigms of archaic gendered narratives.
The exhibition invites local and global audiences alike to engage with their practices through a physical exhibition at Vellum LA on Melrose and digitally through the NFT Biennial Metaverse.