Becoming Chimeric: Verso Identità Radicali Attraverso il Glitch

Martina Menegon presents her artistic research, rooted in post-digital practices and cyber/posthuman feminist theories, in which glitch and chimeric embodiment become tools for interrogating identity, presence and affect in our contemporary condition, deeply mediated by technology.

Through the use and misuse of 3D scanning, game engines, algorithms and immersive technologies, Menegon creates glitch self-portraits and interactive environments that confront the viewer with unsettling, affective and often disorienting encounters. Her works reflect on identity and presence, exposing the vulnerability of the hybrid body, the fragmentation of the self and the poetics of the liminal.

Working through these assemblages of physical and virtual elements, her practice explores hybrid, fluid bodies in continuous reconfiguration, suspended between fragmentation, multiplicity and liminal spaces. This research develops into a reflection on an unstable, glitched self, situated between alteration and hybridisation, matter and metamorphosis.

The lecture will be held in Italian and moderated by Ennio Bianco, curator and digital arts expert.