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Simon Denny

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Simon
Denny


University of Fine Arts, Hamburg

BIO

Simon is an artist and curator who has had major exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York, the Hammer Museum, affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, Serpentine Galleries in London, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K21) in Düsseldorf, among others. He represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale, he is a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), and he co-founded the artist mentoring program BPA / Berlin Program for Artists. His research driven work focuses on the politics and aesthetics of technology and technologists with a special focus on web-based paradigm changes. Blockchain, web3, and cryptocurrencies are currently a major focus of his work.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Simon was involved in the program Socio-Economic Transformation.

PUBLICATIONS

“Post Society / After language – Special Project”, in: Cura 37, 2021


Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2021


"Positioning in Research as Practice” (with Karamia Müller) in: Nicolaus Schafhausen and Mirjam Zadoff (eds.), Tell me about (yesterday) tomorrow, 2021


Simon Denny: The Innovator’s Dilemma, exh. cat. MoMA PS1, New York, 2015

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