Martina Menegon one last click and i'll be gone (06/09/2022, 12h15m) 2022 Video Color, sound, 3840 × 2160 px, .mp4 duration: 1m Edition of 1 + 1 AE

“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 or short movies 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.

"one last click and i'll be gone (06/09/2022, 12h15m)" was created exclusively for the NFT auction by VAN HAM on 30 November 2022. The collector of this video work will also receive an Augmented Reality created with the same custom software.