Simon Denny

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Simon Denny (b. 1982) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Intrigued by the cultures around technology, Denny takes the inspiration for his artwork from objects, documents, and images that companies, organizations and states use or produce. His practice involves making compelling material and digital responses to these powerful prompts –  often framing his installations, paintings, sculptures, prints, videos and web-based works as case studies based upon events or figures. These include moments in the emergence of cryptocurrencies and other technology paradigm shifts; founders like Peter Thiel and Kim Dotcom and political figures like Margaret Thatcher. Through this careful attention to the cultures of technology and technologists, he has produced special objects that resonate with key economic, cultural and material tendencies within the contemporary world. For Denny, physical and political space and the digital spaces constructed by companies and communities are not distinct entities. Rather, the entanglement of these spaces has become a key point of departure throughout his work.

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