Simon Denny

Overview

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.

Documents

Works

Simon Denny
Metaverse Landscape 10: Voxels 23 Clarion Alley, 2023
Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 3/4 in
100 x 100 x 4.5 cm
Simon Denny
Metaverse Landscape 11: Voxels 2 Balmy Alley, 2023
Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 1 3/4 in
200 x 200 x 4.5 cm
Simon Denny
Metaverse Landscape 25: The Sandbox Land (28, -113), 2023
Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 3/4 in
100 x 100 x 4.5 cm
Simon Denny
Metaverse Landscape 3: Decentraland Parcel 48, 79, 2022
UV print and oil on canvas, wood, MDF, plexiglas, ETH paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT
Framed: 50 x 48 x 2 1/2 in
127 x 121.9 x 6.3 cm
Simon Denny
Amazon delivery drone patent drawing as virtual Rio Tinto mineral globe (US 10,246,186 Bl: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WITH INFLATABLE MEMBRANE, 2019), 2021
Powder coated aluminum, steel, fiberglass, resin, paint, iOS Augmented Reality interface
66 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 59 in
169.9 x 180.1 x 149.9 cm
Simon Denny
Power Vest 6, 2020
Scarf formerly owned by Margaret Thatcher, Patagonia M’s Down Sweater Vest parts, Down sourced from second hand San Francisco garments, Ripstop Nylon, Salesforce and Quip embroidered logos, wood, glass, photo paper, cardboard
48.82 x 56.3 x 4.72 in
124 x 143 x 12 cm
Framed: 48 5/8 x 56 3/8 x 4 3/4 in
123.5 x 143.2 x 12.1 cm
Simon Denny
Document Relief 18 (Amazon Worker Cage Patent), 2019
Ink jet print on archival paper, glue, custom metal wall mount
11 3/4 x 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 in
29.7 x 21.3 x 13 cm
Simon Denny
Document Relief 5 (Amazon Worker Cage Patent), 2019
Ink jet print on archival paper, glue, custom metal wall mount
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in
30 x 21 x 13 cm
Simon Denny
Remainder 2, 2019
Margaret Thatcher scarves, Patagonia 850 Down Sleeping Bag 30 F/-1 C - R parts, Ripstop Nylon, Down sourced from second hand San Francisco garments, carbon fibre, glass fibre, wood
82 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 in
210 x 55 x 40 cm
Simon Denny
Formalised Org Chart/ Architectural Model: Apple Campus 2 under construction, 2015
CNC cut MDF, UV print on Plexiglas,
metal chain, UV print on Revostage
platform, powder coated steel

78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 39 3/8 in
200 x 200 x 100 cm
Simon Denny
Modded Server Rack Display: Hacking Trust [Narrative by Matt Goerzen, suggested product title by Emily Segal], 2015
Custom printed books in Revostage platform, powder coated 19” server rack, Cisco Systems WS-C2948G switch, LAN cables, Bachmann power strip, steel
trays, Bitmain Antminer Golden Sample
S3+, handmade Bitcoin Miner Asic Block
Erupter Blade SET, UV print on laminated cardboard, UV print on cardboard, laser cut Plexiglas letters, powder coated steel components, UV print on sandblasted laminated safety glass, LED strips

96 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
245 x 100 x 100 cm