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Simon Denny

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Monsters Between Worlds installed in Venice as part of Strange Rules at Berggruen Arts and Culture’s Palazzo Diedo @berggruendiedo 04.05-22.11.2026, Curated by Mat Dryhurst @matdryhurst , Holly Herndon @holly_herndon , Hans Ulrich Obrist @hansulrichobrist and Adriana Rispoli @adrianarispoli_curator , featuring many of my new machine paintings alongside a masterwork from 1987 by Harald Cohen.

This installation brings together a conversation prompted by the curatorial team with thinker/writer Venkatesh Rao @vgururao , threads of my recent work looking at the confluences between Italian Futurism and Defence tech as outlined in Epic Fury, the text I wrote (with vital help and feedback from Alex Estorick @alexestorick ) for this month’s Artforum @artforum edited by Rachel Wetzler @rachelwetzler and Daniel Wenger.

A special thanks to everyone who helped with bringing this together – Julija Zaharijević @julijazahahaha , Jakob Sitter @jakobsitter , Harris Rosenblum @harris.rosenblum , Moya Lawson @mlawsy , Tyler Jackson @tylerjackson.space in the studio, all those at Berggruen Arts & Culture especially Pietro Lunetta and Luca Palandri for production magic. Conversations and feedback from countless others including Nina Franz @nina__franz , Yngve Holen @yngveholen , Maria Paula Fernandez @maria_____paula____ , New Models @newmodels_io , Carly Busta @cbcb2000 and the loan of the Cohen from Neil Hutchinson from Fellowship @fellowship.xyz

https://www.artforum.com/features/simon-denny-art-defense-tech-1234747490/ taken in Venice, Italy by @sden023

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Final day today of my 3 day exhibition “Forces of the Unknown” at the J W Marriott hotel in Stauffenbergstrasse 26, with its view onto the German Resistance Memorial Center, inside the Ministry of Defense campus.

The show launches my new series of machine-produced paintings mixing contemporary images from Defense Tech companies with AI trained on those images mixed with Italian Futurist images.

Thanks to @kraupatuskanyzeidler who presented this exhibition with me and to various artists who were instrumental in developing the tech and the series with me, including @harris.rosenblum , @julijazahahaha , @tracy_hjz @inte_n_t and countless others in feedback and discussion. taken in JW Marriott Hotel Berlin by @sden023

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Amazon worker cage patent drawing as virtual King Island Brown Thornibill cage
(US 9,280,157 B2: “System and method for transporting personnel within an active workspace”, 2016)
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in Mine, a new exhibition just opened at Mona in Tasmania. Thanks to David & Kiersha, curators Jarrod Rawlins, Emma Pike and all the unbelievable Mona team. A special thanks Dr Matt Webb, Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU who captured the audio of the King Island Brown Thornbill for the very first time in March, here included in it’s AR mirror version worked on by Art Processors with renders by Blair Burke and research+ by Becky Sui Zhen Freeman in the 3D version of the Amazon Worker Cage, patented by Amazon.com, highlighted by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler in their incredible Anatomy of an AI System (2018) taken in MONA, Hobart, Tasmania by @sden023

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Sleeping bags and power vests as individual Bay Area insulation units. Made using scarves acquired from the estate of Margaret Thatcher and second hand down from garments sourced in San Francisco. Based on Patagonia sleeping bag designs and a Patagonia x Salesforce power vest I acquired from ebay... and a Document Relief based on Salesforce patent for “Presenting Personalized Personas in Online Social Networks”. Opens tonight at @altmansiegel San Francisco taken in altman siegel by @sden023

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#secretpower #lastday huge thanks to all who contributed/enabled :) taken in Biblioteca Marciana by @sden023

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Dotcom bust 👔📉 companies from 2001 get reanimated🧟‍♀️📈 in the commercial heart of London tonight and every Sunday until December. Dotcom Séance, my nft project collaboration with @guile.work, launched last December with Folia.app @billyrennekamp @refilled_aesop_bottle , is being reheated by the “Outernet” @outernetarts in the very spectacular “Now” building at Tottenham Court Road with a new soundtrack by @villehaimala . Time and space are warped forever. Special thanks to @marcobrambillastudio, @ttremlett , @robo_wagner_graphics , @ruthywaters @glassworksvfx taken in Tottenham Court Road by @sden023

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‘Creation Stories’ opened last week @gusfishergallery and @michaellettgallery - huge 4 year collaboration with Dr Karamia Müller, @kiki_marie_muller unpacking value creation, 🇼🇸🇩🇪🇳🇿🇺🇸🇬🇧 social graphs, the birth of ETH in Zug, the colonial Pacific, family histories, company histories - a tapestry of value - including ETH miner social graph sculptural weavings at the twilight of Proof of Work. Thanks to all collaborators, supporters and those who attended in Auckland - great to be back there after so long away. taken in Auckland, New Zealand by @sden023

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More Creation Stories: Portrait of Palantir cofounder Alex Karp, made from layers of a Palantir image identification patent, followed by beautiful collages produced by Karp’s mother, Leah Jaynes Karp, in 1982 in response to the Atlanta murders of 1979-81. A key theme in Creation Stories is intergenerational knowledge sharing, and value creation through social graphs - used by Palantir Technologies and families alike. Here also a special detail of a painting produced by @shanecotton_ gesturing towards his own intergenerational knowledge and family histories. Thanks for the loan of Karp’s works by the @highmuseumofart Atlanta. taken in Gus Fisher Gallery by @sden023

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OPTIMISM at the Auckland Art Gallery @aucklandartgallery commissioned by @contemporary_benefactors, curated by @natashaconland was in the museum’s atrium for most of 2024.

Responding to repeated calls for optimism from technologists, and to the 🇳🇿🇺🇸company @rocketlabusa Rocket Lab’s visibility in the powerful space industry, OPTIMISM overlaid a complex AR collage onto giant 3D prints interpeting drawings from two of Rocket Lab’s patents.

The patent drawings became space colonies - reinvigorating popular old and new fantasies of new lands in space.

OPTIMISM would not have been possible without the AR wizardry of @easisi (with help from @jakobsitter ), the incredible musical score of @villehaimala, and the insane 3d print and engineering capacity of @palmerautomation.nz .

A special thank you also to @kirsten.e.lacy #scotteverson @hutch.d.wilco and all the countless others who supported the project at the musuem.

Forever grateful for the steadfast support of @michaellettgallery @michaellett and @andrew__thomas_ . taken in Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki by @sden023

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DUNGEON this past February at @petzelgallery , New York, was the most substantial presentation of new artworks I exhibited in 2024. It brought together objects made about the imaginary that dungeons have given virtual space.

One of the most important idioms for online life from gaming to metaverses, dungeons continue to both inspire and repel. The exhibition included artworks inspired by objects and images from games like @dndwizards , Mall Madness, @heroquest2.0 and defense tech companies like @anduril_industries .
Among the intense reactions the exhibition, Dungeon, prompted a debate between the NyTimes and Palmer Luckey about what gaming means culturally. (See last slide for Palmer’s response to Travis Diehl‘s in depth review).

Thanks again to all at @petzelgallery including Friedrich, @libbybuck, @kat.herriman and all who worked on this with me in my studio and beyond. taken in Petzel Gallery by @sden023

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