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A WHILE AGO
Zhang Huan, Miltos Manetas, A show in Milan at the Pack Gallery
AND AT THE SAME TIME
Animamix Biennial-Visual Attract & Attack,
IN TAIWAN AT THE TAIPEI MOCA
AND JUST BEFORE THAT
PiratePaintings at Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm.
AND IN SEPT 2009
- Jan Aman wrote a great text. - Yesterday's rock star Johan Kinde complained at Facebook and asked his funs to NOT go to the show. - The show got lulzed at the opening by Swedish artist and Pirate Palle Torsson who is possing as the author under the alias Milton Manetaz! Torsson did a performance during the opening re-combining the letters of my Piracy Manifesto and making his version on the floor of the gallery. Many of the visitors were convinced that Miltos Manetas (myself) doesn't even exist and that he is just a fragment of Torsson's imagination! See pictures and read about it all at Rasmus Fleischer's blog
11/22/33
11/22/33, The closing day of the Internet Pavilion. Please start these videos together.
Today is a Sunday: Nov 22 2009. That's 11/22/09 -which can be read also as 11/22/33 (9= 3x3). It is the very last day of the Venice Biennial and also the last chance to visit the InternetPavilion, which is hosted at www.PadiglioneInternet.com.
From tomorrow, the Internet Pavilion will be closed and it will re-open again for the next Venice Biennial in two years.
Still, there is enough time today for a few more hours at least, to make something historical happen inside the Pavilion. Its up to you really, up to any of us.
Speaking for myself, I believe that what's possible, what "can be done", has nothing to do with "technology". Technology-as Wikipedia says- is "a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment". In that sense, computers aren't really "technology": dogs and other animals can't use them. The Internet isn't technology either, plants can't grow there. Computers at their present stage are more similar to rocks and stones and the much hyped "Internet" is a little more than some kind of dirt: some sort of desert dust that is covering a large part of the planet but not everything.
The InternetPavilion is at this stage the embassy of a country: the new country of the Internet inhabited by a very small minority (people who own computers are less than 1% of humanity). The "real" Internet Pavilion -the one we may decide to enter in two years from now, (or even later today, maybe just a nanosecond before midnight), could be the door to a reality where the World doesn't need a mediation, where you can send an email by just moving your lips instead of this ridiculous message that I am typing right now on a machine. There isn't anything "mystical" about this, we can actually try a little experiment at this very moment: Please, let go your computer mouse, relax back on your chair or on the sofa, wherever you are reading this text, close your eyes and draw two circles in front of your face using your right hand , one circle from the left to the right and the other from the right to the left. Then, open slowly your eyes and without using your computer, send a reply to this message.
Have a nice day
Miltos Manetas, 11/22/33
& AND IN THE SUMMER OF 2009
& AND IN 2009
Conrad Stoltz’ World Championships race kit. Designed by Miltos Manetas and made by LUMA Sports.
& IN OCT 2009
The Piracy Manifesto wasread and discussed in Berlin on Saturday Oct 3 (17-18.30 pm , Raum K 24/21) during the "Make Capitalism History" Kongress make-capitalism-history.de
& IN SEPT 2009
Venice (2 September) CIRCUITO OFF - VENICE International short film festival : a talk about NEEN
& AND AT SOME POINT IN 2009
JacksonPollock.org is People's Voice Winner of the Webby Awards
& AND IN 2009
The Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial
& IN DAZED & CONFUSED
& IN DAZED & CONFUSED
& IN UOMO VOGUE
& JUST FINISHED
2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN 15 June – 4 October
& AND AT THE SAME TIME EXACTLY
Unconditional Love
at the Venice Biennial
Arsenale Novissimo, Tesa 89, Organization: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Contemporary Art
& THIS SUMMER
London studio, 2009
& MYSELF
BECAUSE:
We support the Embassy of Piracy
The biggest Pyramid in the World.
& LONG TIME AGO
Marx&Marinetti&Miltos&Manetas by the Experimental Jetset (link)
& A PAINTING I LOVE
From PAINTINGS
& ALWAYS
ART WEBSITES
(Because "Our websites are the Art of our days")
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| Jesusswimming.com, 2001 | Jacksonpollock.org , 2003 | Fourfortyfour.com, 2002-06 | Kosuth.com, 2006 | |
| Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | |
| Installation view, (Projection on Canvas, 120x90 inches, Yvon Lambert Gallery, 2006) | Courtesy the Artist, UK | |||
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| ManIntheDark.com , 2004 | iPollock.com, 2006 | ThankYouAndyWarhol.com, 2007 | FarewelltoPhilosophy.com, 2005 | |
| Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | |
| Courtesy The Artist,UK | Collection Beatrix Millies, Munich | Courtesy the Artist,UK | Collection Ciro Sepe, Naples | |
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| Antonionegri.com, 2001 | 444theory.com, 2001-06 | StupidForum.com, 2002 | LucioFontana.com, 2004 | |
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| Namingway.com, 2000-2006 | GinoDeDominicis.com, 2006 | SupermarioSleeping.com, 1998 | GuyDebord.com, 1999-2007 | |
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| DearYvon.com, 2006 | OutsideoftheInternetthereisnoGlory.com, 2007 | Against1.com, 2006 | Ching-i.com, 2008 | |
| Website, unique edition, collection Yvon Lambert | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | Website, unique edition | |
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A NEEN MANIFESTO
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JacksonPollock application for your iphone (take it from here )
& JUST SOME MONTHS AGO
"Purple Fashion Magazine #11: Purple Philosophy, "Anti-copyright texts written and selected by Miltos Manetas" link
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"The Real Thing", Curated by Vvork where I am showing The Artist in his Studio.
& AT THE SAME TIME
Club Internet Show Capricious Gallery, Brooklyn
& AT THE SAME TIME
Random Rules, A channel of Artists, Curated by Marina Fokidis at the Pulse Art Fair in NY link
& AROUND THE SAME TIME
V.01 β: An exhbition proposed by Valéry Grancher, Damien Aspe, Jean-Marc Avrilla and Lieu-Commun Contemporary ArtCcenter, Toulouse, France.
& A BIT LATER
The Prague Biennial
& JUST BEFORE THAT
Altermodern Manifesto: Non-Static Art in Static Display. Miltos Manetas and Sam Thorne in conversation at the Tate Britain
& JUST THEN
The latest Internet Paintings in London (link)
& BEFORE
A story on Ponytail Magazine (link) + (link 2)
& BEFORE THAT
Jan 25-28, 2009: Manetas at the DLD Conference in Munich AND a painting in Mexico City for Mr. Bruggemanns's wedding (link)
& BEFORE THAT
Everyday Utopia, Curated by Marina Fokidis at the Think.21 Gallery, Rue du Mail.21, Brussels, Belgium. (link)
& BEFORE
a book :
MILTOS MANETAS
Paintings from Contemporary Life.
Texts by Lev Manovich and Franck Gautherot
Published by Johan & Levi Editore Feb 2009
190 pages
Illustrations: 87 colour
Language: Italian and English
Size: 28 x 24 cm
ISBN 978-88-6010-012-2
€ 48,00
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& of course Neen
Neen according to Manetas at www.SuperNeen.com
http://www.neen.org (link)
& THE NEEN MANIFESTO
designed by the Experimental Jetset
& ON TELEVISION
A Neen Documentary
& ON YOUTUBE
Existential Computing, Chapter 1 (2006)
& MORE THAN A YEAR AGO
"Dust", HERMES Store, Athens, Greece. (link)
& exactly before that
"The Alliance"(link) at DoArt Gallery, Seoul, Korea, Curator: Seungduk Kim & Franck Gautherot.
& even before that
"Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst" (ART MACHINES MACHINE ART) (link) at the Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH
(in collaboration with the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany)
Curator: Katharina Dohm Artists: Pawel Althamer, Michael Beutler, Angela Bulloch, Olafur Eliasson, Tue Greenfort, Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Jon Kessler, Tim Lewis, Lia, Miltos Manetas, Roxy, Paine Steven, Pippin, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jean Tinguely, Antoine Zgraggen,Andreas Zybach.
& even before that
"Second Life, nouveau territoire d’expérience artistique immatérielle ?" a conference in contemporary in SecondLife and at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris.( lundi 14 avril à 15 h, in world sur l’Ile Verte et à la Chapelle des Petits-Augustins à Paris. Organized by Margherita Balzerani (pictures)
& before
& in 2006
(Design by the Experimental Jetset)
The Internet Paintings is a series of canvasses, 250 x 380 cm each
& in 2000
Elysian Fields was an exhibition that took place in 2000 at the Centre Pompidou, curated by Elein Fleiss and Oliver Zahm, of the French magazine Purple.
(Catalogue designed by the Experimental Jetset)
& in 2006
The FourFortyFour Theory
(Poster designed by the Experimental Jetset)
& in 2001
I wrote a text for EMIGRE 57 which was designed by the Experimental Jetset
& LINKS
