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Yiannis Melanitis
artist, Greek, b.1967, Athens, Greece
Associate Professor, ASFA
Phd Candidate (NTUA)
MA Digital Arts (ASFA)
URL: http://www.melanitis.com
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Melanitis
Academia. edu: http://asfa.academia.edu/YiannisMelanitis
email: imelanitis@gmail.com
academic: gmelanitis@asfa.gr
tel: +30- 6973 744737
Athens School of Fine Arts, C' Sculpture Lab :
+30- 210- 4801227
ASFA 3D Lab : +30- 210- 4801235
short CV
Y. Melanitis is an artist, theorist, and
Assistant Professor at ASFA. Melanitis' work initiates from a
conceptualization on the strategies of contemporary art. Recent works
focuses on the role of code and information in the arts, considering
INFORMATION AS THE NEW CONCEPTUALIZATION. Latest example is his gene
micro-injected into the butterfly named Leda Melanitis for the
creation of a transgenic, adult butterfly breed; see "Leda Melanitis" at the
MACRO MUSEUM, Rome.
He derives from philosophy, epistemology, and
criticism to construct artworks which embody questions on the
"provenance" of ideas, probability, and the "art of new
informational distributions in nature". Political speech and philosophy
arising from machines and computers, render humans to mere 'watchers' or
envisage new roles to society. Melanitis attempts to
prognosticate that even official, state structures of dialectics that will
be produced in the future may derive from self-programming AI computers. He
presents works of interactive dialectics through the computer, which
fabricate a philosophical dialogue with the
public, remodelling the art of rhetoric through calculation (i.e.
in the work "Random
Rhetoric" for Ars Electronica
2020).
In other series of artworks, he references the
mechanics of speech with the concept of the alienation of logic from the
human as its inward administrator.
His artworks include installations,
performances, bioartworks, theoretical texts, critique, poems,
code-based web artworks, sculptures, oil paintings and drawings. Early
works since 1999 included robotic and coding art, bioart and
virtual spaces.
Oil paintings and sculptures recast linkages
between philosophy, language and politics. The oil paintings, often
dysmorphic, designate linkages between the comical, humorous and political
camouflage during the mimetic act of portraiture. Since 1998, he has
initiated art of robotics and bioart projects in Greece.
Melanitis has published essays on art and
philosophy in English and Greek. His Greek texts are translated into
English, Russian, Italian, Korean, Chinese.
Yiannis Melanitis holds degrees in
painting, sculpture and digital arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts
and is presently a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, (NTUA) with
a thesis entitled: Biological Dynamics in Art.
Exhibited in Austria, Mexico, Brazil, Belgium, the
UK, Portugal, Switzerland, the US, Scotland, Italy, Portugal, Sweden,
Germany, Greece. Latest work presentations include Ars Electronica 2020,
MACRO Museum (Rome); at the National Museum
of Brazil; the Biblioteque of Brazil; Museu D. Diogo de
Sousa, Braga, Portugal;
the Tongeren Museum
and Praetorium,
Belgium, N.York MIT PRESS.Works acquired
by HUG, Geneva, "Collection R", Belgium (exhibited in Sofacqgallery, Belgium),
the Civic Museum of Crema and private collections.
His
texts have been published among others by Parkview Museum China, 1st AICA
Conference Italia, Nova24 neewspaper Italy, NOEMA journal, MIT
Media Lab, DCAC-2023 Conference, Days of Art magazine, S+T+Arts, Ars ELectronica, CYFEST Russia,
Lomonosov University,
Italy, Artonworld magazine, POSTERINTERFACE MAGAZINE,
Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco
CLOT magazine,TWIXLab, DIGICULT, New York University- Silver
Center for Arts and Science, Pisa University, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence.
Critical analysis of his work by art- historians,
curators and art critics includes Elena Giulia Rossi, Qinyue Liu,
Carmelita Brunetti, Christiana Kazakou, Christopher Coleman, Gabrielle
Romeo, Mario Savini, Seung-Chol Shin, Magdalena Lange, Pier
Luigi Capucci and
Giorgio Cipolletta, Assimina Kaniari, S. Goudouna,
Federica Fontana, Silvia Scaravaggi, and Camilla Latini.
As a subject of criticism, his work is included in
international books-editions as "Art
Tomorrow" (Ed.L.Smith), Leonardo
MIT, Lomonosov Moscow University,
by Seung-Chol Shin, Assimina Kaniari, Mario Savini ,
Elena Giulia Rossi among others.
Yiannis Melanitis has been a member of
the Delphi Society.
Catalogues online :
https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/fawo
http://www.melanitis.com/catalogues/catalogues.html
videos : http://www.melanitis.com/videos.html
conceptual texts: http://www.melanitis.com/worksconcept.htm
Studies- Academic positions
Born 1967 in Athens, lived in Paros till 1974. Since
then he lives and works in Athens.
Elected as a Lecturer at Sculpture Deptm. of
Athens School Fine Arts on 2010, as an Assistant Professor on May 2016 and
as an Associate Professor on June 2022.
He is a Phd candidate (2005) at the
School of Architecture, NTUA,
Athens.
2002-2010: teaching as a collaborator of the
Sculpture Dept., Athens School of Fine Arts and at the School of
Architecture as a Phd Fellow (2007).
1999 Postgraduate Degree in " Digital Forms
of Art ", Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), Athens.
1997-98 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, at
Yiannis Kounellis class
1996 Athens School of Fine Arts,BA with
Honors, sculpture, degree Athens, prof. G. Lappas.
1993 Athens School of Fine Arts, painting degree,
Athens.
1987-88 School of Pharmaceutics, Thessaloniki
Personal Exhibitions
2018 MACRO
Museum of Contemporary Art , Rome/ Arte Transgenica/exhibition of
Leda Melanitis
2016 Kryographia/ Correspondances for a Dead
Writer, Museu D. Diogo de
Sousa, Braga, Portugal [KRYOGRAPHIA Correspondências Para
um Escritor Morto]
2015 Hunter of
Light/ Hermes tychomachos , DepoDarm Ahens
2012 THE GEOMETRY
OF RETORICS, Manifesta9
parallel events,GALO-ROMAN MUSEUM, Tongeren, Belgium, September
22-23nd (catalogue in english) / press release
2012 HERMES SOLITAIRE exhibition,
Praetorium Tongeren, Manifesta9
parallel events, Belgium 22 September -5 October
2012 QUARRIER HERMES,
Marathi ancient marble quarry, Paros, Greece
2012 Kryographia at Museu Nacional,
Brasilia / National Museum, Brasilia, 28/03- 30/04 2012 Ilhas do Corpo, Biblioteque National
de Brasilia, 1 - 15 March 2012
2011 AN IMAGINARY MUSEUM OF AN
IMAGINARY ARTIST /NAO ME TOQUE, Biblioteque National
de Brasilia , October 6th to October 27th
2011 Kryographia/ On
the Way Towards Iceland, with
M. Aloupi (piano), with musical composition by
A. Diktyopoulos, performed at Megaron, Thessaloniki Concert Hall.[
Link2 link3]
2010 Kryographia,
The Conductivity of Writing, ABOUT, Athens, [catalogue in engl.] /
For Kryographia concept, also see Kryologia book and Kryographia image
catalogue
Ulysses As Faust,
E31Gallery, Athens, February 08.
2006 Dans Le
Jardin d’ Epicure/ Les elements comme des metaphors,
at the Psychiatric Hospital of Geneva,
(Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve), Switzerland, March 2006,
[catalogue in French and Greek, text by Y. Melanitis],
2005 'The
Diffusion of the elements’, at D624,
Athens
Public performances:
"If You Cannot Be An Owl,
Masquerade Like A Butterfly, "three
acts of rapid poetry"/ Isola di San Michele: Cimitero, Venezia,
GPS: 45°26'48.0"N 12°20'48.8"E, San Michele, 30121, 30100
Venezia VE, 24 October 2019, Italy
"Liver- pen- eat", performance on Joyce,
Athens 2018
Group Exhibitions
2021 Dante Comical at the permanent collection
of Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco,
Italy.
2021 Entropia Democratia at
"Collection R" (exhibited in Sofacqgallery, Belgium)
2020 Ars
Electronica, "Random Rhetoric",
interactive installation, Keplers Gardens, Linz,
Austria, S+T+ARTS/ European Commission, (english catalogue)
2019
LE MOINDRE GESTE, Besançon
2017 Learning by earning, hosted
by Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel: July 11th, 2017
- KMMN - (@ Interim) - Kulturbahnhof
2017 Platforms, Athens
2017 Contemporary Art Center of
Thessaloniki/ ΤΗΕ RIGHT TO BE HUMAN
2017 Muses, House of Cyprus, Athens
Contemporaries: 2015-1976, curated
by Christoforos Marinos, ART-ATHINA'15
ART-ATHINA'15 , PNYX EQUINOX, PLATFORMS
Manipulation, DEPO DARM Gallery, April
2015, Athens
Posthuman Corporealities and Interactive
Participatory Virtual Art, Galeria da A. da India, Portugal, 2014
Human Rights and the Right to be Human, ASFA,
Athens, April 2014 [cat. engl-greek]
ART-ATHINA'14, Entropia Democratia at
platforms, [ARTATHINA cat., page 140] May 2014
ASF, ART ans SCIENCE, Gazi, Athens,
April 2014
ART-ATHINA 2011, represented by ABOUT
Gallery, 12 May 2011
EPEKEINA, curated
by Theophilos Tramboulis, Municipality of Athens, 6 May 2011
Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Lo and Behold
stand, 18 - 20 February 2011.
Naked Truth, Fryssiras Museum, Athens,
13-10-2010 - 27-02-2010
ART-ATHINA, participation with E31 Gallery, -2010
ART-ATHINA, project PAGANISM curated by
Th. Moutsopoulos
ART-ATHINA, project OPA
2009 Delphi is the place to meet: 12 artists on
Joseph Beuys, Hellenic American Union, Greece
2008 Silent Dialogues, The American College of
Greece, Athens 2008 ElectroMediaWorks 08, Athens
2007 Dermatographies, group exhibition
organized by Y. Melanitis and A. Karastergiou,
A. Syggros Museum of Wax Moulages, (cat. in English and Greek,
238 pages). Athens, presenting The Land of Inactivity, performed
by Aliki Germanou, musical composition by A. Diktyopoulos
2007 Energy, group exhibition with the Energy
Group, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki. 2007 ART-ATHINA, RESTART, participating
with E31 Gallery.
2007 On Performance Art, BIOS, Nausicaa/ The Land
of Virginity (The Land of noman part3), performed
by Aliki Germanou,sound synthesis by A. Diktyopoulos
2007 UNFAIR, Imperial Hotel, Molly-Penelope-Bloom
( The Land of Noman part4), performed by K. Papageorgiou, sound
synthesis by A. Diktyopoulos
2006 Monaco Dance
Forum, Touch Terrain multi-user
interactive environment.
2006 A4, Codra project in
Thessaloniki, organised by A. Potamianou, presenting Dog of
my Enemy, a ballpoint drawing on a Ulysses printout, September 06
2006 Scenic-costumes for The Touch of Zeus of
director E. Pitta, based on Iannis’ Xenakis Diatope music/
La Legende d’ Eer, Eyrypidion Theater, Athens,
September 2006
2006. Zeugma, group
exhibition, Rethymnon Museum of Modern Art, RCA, 2006 (cat.
English Greek),http://www.geocities.com/melanitis2004/zeugma.html
2006 In the Light of our Times, curating the group
exhibition and participating with the work 'Prometheus at the Athens
Academy', also with the curatorial text 'in the light of our times' ,
"Vosnia 2006
2005 Generative Art exhibition with the work The
Garden and lecture "Biological dynamics in performance space"
(bio-performance), Milano, December 2005
2005 "Mostra SESC de
Artes-Mediterraneo" in the SESC Vila Mariana, in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, 18 - 28 August., presenting Pleasure machine video
2005 Group exhibition dedicated to
Y. Halepas, presenting Anti-oedipus sculpture in plaster and a
clay sculpture, , July-September 05, Tinos, Greece
2005 Rebirth, Eugenidio Foundation, 4-15
June, presenting the Garden interactive performance (performed by the
artist and I.Myrka)
2005 Videoart, Athens School of Fine Arts, The
Factory, video-screeinings 13-17/ 4 / 2005 2005, Photosynkyria,
curated by T. Moutsopoulos, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, Greece , presenting a large -scale print [237.62 x 99 cm ] ,
simulation of The Garden performance
2004, GENERATIVE ART
CONFERENCE 13-14-15-16
December 2004, Politecnico di Milano University
2004, Machinista festival,
presenting "Prometheus" performance with Samantha Mac Gregor,
Glasgow
2004, An exhibition for Cyprus, Municipality of Athens,
with the work "Political Twins" (Installation with two dogs
inside the exhibition space), drawings and a video projection of the
video-work "Political Twins', April 2004, Athens
2004, "ArtNow", group exhibition,
presenting two sculptures," Oedipus_himself" and
"yps", Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki
2003,"Antisoma" exhibition, curated
by M.Fokidou, presenting "Prometheus/Hysterical Duet', an
interactive performance with the artist Marianna Ranis, including
originally designed software (real time voice synthesis) and a hexapod
robot, Athens Academy, October 03
2003, "Sculpture you love",
group exhibition,with the ceramic sculpture "Mutant
Sphinx", Lab Gallery, Athens, February 03
2003, "Prometheus/Hysterical Duet", an
interactive performance with the artist Dimitra Vantzou, including
originally designed software (real time voice synthesis) and a hexapod
robot, Kourzoum Djami,Trikala, January 03
2002, MONACO DANCE FORUM,
Dance and Technology Festival, presenting the interactive performance/
multi-user choreographic environment "Pleasure Machine/Blind
date", with the dancer Isabelle Valverde ,at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco,
December 02
2002, Medi@terra 2002, 4th International
Art and Technology Festival, New Platforms of Spectacle, Communication and
Resistance, with the video-projection of the performance "Animal
Accessories', 6-15 December 02
2002, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, for the
2nd International Conference "Ecological Dynamics and Human Nature-The
risk of a mass extinction of life on the planet", at the section
"Progress and Developments in Physical Sciences, Technology and
Biology', curated by Th. Moutsopoulos with the sculpture e Mutant
Sphinx' and drawings with ballpoint pen on transparent paper, September 02,
Delphi, Greece
2002, International Workshop for European Artists,
Culture 2000 with the work "Political Twins" (Installation with
two dogs inside the exhibition space), drawings and a video projection of the videowork "Political
Twins', August 2002, Larnaka, Cyprus.2002
2002, Regards Projetes, art video dans les
Balkans, curated by Dodo Santorineos, (exhibition presented
in France,Greece, Bulgarie, Allemagne, Moldavie, Roumanie,
Belgique.), cat. Apollonia, 90 pages,edited in Strasbourg
2002, 'Living inside', presenting the performance
Animal Accessories, curating by Katerina Gregos, Athens, March 02 2001, Ex
Teresa Arte Actual, Interactive
web-performance CTerra Ingognitai(a telerobotic piece) for the X
International
Festival of Performance Art: Life in Another
Planet, Mexico City,curated by
Karina Alvarado,October 01
2001, Media@Terra Festival,
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, presenting Bio-robotic symbiosis
installation at the International Book festival, Frankfurt Germany, October
01. The "micro Museum" travelled to: September 14 - October 15,
2001, Lavrion & Athens, Greece/ Sofia & Plovdiv,
Bulgaria/Maribor, Slovenia/ Frankfurt, Germany. http://www.mediaterra.org
and http://www.fournos-culture.gr
2001, Deste Foundation, " Images
Beyond the Naked Eye", presenting the video-work "The artist as a
bird", October 01. http://www.deste.gr
2001, presenting "Pleasure Machine" at
the multimedia installation Blue Stage in the House of World
Cultures, Berlin,an installation treating the two main topics
urbanism and Mediterranean culture, August 18th, Berlin, Germany 2001.
http://www.archi-me-des.de/blue-space/index.html
2001, Art Club, Cultural center of Contemporary
Art, "Art against Leukaemia", Thessaloniki
2000, New York Digital Salon, "Pleasure
Machine", November 00, N.York The 8th New York Digital Salon
in Madrid : 1/ Circulo de Bellas Artes (January 19 -
February 6), 2/ Gijon (February 15 - March 19)
2000, Athens School of Fine Arts, Digital Art Lab,
works 99-00, Athens
2000 Art +Technology at the Library of Athens
School of Polytechnics, Athens
1999 Mediaterra Festival, interactive
web performance "Pleasure Machine", Athens
1999 Richard Anderson Fine Arts, "Predictable
Lab" , New York
1999 "Interface", Gazi, Athens, curated
by Th.Moutsopoulos
1999 Do you want to see my room?,
Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art,Athens.(cat.
Greek-English)
1999 Group exhibition of Greek Artists,
Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art,Athens
1999 Videoformes "Electronic Village",
Clermont Ferrant , France.(cat. Turbulences Video/
Art actuel no 23)
Conferences (presentations)
2023 1st AICA
CONFERENCE, ITALIA INTERNATIONAL
MEETING OF STUDIES ON THE STATE OF ART CRITICISM: DYNAMIC UPDATES, 5-6 May,
@Accademia Albertina – TORINO.
Salone d’Onore all’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di
Torino
2023 5th international conference “Taboo - Transgression -
Transcendence in Art & Science” ,
September 27-29, 2023 in Valletta, Malta.
DCAC-2023 Conference, “
Artificial Intelligence and the Agelast/ Iconopoeia of the
mechanistic humor”, Corfu.
2023, 6th Bio Summit,
MIT, "A work of inserting a human gene in a butterfly species,
Leda melanitis", January 27-29,
2022, International Conference on Cultural
Heritage, Cyprus https://www.onassis.org/el/whats-on/smart-agri-cultures-for-sustainable-futures?fbclid=IwAR2LADpTH37fRyyCmFUOMAs_T-wreuB0cT8grpJhXCAa9pN1c4YW6e6Am-4">Smart
Agri-Cultures for Sustainable Futures", Kickoff
Event S+T+Arts Forum, S+T+Arts,STEGI ONASSIS FOUNDATION
2020, TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in
Art & Science, Austria , Hiding
Art, Hiding Codes and the Comic Strategies of Total Disappearing
2017, Interdisciplinary Conference TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in
Art & Science, 26-28 May 2017, Ionian University, Corfu Greece
[http://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2017/en/]
2014 Vesalius Continuum Zakynthos, 4-8 Sept 2014
2009 Democracy in
Motion, Athens School of Fine Arts,
a collaboration with Goethe Institute of Athens, October 09
2008 Science and Art,
Lecture entitled"Art and biological phenomena/ Beauty as we
have never seen before", Athens , Physics Association
2008 ISEA2008: 14th International Symposium on
Electronic Art, "Generating Virtual Environments for Playful Touch
Interactions: TOUCH TERRAIN" presented by Valverde
and Melanitis"paper link
2001, ART 3000, "The added soul", 4th
edition of the General Assembly on Interactive Writing 23 and 24 November ,
France.
2001 International Science Fiction Conference
"Biotechnological and Medical Items in Science Fiction",
presenting: "Biorobotic environments, interactions
and hyperhumans: Interactive robotic performances exploring the
potentials of an unknown space towards the potential of a renewed anatomy.
", Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, 18-21 October, [http://sun.enl.auth.gr/sfgr/]
Conferences (attendance)
2022, Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law,
European Parliament, Fourth Edition of The Athens Roundtable,Brussels.
2022, Greek Culture in the Digital Public Space and Europeana.
Lectures (selection)
2019, “LEDA MELANITIS”, TWIXTlab,
Athens
2019, J. BEUYS,From Sculpture
to Politics, ASFA
2017, The artist as host, ASFA Lecture
series, convenor A. Kaniari
2016, Αrt and
Education, ARTATHINA
2015, FROM BAUHAUS TO BIOART, Athens School
of Fine Arts, organised by A.Kaniari
2015 Chance. Resistance to the art object-the
resistance of the art object/ A discussion./ Athens School of Fine Art,
, organised by A.Kaniari
2005 "Ritual and performance", lecture
at the Deptm. of Theatrical Studies, School of Philosophy, Athens ,16
May
2005 Generative Art Conference, "Biological
dynamics in performance space’, Milano, 15 December 2006 Bioart,
Biological Dynamics in Art , Lecture at the Athens School of Fine Arts,
February 06.
2008 "The Human Body as a Sculptural Entity
in Motion", workshop Athens School of Fine Arts
2009 , Hellenic American Union , "Joseph Beuys
and the Greek antiquity". 2009 Democracy in Motion, Athens School of
Fine Arts, October
2009 Art and politics, BRIDGES, 14/11/2009,
Patras. November 2009, (PATRA TV) 2011 Kryographia/ On the Way Towards
Iceland, Megaron, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, PHOTOBIENALLE
2011 Videoconferencia com
Yiannis Melanitis (Grecia) &
Geert Vermeire (Belgica): Nao me toque, 10/10/2011 -
2? feira - Auditorio da
BNB, Biblioteca Nacional de Brasilia Setor Cultural
Sul, lote 2 - Esplanada dos Ministerios
2011 Videoconferencia com
Yiannis Melanitis (Grecia): Bio-performance and
(public) space,Biblioteca Nacional de
Brasilia Setor Cultural
2011 Videoconferencia com
Yiannis Melanitis (Grecia) &
Geert Vermeire (Belgica): Kryographia/a, condutividade da escrita (Museu Nacional
Brasilia, fevereiro 2012,,Biblioteca Nacional de
Brasilia Setor Cultural
2011 Videoconferencia com Stefaan van Biesen &
Geert Vermeire (the Milena principle, Belgica) e
Yannis Melanitis (Grecia): Approaching Silence / a project to
promote the qualities of silence in an urban context (Athens, 2011-2012),
,Biblioteca Nacional de Brasilia Setor Cultural
2012 Congresso Saramago
90 anos Fundacao Saramago Lisboa,
Hy-Brasil, Fundacao Saramago 2014 The system of metaphores/
Joyce and the corporeality of the text, ASFA Theory and texts
Ulysses as faust, 2008
In the direction of defining an artistic context
through biogenetic terms, 2007
A4, Stephen’s Dog Digging the Beach, (after James
Joyce’ s Ulysses) 2007 Terra Incognita: A multimedia and robotics interactive
performance, 2002
Published texts / Journals
Random Rhetoric, I. Melanitis in Ars
Electronica S+T+ARTS with
MADE group. REGIONAL STARTS CENTERS.
2022, NOEMA journal, Melanitis, Ioannis.
"Artificial
Intelligence and the Agelast. Iconopoeia of the Mechanistic Humor"
CYFEST-13, Leda Melanitis, Saint Petersburg,
Russia,[catalogue rus-eng] 2022.
"Living sculptures. Utmost spaces of
philosophy" / Oron Catts
and Ioannis Melanitis in a discussion about
philosophy, bioart and the SymbioticA team /
Y. Melantis / Oron Catts
at Days_of_Art printed issue, spring 2022,
pp.97-103,#14. DIGICULT: TRA PITTURA E INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE/
BETWEEN PAINTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
curator Silvia Scaravaggi, [it, eng]
Interview to C. Brunetti for Artonworld magazine N3,
(italian and english text), 2021
Article on Melanitis paitings and
AI in the italian newspaper Sun 24
Hours - N òva 24, by M.Savini,
2021.
["L'artista Melanitis all'opera con l'assistente filosofica Circe", Nòva -
Il Sole 24 Ore, N. 146, p. 14, 30 maggio 2021]
Interview to C.Kazakou, POSTINTERFACE magazine,
2020 (pdf link)
Days of Art magazine,The bioethics
of Βio-Art
/ A few ideas from Bio-informatics, (eng-greek), 2021
ARTE TRANSGENICA / LA VITÀ È
IL MEDIUM, text by Federica Fontana and M.Savini, italian,
2019
https://noemalab.eu, A
census on transgenic art, Noemalab.eu, 2019
CLOT magazine, MARIO SAVINI, enriching
the bio-ethical debate in the field of biomedia , 2019
Interview to Mario Savini (phd thesis
of Mario Savini 2017
(IT-EN)/
ARSHAKE MAGAZINE, Arte transgenica. Intervista di
Mario Savini a Yiannis Melanitis,
https://www.arshake.com/en/transgenic-art-mario-savinis-interview-to-yiannis-melanitis/
ON LEDA MELANITIS, ART,
NATURE, SCIENCE AND LIFE. Yiannis Melanitis interviewed
by art critic Mario Savini, POSTERINTERFACE MAGAZINE, 2016/
http://www.postinterface.com/nfocus/316-transgenic-art-leda-melanitis-butterfly-mario-savini-s-interview-with-yiannis-melanitis
Transgenic art: Creativity in
the era of genetic engineering, Authors:
Mario Savini , Editor Roy Ascott, Technoetic Arts:
A Journal of Speculative Research, Pier Luigi Capucci,
Giorgio Cipolletta (eds. ISSN: 1477965X, Volume 15 Issue 2
ΑDA, Archive of Digital Art
DNA as art storage medium, New Media Artists'
Personal Preservation Practices (Part
2): Connections And Gaps Between Artists' And Institutions' Preservation
Efforts, Qinyue Liu, Arts Management and Technology Lab, Carnegie
Mellon University, 2020
Selected Texts written by Yiannis Melanitis
Hiding Art, Hiding Codes and the Comic
Strategies of Total Disappearing
Ars
Electronica-Lifescience, SEPE magazine, No11, June 00 [gr]
"Stelarc, The
Obsolete Body",interview to Yiannis Melanitis in Englsih/Greek,Futura magazine
No7, spring 2001
"Bioart?",
Artzine-journal.com, text in English and Greek, issue 2
"Eduardo Kac interview",
Artzine-journal.com, text in
English and Greek, issue 3
Techniques of the influenced body / the body as an
artistic oblect with political configurations.
Artzine-journal.com, text in Greek, issue 4.
[http://www.artzine-journal.com
E.Tzafestas,"Humans,Machines,Environments",
interview in Greek, Futura magazine No7, spring 2001
-Leonardo, special edition, Eighth
New York Digital Salon, issue 33 No 5, 2000. ("MIT PRESS,
Web Sites." Leonardo,
vol. 33, no. 5, 2000, pp. artisy430–433. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/1576887. Accessed 2 Jan. 2021.)/
"Exhibiting Artists.MIT PRESS("Exhibiting
Artists." Leonardo, vol.
33, no. 5, 2000, pp. 434–435. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1576888.
Accessed 2 Jan. 2021.)
Futura magazine No8, spring
2002. [greek]
Futura magazine No8, spring 2002.(translated by Y. Melanitis from
the english) -
"The bio-informational body, from digital to
bio-information"
-"There is no pure nature", interview
with Joe Davis [eng],
-"Ignorance is the danger ",
interview with Marta Menezes
-"Bioinformatics & Biocapitalism in
the Race to Map to the Human Genome" by Eugene Thacker
-"A modus operanti for the
artist", by Melanitis Yiannis
-"Romance, Supercodes, and the Milky Way
DNA" by Joe Davis -
"GFP Bunny" by Eduardo Kac -
"Test tube Art" by Marta Menezes
Generative Art Conference paper
proceedings, "Biological dynamics in performance space", Milano,
December 2005
Books and essays on Y. Melanitis
Mind the Gap: La
vita tra bioarte, arte ecologica e
post internet, Elena Giulia
Rossi , (Italiano),
Postmedia Books (24 ottobre 2020) /ISBN-10 : 8874902891/ISBN-13 :
978-8874902897
Christopher Coleman, http://www.digiart21.org/art/nature,
2020
Antibiologies, discussion with
A. Kaniari [greek], 2020
Posthuman Summit,
presentation on Leda Melanitis by
Dr. Sozita Goudouna,
New York University, Silver Center for Arts and Science., New York
2018
-BIOART, Bio
Art: The Art of Life, by Seung-Chol Shin (in Korean, ISBN : 9788940805251)
Arte Transgenica. La vita è
il medium, Mario Savini,
Pisa University Press, ISBN 978-883339-0680, 09/2018
-‘Text, Code and the Arts of
Bio-age’/Ioannis Melanitis: Institutional Critique to Hospitality: Bio
Art Practice Now. A critical
anthology ed.by Assimina Kaniari, Athens: Grigori Publications [Εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη],
Art history and theory 5, ISBN: 978-960-612-019-0, 2017.
"Art Tomorrow" by
Edward Lucie-Smith, page 234 (Art and Science chapter),
Pierre Terrail Editions, ISBN 2-87939-252- 7, October 2002.
Transgenic Art. The new nature
as aestheticization of life,The New
and History art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 Proceedings by Mario Savini,
2018
Magdalena Lange, Artists in
White : The Bio‐Creation of Art, Sztuka i Filozofia 45,
112-119 2014,ISSN1230-0330
LEONARDO. MIT, Review of
Institutional Critique to Hospitality and Open Science: Singularity and
Emergence, Charissa N.
Terranova
Virtual storytelling: Using virtual reality
technologies for storytelling:
International conference ICVS 2001, Avignon, France, September
27-28, 2001: Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. /Balet, O., Subsol, G.,
& Torguet, P. (2001).
Books and Publications with texts by
Y. Melanitis
Art, Civilization, Globalization, including the
text by Yiannis Melanitis, "Modernity as leap into the void’,
text in Greek, edit. Papazisi. Athens 2005
«Handbook, Plans for interactive installations,
page 43-45, edited by K. Daflos, editions Papasotiriou, Athens
2007. ISBN 960-630-994-0
Ontogenetic Art, ScienceArt,
Moscow, First International Conference, Lomonosov Moscow University, 2012,
ISBN 978-5-98540-031-1,
-INTERALIA MAGAZINE/A HUMANISED BUTTERFLY
NAMED LEDA MELANITIS
-Leonardo, special issue, Eighth
New York Digital Salon, volume 33 No 5, 2000
-OZON magazine, No 8, April 2001
-"XOROS’,issue 046, September 2003,page 23
-Highlights magazine , November 2004, issue 13 on
"Technology", interview with Christina Polychroniadis,
entitled "Bio-performance"
-GAP magazine, October 2005,
"Yiannis Melanitis, The Diffusion of the Elements’ by N. Adamou
Selected Curatings
2009 Democracy in
Motion, Athens School of Fine Arts, October
09/ Exhibition with Beuys multiples , works and performances
from ASFA artists, [catalogue, 2009]
2009 "Joseph
Beuys: Hellenic references in his art work",
works from the Museum Schloss Moyland, Hellenic American Union of
Greece, Athens , catalogue 9789608331716
2007 Dermatographies, group exhibition
organized by Y. Melanitis and A. Karastergiou,
A. Syggros Museum of Wax Moulages, Athens, (cat.English and
Greek, 238 pages).
2006 In the Light of our Times, curating the group
exhibition and participating with the work 'Prometheus at the Athens
Academy', also with the curatorial text 'in the light of our times' ,
"Vosnia 2006
2002, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, for the
2nd International Conference "Ecological Dynamics and Human Nature-The
risk of a mass extinction of life on the planet", at the section
"Progress and Developments in Physical Sciences, Technology and
Biology",
Stelarc in Athens,[catalogue
in greek-english] , 1999
Workshop catalogues
Workshops at ASFA annexes :
Criss Cross ,
Hydra 2018
Subversion, Creta 2010
Subversion2
Delphi Ctoniche, Creta 2010,
Shimmer Hydra
Screenings-videoconferences
TRANSGENIC ART, Mario Savini ,
Carmen Lorenzetti,Claudia Napolitano,Pisa University, 2020
Intuition Conference on Virual Reality,
Athens 2007
Touch Terrain: A Participatory Kinesthetic /
Synesthetic Environment, Yiannis Melanitis with Isabel Valverde
"PUBLIC SCREEN" Thessaloniki 2007
2008, Nation Pinakotheck, Larissa, Public
Screen
2001 Digital Media Festival,
The Corredor Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines ,October 1 - 14, 2001
2001, Flinders University in Adelaide, Drama
Department
Internet references to
Yiannis Melanitis works:
1. https://mariosavini.com/tag/yiannis-melanitis/
2. https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/yiannis-melanitis/
3. https://www.ekac.org/melanitis.english.html
4. http://www.posthumans.org/yiannis-melanitis.html
5. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/melanitis.html
6. https://www.singing-palette.org/Yiannis-Melanitis-Artist-1969/
7. http://www.postinterface.com/11-notizie/focus/316-transgenic-art-leda-melanitis-butterfly-mario-savini-interview-to-yiannis-melanitis
8. http://www.acgart.gr/ACG-COLLECTION/ARTISTS/M/MelY/MelY-art.htm
9. https://www.legranit.org/event/le-moindre-geste/
10. http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?587
11. http://www.gratin.org/
12. http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/2002/1/02/idex.asp
13. http://www.d624.org/projects/06/
14. http://interaktionslabor.de/Team/Isabel.htm
15. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
16. https://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2017/05/please-pardon-my-french/
17. http://www.generativeart.com/
18. https://www.lifo.gr/guide/arts/849
19. http://www.frissirasmuseum.com/english/collection.aspx?id=249
20. http://www.themilena.com/sinfosaramago.html
21. http://shivagallery.org/portfolio/ioannis-yiannis-melanitis/
22. https://alchetron.com/Yiannis-Melanitis
23. https://www.kathimerini.gr/316537/article/politismos/arxeio-politismoy/o-odysseas-symvolo-neas-epoxhs
24. http://mediaartresearch.org
25. https://ru.qwe.wiki/wiki/Yiannis_Melanitis
26. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BioArt?uselang=fr
27. Ontogenetic
Art
28. BIOLOGICZNA I ŚRODOWISKOWA
Grands and Catalogue Grands:
1. 1st Greek Prize [EVGE Reward] for the
catalogue Dermatographies, a catalogue for the exhibition at the
Museum of Moulages, Syggros Hospital 2008
2. 1st Greek Prize [EVGE Reward] for his
catalogue Dans Le Jardin d' Epicure/ Les elements comme des
metaphors, a catalogue for his personal exhibition at HUG, Geneva,
Switzerland, March 2006
3. European award for his catalogue Dans Le Jardin
d' Epicure/ Les elements comme des metaphors, a catalogue for his
personal exhibition at HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2006
4.EuroMED Conference on Cultural Heritage Grand
2022, paper title: Digital Sculpture, ISBN 978-618-85119-1-0
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