Miltos Manetas, Greek painter
Miltos Manetas (Greek: Μίλτος Μανέτας; born October 6, 1964 in Athens) is a Greek painter and multimedia artist. He currently lives and works in Bogotá.
Manetas has created internet art as well as paintings of cables, computers, video games and Internet websites since the late 1990s, notably since his participation in the 1995 Traffic (art exhibition) curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, which is often related to the beginning of the Relational art movement. Together with Mai Ueda, Manetas the co-founded "Neen", an art movement which aimed to conflate the new technology of the time with art and poetry. Neen was launched at Gagosian Gallery, New York City in 2000.Manetas presented the Whitneybiennial.com, an online exhibition that challenged the 2002 Whitney Biennial show.
His work has been collected by Charles Saatchi.
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