Miltos Manetas, cultural provocateur and "post-digital" artist, gives a rare (and free) lecture on "Neen: A New Art Movement (The Landscape of the Computer Screen)" at UCLA on Thursday, February 20th at 6pm. Details here.
Miltos does these amazing, large-scale oil paintings of wires, cables, routers, and Playstations; he also does computer-generated vibracolour prints, and looped motion graphic art of video game footage cut-and-paste. He says he "became impatient with critics and curators who couldn't come up with "a really
good '-ism' for this new generation of creativity," so after securing financial backing from the nonprofit Art Production Fund, he hired Lexicon Branding (the California branding firm responsible such product names as Powerbook, Pentium, Zima, Swiffer and Dasani) to brand a new art movement for him.
In May 2000, during a packed press conference at the Gagosian Gallery in
Manhattan, he revealed that new name by way of a squeaky, synthetic voice from a Sony
Vaio laptop. The word: "Neen." Lecture details, Discuss. At left: Manetas' painting "Madonna and Child".
