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Born 1967, Athens, Greece.
He holds degrees in Painting (prof.X.Botsoglou), Sculpture (prof. G.Lappas) and Masters degree in Digital Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts. His art refers to the body in relation to the epistemological (biological) context which defines it. He produced the term bio-performance based on the conception of the "analogical body" (as opposed to digital), in an attempt to re-establish the corporeal status of experience, de-depenting the body from the domination of simulations or virtual allusions. The notion of the body as soft and malleable unity, forming a "liquid space" formation within space is proposed as a neo-appearance of corporeality. In his recent works (The Garden, the Diffusion of the Elements), technology is not visibly apparent, forming a magical interaction between materials and the body.
He presents interactive performances (mostly web-based) using originally designed software, as well as sculptures and drawings related to them. Recent presentations include two group exhibitions at Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art with sculptures and video-works(1999), an interactive performance ΅ Pleasure Machine΅ at the 8thNew York Digital Salon (2000) also presented at the Blue Stage in the House of World Cultures of Berlin, the video-work ΅The artist as a bird ΅ at Deste Foundation (exhibition ΅ToxicΆ 2001). Also at the Media@Terra Festival/ De-Globalizing/Re-Globalizing, presenting ΅ Bio-robotic symbiosisΆ interactive installation ?(Lavrion, Sofia,Maribor, Frankfurt, 2001). At Ex Teresa Arte Actual he presented the interactive web-performance ΅Terra Ingognita΅ (a telerobotic piece) for the X International Festival of Performance Art: Life in Another Planet, Mexico City, 2001. One of his most recent performances was ΅Animal Accessories΅ for the group exhibition ?Living inside?, Athens 2002, also the interactive performance «Prometheus» performed at the Kourzoum Djami and at the Athens Academy. At the International Science Fiction Conference ΅Biotechnological and Medical Items in Science Fiction΅ he presented the paper "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 2001. His latest interest concerns "biotechnology and control of the body", where he uses his term "bio-performance" as an advanced environment -in this situation, the control of the performance is led to machines controlled by biological algorithms. Other performances were presented in Monaco Dance Forum 2002 (interactive performance ΅Blind DateΆ), The Garden interactive performance at Eugenidio Foundation( Athens 2005), also the interactive performance ΅The Diffusion of the ElementsΆ at the D624 project space (2005). He writes for artzine journal and Futura magazine. Since 2002 he is teaching as collaborator of Sculpture Deptm., Athens School of Fine Arts. Melanitis Yiannis is member of Delphi Society. He is a PhD Fellow (June 2005) at the School of Architecture, Athens.
e-mail: melanitis@hotmail.com
URL: www.geocities.com/melanitis2001
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