Main entry:

Manetas, Miltos, 1964- artist.

Title & Author:

Selected emails / Miltos Manetas

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2003

Description:

1 online resource (76 PDF pages) : illustrations

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2003; 140 x 225 mm; 150 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound; Interior: black and white; Edition limited to 250 numbered copies" -- Publisher's description
"Manetas, starting from 1995, has produced oil paintings of wires, cables and computer hardware, created short looped fragments of video games such as Tomb Raider, and exhibited computer-generated vibracolour prints among other things. But he was impatient with critics and curators who had yet to come up with a really good "-ism" for this new generation of creativity. After securing financial assistance from a nonprofit called the Art Production Fund, Manetas went out and hired Lexicon Branding, a California firm responsible for creating such product names as Powerbook, Pentium, Zima, Swiffer and Dasani. Lexicon's assignment was to create a name for this new movement. In May 2000, during a packed press conference at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan - and a panel of people like Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker ready to provide analysis of the term -- Manetas unveiled a new word for an art movement. Actually, it was the squeaky, synthetic voice of a Sony Vaio that made the announcement. The word was "NEEN."" -- Publisher's website
"First edition limited to 250 numbered copies" -- Colophon
Title from PDF page 1

Summary:

The artist asks, "How private is our email life? Traveling from server to server, it all ends in a hard drive .... How much of it is interesting and why? [This] will be a book of Selected Emails. It was not myself who those these emails, Panos Tsagaris ... select them, a young friend visiting from Canada 'who knew nothing about my life (yet). The material of this volume, is what he found memorable"--T.p. verso.
Many of the emails discuss NEEN.
"Manetas, starting from 1995, has produced oil paintings of wires, cables and computer hardware, created short looped fragments of video games such as ± Tomb Raider, and exhibited computer-generated vibracolour prints among other things. But he was impatient with critics and curators who had yet to come up with a really good ± -ism for this new generation of creativity. After securing financial assistance from a nonprofit called the Art Production Fund, Manetas went out and hired Lexicon Branding, a California firm responsible for creating such product names as Powerbook, Pentium, Zima, Swiffer and Dasani. Lexicon's assignment was to create a name for this new movement."--Recto of last p.
"In May 2000, during a packed press conference at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan - and a panel of people like Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker ready to provide analysis of the term -- Manetas unveiled a new word for an art movement. Actually, it was the squeaky, synthetic voice of a Sony Vaio that made the announcement. The word was ± NEEN. (from the Salon.com article)."--Recto of last p.

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Subject:

Manetas, Miltos, 1964-
Artists' books.
Livres d'artistes.
artists' books (books)
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Form/genre:

Artists' books.
Artists' books (books) France 21st century.
artists' books (books)
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, publisher.