Miltos Manetas at the Mus

Neuve banal

AFROHOMOPOMO art * is over : those who were generating it are again in the
Biennial of Venice, together with last century's oldies. But from now on,
the different curators who were dealing with body poetics and installations,
will do their best, to update on electronic art.
They will buy new imacs and they'll try to spend more time online, learn how
to use Google and probably find nothing much as they will not know which
keywords to input .
But they will manage : prepare yourself for innumerable exhibitions about
videogames and Netart.
This "Biennial", is probably one of those shows. Harald Szeemann meets
SuperMario.
I am myself invited, because of my 'after videogames' pieces.
(http://www.aftervideogames.com).
Someof my paintings and some vibracolour prints are exhibited. They also
asked me to make a videogame -that's the new thing now : artists should
create videogames themselves, but I haven't been able, because I am not good
to do such a thing. It is like asking from Cezanne to grow some purple
oranges. But here in Los Angeles, I discovered a Juribot
((http://www.juribot.com)and I am sending it in Lyon. Its a Japanese
machine, that looks very much like a human. It's not exactly "art" but , its
kind of cool.

* african american postmodern homosexual

Miltos Manetas, LA, 2001

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