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Yiannis Melanitis (Greek: Γιάννης Μελανίτης) is a Greek conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, installation artist and digital artist born in Athens in 1967. In 2016, he was elected assistant professor at the Sculpture Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts.[1] Melanitis' work uses hybrid art forms initially with concepts from philosophy and the sciences. His research focuses on the role of information on the arts considering "Information as the New Conceptualisation".

In 2016–2017 he presented at the TTT Conference a butterfly with his DNA inserted in it, Corfu, the Leda Melanitis Transgenic Butterfly,[2] a new species containing his own gene. This Leda Melanitis transgenic butterfly was exhibited at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rome. He has published essays on art and philosophy in English and Greek. His texts are translated into English, Italian, Korean, and Greek, and his work has become a subject of criticism in international editions such as "Art Tomorrow[3]" (Ed.L.Smith), Leonardo, MIT, Lomonosov Moscow University[4] by Seung-Chol Shin,[5] Mario Savini, A.Kaniari,[6] Magdalena Lange and others. Interviews and reviews of his work in online art magazines include Interalia Magazine, Postinerface, Artshake, and CLOT magazine. He was the organiser and one of the main exhibitors of an exhibition at the Andreas Syngros hospital in Athens with the subject: Dermatographies, Art meets Medicine.[7] He was selected by the hospital to coordinate the exhibition and showcase his art because of his involvement and experience in exhibiting images of the modern human body, bioart and medical illustrations.[7]

  1. ^ "IOANNIS MELANITIS". www.asfa.gr.
  2. ^ Papagiannarou, Matina; Melanitis, Yiannis. "The Melanitis leda Project/A transgenic butterfly model containing a gene of human origin/ A BRIEF INTRODUCTION ON THE REALISATION PROCESS". The Melanitis Leda Project/A Transgenic Butterfly Model.
  3. ^ Edward., Lucie-Smith (2002). Art tomorrow. Paris: Terrail. ISBN 2879392527. OCLC 52086674.
  4. ^ Научное искусство [Текст] = Science art : первая международная научно-практическая конференция, Москва, 4–5 апреля 2012 года : сборник тезисов – Search RSL (in Russian). МИЭЭ. 2012. ISBN 9785985400311. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. ^ "바이오 아트 : 생명의 예술". aladin. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. ^ Institutional critique to hospitality : Bio Art practice now : a critical anthology. Kaniarē, Asēmina, 1972–, High, Kathryn. Athen. 2017. ISBN 9789606120190. OCLC 984132785.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ a b Ekathimerini.gr: Art meets Medicine Article by Mathew Tsimitakis (Η τέχνη συναντιέται με την ιατρική) (Ματθαιου Τσιμιτακη). Quotation: "Με θέμα το δέρμα, «αυτό το ανθρώπινο σύνορο, το γεωγραφικό τέλος του σώματός μας και την αρχή της επαφής μας με το περιβάλλον», όπως έλεγε αργότερα ο επιμελητής γλύπτης Γιάννης Μελανίτης, η ομάδα των εικαστικών, δούλεψε επί έξι μήνες προκειμένου να παράγει έργα «που θα αγκάλιαζαν και θα σύστηναν στο κοινό τα κέρινα αυτά ομοιώματα», χρονικό μιας ολόκληρης εποχής." Translation of quotation 1: "With the skin as its subject, this human boundary, "the geographic end of our body and the beginning of our contact with the environment" as it was told later by the coordinator and artist Yannis Melanitis, the team of the artists worked for six months so that they could produce works which "would embrace and introduce to the public these wax figures", a chronicle of an era." Quotation 2 "Το θέαμα είναι εντυπωσιακό. Εκατοντάδες γιατροί και επισκέπτες συνωθούνται στις τρεις αίθουσες του μουσείου, τον διάδρομο και τον προαύλιο χώρο του δίπλα σε γκροτέσκ κέρινα γλυπτά μέσα σε παλιές σκονισμένες ξύλινες προθήκες, εικόνες, σαν βγαλμένες από ταινία του Ντ. Κρόνεμπεργκ. Ομως το κοινό δεν πτοείται. Απολαμβάνει το κρασί των εγκαινίων, δείχνοντας απόλυτα εξοικειωμένο με αυτόν τον τρόμο, που γνωρίζουμε ότι σε μεγάλο βαθμό ανήκει πια σε άλλη εποχή." Translation of quotation 2: "The show is impressive. Hundreds of medical doctors and visitors cram the three halls of the museum, the corridor and its court near grotesque wax figures inside old dusty wooden frames, images as if taken from a film by David Cronenberg. But the public does not lose confidence. They savour the wine of the inauguration, showing complete familiarity with this horror, which we all know belongs in another era" Quotation 3 "Λίγο πιο κάτω, ο Μελανίτης παρουσιάζει μια επιφάνεια από σιλικόνη, υαλοβάμβακα και ροζ χρώμα, μια κατασκευή που θυμίζει αεροφωτογραφία νησιού, ή τμήμα δέρματος ενος αλλόκοτου πλάσματος." Translation of quotation 3: "A little further down, Melanitis presents a surface from silicone, fibreglass and pink colour, a construction which reminds one of an aerial view of an island, or a piece of skin of a bizarre creature" Quotation 4 "Δεν θέλαμε να παραβιαστεί ο ρόλος του μουσείου ή να κάνουμε επίδειξη ισχύος της τέχνης πάνω στην ιατρική απεικόνιση. Οι τεχνίτες του μουσείου ήταν στην πραγματικότητα εξαιρετικοί καλλιτέχνες χωρίς καλλιτεχνική φιλοδοξία», λέει ο Γιάννης Μελανίτης. Τόσο ο ίδιος όσο και ο Απόστολος Καραστεργίου, επιμελητές της έκθεσης, είναι δυο νέοι εικαστικοί οι οποίοι έχουν ασχοληθεί με θέματα όπως η σύγχρονη εικόνα του σώματος, η βίο-τέχνη (bioart) και η ιατρική εικονογραφία και γι’ αυτό επιλέχθηκαν από το νοσοκομείο." Translation of Quotation 4: "We did not want the role of the Museum to be violated or to make a show of force of Art versus the medical illustrations. The museum technicians were, in reality, excellent artists without artistic ambitions" says Yannis Melanitis. Both he as well as Apostolos Karageorgiou, coordinators of the exhibit, are two young artists who have been involved with subjects such as the modern image of the body, bioart and medical illustrations and this is the reason they were selected by the hospital."

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