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Russian artist and filmmaker
Konstantin Mitenev
BornKonstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev
18 May 1956 (1956-05-18)
Alma materLeningrad Politechnical Institute
Known forpoetry, cinema, new media art
Movementnet art

Konstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev (born May 18, 1956) is a Russian artist, filmmaker, film actor, author.

Biography

In 1984, Mitenev joined the film studio Mzhalalafilm.

As an artist, Konstantin Mitenev was actively involved in Leningrad's underground art scene in the 1980s.

Mitenev began to engage in new media art after the international video festival "OSTranenie" at the Bauhaus, Dessau, in 1993.

Since the early 90s, he took part in the net art movement.

In 1996, he created the artistic projects UnDiNa (United Digital Nations) and Xyman (constructor of the body) with Alla Mitrofanova. In the same year, Konstantin Mitenev organized with Alla Mitrofanova the first Russian cyber-expedition NETMAN. He created the first network TV in Russia called Twins TV in 1997. Mitenev opened the first online art gallery in Russia, BioNet. He published a manifesto — Next Media.

At the suggestion of Geert Lovink, Konstantin Mitenev has organized A Great Clone Party, the world's first sound stream via the Internet between St. Petersburg and nine cities (Linz — Paris — Berlin — Geneva — Lausanne — St. Petersburg — Kobe — San Francisco). He called his computer Masha Pentium as a co-author (from now he signs as Kostya Mitenev & Masha Pentium - k@m).

Konstantin Mitenev met Bruce Sterling in St. Petersburg in late 90s. Later Mitenev became a character in his book Zeitgeist (necrorealist Viktor Bilibin). At the same time Konstantin Mitienev corresponded with curator Inke Arns.

In 2015, he held an art picket at the 56th Venice Biennale with an art picket Separation of Art From the State.

In 2022, he went to Venice for a collective exhibition with his thesis "Do Art, Not War". In the same year, Mitenev participated in an anti-war exhibition in Geneva. Also Mitenev took part in international media art festival CYFEST-14.

Konstantin Mitenev lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Konstantin Mitenev's works are in the collection of Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg, in the archives of CYLAND Media Art Lab.

References

  1. ^ "MiTenev (GoldTV) Kostya". Cyland Video Archive. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  2. "Eugene Yufit (1961–2016)". Artforum. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Débouté par la Suisse à qui il a demandé asile, l'artiste russe Konstantin Mitenev veut faire de l'art, pas la guerre - Le Temps" (in French). 2024-01-18. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  4. Race in Cyberspace / Ed. by Beth E. Kolko, Gilbert B. Rodman, Lisa Nakamura. — New York.: Routledge, 2000. — P. 27–48. — P. 248 — ISBN 9780415921633, 0415921635
  5. "MiTenev (GoldTV) Kostya". Cyland Video Archive. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  6. ^ "Костя Митенев — От некрореализма к метасимволизму". Журнал «Сеанс. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  7. Sterling, Bruce. "Art And Corruption". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
  8. "Syndicate: kostya miTenev: nexa". nettime.org. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
  9. "Константин Митенев в программе "Культурный дневник"". Радио Свобода (in Russian). 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  10. "VIDEO PROGRAM ՎԻԴԵՈ ԾՐԱԳԻՐ". CYFEST. Retrieved 2024-10-05.

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