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 as an assistant professor at the Sculpture Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Melanitis's 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 TTT Conference a butterfly with his DNA inserted in it, Corfu, the Leda Melanitis Transgenic Butterfly, a new species containing his own gene. 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. His work has become a subject of criticism in international editions as "Art Tomorrow" (Ed.L.Smith), Leonardo, MIT, Lomonosov Moscow University by Seung-Chol Shin, Mario Savini, A.Kaniari, Magdalena Lange and others. Interviews and reviews of his work in online art magazines include Interalia Magazine, Postinerface, Artshake,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. 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. More information...
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