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Konstantin Mitenev
BornKonstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev
18 May 1956 (1956-05-18)
💼 Occupation
Known forpoetry, cinema, net art

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Konstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev (May 18, 1956) is Russian artist, filmmaker, film actor, author.[1]

Biography[edit]

In 1984, Mitenev joined the film studio Mzhalalafilm.[1][2]

As an artist, Konstantin Mitenev was actively involved in Leningrad's underground art scene in the 1980s.[3]

Mitenev began to engage in new media art after the international video festival "OSTranenie" at the Bauhaus, Dessau, in 1993.[1]

Since the early 90s, he took part in the net art movement.[1]

IIn 1996, he created the artistic projects UnDiNa (United Digital Nations) and Xyman (constructor of the body) with Alla Mitrofanova[1][4]. In the same year, Konstantin Mitenev organized with Alla Mitrofanova the first Russian cyber-expedition NETMAN[1]. He created the first network TV in Russia called Twins TV in 1997[1]. Mitenev opened the first online art gallery in Russia, BioNet[1]. He published a manifesto — Next Media.[5]

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)[1]. He called his computer Masha Pentium as a co-author (from now he signs as Kostya Mitenev & Masha Pentium - k@m).[6]

In the late 1990s, Mitenev met Bruce Sterling in Saint Petersburg.[7] Konstantin Mitenev became a character in his book Zeitgeist (necrorealist Viktor Bilibin).[6]

In 2015, he held an art picket at the 56th Venice Biennale with an art picket Separation of Art From the State.[8]

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.[3]

Konstantin Mitenev lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.[3]

Konstantin Mitenev's works are in the collection of Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg, in the archives of CYLAND Media Art Lab.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "MiTenev (GoldTV) Kostya". Cyland Video Archive. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  2. "Eugene Yufit (1961–2016)". Artforum. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "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 français). 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. 6.0 6.1 "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 2023-12-23.
  8. "Константин Митенев в программе "Культурный дневник"". Радио Свобода (in русский). 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2023-12-23.


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