EXISTENTIAL COMPUTING - PART 1, SENTIMENTALITY

A 5 DAY WORKSHOP WITH MILTOS MANETAS AT THE HAYWARD IN LONDON

1. There is "sympathy" between humans and computers, there are "feelings".
1.1 In both directions.
2. There are new theories about time. Maybe time doesn't even exist !
3. People meet and exchange information. There are institutions such as The Hayward that invite artists such as myself to talk to people. I suspect it is just data that they
want to know about each other.
4. Art is what is happening when data meet beautifully. This is very rare.

Miltos Manetas is an internationally renowned artist born in Greece in 1964. He lives in London and Los Angeles and his Internet Paintings ( internetpaintings.com) are exhibited at the gallery Blow de la Barra in London ( blowdelabarra.com) from 27 January 2007.
Manetas makes websites that are art works, they hang on the internet as a painting hang on the walls of a museum. Manetas signs them as unique pieces and collectors buy them as such. (see : jacksonpollock.org)

In 2000, he started Neen ( neen.org), a new art movement.

More about Manetas : www.manetas.com

Website of the project (under construction) :
http://existentialcomputing.com

Join Miltos at The Hayward for a five-day workshop to explore digital art and work together to create a work that will be showcased at The Hayward on Saturday 3 March.

The "Digital Dialogues" series of workshops are part of the 100 IDEAS programme.