John Menick

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John Menick (born 1976) is an artist and writer working primarily in the moving image, fiction, and essay form.

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Education

Menick received his BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. [1]

Work

Menick's work focuses primarily on the history and circulation of images. His experimental videos and audio works have been exhibited and screened at documenta (13); [2] MoMA PS1; [3] Palais de Tokyo; [4] the International Film Festival, Rotterdam; [5] Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; [6] Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; [7] among other venues. His short fiction as well as his writings on cinema, politics, and technology have been published in Mousse Magazine, [8] N+1 , [9] BOMB , [10] Spike Art Quarterly , Frieze , [11] Art in America , [12] and Witte de With Review [13] . In 2012, as part of documenta (13), he published his first collection of fiction and essays, A Report on the City. [14] His videos are included in the collection of the Kadist Art Foundation, [15] as well as the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître. [16] He has been a visiting professor of film and video at the Cooper Union. [17]

documenta (13) art exhibition in Kassel, Germany

documenta (13) was the thirteenth edition of the quinquennial contemporary art exhibition documenta. It took place between 9 June until 16 September 2012 in Kassel. The exhibition was held under the theme Collapse and Recovery. Exhibits could be seen in several venues in the city, among others in the Fridericianum museum, in the Orangerie and in the Karlsaue, a large urban park.

MoMA PS1 non-profit organisation in the USA

MoMA PS1 is one of the largest art institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the Young Architects Program with the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA PS1 has been affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art since January 2000 and, as of 2013, attracts about 200,000 visitors a year.

Palais de Tokyo

The Palais de Tokyo is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, near the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to the City of Paris, and hosts the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The western wing belongs to the French state and since 2002 has hosted the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine, the largest museum in France dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

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  2. ↑ "dOCUMENTA (13) - Retrospective - documenta". www.documenta.de. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  3. ↑ "John Menick | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  4. ↑ "16 Beaver Group — (Paris) GNS @ Palais de Tokyo (*w/ John Menick)". 16beavergroup.org. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  5. ↑ "John Menick". IFFR. 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  6. ↑ "CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts". wattis.org. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  7. ↑ "Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation - Exhibitions - Program - Witte de With". www.wdw.nl. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  8. ↑ "Move 37: Artificial Intelligence, Randomness, and Creativity •". Mousse Magazine (in Italian). 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  9. ↑ "Menick/John". n+1. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  10. ↑ "John Menick - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  11. ↑ "John Menick | Frieze". frieze.com. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  12. ↑ Menick, John. "John Menick". Art in America. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  13. ↑ "John Menick - Participants - Witte de With". www.wdw.nl. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  14. ↑ Menick, John (2012). A Report on the City. König. ISBN   9783863352028.
  15. ↑ "John Menick – Kadist" . Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  16. ↑ ""The Eyes of the Soul" a la Fundació Francisco Godia". Bonart (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  17. ↑ "School of Art Faculty and Alumni in dOCUMENTA '13 | The Cooper Union". cooper.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
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