John Menick

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John Menick
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Occupation
  • Artist
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
Education Cooper Union (BFA)
Website
johnmenick.com

John Menick (born 1976) is an American 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]

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References

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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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