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it may concern may it SEND 15/11/10 11:38 From: From: "miltos manetas" "nikola tosic + nekada"

To: To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@cadet.propagation.net;;; "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: How private? meet in a nice restaurant 2001.02.16.

Message: Message:

How private is our e-mail life? Traveling from So many fonny and retarded people. server to server, it all ends in a hard drive, actu- Art is a zoo of those creatures... ally, its scattered in hard drives all around the say hi to mike and ping pong guy World: a large body of work we helped produced. From: But how much of it is interesting and why? The Rafael day onestarpress approached me, asking my final decision about a book with them, I simply looked at my Outlook application which is always To: sitting open at the top of my screen and told them "miltos manetas" that it will be a book of Selected Emails. It was not myself who choose these emails, Subject: Panos Tsagaris (panox.us) select them, a young friend visiting from Canada who knew nothing NEEN DAY ONE about my personal life (yet). The material of this volume, is what he found memorable. Message: The design of the book, is made by Angelo

Plessas. (www.angeloplessas.com) I don't understand how people can not do web-

sites. I just finished a big Miltos Manetas, July 2003 photograph wich cost a fortune and is very heavy and impossable to move visit:http://www.manetas.com around, so it hangs in a space for noone to see.

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT The real world is like everything is drowned in tar and maple syrup From: compared to the web. The web is maiueda > nice and fast and clean. Also, because everything on the web must be small, To: people make nice short art, they are forced to "miltos manetas" bring clarity and lightness. It's the opposite of video art which is long and heavy and dark. So I fear Subject: the days when connections are so fast that every- Re: car one wil make epic websites with heavy programming and studio quality dvd footage which will bring us Message: nowhere. manetas wassup? the garrely guy from found my drawings,he likes them and asking if i make too.eveybody asks same ques- From: tion.shall i try paint? i am wearing new kimono "Ilias Marmaras" i bought for the gabriele opening,it's white with gold pink night blue big flowers. To: "miltos manetas" From: "Tyler Mckee" Subject: '' Edo o kosmos kaigetai kai to mouni xtenizetai'' To: "miltos manetas" Message: OK ! You are an opportunist. And as usual proud Subject: of that . No problem. But you want to do a state- password for jesusswimming.com ment at the land of ''nobody'' for who? Who is the ''somebody''? World? If you are against etc , do something else. Using Message: their systems to undermine the ''system'', you fin- ish like those guys at t.v can i get a login for the site? who go there everyday ,to say how bad televi- sion is. .

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To: To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: URGENT FROM MILTOS jesusswimming.com

Message: Message: http://d.stupid-fuck.com/miltos this is what i got so far you cunt give me a password

From: Amy Franceschini From: Massimo Ghergo To: "miltos manetas" To: Subject: Re: split Subject: Gnac Message: with belgian boy. Message: shaun and i split. hard hard hard yes, Gnac is really interesting. We like it very Very porn this description.Send me his picture. much. But i've seen he's produced by Emi Music. My self I am busy with this one http://www.alicja- We produce only no copyright material and I don't bachleda.stopklatka.pl/ know if Mark is in this way. For sure could be I'll write you more later love m great have him with us.

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To: To: "Yvonne Force"

Subject: Subject: Gnac in NY. Whitneybiennial.com

Message: Message: Mark Tramner (GNAC), will compose a piece for Pity: it would be significant if you participate ( you NEEN. I believe that we must have him on the don't have to do table. Can we pay him the ticket from ? much, just invite the artists, maybe the same art- Mil ists of the show ). This thing comes out bigger every day : every- From: body is excited (also "miltos manetas" internationally). Its a chance to make a statement and you are right : its not for the "art" ( an old nonsense category that To: we all use mostly for Undisclosed-Recipient:;@cadet.propagation.net;;; conformist reasons) , but for the artworld and for the World in general: Subject: its an opportunity to break the castle and intro- WhitneyBiennial.com duce magnificed barbarians* ( the designers, neensters, architects, illustrators, whoever does amazing Message: visual stuff for the screen today ). The Whitney is The WHITNEYBIENNIAL.COM will open tomor- such a nice occasion : row , MARCH 05 at the following locations Online its a parent's party where it worth to come con- : at 9 AM and in the real world at 7PM in the sume the drinks and change Whitney Museum of American Arts. the music. **note : the real life presentation, is dedicated to the most important Italian artist of the 20th *barbarian : an alien population Century: Gino De Dominicis.

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: rafael Whitney Biennial

Message: Message: which you like or perhaps other suggestions? lookatrafael.com , rafaelrafael.com Dear Mr. Manetas kissrafael.com ,sweetrafael.com,killrafael.com After consulting with my people, I will agree to dearrafael.com participation in your iamrafael.com project under the following circumstances:

From: 1. One U-haul is devoted exclusively to my work. "miltos manetas" At the last biennial, a single machine was used to show all the web artists, with a little old To: lady at the mouse. This type of display situation "mark tranmer" is unacceptable and should not be repeated. Subject: Russia 2. Rather than a flash animation, or a digital piece at all, whitneybiennial.com will construct a rear-lit giant- Message: sized fish tank miltos, populated with a wide variety of species of chi- i am glad as you say 'it's a nice time these days' nese goldfish, call it a ...i am preparing 20 songs to play in russia right "fish animation." The fish must be kept warm and now ...be happy. mark.p.s. rafael is neenstar's fed, as per my well neenstar #1 in purple ... here are the contents known strict ethical positions regarding the use of live animals in

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: Peter Lunenfeld "Newstoday"

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Whitney Biennial TERMINATED

Message: Message: Dear Miltos -- Terminated, There's no business like show bizness. Great press. Break a leg tomorrow and tell me all the Your account has been terminated.

From: [email protected] QBN loves you.

To: Admin, "miltos manetas" The Original QBN & The Friendly Quorporation

Subject: Quorporation miltos Browser location http://www.Quorporation.com Browser location http://www.newstoday.com Copyright 2001. Quorporation New York / Message: Amsterdam. All rights Reserved. dear miltos -- NEWSTODAY is part of The Quorporation i just finished reading the archinect threads -- Broadcasting Network pfew... at least you caused a stir :] i'm with you all the way, the only thing that i am slightly pissed This electronic message relayed via The Original off about is that we gave you access to newsto- QBN day's NTB, and you have not been honest about your plans to me. i amremoving your access, no hard feelings of course, just want to make sure i

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To: To: "francesca" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: vision 20 Items

Message: Message: Cavolo : sono ancora una volta rimasto senza answer me god damn it soldi e mi e' tornata la malatia e sono esausto... Hai qualche idea ? do u have energy now

do u have the will now

will we cut the crap finally and do some work From: “miltos manetas" list? Subject: vision tonight? 20 items to start with

Message:

Cavolo : sono ancora una volta rimasto senza soldi e mi e' tornata la malatia e sono esausto... Hai qualche idea ?

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To: To: [email protected]

Subject: Subject: Re: A Friendly Reminder... Re: (no subject)

Message: Message: Yes ! Everything is almost ready !!!! Gosh, no one seems to have spotted any U- Hauls. What happened? Miltos --Matt s

From: "Paola Pivi" From: “Vanessa Beecroft” [email protected] To: "miltos manetas" To: "miltos manetas" Subject: loved by MM Subject: Re:

Message: Message: ciao miltos I will help you I am in manhattan today heartbroken sei bellissimo sul tuo sito... Love Vani

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To: To: “Vanessa Beecroft” [email protected] “Vanessa Beecroft” [email protected]

Subject: Subject: Del Acqua and more. Re:

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Ok, I will see him today in . You did well: the motherfucker ! Yesterday it was A. Del Acqua show and he Luca brought me to Allesandro and we become called Sozzani to invite us so we friends and he may design a Neen collection, went and met him: nice guy. plus he gave me at least 10 pieces of clothes and I am trying to contact MPrada to propose her a 8 for Mai and as I went to him with 2 friends he Neen show. dressed them too: beautiful ! Sozzani said she'll help . Whats the info of her secretary anyway ? Tomorrow Where is Autumn ? Tell her to call my cell urgent- I am giving a cocktail for a few people, ly: She must pay the rent Allesandro, Sozzani, Kontova, Prada (which also to Jim . She can get $ from Takaya Goto (he gave me a 30 % discount ! ) etc. owns me 2K). How is going the married life ? Much fun: I wish you were here. I will send you pictures. Love Mil Love

I 've seen your book in Pompidou and Collete in Miltos Paris. So nice !Very proud !

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To: To: "Rimerman, Douglas" [email protected] "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: NEEN ADULT RE: NEEN ADULT

Message: Message:

Hi Doug Hey Miltos -- It sounds really great. I'm just trying to think of who you How are you? I am back in NY. would want to speak with at the museum for per- Listen : I met a special effects artist and now I formance art. Most of the have a great idea for a people I know are involved only with exhibitions fantastic Neen Performance where the public that remain in place for a comes to see the "young few months. I'll try to think of who may have generation" ( heavily advertised ) and instead he organized a performance piece finds all of us old !! in the past and put you in touch. We will be clicking and demoing on our comput- ers and having cocktails with Doug nice sad music. All these old-young people: It will be amazing and its so simple to do. Check a demo here: http://www.neen.org/neenadult/ I want to propose it to the Museum in LA. Can you put me in touch with somebody? You told me about a friend of yours last time we met... Let me know..

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: rafaël rozendaal [email protected] "miltos manetas"

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: I'm coming to San Francisco soon A Dream

Message: Message: Dear Miltos, I am the guest of an Italian guy who resembles how are you? Tony Soprano. I remember that I meet his wife and also his mistress and that he is cheating his 1. Whatever happened at the biennale? wife in a somehow disgusting way, therefore my I wonder what the effect is of showing great sympathy for him diminishes. screen pieces in a place like that. Sometimes I think that people would rather Later, he is bringing me to meet some other peo- discover things themselves ple, his friends and family and the atmosphere than have it shown by someone else. I mean, if becomes more sinister. He says that he has to go they don't find it get some food from the Deli and he lets me to his themselves, they're probably not ready for it yet, relatives. and maybe they never will. Well, I'm really curious what went down There is also a little church under construction, there, or did noone go because but a functioning one and when I go there, I meet of the war? a very young and nice girl, with a lot of sympathy 2. I'm coming to San Francisco on the 14th of for me . She shows me her drawing book where december and I'm staying she has draw with a pencil a curved tree . The till the end of january. I'd like to go to the elec- drawing is very beautiful and I am surprised : tronic orphanage and do does she know that I paint the sad tree- my very you know any other interesting people or places first ? Yes, she does: this painting of in california? mine was the inspiration for her drawing. She also suggest that we met before - which I don't so long, maybe I'll see you soon. remember - and that I am a kind of a role model

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT for her. I speculate that she is in love with me and I also like her. From: Richard Hoeck But in that point, some people come in the church, one of them is a priest and he starts tell- To: ing things that are suppose to make fun of me. I reply with different nasty comments , the kind "miltos manetas" of talk which even if it is the truth, it's very insult- ing to most people. While I criticize the priest Subject: and his community and the values of that place, Re: VERY URGENT : WB COPYRIGHt CONTRACT I can see that the young girl is confused and that she starts to hate me. The priest is very violent also, he insults me and finally he asks from me to Message: clean an area of the church that is full of dust . It COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT CONTRACT is suppose to be an intimidation, but I obey as if BETWEEN by cleaning, I am proving my point . ElectronicOrphanage Eventually, my Italian host comes back and he Represented by has some very Soprano's types with him . He presents them as some innocent friends of him Miltos Manetas, Production manager and he invites me to dinner to the restaurant of one of them. Hereinafter referred to as " EO "

It's clear now that they are planning to kill me and I ask from the young girl to forget her newly grown contempt for me and to pretend that she has already invited me to the movies so I will have a reason to refuse their trap and some time to think what to do next. She seams to understand the situation and we PARTY OF THE FIRST leave together- but there is still danger, actually PART the suspense just started.

AND

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT Ricahrad Hoeck , artist/or writer/or other From: "MAI UEDA" Hereinafter referred to as " the contracting party" To: PARTY OF THE SECOND Subject: PART Monday, September 03, 2001 5:26 PM

THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN AGREED: Message: hi mil mil. so, we decide to stay in Ams 1 more night. PREAMBLE they gave us nice place to stay with fast internet conection :) so cool.and I am leaving to London tommorrow. The EO , in collaboration with the Italian my performance was succsessfull. Magazine , POSH, is producing a CD-ROM, that I did it on the big table,wear the gucchi dress,put will include all works and texts produced for the 13 boys with sigalette WHITNEYBIENNIAL.COM and beer sitting on the chair around me,played hiphop before the performance. The CD_ROM, will be included in the first edition there was a feminist woman and se was panicked of POSH. asking me questions. Pole also liked it alot. tonight we will go to club, girlfriend of Jetset is The contracting party hereby, by sending this DJing. e-mail and attching its name on it, declares its but Jetset guy was not so cool,ironic person and i ownership of the copyright attached to the piece don't like him. he/she contribute at the WHITNEYBIENNIAL. but he gave us t-shirts and their design flyers for COM. you. how is aibo say hello to him and your halem friends. ARTICLE 1 - OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT m

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "MAI UEDA" > "MAI UEDA"

To: To: [email protected]

Subject: Subject: RE,Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:29 AM mike c

Message: Message: oh pour one...why??? you have to afford the situation. otherwise you so, you will have to stay in borling nyc all alone!? are a looser. i am very happy here,i love Pole he so cute funy and sweet. >From: "manetas_NY" also they treat us nice,we had wonderful seafood >Reply-To: "manetas_NY" diner last night. >To: "MAI UEDA" and the place i am performing is beautiful it's a >Subject: Re: mike c big white old cherch and >Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:09:10 -0700 it's called "BABY". > i am going to float thelapy today, it"s a relaxzation >Dear Mai thing. >Its 4 in the morning here, and I am still awake, and i met this japanese guy thorough Pole he thinking of you and of your "love"for Mike. seems cool and fast,he writes >I already smoked more than 10 cigarettes. for tokion composit. >This is a situation that I cannot afford. after amsterdam i might go to london and mike's >I am not sure that I want to see you anymore. going to geneva. >Maybe you can change your ticket and travel to then paris,tirana. Los Angeles with Mike after Milan. i wish you will be ok with visa... >Now, I will take some minias and sleep. love, >good bye... m

> > yeah i go swimm tommorrow.i cut my hair,got a new style;ofcorse pretty like hell. > >

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To: To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: URGENT / upcoming Visionaire Party Sophie to Miltos

Message: Message: Hello 1. Dear Mil This is Sushi Matsuda, from the ELECTRONICORPHANAGE in Los Angeles . 2. 3. Fred is trying to fix it - we are quite hopefull Mr. Manetas is in town these days and he would as now we have be happy to attend the upcoming Visionaire Party. more time and that everything is quiet compared to last week. You can contact him at his NY office : MM, 34 4. I will let you know when he sorted this all out. EAST 1 ST STR # 3L, NY , NY 10003 5. Otherwise, I did not find the time to let you tel : 212-2287525 and speak with his personal know how weird but assistant regarding his invitation, or call him clear it appreared to me that you and Maï directly at 917 2796372 were happy together: because your new choice in life with her Best Regards implies happiness and so, 'simplicity' though - in a certain way, this Sushi Matsuda helped me understanding my own personal sen- Communications for Electronic Orphanage and timental situation with the Ex and MANETAS.COM the New one.... even though I was not looking amazingly cool, it was nice seeing you, and to dicover you happy this way. 6. 7. Your show looks amazing - I do really mean

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT it. 8. please say hello to the 'crazy pretty girl' for From: me. "rebecca camhi" 9. 10. love, To: 11. sophie "miltos manetas"

Subject: Re: panic From: "miltos manetas" Message:

To: for question number one I am afraid you are the "mark tranmer only one who can answer it. I cannot tell you if you care for me or not. Subject: You know that I CARE FOR YOU ; this is why I Re: ? am offering an opinion.

Message: for question number 2: I am not sure I will be able to listen but it cannot really hurt to try. hi miltos,

i hope you are well. Let me know if you want to listen. i am talking to vanessa and angelo at the ok I will send him an email moment. i am trying to meet vanessa while she is in europe and go to afterneen if i can. if i can get to utrecht, can you organise a hotel room for me for 16th novem- ber? and maybe sunday 17th also? >Great ! Thank you ! best regards,

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: none Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:43 PM

Message: Message:

the more i think the more i feel like an idiot work- dear miltos, i was just marveling to myself about ing with you how you always look so neat and your clothes so you keep promissing stuff and you never do any- immaculately pressed. thing i hope you had a nice dinner. love ber- for me it is funny to collect your promisses which nadette you give so easily - maybe that should be your book but now is very simple - do this list or forget the From: whole thing - we have "Welfrido Lehne" other stuff to do and i do not need to babysit you day after day over To: something you need few days to finish "miltos manetas" its ridiculous how GREEK you are and i HATE fucking every time i go to greece everybody is fucking Subject: spoiled and everybody beats Comments for GuyDebord.com their wives its like serbia as well and i hate SERBIA i hate BALKANS Message: fucking do the fucking list already comment: It fucking sucks because nothing comes up when i go there

> QBN loves you

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "Panos Evangelopoulos "susan cianciolo"

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Your Pictures Re: angels

Message: Message: send them absolutely! > > >Vampires : it's not a matter of like or not. Otherwise I am going to kill you... After you read Anne Rice, After so many years to meet you I really claim to >you see you in photographs at least... > > >just feel like one. It's very strange. Your very disappointed friend, you will have to explain > > > From: > "miltos manetas" >People who make things and even more : peo- ple who make "things of beauty" >are definitely vampires because their existence To: has been invaded by some >other creator - they have been "killed" and they have been given the Subject: >illusion of immortality and the stress of having to Re: from sophie re-fresh themselves >with blood of others all the time to keep them- selves going. They also live Message: >in the "night", they have not access to the nor- I am having eye surgery today : no more glasses mal world anymore because for me !!! >whatever they touch will turn into a symbol and a story. They cannot relate >with "mortals", they barely tolerate them and they are interested only for

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT >other vampires : its a matter of war and love > between them. >is this then the inevitable, to be only disap- >When/if they fall in love with mortals, either they pointed destroy them or they what can be of the idea that it is pure discovery in >turn them into vampires because nobody is the mirror, that really an artist and in the same >can never be known before any approaching >time anyone can be one if another artist will idea or taken path is started. crash his identity and show left and right, who is to say what they are, when >him the way to approach the fake that we call they endlessly become each reality. other and are not, at every moment, becoming > one and then not the other again. that is perfectly explained with out this there is no now in the fate of existence that can be tried to >if there is never the constant opposition in every escape, but never can be thought and i have fled from this when it is always there >movement,there is no newness, no beauty of so will no longer feeling, no knowledge, which is complete challenge- as much as running doubt and not, in the moment then not

and i always wish still for more left, to balance do u think when people meet their mirrors?, or right, not for dark and light to be together, at the same time, >Sometimes... Relationships are never entirely to understand/accept them as same satisfying with knowing it is all there or the same >people/mirrors: you will soon discover that the mirror is showing a wrong >version of yourself and that your left side is in do you not include yourself in your theories, i was fact the right one and told years ago in an >that what you thought that is the right side is interview, that eventually one does not look at your left. After you their work through them self >observe all that at the mirrorperson, there is any longer nothing else to do but leave just the world at large >him/her because you have no power left, because there is no way to change thank u for your writing >the distribution of the elements.

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: fourfortyfour Re: URGENT

Message: Message: mil ok, now is perfect ! www.eminemtheory.com i saw again 11:11am today may 30 > I love it !! i am back on wed 3rd. Steven : you are god ! I will give a lecture herchcovitch makes such nice t-shirts copy of tomorow and talk about you and play some disney,mickey mouse skull essetesse in your honor and stuff i love his stuff.wrote him yesterday to meet but no reply yet. me and barlow are on a news paper looking nice. From: "miltos manetas" love, mai To: Adam ([email protected])

Subject: password

Message: Hello.

I want a password for jesusswimming.com

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: starr "miltos manetas"

To: To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Neen Renewal URGENT FROM MILTOS MANETAS

Message: Message: Dear Miltos, Dear Kim and Lee

Neen.org is going to expire in August. Do you What's up ? want to renew? Where you in Paris for the EF show ?

If so, we are happy to renew it and pay for it, I was sick and couldn't come but I am in NY and however, MUST be on the 31 May (next Wednesday) I am presenting credited on your site as sponsors. I noticed that at Gagosian Chelsea a very special project while we were mentioned in "About Neen" (which we thank you (http://www.name4art.com). What's your address for) we were not given to send invite ? Also, there will be a dinner after credit for paying for the hosting last year. In addi- at Lot 61. tion, in "About Shall I put you in the list ? Neen" Art Production Fund, looks like ArtProduction Fund. Yours

Let me know. Miltos

Thanks.

Starr

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: UCSD, Lev, visiting artist invitation jesus?

Message: Message: I am writing you on behalf of the visitors program Will I ever be able to see Jesus swimming again? in the graduate art department at UCSD. Several students in our program are very interested in your work, you were also strongly recommended From: by Lev, and we would like to [email protected] invite you to come to our program as a visiting artist. We are hoping you could come during the winter quarter (January- To: March). "miltos manetas"

Generally we ask our visiting artists to give a talk Subject: and to do studio Re: (no subject) critiques with the graduate students. This could be done over the course of one day if you liked, or if you wanted to stay over- Message: night, the talk could be you made romanticus very nicely you have such in the evening, and the studio visits the next day. good taste? !i am not sure about photo of me... Please let us know if i am coming back to nyc today,i willcall you when you are interested as soon as possible, as we i am back,i don't have fast connection here,i can't would like to set up a send youfla i don't know where they are,also har- schedule for winter visitors before the holidays. ris the theater guy wants the fla.anyway talk to We are looking forward to hearing from you. you later tonight or tomorrow morning. xx-m

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT answers to our here From: and now. It's also mostly practiced by people who "roya.jakoby" originally started off in other media and who believe in old style To: (social, aethetical) concepts. I can't relate to Telic and Telic people "miltos manetas" when it comes to what I do and Telic people can't relate to me Subject: either. It's nothing I Re: REPLY persued it's just what happened. Telic people think I'm weird because I question their rules and their ways of Message: thinking and their I think Neen stands for everything I feel. And Telic practice. Telic sucks, Telic is revolting in the sad stands for sense, Telic is everything I have a hard time relating too. You the same old shit having an e-interface, a circuit regognize Telic when make over. I am you meet it. Telic a way of how to describe and so sick of it, Telic is so pathetic it's tragic.. do things, a way of making group politics and to get your funding (or Neen seems to be the better party (compare to all keep your job); those bad parties Telic is a mind set, a certain uncool urge for ide- nobody every invited me to). Neen is ologies; Telic is Wonderland. Neen is Promise. a concept, a way to think, create, act, show off in Neen is Now. Neen is Emotion. Neen is Real. a certain way Neen is.. (I have to that's all yesterday, 19th century blah blah.. Telic find out..). is the whole boring old shit endlessly repeated. Telic is sub r// urbia. Telic is fear and control..

Unfortunately Telic rules and many people think Telic is cool, that the Telic stuff is the real insider deal. I think Telic is actually extremely unreal. Telic is fear based, it has no

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT > something that is From: > offered. Motivation is for civil servants. "miltos manetas" > > But in a strange way, NEEN has maybe the To: capabilities of offering "roya.jakoby" > all the > things you mention, but without practicality and without Subject: > motivation. Re: > > I think NEEN is just a way to describe life. Tosic replied:re = I Message: > dont really understand what exactly is NEEN, > Tosic wrote : what interests me is apart from "what we > > like". > * what is the practical point or goal of neen / PR > ? membership ? > me either, does anyone, is this miltos playing a > friendship ? profit ? fun ? recognition by institu- joke on us ( me ) tions ? etc ... > ? :) > > if i like something i call it "thing that i like" not > * what is motivation for someone to be part of it neen because / learn ? > no one heard about neen apart from few people > friendship ? love ? profit ? PR ? recognition ? from "circles"re = etc ... > But I really hope NEEN has absolutely no prac- > tical point. > send these answers to everybody on the list ( > reply to all ) > if theres no practical point then why are we talk- > Angelidakis replied: * I dont really understand ing right now, what exactly is > what is the value of things which have no pur- > NEEN, apart from "what we like". pose, and is it > But I really hope NEEn has absolutely no prac- > possible to have no purpose, would you invest tical point. yourself in > Practical is for > something that has no purpose or practice or > electricians. realization? > > > * Motivation is something you have by yourself, > re = Practical is for electricians. it is not

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT > vation : there are > sounds very exclusive and snobish ( my father > many and sometimes they are also contradic- is an electrician ) tory. Take over the > > attention of the public, is certainly one of them, > re = Motivation is something you have by your- because we are self, it is not > all artists and because we feel alive in a terri- > something that is offered. Motivation is for civil tory of zombies: servants. > from my side yes : I want to see Neen and > Neensters become at > anyway what is your motivation to write these > least as successful and famous as the Dadaists emails and consider were. Another > yourself part of miltos' idea Ueda wrote: bad > reason to be a Neenster, is to learn , by observ- scenario for ing ourselves and > Neensters life:tobias = victim of contemporary > listening to the critique of others, how to be as art less Telic as > joel = school teacher > possible.Telic is really a problem, because it is powered by our Manetas wrote: If negativity would be a > sophisticated banality as well by our ""original- > mountain, Nikola Tosic would be its climber. ity"" and our Neen, is not a ""Miltos idea"". In July 2000, I pur- > ""creativity"". Telic, is a treasure that we have to chased this name from Lexicon learn how to > company. From that point, Neen ( that in old > spend : a million dollars of artistic freedom that Greek means exactly the new > now) started to exist as a term of the English > technologies had offered us. What we will actu- language and ally do with this > hopefully as a movement. The fact that most of > money, can be a Neen choise . To reply also us, (and usually the perplexity of > most of the outsiders who we happen speek > Tobias, regarding the self nomination of the dif- about neen) agree ferent Neensters, > about what aesthetic expression or style or set > please note that all people invited in this move- of ideas are Neen, ment are choosen > proves its existence and its "level" of reality : its > by others and not self proposed . And ultimate- certainly ly, brainstorming > not a joke or a PR tentative. There is not one > and putting together the Neen moment, is single practical important for the our > point in be a Neenster and not one single moti- > projection of what comes after : the Afterneen:

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "joie polaroid" [email protected] "Paul Geller"

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: perfect. ANTI-COPYRIGHT LOGO

Message: Message: i love the peopleagainstthings.com. something Miltos: The big content creators, that is, the big like that is perfect. Luxury Warning!! is going to media and software be a compilation i'm doing that is what i consider producers, will not listen to your rhetoric. The "cocaine disco"... punk attitude with disco edge. small creators are more i'm going to try to make the packaging for the cd delicate: on the one hand, they need creative like a heart shaped packet like a Heinz ketchup freedom; on the other, they packet and it will say "tear here" so you have can be more deeply hurt by rip-offs. But they to rip open the heart to listen to my selection of generally only realize it music. what else can i tell you? after they have been hit. Take a look at this book: _Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist_ by Neal Bowers. -- Cordially, Paul

On Sun, 25 May 2003, miltos manetas wrote:

> You are right Paul: Artists have smoke in the place of their brains. > What I do is directed to the few creators of con- tent and I simply want to > get their attention with my poor rhetoric. > But this somehow works and that's why I am doing it. > What do you think? >

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: ross [email protected]

To: To: "Mark Tranmer" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: URGENT THE VOID

Message: Message: Date: 2000/05/05 03:16 Layotsee was seen to write the void is full of infi- nite pillossibilitits. the death of copyright puts an Dear Mark end to the war of words keeping the mind open Idea: Would you like to write a piece that I will real free is health. play in the presentation ross kalenderidis of the newname for the art ? Did we ever spoke Lostralia about this project ? This is a major project that I am actually working. Here is all the info : http://www.name4art.com From: If you'll do the music I will put you on the invita- "Soo Yeun Ahn" tion card ! Let me know Asap! Also: Why don't you come for the presentation ? To: It will be very important and you will meet many "miltos manetas" great people. You can stay in my studio. Come ! Subject: This is a great occasion ! password The new name will be "Neen" Let me know what you think about it. (is your Message: music Neen ? ) Dear MANETAS Hi,Can I have a password to access your site? Love Thank you. Miltos

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" From: yoshie suzuki

To: To: "zahm" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Amanda Night neenstars & co.

Message: Message: Tonight: I spend a beautiful evening with the most amazing trans in the city ! r u in ny? Amanda Lepore, Sophia Lamar , Joy Polaroid! neendays We became good friends: I love them ! neen I may an Abstract SuperMario performance with neen Amanda. neen? Here are some pictures from tonight : http://www.manetas.com/life/amandanight/ i saw paola last night. And some pictures from Amanda and Sonia she was wearing a beige t-shirt with NeeN written Lamar who I also met tonight ! on it. http://www.manetas.com/life/amanda/ such a coincidence, wearing neen t-shirt in neen- But in real they are more beautiful ! days. ;)

hope 2 see u and mai soon. i miss both of you. it was great the day & 1/2 i spent with mai.

y

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

To: To: "katie pants" Lev Manovich

Subject: Subject: NewCities>

Message: Message: Lev, you are back ? Listen: don't take me wrong but its really impor- I am in NY. tant for me see how you Cold but nice. I am in a strange mood. Taking look like: send me your picture. Then I will explain Zoloft again. Miltos-Mai:is over . Changes. more. I have a hard time communicate with peo- Psycoanalysis is changing me . Or at least that's ple who's face I don't know. Mm what I imagine. Will you come here anytime soon? I am very broken : I try to collect some $ . From: Working on a plan for a Neen book. "Marina Fokidis" Will you partecipate at the EO CLUB ?

To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: COMEDY

Message: yes you were! I am exactly as you say very very very confused and together with some friends I am trying to find ways out of it.... i thought you were one of them...

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

To: To: "Kaori Tanabe" "Experimental Jetset"

Subject: Subject: Re: from Petit10/3 Connections

Message: Message: Dear Kaori Dear Experimental, meet Vanessa, Vanessa, I know that it is expensive, infact I proposed to meet Experimental Jetset. (Danny, Erwin and Takaya this solution ( of Marieke.) making the painting there). To do that I will need : Vanessa asked me to suggest to her designers 8 days in Tokyo ( hotel+ breakfast) for a new book: Here they are : the best 2 assistants ( can be students or from Murakami's Experimental Jetset . studio) Love to all Miltos The canvas ready and installed in the location with a space with at least 10 m infront of it so I can project the image (I work From: with a computer "miltos manetas" projector) The painting can be a large one of 3.50 x 2.10 m or larger , depents of thespace. To: The market price of such a painting is 26.000 $ . JOE kennedy The gallery pays for it13.000 $ If you want to acquire the painting, it will be Subject: 17.000 $ for you. If you password will sell it, you will get a 30 % . If you will not buy it or sell it , you must send it to me in Europe or USA. Message: Let me know... your site look enticing, can i take a look ? Miltos

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT - You're against the very concept of job. You also From: said that NEEN will serve nobody and that the "[email protected]" internet is the best place to exercice your non- activity… Would you say that your work is political To: or that you work politically ? Can you explain? "miltos manetas" (to be continued) Subject: Re: french journalist in LA

From: Message: [email protected] Hello,

Here... To: "miltos manetas" - " LA is the desert and NY is the temple ". You say that one comes in the desert from L.A to Subject: learn. 235 Berry Street

But you, whom did you learn? And which kind of trouble do you have envies to create? Message: - Are you also hostage of your own prejudices ? Miltos Hi- Could you explain ? It's Marijana your once upon a time neighbor on the 3rd fl. Recently received an e-mail from - You wrote " Websites are today's most radical a friend RAVING about you. I am so happy and important art objects ", and concerning the to know you are doing so well. Berry St. has world changed, Vanessa moved, Don and his family of , " there is nothing to me to as well as Sven and Louisa, oh and Mannes too. discover… ". Do you consider yourself as a resis- How do you like LA? I too hope to move to LA in tant the next year. As you know I make documentary in the world of art ? an activist ? If yes or no, films, it is not the idea environment. Although I could you explain ? What's your definition of will be in LA end of Oct. the director I work with is resistance directing a narrative there. Be in touch when you or activism ? have time Best, Marijana Wotton

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "[email protected]" From: yoshie suzuki

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: french journalist in LA Arriving on Sunday

Message: Message: Miltos, M, Here are new questions. Thanks again. I just realized that I was supposed to be a model 1- Previously, you said that you "hate 99% of for a fashion show on Saturday. I will be arriv- Internet art." Can you describe this Internet art ? ing in NYC on Sunday afternoon. I will call u on And Sunday. what's the difference with your Internet work and yoshie contribution ? 2- Independently of the possibilities of digital pro- cessing of sound and image, which is the specific From: contribution of the grid from an artistic point of "miltos manetas" view? 3- You wrote : " I always find Paintings cool: they are websites themselves: they publicize their To: information and content. " Could you be more "mark tranmer" specific ? 4- And do you consider, nowadays in the digital Subject: age, painting as an act of resistance ? To whom Re: things 2003 or to what ? To be continued when you'll be in L.A in June… I Message: hope to see you. > Myself : lost in space : very little money : best Depression etc. No good. > Anyway, happy new year.

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT actively. This investment, should be of the amount From: of 200.000$ You can either pre-acquire a series of large paint- ings ( which I will do in France for the next show To: and because you will have pay for them so much they will be my best paintings ever), or a series "Almine Rech" of vibracolour prints and videos ( which you eas- ily market if you have already paid for them and Subject: therefore you have an urgency to sell ), or a com- Arriving on Sunday bination of the two choices.

I know that the above sounds too much for you Message: but I really hope not : it doesn't sound too much Dear Almine to me anymore because my monthly expenses This time , in the Armory show, I ve been very are 9.000 to 11.000 $ . much embarrassed by the behavior of the per- son who directs your gallery. I need to work with people with a vision: I need this assurance con- stantly , if its missing, I lose my interest and my art becomes a compromise. Here is what happens : if a gallery makes visible From: the money issue, I just forget that we are doing what we do for glory and beauty, I see you as my employees and I lose any romantic attitude . I just should ignore, that its difficult for you to afford a To: beautiful screen . I should just produce concepts "miltos manetas" and you must realize them and capitalize on them. But probably money, is an important factor Subject: for galleries and the moment they take decisions Biennale they have to consider myself and my ideas as just another one of the 20 people who they "work" with. Message: dear miltos, Here are my new plans about our collaboration: unfortunately i don't think the work is going to fit You should do a serious investment in my work with the idea of the show : in this way, you will have clear how important all the best it is to place attention on it and promote it more

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

To: To: "evelyn krasnow" "William Buchina"

Subject: Subject: Re: ArtHeals event Your comment

Message: Message: Annika with PC : it is available ! But not for long Hi , because many people want it. I had to paint it I am actually working in a book about my web- two times ( the one available is the new version, sites, called "The Book of Comments" which is slightly bigger). I would appreciate your comment about Miltos JESUSSWIMMING.COM . If possible, please, include your profession. Best From: Miltos Manetas Francesco Bonami

From: To: "james silverman" "miltos manetas"

To: Subject: "miltos manetas" Paintings

Subject: Message: Re: PM caro miltos , stai citando Cingolani con le tue ultime pitture??? Non ho idee in mente per questi quadri al Message: momento if you find the buddha on the road you must kill him

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "David Robbins" "Olivier Zahm"

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: none NEEN / PURPLE

Message: Message: Dear friend Miltos, Dear Miltos, i was very happy to see you and What in the world are you talking about? your delicious amie in Milan, thank you for spend- ing this time with me. I have schedule an article Your friend David : 4 or 6 pages on NEEN in the next Purple (new style). Benett will certainely get in touch with you to see what would be the best way to From: introduce NEEN in Purple. Let's talk about it. ALl "miltos manetas" the best OZ

To: From: francis_arackel Maria Papadimitriou

Subject: To: password "miltos manetas"

Message: Subject: Sir, Re: Please give me a password and user name to enter the Jesus swimming site Message: Thanks are you in LA or where???

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "" mike calvert

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: URGENT neen

Message: Message: Dear Miltos. neen is located between the end of what you Fantastic!!! Do you have Bjork Mail or adress know and the start of what you to send her information onthe show. I will ask don't. Tuesday for Ticket and Hotel. We have problem with the budget but BJORK : they may be exited. things which are neen seem very empty do to the I have to go through BernardBlistène. I keep you fact much of it is unknown inform. Kiss. Olivier to us (not that we care)

people that are not neensters can make neen as From: people can be neensters "Richard G. Severn" without ever making something neen

-mc To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: please

Message: can i see your sight!!!!!???????

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT >> I'm coming to nyc on the 4th, arriving at 13:05 From: at JFK "yi zhou" >> And leaving on the 17th of may at 22:30. >> y To: > "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: MILTOS

Message: Time stops when we are together. Among the different choices and possibilities we might experience, we combine you+yi option. From: Maria Papadimitriou

On 22/04/03 10:37, "miltos manetas" wrote: To: "miltos manetas" >> leaving on the 17th of may at 22:30 I don't want that day to arrive: I want to be stuck Subject: in time, in May 16th. Re: > > > Message: > is the first time in your life > visit: www.manetas.com you are dating with a lady who has carrier by her > ----- Original Message ----- own > From: "yi zhou" > To: "miltos manetas" bravo > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:17 PM this is a phsychanalitico success > Subject: Re: MILTOS > >

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "[email protected]"

To: To: Gilda_Williams Undisclosed-Recipient:;@cadet.propagation.net;;;

Subject: Subject: Re: congratulations Francesco THE NEEN DOGMA OF PAINTING.

Message: Message: Dear Gilda We are proud to present: FRANCESCOBONAMI. This is not the email of Francesco. That's a web- COM site I did, kind of scam because I was not in Venice and I had to do "there was a time when paintings were pretty and something : ) fresh things to create, in the same way that Flash The e-mail of Francesco is [email protected] animations and Websites are today". How are you these days ? Are you coming at the USA at all? Read the "Neen Dogma of Painting", written by Miltos Manetas, in the occasion of the 50th From: Venice Biennial. Maria Papadimitriou Commisioned by FrancescoBonami.com

To: WWW.FRANCESCOBONAMI.COM "miltos manetas"

Subject: Re:

Message: mil you are a genius!!!!! i like very much the idea

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: Leo Villareal "miltos manetas"

To: To: "bonami" "zoa m"

Subject: Subject: Re: get involved with neen (resume) Re: get involved with neen (resume)

Message: Message: thanks, francesco. only problem is that your site Hi crashes netscape 7 on the mac... explorer works great. thanks for recognizing miltos as the great Find included some information about Neen. and important artist he is. good luck with every- If you are interested to work with us, the first thing in venice. "test" for you would be to edit the Molly Von Hacker text about Neen and Telic . She is leo. German and her English, as well as my English, are not great. That's the best way to introduce yourself .

We are looking for people that have interest to be involved with the concepts of Neen.

The jobs to do are : 1. Planning 2. Propaganda 3. Founding 4. Operations

1. Planning :

Brainstorm on situations and methods of expan- sion.

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT Participation in the development of the Neen will not understand what I mean by the above ideas and testing these ideas. and they will not have the patience to get involved 2. Propaganda : with such an uncertain enterprise: this is good , because we are interested only in people who Contacting people and media by many different can do something out of nothing. ways . E-mail, press office, phones, interviews. Think of the propagan- 4. Operations : da as a videogame. We need people who enjoy playing it and who That's the fun part. It doesn't pay any money , but are " different " enough, in order it changes you life. More details, once/if you get to act with originality. involved.

3. Founding : What is Neen. NEEN, is a name created from Lexicon Branding Most Neenstars are already famous or well after a commission by Miltos Manetas and known in their fields. ( Art, music, Yvonne Force from Art Production Fund. architecture, design, fashion ). They all know rich people who would be happy to give Neen, has been presented in June of 2000, money to Neen , just to see it happen. Neen, is at a special conference/performance at the also a perfect tool to get in NY. grants, awards etc. But the Neenstars are lazy and they will never do the Here is what the press wrote : the new york effort that a founding job requires. Their brains times, feedmag ,wired artnet,time out and medi- are made by clouds and they don't know how to enkultur. ask for money. Therefore, we are looking for people who may Mai Ueda, suggested that if you do good NEEN, envision a way to collect money for NEEN and then are a NEENSTAR. who will get a generous %. Do not confuse this job with the sale of products: All Neenstars, 2 years and a half later, Neen has been devel- already sell their work in galleries, Museums, oped in a real art movement, actually, the only record companies etc. Founding , is mostly keep- art movement in our days. But it's still under con- ing an eye open to the many opportunities of struction: that'S what we are doing now. capitalizing that exist in the art world , or envision alternatives that nobody thought about yet. Probably, most people who apply for this position,

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "zhou yi"

To: To: "Joshua Rosner" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: Inquiry

Message: Message: nice. It's interesting what is happening with certain i should integrate it.didn't know u were so good people in this country. They become in some way at creating lyrics. u should do a duo too. love, & , videogame characters. Newsweek and Time, good n ight. function as "stages" in that video game. After a Y while, the public gets "done" with that particular level and nobody plays with these characters any more . I think it's a situation that painters should From: represent. But nobody seams to agree though : denis levaux the comments of the art world for these particular works is that I don't know what to paint now that I painted all the cables and computers ! They think To: that my subject is really computers: I couldn't "miltos manetas" care less : my subject is human psychological landscape. Subject: password >AMERICAN SOLDJER

Available but unfinished ( maybe. I am still think- Message: ing about it ) . Happy you like it. Nobody paid can I please get a password to see the web site attention to this work yet ... thank you

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "zhou yi" zhao

To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: AboutGreekSong Re: TONE_03 // date change

Message: Message: [i love this song. Just curious, do you make art in NY? run a gal- write more lyrics. lery? design? send me some music to my place. (if I'm being too nosy just ignore me...) I would invite more people to play (had to actually turn down 2 artists) but From: I don't think more than 5 performers a night would [email protected] be good. and I don't think I have the energy to do 2 nights in September. However, TONE_ is amonthly event, To: and it might move to a friend of mine's huge loft / "miltos manetas" studiospace after September or... I don't know, maybe we can talk after we seehow this one Subject: goes?none of the artists have mentioned any Seattle Fire Department , Station 20 visuals to acompany their pieces, andI will talk to Tim about what we can do with this and get back to you.I saw the animations on the Takemura Message: Sign 2nd disc, and quite frankly was i am michael endicott . i am a seattle firefighter . dissapointed... naive and cute but not nearly as while relaxing in the fire station waiting for a fire sophisticated as his or accident, i like to explore...... i have somehow sounds... explored my way to your cyber-realm. i more later... respectfully request permission to wanderthrough. i need a password obviously. i am a big fan. zhao

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: URGENT Re: CONNECTIONS

Message: Message: dear Miltos Dear Miltos, Back from Milano how are you? WOuld you be interested to write exausted a purple column next year,with each time a (fashion week) Neenster portrait, that could be a good idea, ifyou did you get PURPLE with the Neen interview? writeon them and on the neen ongoing concept. i'm not sure we have your adress I'm coming to ny end of august,we'll you bethere? love Hope to see you let's keep in touch for the biennal oz

i have a proposition : a site on the chinese Mafia : "United Bamboo", just From: a black screen, what do you think "Zachariah Miner" no information of course oz To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: RE:

Message: did you see super madrigal brothers? super neen.

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "Zach Miner"

To: To: "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: URGENT FROM MILTOS RE: NOOFLAT

Message: Message: Dear Olivier fantastic interview! you had his mind spinning. I wrote to Bjork: she may come for the perfor- when can i come and be an orphan? i am per- mance! Can you e-mail me some material for the fect, i don't make programs or flash or anything, show ?Also: when is the opening ? Do we offer completely nontelic. i could just surf and email her ticket? What else can we cover for her ?Hotel and think, maybe talk a little. neensweeper, like ? M you as cleaning lady. Zach

From: [email protected] From: Migraine"[email protected]

To: "miltos manetas" To: "miltos manetas" Subject: password Subject: password

Message: can i have a passs word to jesusswimming.com Message: pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee- hello, may i please have a password. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas- thanks ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss- GM

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: From: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

To: To: "yvonne Force" "yvonne Force"

Subject: Subject: VERY URGENT FROM MILTOS www.whitneybiennial.com

Message: Message: Dear Yvonne Dear Yvonne

So nice to dance with you the other night !! You Don't be a wimp !!!!! Please, subscribe to the entered my dreams .. www.whitneybiennial.com and help me make a press hell out of it. I am finalizing the Whitneybiennial.com : it will be It's such a YF project : I cannot think of anyone presented on March 05 , in contemporary with else that would be a beautiful General and a the opening Gala. I will tell you the details later Strategist. tonight . But I really need some little money to There is nothing to lose anyway: the art world is cover the expenses. full of Claus and Larry : . You make one enemy I need to collect at least 10.000 $ and his enemy becomes your friend : they are Do you think that somebody may be interested in just interexangable human functions : instead the following offer ? we must be Force. And anyway, they will love the show too. Help me invite every curator and Please, let me know . ( 917 279 6372) writer you know to participate : this is a chance to introduce the (entirely) new art that we are doing, Love to the big public with an impact. People with Miltos work like Leo's, need such an attitude. What fun is it without a large gesture ? Making "one man shows" and wait to be invited to participate in the "big events" of the season is like waiting for hours the elevator that will bring you to some of the top floors of the basement .Instead we need to attract the pubic interest, touch its imagination and make

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT a difference. From: Here is the list of the people who invite artists. "MILTOS MANETAS" More are subscribing . Today I had an appoint- ment with www.newstoday.com which is one of To: the best portals for designers/neensters in the Internet: they offered me their full support. But I "miltos manetas" need you to have inspiration : no battle can be won without a Queen. Subject: Re: car Love Miltos Message: “Painting”, is what you usually find in Museums: large icons depicted on From: canvas or wood. Even when the dimensions of their rectangular are small, the [email protected] final Icon, results large, because the eye can only see what the mind knows. To: I never “painted” such an Icon, until 1995. I would "miltos manetas" visit museums often, and check always the same people : Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Subject: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, What? Bellini, Caravagio and Picasso. I would never even try to make an Icon, because I thought that the process was as com- Message: plicate as a computer language. But after an unsuccessful academic carrier in contemporary art, Which women? Which books? What online? I decide, to give it a try before quit. I phoned a friend in Milan, and >Mostly women, books and the Internet. I got informed about some techniques. >In all 3 categories you don't know what will hap- pen next. If life is the desktop of a computer, paintings are its icons. They are easy > > Q Who inspires you? to do and easy to recognize. Whenever you will click on them, they will

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT bring you to a new document, which is always blank: you will have to decide From: how to fill it. You may for example,choose to see "Vanessa Beecroft" inside the same frame, either a chair, or a woman, or an abstract form, To: or just a “Picasso”, even if a Picasso’s “Woman on a Chair” painting is "miltos manetas" depicted as realistically as it gets. The technique of the painting itself, is not Subject: important as far as *****happy b-day to you***** the creator, is able to select a suitable subject to represent. Which is not such an easy thing. The nation who does more Message: paintings today, are the *****happy b-day to you***** British, but they are so bad on their subject mat- *****happy b-day to you***** ter, that their icons are *****happy b-day dear MILTOS***** as fresh as a fried chicken. On the other side of *****happy b-day to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!***** the Atlantic, the *****I love you!***** Americans, are so mellow that they could easily *****Vanessa***** get hired by Indian movies poster making companies. The Italians instead, is a nation of designers: From: they are good to dress a product and that’s why they succeed in all the Madonna and Child period when the Holy Scriptures were the entertaining To: scenarios of their time. "miltos manetas"

Subject: password

Message: can i have the password for jesus swimming?

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: stress text for Made in USA

Message: Message: There where? Dear MM, Nice to see you 2 last night. I just wanted to remind you of some funny con- From: cepts you came up with in the street, in case you Jill JAMESON are thinking of things to write about:wet dyna- mite. laser surgery is like burning a cd, or getting scanned (can't remember exactly). To: best, JK "miltos manetas"

Subject: From: password Maria Papadimitriou

Message: To: Dear Mr Manetas, "miltos manetas" Please can i have the password to look at your jesusswimming page? I give you this love poem / Subject: riddle in return. (It is nice to give to a loved one) Re: Love as one and down and you do In you but that read you love you Am will love is up will i love Message: I see I thee read see that me? what about mai???? finito?

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To: To: "Yvonne Force" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: Re: Receives and real Invoice nr. 3 Re:

Message: Message: I am in San Diego at an Embassy hotel. I just Neen stands for Neensters: a still undefined gen- gave a lecture at the University. I recorded it eration of visual artists. and I really need to improve my English. Maybe I Some of them may belong to "Contemporary Art", should go to a school for actors here in LA. others are software creators, Lets meet on Saturday ? Mil web designers and videogame directors or ani- mators. Computing is to neen what fantasy to Surrealism and freedom to From: Communism. It creates the context "miltos manetas" but can be postponed. Some neen painters, don't even care for computers, they will fill figures on canvases that look like To: large photoshoped jpgs. Maria Papadimitriou Identity doesn't interests Neenstrers: they will use their identities as Subject: password or even better as an e-mail address to Re: receive information for free in a system where "analogues" have no access even if they are rich or Message: powerful. > I was in LA. I had a fantastic time with the most pretty girl. Lots of drugs > also: now I am slowly coming back to reality... >

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT hip-hop)and of course - GNAC! From: I would see the project working quite organically "Yuen Fong Ling" with you and Gnac - like a back and forth discussion. Overall the project can be as simple To: or as complicated as you have time for. I expect that you and Gnac will chat naturally about what "miltos manetas" you both have sound and vision wise. The collaborative part of the project, and com- Subject: pleted work need to be ready flux cd rom by the middle of October (approx 14 weeks time) for formating onto CD Rom and production in early November. Gnac is in Message: Australia/Japan from August 1st - 30th, I imagine Mil, this would be a good deadline for all visual work - so Gnac, on his return, can make new or use Mark is here in my house now. We are drinking existing music. But i expect you will have a cov- Earl Grey tea and talking about the cd romproject. ersation by email to clarify this. We aim to collaborate on a CD rom for the cover I'm more than happy for you to use existing work of the Dec/Jan 2002 - depending on permission, issue of FLUX magazine based in UK, to coincide rights etc. If you need a commissioning contract with our gallery's re-launch in Feb 2002. this can be Flux has a distribution of over 40,000 worldwide arranged. I realise the fee (150 pounds) does not and is increasing. We want tocelebrate the best reflect the time and of what's happening in the North West of England effort for your work, but hope that the benefits will - and that it canfeel international too.How the be more personally project is shaping up so far - I've approached 3 expansive and far reaching. Please give me artists and 3musician to respond to each others details of your animator so i can arrange payment work and create a dialogue to make apiece of art- details with him directly. work - sound and vision. They're much like experimental musicpromos but with conceptual These are our thoughts for now. Let me know frameworks.All of the artists use some form of what you think and then we can go forward. computer animation - these are Patrick Flynn, Andrew Macdonald (these are Manchester All the best Yuen and Mark based and have done work for Flux promo nights etc) and yourself. p.s. Say hello to Mai The musicians include Roger Quigley (one half of Montgolfier Brothers), Wai Wan (experimental

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Message: Message: Miltos, Oh shit...I forgat to give invoice to gallery man... Here is to our little secret! I think we should do it! then what should I do? It will be fun. I Sorry for being useless... agree that this should be kept between us. It will anyway be more exciting that lalalala way! love --mai

Here is my schedule. I am supposed to come to From: around the 18th "Miltos Manetas" but I may be too busy with Version fest in Chicago. Next time I will go to NYC is around the 6th or 7th for INS... I can be To: there until the 8th, and I Mai Ueda have to go to Mass Moca for the opening/ birth- day party of the curator Subject: there... I will be busy with a trip to France, and then with Version until USELESS the end of March... What is your schedule is like? Message: Y useless baby ,,, send immediately invoice to the gallery...

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Message: Message: jolie are you awake? today-or never Can't sleep : want to listen your voice. its damaging Spend the night with Xavier + Pierre + Neenstars. kiss me in Alaska on a cold day-today. I like Pierre : so sweet! He is smarter now from when I knew him. Or maybe I was more stupid then. From: Anyway.. Abby Clark

Call me : wake me up at any time. I was to listen your Italian. To: "miltos manetas" Yours+full of love 4u Subject: Miltos password

Message: hey there. i don't know if i need to know you per- sonally, or if you have to send me an invitation or whatever, but i would really like to see the jesuss- wimming.com, so if i could get a password, that would be great! thanks.

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Message: Message: i just think about that. it's difficult to write songs : Dear Victoria you have to keep out any music from your brain. anyway, here is something I just wrote : "if jesus Here are my ideas for the teaching opportunity was our friend, we would be already dead" you proposed to me. Initially I thought of actually keeping a class for a semester as you suggested and I made a plan From: around the creation of a conceptual videogame Alicia Arch which would use myself as the Engine and the students as the Players. The course would be called NOTHING. To: "miltos manetas" The class would explore self-creating using our- selves as material. The teaching system would be Subject: based on the patterns of videogames where you password can predict the behavior of the game to a certain extent, but it can also often surprise you and in that case you "lose" and in some cases you "die". Message: we would like to have your password to view The major tool for NOTHING, would be a per- jesusswimming.com. sonal website- which each student is suppose to create and which is based on him/her, his/her thanks. "blank screen". Initially this will be an empty web- A and C site and will gradually be enriched by elements of the student's persona. But, the control over

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT the individual's website will be subject to discus- sion and analysis by the entire class, much like From: a traditional art class critique, but with a game "jonathan maghen" element: Students with more "Power" would have more input. To: "POWER" "miltos manetas"

During the course Points (as are won in video- Subject: games) will be awarded by the instructor based Textfield Sponsors on the students' presentations of intent (i.e. what they hope to do with their website), their individ- ual self-presentations, etc. They will be assigned Message: Points which positions them in the rank of the Hello Miltos, "game". Ultimately, you will be able to create your own taste, only if you rise high enough in rank How are you? I was writing to see if there was within the game so you have all the rights to con- still a possibility of having trol the content of your webpage. The machine Motorola of course ( Myself ) will have veto over any deci- sponsor a NEEN CD for issue 02 of Textfield? sions. The Principal at BUILD ( former Designers These were my initial thoughts driven by my Repubic partner ) contacted me enthusiasm. I realized instead, that it should yesterday about doing a be a SEMINAR and not a COURSE, because Tshirt for the next issue. There is not money for a SEMINAR will capture the Neen spark of the extra projects like this, moment. In a longer term the whole concept of I thought NOTHING gets polluted because people cannot if Motorola or another company sponsors the hold themselves empty for so long. magazine, we can do cool stuff like this in addition. Therefore, I would propose Best, A MARATHON SEMINAR. Jonathan 2 days in a row starting from Noon to Midnight.

Let me know how you feel about that.

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Message: Message: I will have student from our class in architecture mm: (new city planning office) there. it would be fan- Would you have preferred to be mentioned as tastic to show the manetas world, just have them Greg was - every men in the article is destroyed. to meet you. would you consider? they are very I did not write the article myself and of course I kind, and not that many (around 10). did talk about you and told you several times you best, Jan should have met Judith. I am sorry, I have no fault on that and I do hate the article. Vb From: David Goldschmidt From: "Jim Hood" To: "miltos manetas" To: Subject: "miltos manetas" password Subject: password Message: hi- found your site via rhizome. requesting pass- Message: word. david goldschmidt Could I, please?

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT and the prepetual feeling that everytime i say From: something "emotional" you get [email protected] bored or see it as some form of entertainment to brush past...well, that is what made me snap at you. To: it is 11:11 now. "miltos manetas" call me if you are confused... becca Subject: (no subject)

Message: Message: i am sorry if i snapped at you, miltos. i just really [email protected] feel like being alone. the last time i slept over (on saturday night) i was To: really upset. i couldnt "miltos manetas" sleep and i was crying all night and i was playing with my cell phone by turning the phone light on and shining it on your Subject: face. and i kept dialing Re: (no subject) random numbers and then hanging up. and i just wanted to leave. you ask me if it is because of you or if it relates to Message: you...it does in that ah you are crazy. when i am around you it brings out a side of me that i dont like or that i dont know what to think of the fact that you like makes me upset. at least lately it has. that i went nuts with so maybe it is immature to just want to stay home lonliness and called random people. for awhile and leave it up do you know i do that all the time??? my mother to you, but that's how i feel. yeah...maybe i am thinks i am crazy. depressed, or maybe i need i just flip through all the numbers on my phone to talk to a psychologist, or maybe i just dont and dial at random on want to be with anyone right whichever it lands and then let it ring twice before now. i especially dont want to sleep with anyone. i i hang up. dont want to have any sex.

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT and yes i shined it on your face for an hour and you didnt notice. you were From: very pleased with us that night. "Miltos Manetas" ok well...then i will call when i fell less like this. To: [email protected] From: "marie jager" Subject: BIGDIGISHOWS To: "miltos manetas" Message: Subject: Dear Benjamin Re: ny How are you ? I was in NY for a few days and now I am back in Los Angeles, preparing the electronicOrphanage (www.electro- Message: nicOrphanage.com) thanks for your lovely pictures again. i guess you Different people are calling me to ask if I will be in know giovanni from china art died on monday and those digital culture it is so strange because i spent the saturday night shows that the Whitney and SFMOMA are orga- with him and he was fine. he must be in a paral- nizing. lele world, hope he is doing good. i am back in Of course, nobody invited me for these shows, los angeles and i really want you to send me the not that I really care, ( I am info about the writer and music in sci fi. francois into NEEN now and the Contemporary Art ven- went to las vegas and stayed tures are not my priority). But my in little paris and loved it. it sounds great. he also mother is keep asking me about my carrier and I went to a utopia city get so embarrassed to from a italian architect from the 60ies and appar- disappoint her. She we will be like : Oh! Such ently this was a nightmare, great shows and you are not like a getto outside of paris, you could not even in them ? I thought that you are one of the first see the beautiful desert people to work with and landscape the city was in. anyway, i had digistuff and you even bought names for them... some fun seeing you, next time You made 140 paintings with we should spend more time. cables and laptops, a virtual city, 4 videogame marie performances, 10 videos after videogames, 7 websites, 3 software, 250

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT vibracolour prints after videogames, a power- book-format book, and an ElectronicOrphanage From: and all that for nothing ? You are such a bad son! miltos manetas Mothers, you see... Anyway, whatever. Talk to you, soon I hope. To: Yours rebecca Miltos Manetas

Subject: special e-mail bonus love

From: "marie jager" Message:

Not mad... I like the use of blank style for e-mail To: communication. "miltos manetas" As if we were speaking to each other from inside our bodies . Subject: Without greetings and signs of any kind. Like if we are many in one. neen/telic I think that e-mail is an opportunity to obtain this quality. Message: Then, we can save intimacy (if intimacy is milto desired), for when we meet in real life i really think this text is great, same feeling when i or for special e-mail bonus love: more intense... read some short text by bataille long ago. i would like to have a maga- miltos zine or journal where you would right things like that. it might be telic >> are you mad at me? >> where is a little hello- though... i am sure you are a little sign of love? >> >> xx >> rebecca camhi ok with it? anyway i am working on the film and some parts are neen. i am fighting against my telic side. hope to see you soon, m

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Message: Message: you also make it very easy for me not to get i am not sure i know where you are but with the attached and i dont know whether i like that or e-mail you are definately i hate it. you should talk to your psychoanalyst here.(HERE)! about why you dont care if people dont know Irit (Sommers) the girl who has the gallery in you. about why you cradle women. Isrtael would like me to ship her two paintings for her group show. Unfortunately she cannot pay for your ticket another artist who is participating in From: the show (Martin Maloney) is going and his ticket "miltos manetas" was paid by the British Counsil. She tried to aske the greek consulate for money but they said they could not. However she loves the idea To: and she will probably get it together for another Ron Brooks time. I am also taking the big cable painting to Subject: Brussels. I have a vague feeling about your pric- password es - a feeling that they keep changing and I have to admit that this makes me uncomfortable. we had your paintings here during our show for Message: about tria ekatomiria drachmes. hi, Do you think we could stick to that at least for i've enjoyed you site in the past. Can I have the Israel and for me for the moment and if those password? Best, paintings sell then you raise them? I know you Ron Brooks keep saying that you sell them in the States for more but this is the situation here and I saw

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT Almine in NY and I think she agreed with me. Please lets wait till those paintings sell first and From: then we take it from there. John Tremblay What is going on with Olymbiakos? Marina said that all she could pay as priduction To: cost was 250 ooo drachmas. Can you come up "miltos manetas" with something around that? it would be a shame not to be in it... I am going to Brussels this after- noon but will take laptop with me so we Subject: keep in touch ARTFORUM needs you more than... i love you and miss you xxx rebs Message: Miltos , Enjoyed your Hotlist. You have made it appar- From: ent ARTFORUM needs you ore than you need "susanne leppla" them..... JT

To: "miltos manetas" From: Subject: password To: "miltos manetas" Message: hallo milton, Subject: wie geht es dir ? password do you remember me (the berlin girl who visited yourgalery opening in november ?) happy new year !!i tried to have a look at your Message: site jesusswímming.combut,..... got no access. Hey, what happened to Jesus Swimming? Can I obviously i need a password.what do i have to do get access to the flash animation somehow? to get one ? please let me know! all the best --UJ

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Subject: Subject: Bjork/abstract Supermario.

Message: Message: mil, i met this new girl. this is trouble.... she's married. she's korean and beautiful. she said Dear Bjork she would leave her husband for me but i don't know if i want this. what should i do? nice top How are you ? Scott Rogers told me that you are ten in art forum. we need to educate these dead- preparing an important event in France: congratu- beat art hags. art is so fucking boring it's so lations! predictable and dead. miss you, JWC Here is a project that may interest you: Purple Magazine, is doing a show called Elysian From: Fields in Pompidou . It will be a major show, with Matt very good artists from our generation but also designers, and movie directors. ( I can ask them to send you some material). They are building To: a nice environment inside Pompidou : it will be "miltos manetas" like a contemporary village. They will use some of my paintings, but when I saw the space, I had Subject: an idea to make the Abstract Super Mario perfor- mance there, live. password In this piece, a girl plays Super Mario, you listen the music, but what you see-on a projection is Message: abstract: pixels running over the screen. Here you can see different photos from previous hey i want to see jesus swimming!!! give me a Abstract SuperMario Perf: http://www.manetas. password!!! please!!!! com/art/performances/abstractsupermario.html

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT I think that it will be great, if for the night of the opening, the girl which plays ASM at Pompidou, From: is you! Think about it: you are superfamous and "takaya goto" everybody knows how you look like: but if we will do that without announce it, nobody will believe To: that this is actually you . They will be like: Look that girl, she looks like Bjork but she cannot be "miltos manetas" her! It will be an interesting experiment with iden- tity. Subject: How do you like that? The opening is on 23rd of Re: No subject was specified. May. Let me know... Love Message: Miltos Hi Miltos, I've been crazy busy. Started a new job at Rich's office, designing big From: promo for Takashi's curated show in Japan, and designing the book and so on. Sounds like you're having a good time. good! I saw Andreas's images. Looks really good and To: interesting. Also, I want to "miltos manetas" see more of the interior images. Because the next issue is all about interiors and furnitures. Subject: Thanks. password Takaya

Message: I'm interested in getting a password to view this site. Thanks, Sharon

Who am I? I'm not telling...

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Message: Message: Yes, sorry for silence... too crazy these days.. 21-04 I was in Europe for Showsand then I stayed in Stockholm because of Chron's attack . I am fly- CHELSEA IS NOT THERE AGAIN. I WAS ing to LA today, with new-new girl. She is a Jap, SUPPOSED TO PRESENT IT TO A LA MUSEUM adorable...I have so many things to tell you... AND ITS NOT THERE. ENOUGH: IF YOU When we will meet again ???? Love Mil WILL NOT TELL ME IMMEDIATELY ALL THE INFORMATION NECESSARY TO MOVE IT TO A From: "j e" TRUSTABLE SERVER (IMMEDIATELY) , I WILL STOP ANY CHELSEA DEAL AND I WILL JUST START A NEW To: "miltos manetas" WORLD ALL OVER

Subject: password MILTOS

Message: I came across your website while surfing thru some jesus web rings, and was cruious as to what's inside. May I enter?

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "David Robbins"

Subject: Subject: jet Re:

Message: Message: Dear Miltos, The new name for the Art (such as Dada, Cubism etc) that I am buying from got a message from Anne about the flights. Lexicon (they coin Powerbook, Pentium etc). I Thomas and Pernilla will thought that I told you return in a couple of days with exact info. It would about...All the story is in the www (www. be nice to bring name4art.com)Check it out and tell me impres- everybody on a private jet, but I am afraid that we sions. I am flying to Paris tonight for my do not have the show at Almine Rech Love Mil fundings for that so far... as it seems it is a nice, normal flight with Delta and then a nice hotel in the very down- From: town. We'll take good de care of the people coming!

best, To: "miltos manetas" Jan Subject: password

Message: Looking for the love of Christ, may I join?

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Subject: Subject: URGENT Paris- san francisco

Message: Message: Dear Yvonne Dear Miltos, Can you send info here : Hi Mr. Manetas, I have to thank you ;-) My name is Abi and I work with eyestorm.com. I was really happy to have spend with you time Elizabeth forwarded me thedetails of your in Paris.I enjoyed very much your show in almine upcoming name4art.com project and it sounds rech gallery, your vibracolorare really amazing .. like itwould be interesting to check out and get And your diner in Bernard Picasso appartment involved with in some way. Canyou forward me was really impressive ;-)Oh I guess that now you more details and I can pass them on to the right arrived in San Francisco, say hello to my friend people(editorial, marketing etc.)? Whats going on Casey ...Will you able to send me the login with the press conference at Gagosian? Also...are password and any informations I need you involved in Teleport Diner at the ColorFactory to change my studio in active world ?I thank you in Stockholm? I am trying to see a way that we so much, can host this online aswell. Have checked out See you soon, all my best, Active Worlds (very cool) and have been N.B: May you received 2 or 3 same emails brainstorming with Elizabeth with ideas of how to regarding my videos. If it'shappened I'm really link eyestorm in someway. All this stuff buzzing sorry, I called my provider hotline because I got around at the moment. So yes, pass on any troubles with their smtp server. information to me (or Elizabeth and she can Some people of my list treceived just 1 email and inform me) and I can talk topeople and see what others 5 !!! it wasreally crazy and I didn't know we can arrange. Thanks and I look forward to whats was going on, because from my hearing your news. computer only one quited !computer have some- Best, times bad habit ;-) Abigail Ramsey Valery

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Message: Message: Oh cool and cool. I am in SF now. I'll be there in Dear Jan the 15th. Nice. I'll bring you around. I am so so tired.... My stomach hurts.But I will They gave me a hard time in the boarder this check the prices from LA. Ireally cannot travel time: they kept me for 1 hour !Talking and talking. any other way than business this time: it will be a I start to scream them: Look ! You must be proud suicide. I"ll check and tell you. that I am in the USA. But Ihave to find a solution Happy that everything is going OK!! also... MM From: "maiueda" From: "Ritsko Uchida" To: "miltos manetas" To: "miltos manetas" Subject: Re: áäåëöç Subject: Re: Message: i saw 1:11 pm today Message: you look pretty good in sonystyle!

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Message: Message: my name is nikola tosic not nikolas tosic Giancarlo non e’ stato maleducato. Forse ha solo and im not famous nor i will ever be detto la verita’... i want to be a man in the shadow that makes the things work and takes money On 5/20/03 3:06 PM, "miltos manetas" wrote: From: "Vanessa Beecroft" Guarda qui la mia ultima communicazione con Giancarlo. Che vergogna! Sto faccendo tutto questo lavoro e To: gli dementi non capiscono. "miltos manetas" Potresti scriverli qualcosa per quel che faccio e chiederlo di pagare un po di attenzione? Subject: If you'll do that, I will make you a list of my last password activities. I think it worths to be done because I have to restart my cariier somehow and I need their sup- Message: port.

Ho avuto 10.10 e 16.16 moment last tuesday se non lo poi fare- naturalmente, capisco...

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THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT To: miltos manetas From: Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:38 PM "tourya tourya" Subject: Re: Fw: Flash Art Italia Newsletter To: MILTOS, "miltos manetas" questo dizionario vuole essere una sorta di guida di mercato della giovane arte italiana. Subject: Tu sei lontano da un po' di tempo e non sei molto exchanging art presente sul mercato. Infatti quasi mai si incro- ciano tue opere nelle gallerie private o nelle fiere. Il dizionario non aveva altre pretese. Message: Un caro saluto. Love your work and congratulations on your expo Giancarlo in Paris with Almine, Would love to exchange some of my work with yours...When you have the time , log on,www.art-online.org/tourya Wish you a great succes with your expo. Best regards , Tourya From: Perno From: DIRK VAN DESSEL To: "miltos manetas" To: Subject: "miltos manetas" password Subject: password Message: Dear Friend, i'm alessandro from italy and i should have plea- Message: sure to receive the password to enter in the site. Gentlemen, Please reply me asap. password please,

THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT From: ly explore the realm of computers > "Magadalini AKTYPI" °So googlism.com provides the curious with this excellent text (a piece of art, isn’t?) describing To: miltos manetas! How successful is it ? Does it "miltos manetas" makes this interview useless, obsolete ?

Subject: °In your text "Websites is the art of our times", Re: T you say that “things” on the Internet do < “as any human entities would do, they evaluate , criti- cize, even "link" to each other and they ultimately Message: develop a "taste".” > What does this taste taste Hi, like? Sorry fot he delay - a lot of things happening at the same time meaning a lot of work, etc. So, here is a handfull of (hollow) questions : °I tend to think of what you did with the whithey-

inhabits with miltos manetas is an artist Subject: miltos manetas is similar password miltos manetas is known for his paintings of com- puter hardware and vibracolor prints miltos manetas is one of the artists who address- Message: es these mixed messages hi i found your website at catholic telecom and miltos manetas is a greek artist who works and would like to get the password to check it out. lives between los angeles and new york city thanks miltos manetas is not an evil force magdalena sawon miltos manetas is a ny/la miltos manetas is an artist whose paintings most-

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Subject: Subject: Re: You are the Person Of the Month !! Re: Versatile

Message: Message: do i get any money? I am in San Francisco. Trying to find 50K for the electronicorhanage.You"ll love SF.People are so At 01:34 PM 6/17/03 -0400, you wrote: positive Do not forget to program the DVD's for >You are the : loop Which ones you already made ? >http://www.personofthemonth.com m

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To: To: "miltos manetas" "miltos manetas"

Subject: Subject: password password

Message: Message: Hi, I really miss the jesusswimming website. Is it I'm writing to request a password to access your gone or can I get to it by webpage. I saw your work at the Armory password? What a wonderful idea, btw. Quite a show. Thanks in advance,Lisa Orban work of art. Thanks,

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Subject: Subject: ATTENZIONE ALLARME VIRUS "I LOVE YOU" Cant move

Message: Message: the space is like the uhalls. something that peo- hey Mil ple like to imagine but would never exist Cant move, I'm on coke-down completely If we actually did the show in a museum / art cen- exhausted.... come and take the camera any- ter etc it would be like time, the panoramic is very easy I'll show you competing with the whitney I can also stitch them together afterwards like this people will imagine that it was a real xxA show somewhere. like the uhalls they will be impressed by their own projec- tion of what the show is. and anyway, rafael said From: that he is sad not to be in the official whitney Andreas Angelidakis (from a jung point of view)! To: > What do you think ?? "miltos manetas" > From: "+++ Rafael +++" Subject: > > about the cd-rom, password why present the flash pieces in a museum navi- gation? > > i like the way it looks, but it feels kinda like Message: wannabe museum. like we http://asianpunkboy.com > are > > sad not to be in the official whitney.

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Subject: Subject: crash, Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:26 AM Angelo Plessas Show at the ElectronicOrphanage

Message: Message: Hi Miltos I write you to tell you that Afterneen in CASCO is 'VERY UPSET WITH YOU' By Angelo over for the moment last weekend we had a huge Plessas, (http://www.angeloplessas.com) at the crash inside the gallery ElectronicOrphanage, on Saturday, July 5th.

A car has been catapulted from the street into Angelo Plessas started his career with a self por- the space (which is almost impossible, ask the trait. He painted - or rather flash animated him- Neensters that were here!) and flown inside all self as the center of a circular Internet Explorer the way towards the back which is 17 meters and window, for a website called www.aroundmyself. destroyed everything: the Afterneen installation, com. He continued by making websites for other the office with our computers and networks and, people, capturing every time their essence and worst of all, my colleague Evelien has been seri- sometimes - when it was possible - their future ously injured. essence. I know this is a very bizarre story and i cannot tell you too many details; i was in London when The important and glamorous citizens of the past all this happened and called by the police - the century had their portraits done by the likes of firebrigade has closed off the building so we can- Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz and Timothy not enter for now. Greenfield-Sanders. But today, if you are some- I'll let you know how things are going on from body of note, the artist to "paint" your vanity, is here, it's crazy and quite spooky Angelo Plessas. Do not miss this show!

speak later Lisette http://www.electronicorphanage.com

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Subject: Subject: MAI UEDA, at the ElectronicOrphanage YI ZHOU AT The EledtronicOrphanage los angeles

Message: Message: Mai Ueda, is having her "retrospective" at the The new international star, Yi Zhou, Chinese born ElectronicOrphanage, on Friday, May 16th. and Italian by Ueda is more than an artist: she is a Neenstar, adaptation, who currently lives between Paris and which is the next step. She started her carrier the London, is making her first appearance in the day we bought Neen from Lexicon and she did USA at the ElectronicOrphanage on April,8 2003 astonishing "works" in collaboration with Angelo from 6pm to 10 pm. Plessas (http://www.philosophyinthedroom.com) and Mike Calvert (a performance were she plays Yi, a very smart neenstar, rapidly developed with a cartoon character while the cartoon is a diverse body of work - flash animations and awake and then she sleeps when the creature songs, that have already established her in both falls asleep. She also did www.Romanticus.com the art and music worlds. She had already a , which would beautiful exhibition of her animations in aParis Art make Picabia feel happy in his grave and www. gallery which you can see here : http://www.yi- Togetherness.org yo.net/html/html2/virtualgallery.html and she just , a website with two CDs spinning together in the signed a contract with Sony Music Video for her same remarkable way that people sometimes songs. (based on her first and only song to-date) enjoy the same mental frameset. Ueda is a Namingway (somebody who invents For the beautiful Yi, the sky is the limit. Come to beautiful new words), and a very good drawing the ElectronicOrphanage for an Evening of Glam machine, as you can see here: http://www.elec- - you will be impressed. tronicorphanage.com/press/

Ueda, declared from the beginning that she wants to be busy with Neen, only until she will turn 25

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To: Manetas, starting from 1995, has produced oil paintings of wires, cables and computer hardware, Subject: created short looped fragments of video games RE: such as "Tomb Raider," and exhibited computer- generated vibracolour prints among other things. But he was impatient with critics and curators who Message: had yet to come up with a really good "-ism" for Dear Robert Secombe this new generation of creativity. After securing Searching in thr Web for chrones disease + financial assistance from a nonprofit called the eyes I found this e-mail. Does your mother has Art Production Fund, Manetas went out and hired chrones disease ? Does she has problems with Lexicon Branding, a California firm responsible her eyes ? I have CD and I just started to have for creating such product names as Powerbook, some eyes problem. I am searching to see if the Pentium, Zima, Swiffer and Dasani. Lexicon's two are connected...Yours Miltos assignment was to create a name for this new movement.

From: In May 2000, during a packed press conference at [email protected] the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan - and a panel of people like Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker ready to provide analysis of the term - To: "miltos manetas" - Manetas unveiled a new word for an art move- ment. Actually, it was the squeaky, synthetic voice of a Sony Vaio that made the announcement. The Subject: word was "NEEN." password (from the Salon.com article).

Message: i use to just leave your site on for hours. and lis- ten to the music. and watch jesus swim. more at www.manetas.com/bio

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