| Konstantin Mitenev | |
| Birth Name: | Konstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev |
| Known For: | poetry, cinema, net art |
Konstantin Vitalyevich Mitenev (born May 18, 1956) is Russian artist, filmmaker, film actor, author.[1]
In 1984, Mitenev joined the film studio Mzhalalafilm.[1] [2]
As an artist, Konstantin Mitenev was actively involved in Leningrad's underground art scene in the 1980s.[3]
Mitenev began to engage in new media art after the international video festival "OSTranenie" at the Bauhaus, Dessau, in 1993.[1]
Since the early 90s, he took part in the net art movement.[1]
In 1996, he created the artistic projects UnDiNa (United Digital Nations) and Xyman (constructor of the body) with Alla Mitrofanova.[1] [4] In the same year, Konstantin Mitenev organized with Alla Mitrofanova the first Russian cyber-expedition NETMAN.[1] He created the first network TV in Russia called Twins TV in 1997.[1] Mitenev opened the first online art gallery in Russia, BioNet.[1] He published a manifesto — Next Media.[5]
At the suggestion of Geert Lovink, Konstantin Mitenev has organized A Great Clone Party, the world's first sound stream via the Internet between St. Petersburg and nine cities (Linz — Paris — Berlin — Geneva — Lausanne — St. Petersburg — Kobe — San Francisco).[1] He called his computer Masha Pentium as a co-author (from now he signs as Kostya Mitenev & Masha Pentium - k@m).[6]
Konstantin Mitenev became a character in his book Zeitgeist (necrorealist Viktor Bilibin).[6]
In 2015, he held an art picket at the 56th Venice Biennale with an art picket Separation of Art From the State.[7]
In 2022, he went to Venice for a collective exhibition with his thesis "Do Art, Not War". In the same year, Mitenev participated in an anti-war exhibition in Geneva.[3]
Konstantin Mitenev lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.[3]
Konstantin Mitenev's works are in the collection of Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg, in the archives of CYLAND Media Art Lab.[1]