{"id":2968,"count":1,"description":"Ioannis Melanitis, PhD, is distinguished by a multidisciplinary practice that operates across biological dynamics, computational logic, and traditional plastic arts. Currently Associate Professor, Vice-Rector and Director of the MA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, he has developed a theoretical framework proposing \u201c(Bio)Information as a new conceptualisation.\u201d His work prioritises the \u201cprovenance\u201d of ideas and the reallocation of informational structures across biological and digital substrates over the aesthetic object. Central to his research is the concept of bio-information, a field he codified during his doctoral studies at the National Technical University of Athens. His practice transcends mere digital representation, moving into the realm of transgenic art: in works such as Leda Transgenica, Melanitis facilitates the exchange of bio-code between different organisms, thereby corporealising abstract data. This methodology challenges the anthropocentric view of creativity, suggesting that the artist functions as a facilitator of \u201cartistic probability\u201d within the fluctuations of nature\u2019s informational distribution.\r\nDespite his pioneering role in Greek robotics and bio-art since 1998, Melanitis maintains a strong engagement with classical media, including oil painting and sculpture. His paintings, often dysmorphic, employ the mimetic act of portraiture to articulate tensions between the comic and the political. This duality produces a synthesis between the virtual and the biological, using code, virtual environments, and genetic material to redefine the \u201cliving\u201d artwork.\r\nHis texts have been published by numerous international institutions and platforms (including EBSCO, MIT Media Lab, Ars Electronica, NYU, and the University of Pisa), as well as in journals, conference proceedings, and academic contexts addressing the intersection of art, science, and technology, such as NOEMA, Nova24, CYFEST, ISEA, and S+T+Arts. His work has also been the subject of critical analysis in several international publications on bioart and contemporary artistic practices. In 2024, he presented contributions on art, biomimicry, and artificial intelligence \u2013 including reflections on the relationship between AI and symbolic dimensions \u2013 in international academic and conference contexts, and serves on scientific committees and advisory boards related to research programmes in art, technology, and culture.","link":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/categoria-prodotto\/authors-en\/melanitis-ioannis\/","name":"MELANITIS IOANNIS","slug":"melanitis-ioannis","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":157,"meta":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/157"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/prinp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}