Monument To PlagueOfFantasy.com

source: highlike

Work: This image is part of a series of images I make using Google Street View. After I choose the location/image from Google I “place” elements of my websites as monuments where I find a conceptual connection to the place. For example the webpiece plagueoffantasy.com. I took the face and I placed it in this peaceful park in Milan where people contemplate and think temporarily in the center of the city. Then I upload the image back on Google Maps, an online artifact that is alive in the internet that points back to my website’s relation with the outside world.
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source: goethede

Βιογραφία
Σε γενικές γραμμές το έργο μου υπάρχει μέσα και γύρω από το διαδίκτυο. Διερευνώ πως το να ζούμε μερικώς online και μερικώς offline μας κάνει όλους διπλούς πολίτες. Το κύριο μέρος της δουλειάς μου αποτελείται από διαδραστικές ιστοσελίδες. Μερικά από τα έργα μου μοιάζουν με πορτραίτα – γλυπτά φανταστικών χαρακτήρων ή άλλων πλευρών του εαυτού μου και εναλάσσονται μεταξύ αστείου και συγκινησιακού, παράξενου και ρομαντικού. Κάποιες άλλες φορές αυτές οι ιστοσελίδες διερευνούν έννοιες της γραφής. Με ενδιαφέρει η ποίηση αυτής της νοοτροπίας, η αφηρημένη ποίηση του υπολογιστή παράλληλα συγχέοντας την εικονογραφία των αρχαίων πολιτισμών με τη σουρρεαλιστική αφαίρεση και με σύγχρονες αναφορές. Συχνά, αυτά τα έργα παίρνουν τη μορφή αντικειμένων έξω από την οθόνη του υπολογιστή, όπως τοιχογραφίες, εγκαταστάσεις και performance. To έργο του Πλέσσα έχει παρουσιαστεί σε ατομικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και διεθνώς και έχει δημοσιευτεί σε πολλά έντυπα όπως τα: Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Repubblica. Το 2009 τιμήθηκε με υποτροφία Fullbright στη Νέα Υόρκη.
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source: goethede

Biyografi
“Çalışmalarım genelde internette ve internet çevresinde oluşuyor. Hem çevrimdışı hem de çevrimiçi süren yaşamlarımızın her birimizi nasıl çifte insanlar haline getirdiğini araştırıyorum. Sanatsal çalışmalarımın büyük bir kısmı, interaktif web sitelerinden oluşuyor. Bu sayfalardaki kimi çalışmalar hayali figürlerin heykel formundaki portrelerine benzerken, diğer çalışmalar da beni andırıyor. Eğlenceli ve sarsıcı, esrarengiz ve romantik vb. duygular arasında gidip gelen bu sayfalar, yazma konseptini keşfe çıkıyorlar. Ben işte bu düşünsel duruşun poetikasıyla, antik ikonografinin sürrealist soyutlamalar ve çağdaş bağlamlarla kaynaştığı soyut, bilgisayarlaştırılmış bir düşünsel duruşun poetikasıyla ilgileniyorum. Bu çalışmalar çoğunlukla ekranın dışındaki nesnelere, örneğin duvar resimlerine, enstalasyonlara ve performanslara aktarılıyor.” Kendini böyle anlatan sanatçının çalışmaları ulusal ve uluslararası kişisel sergilerde yer aldı; Artforum, Art in America, Frieze ve Repubblica’da yayımladı. 2009’da New York’ta Fulbright bursuyla ödüllendirildi.
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source: goethede

Biografie
Im Allgemeinen entsteht meine Arbeit im und um das Internet. Ich erforsche, wie unser Leben, das sowohl offline als auch online abläuft, uns alle zu Doppel-Bürgern macht. Der Hauptteil meines künstlerischen Werkes besteht aus interaktiven Webseiten. Auf diesen Seiten erinnern einige Arbeiten an skulpturale Porträts von imaginären Figuren, andere Arbeiten ähneln mir. Im Wechsel zwischen lustig und ergreifend, geheimnisvoll und romantisch o.a. erkunden diese Seiten die Konzepte des Schreibens. Ich interessiere mich für die Poesie dieser Geisteshaltung, einer abstrakten, computerisierten Poesie, bei der die Ikonographie der Antike mit surrealistischen Abstraktionen und mit zeitgenössischen Bezügen verschmilzt. Diese Arbeiten werden oft auf Objekte außerhalb des Bildschirms übertragen, z.B. auf Wandmalereien, Installationen und Performances.

Plessas hat seine Arbeiten in nationalen und internationalen Einzelausstellungen gezeigt und in Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Repubblica veröffentlicht. 2009 wurde er mit einem Fulbright-Stipendium in New York ausgezeichnet.
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source: goethede

Biography
In general my work exists in and around the Internet. Ι explore how living part online and part offline makes us all dual citizens. My main body of work consists of websites that are interactive. Some of these works often resemble sculptural portraits of imaginary characters or other sides of myself, alternating between funny and poignant, strange and romantic or some other times these websites explore concepts of writing. I am interested in the poetry of this mind-set, computer related abstract poetry while fusing the iconography of ancient civilizations with surrealist abstractions and contemporary references. These works often find themselves translated into objects outside the realm of the screen, such as murals, installations and performances. Plessas has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions in Greece and worldwide. His work has been published in numerous publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Repubblica. In 2009 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in New York.
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source: domus

In his work Angelo Plessas combines animated drawings with domain names to create websites. He treats websites as places where we can imagine and experience objects, the same way we can admire a sculpture in a public space. This becomes particularly urgent at a time when we live part of our lives online, questioning and often blurring what is private and what is public. So visiting a website becomes as public as visiting a traditional monument. At the same time the artist is fascinated with traditional monuments because they engage us with symbols of nostalgic tension. In this way websites suggest a new kind of monumentality where notions of classical time and space are being questioned. “Every website is a monument” is a project consisting in an participatory website installation, a street sign, a monument and some postacrds. In the gallery a big sign will be installed and one of the artist’s website will be projected on it. This big sign will became a screen for the projection of a monument, making us think about the theme of what is real, what is proposed, what is a real proposal or a fake projection. The installation features also a series of postcards, created with stills from Google Maps Street Views, which show some locations in the city of Milan and associated virtual “offline” monuments, that represent a three- dimensional and sculptural versions of Plessas’ websites. The gallery itself becomes a sort of virtual location, such as a computer does.
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source: seditionart

Angelo Plessas’ main medium is the internet. He uses it to explore the duality of virtual realities and virtual lives composed and conducted by real people in a real world. Plessas: “The internet could be called a monument to an ever-changing present. (It) appropriates time in an interesting way, and I am fascinated by (how humans behave in order to deal with this appropriation).”

Plessas’ main oeuvre constitutes of interactive websites whose domain names serve as simultaneous titles and a references to physical locations. These websites are designed in a stark graphic style of bold geometric forms and shapes. They are typical of the artist’s overall aesthetic – regardless whether virtual or visible in a gallery space. By making the virtual sites interactive, he opens them up to continues change and expansion through the real-time activity of real-life people. Plessas therewith extends the boundaries of digital aesthetics and our perception of what the internet can be. He plays with geographic locations and temporal expectations, with his practice extending into the real world through performance, portraiture, installation, video, and self publishing.

In 2007 Plessas founded The Angelo Foundation, a series of ongoing projects focused on the relationship between the internet and culture. He has exhibited globally including at the the 3rd Thessaloniki and 3rd Athens Biennale, the Jue De Paume, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the Triennale of Milan, and the Yama Project Istanbul, Turkey. In June 2012 Plessas had his first solo show in London, Twilight of The Idols, at Cell Project Space. Most recently, he designed the Family Space at London’s Frieze Art Fair 2013 and turned it into an all encompassing artwork for the visitors to engage with. He is Greek/Italian, a Fulbright scholar, and lives and works in Athens, Greece.