LEDA MELANITIS
by Ioannis Melanitis
Ioannis Melanitis
Y. Melanitis is an artist, theorist and Assistant Professor at ASFA. Melanitis’s work initiates from a conceptualization on the strategies of contemporary art. Recent works focuses on the role of code and information on the arts considering “INFORMATION AS THE NEW CONCEPTUALIZATION. (Latest example is his gene micro-injected into the butterfly named Leda Melanitis for the creation of a transgenic, adult butterfly breed/ see "Leda Melanitis" at MACRO MUSEUM, Rome).
Contact info
Email: imelanitis@gmail.com
Facebook: @sacred741
A work of inserting a human gene (artists‘ Melanitis Yiannis) in a butterfly (species: Leda Melanitis)
Yiannis Melanitis's gene micro-injected into the butterfly named Leda Melanitis (the Common Evening Brown of the Containing group: Melanitini, Linnaeus 1758 ). The gene of the artist inserted in the genome of the butterfly which is sharing the same name.
