My new piece: OnTopOfTheEmpire.com

OnTopOfTheEmpire.com, Angelo Plessas, 2010

additional programming Michal Fiala

Robot Poetry Reading at Canada NYC

Eric and Robot

Robot Poetry Reading is a perfomance I did yesterday at Canada.
The perfomance featured poetry made and recited by robots and friends (RobotPoetryReading.com)

Mai Ueda+ Angelo

Kimberly Norcott

Lily Ludlow makes a poem with the robot.

Semeli Economou recited passionately


Semeli Robot

Panos Tsagaris, David Velasco, Sam Roeck, Ryan McNamara

Spilios Giannakopoulos, the Robot, Patrick Lupinski and a friend

Eugene Tsai and Pierre Huyghe

Kim Robot

Katherine Berhardt, Lily Ludlow, Phil Grauer, Sarah Braman

Vita Zaman, Solange Umutoni and a friend


Jade Lai and Sarah Walzer (making poems with her i-phone?)


Spilios Robot

Featured in Artreview's Project Space with SeeMeAsAnAngel.com

My piece SeeMeAsAngel.com is featured in the Artreview magazine's Project Space.

You can read here my interview too

AllDayDoingNothing.com part of Fischerspooner at MOMA

A multiplied version of my piece AllDayDoingNothing.com for Danse en France song at Fisherspooner's perfomance at Moma part of Performa.
Set design Spilios Gianakopoulos

Headquarters: this month in Artforum

review by Brian Droitcour

Symmetry of Chaos exhibition photos

Today: Symmetry of Chaos at think21 gallery part of Brussels Art Days

Symmetry of Chaos, opens today at Think21 gallery
between 12pm-8pm part of the Brussels Art Days

A solo show at the Berkeley Art Museum (inaugural show NetArtPortal)

The inaugural presentation of the BAM/PFA NetArt portal features work by young Greek-Italian artist Angelo Plessas. In a series of four related “mini-sites,” Plessas offers his whimsical and nuanced critique of the society of spectacle, appearance, and commodity. These works are like small derailments or turnabouts that disrupt the dominant glitz blitz via the Internet. In Plessas’s work, the viewer may quietly spend time balancing balls on a scale or styling the hair of a silhouetted woman. The purposeful and limited interactivity of these hypnotic works alludes to no goal, no score, no mastery to attain; it functions like electronic prayer beads instead of a virtual joystick.

Though wryly critical, these works are anything but dystopic. They do not propose a retreat from contemporary media and society into neo-Luddism or the romantic myth of the artist. Nor, in their quiescence, do they lull one into a state of numbed passivity. Rather, these works create a situation that allows one to hear one’s own senses and to ask, “What am I doing, right here, right now?” This series exhibits a highly personal touch and a sense of transcendent play. Describing another group of works by Plessas, an ArtDaily critic wrote: “alternating between funny and poignant, (Plessas’s works) reflect the abstract emotions often experienced in electronic communication and everyday misunderstandings. Works such as MeLookingAtYou.com (2004) . . . owe as much to text emoticons as to Paul Klee’s naïve and complex emotional spirituality.”

Richard Rinehart
Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator

Our interview in Ozon magazine

Click on the images to read interview

Monument to Internet Hookups: video edited

Snöfrid and Angelo sacrificing to the full moon, with his money and her fire in the shores of Hydra

The Angelo Bank at the AF Headquarters continues at Jeu de Paume

We give you money, we want your love

We share because we care

Power and money spread

The 3rd part of our multipart project is online. Check here

My new piece: SymmetryOfChaos.com

SymmetryOfChaos.com 2009

THE MONUMENT TO INTERNET HOOKUPS- unveling today at 18:00

The Angelo Foundation cordially invites you
to the unveiling of

THE MONUMENT
TO INTERNET HOOKUPS
Saturday 13th of June 2009 at 18:00 pm in Klathmonos sq, Athens

Come for an initiative internet hookup
at the Athens Pride Parade.

(map)

The monument will parade along with the Athens Pride Parade, and then will conclude at Trocadero Park at the 2nd Athens Biennial" Heaven" part of the "Splendid Isolation" exhibition,
curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.

http://www.theangelofoundation.com
http://www.athensbiennial.org
http://www.athenspride.eu

International Portrait Gallery photos at Surveillance exhibition

Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce Surveillance, a group show curated by Rachel D. Vancelette, featuring artists: Yasmine Chatila, Tomory Dodge, Jeffrey Gibson, Charles Harlan, Shin il Kim, Caitlin Maloney, and Angelo Plessas.

"Surveillance" is defined as "close or vigilant watch over someone or something,"' and derives, by way of the French veiller, from the Latin term vigilare, meaning "to keep watch." Artists have historically been the gatekeepers of society's public accounts, and today they continue to mirror our daily lives. Whether it is through the Internet, virtual social networking, photography, painting, or multimedia-based technologies, artists are always interrupting and interpreting the reality of today's information age.

Surveillance presents the diverse studio practices of seven artists who remind us all that they are indeed keeping watch over this explosive and public exchange of information. In recent years the continual bombardment of virtual information has radically transformed the world, and these artists are among those who are constantly redefining its boundaries and content. The necessity and proliferation of surveillance techniques have become a large part of our everyday lives. Whether or not our society at large is conscious of these invasions and observations, it is clear that this diverse group of artists is engaging and addressing these critical issues.

In an age where the excess of information has produced false, invasive, and voyeuristic avenues in both the private and public domain, these artists remind us of the daily observation, private moments, intimate encounters, and public cyberworld of virtual activities. Multiple conceptual vocabularies of art are coming full circle with the use of new technologies and materials. These artists are employing both traditional and nontraditional techniques, evoking a transformative intervention while providing a gateway for the viewer's engagement.

InternationalPortraitGallery.com at VoltaNYC with Think21 Gallery

The InternationalPortraitGallery.com is now online









Leo Sky overlooking Andreas and Mai

The opening

The facade of the gallery with the piece of DeAnna Maganias


My neon "Electricity comes from another planet"

This is another place by Tracy Emin


ZigZagPhilosophy.com in full blast.

A view of the new gallery space