Miltos Manetas and Elena Carletti Discuss Art, Finance, and Post-Capitalism on Contemporaneamente Podcast

The Contemporaneamente podcast features a dialogue between artist Miltos Manetas and finance professor Elena Carletti, exploring intersections of art, finance, and technology. Manetas, a Greek-born painter and conceptual artist, founded the NEEN movement in 2000, which rethinks labor and anticipated NFTs. He is known for pioneering post-internet art and machinima, and created the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009, now in its seventh edition (2022). Carletti, a professor of finance at Bocconi University in Milan, serves on the advisory scientific committee of the European Systemic Risk Board and founded the Florence School of Banking and Finance. She explains finance's three main areas: intermediation, corporate finance, and financial markets, arguing the latter should focus more on wealth redistribution. The conversation touches on financial education, post-capitalist critique through Socratic irony, and the growing role of machines in finance. Manetas, who lives between Rome, New York, and Bogotá, introduced Ñewpressionism in 2014 at the Swiss Institute in Rome, and presented "Neoumile Modus Operandi" at MACRO in 2019. In 2018, MAXXI held a three-month performative exhibition of his Internet Paintings. The podcast is part of Artribune's series.