On November 16, in collaboration with Casa Seat, einaidea and Loop will present a screening of the work of American artist and filmmaker John Menick. Autoextinction and The Self-Moving Image will feature recent work by Menick and a conversation between the artist and Manuel Cirauqui, director of einaidea, alongside researcher and architect Blanca Pujals.

John Menick (b. 1976) is an artist and writer whose practice engages the moving image, digital media, sound, and drawing, questioning issues that are transversal to technology and contemporary visual cultures. From his writings on self-moving images and future road movies, to speculative non-fiction film works on space exploration, AI and psychoanalysis, Menick is a referential figure in recent essay-film making and critical art-driven literature. Menick’s visual art and films have been exhibited and screened at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; CCA Wattis, San Francisco; and Artists Space, New York. Menick’s essays and stories have appeared in frieze, The Believer, Mousse Magazine, BOMB, Spike Art Quarterly, Art in America, and Witte de With Review, among other publications. In addition, he has participated in some of the landmark surveys and biennials of the past two decades, such as MoMA PS1’s Greater New York (2001), dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), and Architecture Effects at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2018). Menick has been awarded grants from the Jerome Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received several commissions, including from Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and Kadist Foundation in France. Menick currently lives in New York City where he is professor of film at the Cooper Union.