[8] In 1995 he was included in Traffic, the survey exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud that helped to launch the Relational Aesthetics art movement.
[11] In 1996, Manetas moved to New York City and began working on a series of video game-related artworks, using Lara Croft and Mario as "ready-made" characters.
Another important show was Elysian Fields at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris,[13] curated by the Purple Institute.
He hired young people with experience in contemporary art and/or design, asking them to abandon what they were doing to test ideas for the Internet.
[15][16] In 2007, London's Hayward Gallery commissioned Manetas to do a special project around the idea of Existential Computing, a new term he was using for his practice.