As part of the Sounds, Images and Data conference in collaboration with New York University, Steinhardt School, OCR and Goldsmiths, University of London, we are launching a call for music scores and sound art. We are looking for artworks that range from electronic music to sound installations which will provide the opportunity to showcase some of the most experimental contemporary interactions between sounds, images and
Who the People? is a series of new artworks produced by Lanfranco Aceti and installed at Chetham's Library and Museum as part of their permanent collection. The artworks, 16 framed prints, deal with issues of identity, data, post-capitalism and enslavement. Based on a concept of portraiture that mixes data, surveillance and the erasure of individuals’ stories, the installation at Chetham’s Library generates a narrative on
Who the People? is a series of artworks presented for FutureEverything in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Department of Design Informatics. This is a new art project based on a series of recent works produced by Lanfranco Aceti that represent, through the use of data and social media, the relationship between people’s participation in and support of systems of data-mining, dehumanization, bureaucratic enslavement and
Digital Queers is a conference that will take place at The New School, June 25, 26 and 27, 2015, and will coincide with the Gay Pride in New York. During the month of June is also expected a sentence of the American Supreme Court on Equality and this event will be another opportunity to discuss issues and problems regarding equality and social justice with both
The conference Sounds, Images and Data (SID) 2015 will be hosted at NYU, Steinhardt School in Collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London. By mixing a series of contemporary technologies, social media practices and innovative approaches both to curating and artistic practices, contemporary creators and commentators are envisaging and constructing a different world where different strands (Sounds, Images and Data) collide. Chairs: Lanfranco Aceti and Tae
Executed, the new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, runs from January 19 to February 19, 2015 and is parallel to Executive Chair by artists Haydn Jones, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, and Jonathan Munro at Guest Projects in London. The exhibition, themed around issues related to the corporate world and corporate discourses, offers different perspectives on the nature of contemporary production, work place and workers’
A good review from Frieze of The Small Infinite at the John Hansard Gallery. Paul Carey-Kent the famous British critic took the time to write about the show and delivered an interesting analysis as well as a series of well crafted observations. I would like once more to thank the John Latham's estate and all of the artists that took place in the show: Mark
The Situation is an exhibition by Oliver Ressler for the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC). Curated by Lanfranco Aceti in collaboration with Jonathan Munro the exhibition presents a series of artworks by Oliver Ressler that engage with the contemporary social crisis. Ressler has worked on the theme of the contemporary post-postcapitalistic society and its crises both as an artist and as a curator. It's the
This is the new LEA book titled Interference Strategies, Volume 20 Issue 2. ISBN: 978-1-906897-32-1. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: April 15, 2014. Number of Pages: 157. Book Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Paul Thomas. In this particular volume the issue of art as interference and the strategies that it should adopt have been reframed within the structures of contemporary technology as well as within the
This year has been a year of hard work (perhaps more than other years) since there have been many concomitant events and projects. It is with a certain pride that I would like to announce that in 2014 LEA has received the Leonardo Award for Excellence for the article by Conor McGarrigle. It is a testament to the hard work that is gone into LEA
