Lanfranco Aceti

About Lanfranco Aceti

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as an artist, curator, and academic. He is a visiting professor and research affiliate at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is the founder of The Studium: Lanfranco Aceti Inc., the founder and Director of OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology), and founder and Director of MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts).

IN YOUR FACE

In Your Face is a new exhibition to be installed at Art-Athina as part of a project in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts upon invitation by Artemis Potamianou, Director of Platform Project @ Art-Athina. In Your Face is made of a series of visuals and sound works - screams - that play once every hour. The screams will be bought from people who

IN YOUR FACE2018-02-06T18:37:59+00:00

CAR PARK

Car Park is a new artwork by Lanfranco Aceti curated by Helen Sloan as part of the exhibition Internet of Cars at the Hansard Gallery. The artwork is inspired by notions of hard labor and economic exploitation which will provide the conceptual underpinning for a public performance in Southampton from June 7 to June 11, 2014. Can people be reduced in an extreme process of

CAR PARK2014-05-08T10:20:06+00:00

ARTISTIC FEARS

Artistic Fears in the Age of Religious Fundamentalism is one of a series of artworks that deal with censorship, oppression and increased social controls on basic freedom of speech and fundamental liberties. The XXIst century, at least in this artist's perspective, was supposed to usher a new era of increased personal freedoms, scientific and social advancements and prosperity. A realization of tempered forms of utopia

ARTISTIC FEARS2018-02-06T18:38:00+00:00

IT SOUNDS LIKE ART

The new exhibition by Kasa Gallery, It Sounds Like Art, is a collection of sound artworks that explore a variety of environmental, social, aesthetic and conceptual approaches to art. The artworks by John Drever, the duo Jane Grant and John Matthias, Music for Installations (MFI) and Nigel Helyer will provide an insight into sound art practices. The exhibition at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul precedes the

IT SOUNDS LIKE ART2018-02-06T18:38:00+00:00

THE LONG HISTORY OF MOVING IMAGES BECOMING ALIVE

This was my keynote for the conference Real Time Visuals organized by Steve Gibson. It was a great event over two full days, filled with activities, lectures, performances, music and, of course, live visuals. Great people from all areas that converged for a two days series of exchanges and future projects. My keynote was a comparative analysis between historical 'transdisciplinary' architectonical practices and contemporary live

THE LONG HISTORY OF MOVING IMAGES BECOMING ALIVE2018-02-06T18:38:02+00:00

ECONOMICAL AESTHETICS

I was at the Kunst Hal Aarhus where I had the pleasure of attending the opening of Systemics #3, curated by Joasia Krysia the director of Kunst Hal Aarhus, and participated with a talk that focused on art, money and the aesthetic representation of illusory and utopian worlds. The exhibition was great and I had an interesting evening talking with the artists Song Dong, Fran

ECONOMICAL AESTHETICS2018-02-06T18:38:02+00:00

FAR AND WIDE

This catalog is a project I have worked on with Omar Kholeif and with the support of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). It follows the first major retrospective on Nam June Paik in the UK with an exhibition and conference organized by Tate Liverpool and FACT. The exhibition Nam June Paik, December 17, 2010 to March 13, 2011, was curated by Sook-Kyung Lee

FAR AND WIDE2018-02-06T18:38:03+00:00

MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE

Making Visible the Invisible: Media, Art, Democracy and Protest is the title of a panel at Kasa Gallery, Friday November 15, 2013, at 5pm that precedes the opening of the exhibition I Occupy. The panel and the exhibition are inspired by “Why I Occupy,” a text by Nicholas Mirzoeff - Professor at NYU -, and analyze the inheritance of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the

MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE2018-02-06T18:38:03+00:00

MAY GOLD FALL UPON YOU

May Gold Fall Upon You, Tamiko Thiel, 2013. This is the Augmented Reality intervention at the Contemporary Istanbul art fair as part of the event YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS!, hosted by Plug-in. This is part of a series of new public spaces interventions in Istanbul organized by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and Kasa Gallery, with the support of Royal College of Art, NYU Steinhardt,

MAY GOLD FALL UPON YOU2018-02-06T18:38:04+00:00

TOADS OF MONEY

Toads of Money, Will Pappenheimer, 2013. This is the Augmented Reality intervention at the Contemporary Istanbul art fair as part of the event YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS!, hosted by Plug-in. This is part of a series of new public spaces interventions in Istanbul organized by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and Kasa Gallery, with the support of Royal College of Art, NYU Steinhardt, Sabanci University

TOADS OF MONEY2018-02-06T18:38:05+00:00
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