Lanfranco Aceti

You Will Be Swept Away by Money, Mark Skwarek, 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,

Welcome Plutocrats, John Craig Freeman, 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

Today at 3:30pm as part of Contemporary Istanbul's talk series I am talking on the issues related to curating media art in a fine art context. What are the differences between artistic practices in 'new media' and those in the traditional fine arts? Although I do not like to use the definition of 'new media,' I prefer like Rafael Lozano-Hemmer to use 'media artists' and

YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS!, a collaboration between Kasa Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts at CI – Contemporary Istanbul, is an art event that questions current art market practices and the disruptive nature of contemporary digital media. This continues an international theme that Kasa Gallery has addressed during the past year with a series of exhibitions that reflect upon the nature of contemporary art,

I Occupy, the new exhibition of Kasa Gallery in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts surveys, analyzes and questions current trends in interventionist art and Augmented Reality Art which, by intervening within the urban and socio-political landscape, contribute to redefining the aesthetic and cultural understanding of the environments we operate in. “No Socialism for Capitalists” was the slogan on the sign that a man

Jackpot is an exhibition that, by analyzing the financial gambles of contemporary society, presents the loss of value of the traditional interpretation of the word social in favor of a re-interpretation of community and its rules by the nation state in a post-postmodern framework. In this context, the role of the state becomes that of a guarantor of a ‘skewed playing field’ arguably in favor of

We are pleased to announce two new commissioned exhibitions by Mark Amerika that will continue an aesthetic analysis of the theme of Art and Economics. Precipitations will be showcasing Mark Amerika's artworks at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts as online distributed images. The concurrent exhibition Cloud Banks will be shown at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul. Precipitations at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts explores the contemporary fall from heaven of 'perfect economic

Cloud Banks, the new exhibition by Mark Amerika at Kasa Gallery,  will coincide with another of Mark Amerika's exhibitions titled Precipitations at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, continuing the aesthetic analysis of the theme of Art and Economics. Cloud Banks at Kasa Gallery will explore the way artists, political and economic theorists, metaphysical philosophers, and businessmen use language as a tool to construct their vision of