I am giving a talk on the 27th of September at Chelsea College. The talk is titled Experimenting, Curating and Commissioning: LEA, a Case for Art Experimentation in The Age of Social Media. A presentation by Lanfanco Aceti, followed by a conversation with Prof. David Garcia, September 27, 2012. LEA at Chelsea College for the CCW Graduate School Public Research Program. 5:30 – 7:00pm Thursday
Together with Richard Rinehart I am announcing a special issue on augmented reality art of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac titled Not Here Not There at the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose. This special issue is a curatorial and academic collaboration between Kasa Gallery (Sabanci University) and the Samek Art Gallery (Bucknell University). The issue follows two exhibitions of augmented reality art, one at Samek Art
The performance a Dream Came Through was on the BBC News as one of the highlights of the AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival. The performance and the following installation have had a great response from both public and critics. The artwork was part of the exhibition What Have I Done To (De)serve This? at Cornerhouse and Blankspace in collaboration withe the Blank Media Collective. Curators:
As the complexity of the economic situation creates barriers between the haves and have nots, we are also assisting to a resurgence of national pride. National Panties is a project that, first presented at the AND Festival and showcased in the Guardian, speaks of the contemporary social realities which are increasingly made of people left wearing, as the title says, just their panties and the
I am currently working with Janice Glowski and Charles Csuri to the catalog Sketchbooks of Time that follows the exhibition by the same name held at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul. This image, courtesy of the artist, will be appearing in the catalog in order to showcase how things have changed and continue to change in the history of contemporary art. "I can't imagine ARTFORUM ever
Wanted: male participants for performance A Dream Came Through Have you ever dreamed of doing nothing but ‘fanning yourself’ all...
I am delighted to announce this new exhibition by Chris Meigh-Andres, In Darwin's Garden, curated by Vince Dziekan, that will take place on the LEA Digital Media Platform during the month of August. As the LEA Digital Media Platform (Curatoriate: Lanfranco Aceti, Vince Dziekan and Christiane Paul) continues to grow - we have just set up new collaborations with FACT as well as with Chelsea;
Leonardo Electronic Almanac presents its second catalog Dislocations available on Amazon. The catalog is authored by Lanfranco Aceti. The art director is Deniz Cem Onduygu. Dislocations showcases the artworks that were exhibited on the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and part of the 12th Istanbul biennial. The catalog sees the collaboration of several international institutions: Kasa Gallery, ISEA2011 Istanbul, Goldsmiths College
Check out E-SCAPES on Amazon. This is the first catalog that I have authored with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac and is available on Amazon. The catalog is titled E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science and presents the artworks of Jane Prophet and Paul Catanese exhibited on the LEA exhibition platforms and at Kasa Gallery, Istanbul. The catalog is authored by Lanfranco Aceti and Vince Dziekan, Ozden Sahin
Check out Mish Mash on Amazon. I am rolling out the LEA publications on Amazon. The first one is MISH MASH on which I worked as volume editor. Since I took it over in 2009 LEA has had a major re-vamp and is re-establishing itself as an internationally regarded publication. It has been an incredible hard work and the second part of 2012 will see
