Journal of Visual Culture, in collaboration with the International Association for Visual Culture, Operational and Curatorial Research, the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and Kasa Gallery, is pleased to announce a new refereed issue titled Visions of Contemporary Cuts. The issue is guest edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University, Istanbul; and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Visions of Contemporary Cuts is a special call for a
This essay was started during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in June 2013 and has been presented as a Master Lecture at the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham City University. The talk was chaired by Professor Johnny Golding, director of CFAR, and provided me with the opportunity to order and formalize some of my thinking on the relationship between contemporary politics
Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 2. ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: April 15, 2013. Number of Pages: 221. Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir. The print issue of LEA Volume 19 Issue 2 Not Here Not There is available on Amazon. This LEA publication has a simple goal:
This is an essay on public space and art/political interventions. This version online is partial and fragmented because it was an experiment that I started attempting to write academic articles directly online. The article is being completed off-line and will be presented and become public soon. In the meantime it is available online in order to offer an idea of the problems and social complexities
Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 1. ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: January 15, 2013. Number of Pages: 177. Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir. The print issue of LEA Volume 19 Issue 1 Not Here Not There is available on Amazon. This LEA publication has a simple goal:
Connor Graham, Martin Gibbs, and Lanfranco Aceti, eds., "Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data," The Information Society 29, no. 3: (2013). The edited volume for Taylor & Francis is out. It has been a great collaboration with Connor and Martin and I hope you will like the result. The link to The Information Society where there are the abstracts. If you can access
This was my keynote at Through the Roadblocks a conference and exhibition organized in Cyprus by NeMe. As part of the show I exhibited a new artwork titled Reactions. Through the Roadblocks was a meta-project within which there were a variety of events and I curated Art, Culture, Memory and Trauma hosted by Prof. Janis Jefferies as part of the Thursday Club at Goldsmiths College
This was my keynote for the IMAC2012 and the Re-New Digital Art Festival, at Aalborg University Copenhagen. The conference was chaired by Morten Søndergaard. The annual Re-New digital arts festival presents a wide selection of the newest ground-breaking works in digital music, video, installations, performative, and distributed / collaborative art. The full essay is forthcoming with the title: "Who Terminated the Cyborg? The Normalization of
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
