Jurisdiction Shopping by Paolo Cirio is a new exhibition curated by Lanfranco Aceti. “As a general rule, it is taxation that monetarizes the economy; it is taxation that creates money, and it necessarily creates it in motion, in circulation, with turnover, and also in a correspondence with services and goods in the current of that circulation.” [Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
A POUND OF FLESH by Lanfranco Aceti is sponsored by NeMe, a non profit organization based in Cyprus. The participatory performance will take place Thursday May 23, 2013, from 10:30 to 12:30 in the Limassol Municipal Market, Kanari st, Limassol. Performance and exhibition is curated by: Helene Black, Ozden Sahin and Jonathan Munro and coordinated by: Yiannis Colakides. MoCC and NeMe present A Pound of
Trimming the Arts: Art Cuts and the Role of the Artist within Societies in Crisis by Lanfranco Aceti at Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Megaro Hadjisavva 2, Evagorou Avenue 1097, Nicosia, Cyprus Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 19:30 to 20:30 Introduction by: Andre Zivanari Chaired by: Yiannis Colakides The Museum of Contemporary Cuts, Kasa Gallery, NeMe and Point Center for Contemporary Art present a talk
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:
DEADLY CUTS TO THE ARTS: THE ART OF SURVIVAL, RESISTANCE OR FIGHT? by Lanfranco Aceti Art-Athina - International Contemporary Art Fair Faliro Pavilion (Taekwondo) Hellenic Olympic Properties 2 Moraitini str., 175 61 Palaio Faliro Athens, Greece Sunday May 19, 2013, from 15:00 to 16:00 Chaired by: Artemis Potamianou Curator & Co-ordinator for Art Athina 2013: Contemporaries & Platform Project A talk at the Art-Athina -
The Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) is developing a research project, under my directorship, to assess and map the impact of the arts funding reductions in several European Countries and North America, and would like to invite individuals and funded organizations to contribute their data. This is a form that will provide us with the data regarding art organizations that have closed as a consequence
Fifty Sisters (And Other Relations) by Jon McCormak is the new exhibition by MEP (the Media Exhibition Platform) in collaboration with LEA (the Leonardo Electronic Almanac). Senior Curator Lanfranco Aceti, with Vince Dziekan and Christiane Paul. Jon McCormack’s Fifty Sisters is a series of images algorithmically “grown” from computer code using artificial evolution and generative grammars. Each plant-like form in the series is derived from
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
We Have Come to Shack Up with You is a new art project by Lanfranco Aceti. Lanfranco Aceti Inc. sponsors 10 return train trips from London to Wendover, to the country home of the current Prime Minister. In the spirit of sacrifice and in order to share the costs of the current debt, perhaps the Prime Minister may consider providing accommodation in the extra number of rooms
The Cost of Living: Metastasising Epistemes and Social Crisis is a seminar convened by Bill Balaskas on Thursday 11th April, 6 pm at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, Stevens Building, Humanities Seminar Room. Participants: Professor Lanfranco Aceti, Professor Johnny Golding, Dr Marquard Smith and Professor Julian Stallabrass. In absentia: Dr Tom Corby. This seminar will investigate the way in which artists can employ
