NOT HERE NOT THERE Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with The Samek Art Gallery and with Kasa Gallery announces a special issue titled: Not Here Not There. LEA Call PDF: NOT HERE NOT THERE This LEA special issue follows two previous exhibitions, one at Kasa Gallery titled NOT THERE and one at the Samek Art Gallery titled NOT HERE. This call for papers
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Art as Media as Display – Biennials as Platforms for Social Change it was a talk I participated in together with Martha Rosler and Yongwoo Lee. The talk was chaired by Maurizio Bartolotti Saturday, 17 September 2011, 2:30 at the Consulate General of The Kingdom of The Netherlands. Martha Rosler is an artist and writer. Her work in video, photo-text, performance, writing and
Mish Mash is the first of the revamped issues of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) that I have worked on as senior editor. My thanks as Editor in Chief of LEA go to Ozden Sahin, Deniz Cem Onduygu and John Francescutti.
THE NORMALIZATION OF THE CYBORG: FROM FUTURISTIC ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF MUTILATION TO DAILY AESTHETIC BEAUTY ABSTRACT The concept of mutilation as a permanent scarring of the integrity of the body has been overcome by the representation in visual culture of the cyborg, the bionic human and the genetically and bionically engineered mutant. Mutants with bionic prosthetics in the X-Men film trilogy, the bionic man in
UNDER CONSTRUCTION CONSTANTLY: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OR TECHNOLOGICAL CATCHING UP? THE DAMNATION OF NEW MEDIA CONTENT PRODUCERS ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS ABSTRACT If you are a content producer the relationship with the continuous technological developments is one regulated by frustrations, challenges and excitements. To set up a framework that is both stable and permanent over the Internet is an oxymoron. The reasons that are behind this particular
Eugenia Fratzeskou wrote a well crafted review of ISEA2011 Istanbul for Digicult. The report is available both in English and Italian. The review is exhaustive and gives a good overview of the event with its exhibitions, public performances and talks.
MADNESS AND ENJOYABLE PAIN: THE ART OF USING TECHNOLOGICAL INTERFACES AS TOOLS BEYOND THE DICHOTOMY OF PAIN VERSUS FUN ABSTRACT The article will focus on contemporary artistic and curatorial practices in the fields of art and science and will discuss the issue of experiential engagements with technology in the name of art. The artistic engagement with technology in the production of art has historically not
ABSTRACT This essay will address issues related to the merging of text and visual images in online interactions. It will analyze the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Continental philosophies within the increasingly merging context of words as images. “I believe that Quinean holism is not so different from the idea that every language has its own genius (as Humboldt said) or – better – that every
NO FAKE FLOWERS: JUST FAKE TEARS FOR MY MULTIPLE DIGITAL DEATHS ABSTRACT I was asked at a conference if I had ever celebrated the death of my hard drive after it suddenly collapsed and years of accumulated memories and work were lost. The celebration – if it could ever be called that – was characterized by unmentionable swearing, pounding on the table, threats issued to
