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HARVARD, BU, AND DERRIDA

  Professor Lanfranco Aceti (Boston University) and Professor Doris Sommer (Harvard University) have joined forces to deliver a student experience in interpretation of complex texts within art spaces. The semester-long course titled Arts in Barcelona, analyzes how national conflicts and civil unrest affect forms of cultural production. Professor Aceti chose The Politics of Friendship by Jaques Derrida for the class Arts in Barcelona because of its focus on nationalism and its relevance

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BAKED

  Lanfranco Aceti’s new work, Baked: The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off (2017), is based on a neon installation from the exhibition, nEUROsis, curated by Yiannis Colakides for NeME. The artist defined these new works of art as a “series of perspectival studies envisioned through tinted glasses on moving life.” The artworks consist of prints and screen paintings,

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REMAINDERS AT THE END OF A SUMMER BLISS

  Remainders at the End of a Summer Bliss, by Lanfranco Aceti, is a curatorial essay that surveys Bill Balaskas’s exhibition, Remains of a Summer Bliss, at the Kalfayan Galleries, Athens and Thessaloniki. Featured on their new platform,  Contemporary Arts and Cultures (CAC), the essay is published by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), MIT Press. In a globalized context of ruthless capitalism, this curatorial essay

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FAR AND WIDE

This catalog is a project I have worked on with Omar Kholeif and with the support of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). It follows the first major retrospective on Nam June Paik in the UK with an exhibition and conference organized by Tate Liverpool and FACT. The exhibition Nam June Paik, December 17, 2010 to March 13, 2011, was curated by Sook-Kyung Lee

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NOT HERE NOT THERE (PART 2)

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:

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THIS PUBLIC SPACE IS MINE

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

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NOT HERE NOT THERE (PART 1)

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:

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THE VISION OF THE MARKET

This year opens with two major international exhibitions and a series of art events by Bill Balaskas. The press release below provides information on the exhibitions and events. The Market Will Save The World at Kasa Gallery January 25 to March 8, 2013 The Vision of the Market at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts January 25 to March 8, 2013 Artist: Bill Balaskas Image credit:

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REACTIONS, INHERITANCE AND MEMORIES

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

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LEA, TOUCH AND GO

Touch and Go Special Issue Launch, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 6:30 – 8:30pm Wednesday 26th September 2012 Watermans Arts Centre 40 High Street Brentford London TW8 0DS An introduction by Lanfranco Aceti about Touch and Go, a special LEA issue produced on the occasion of Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art; a year-long festival coinciding with the Olympics and Paralympics in London hosting a series of

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