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
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
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
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
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:
I am glad to present another publication of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, DAC09, available on Amazon. DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 2 ISBN: 978-1-906897-16-1 ISSN: 1071-4391 Senior Editors for this volume: Lanfranco Aceti and Simon Penny Vol 17 Issue 2 of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is published on line as a free PDF but will also be rolled
The opening cocktail reception for the exhibition Charles Csuri: Sketchbooks of Time is on March 20, 2012 at 18:00. As Director of Kasa Gallery I am happy to announce the new exhibition Charles Csuri: Sketchbooks of Time. The exhibition is a collaboration with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The Ohio State University and Goldsmiths College. The leaflet for the exhibition can be accessed here.
The symposium Art, Culture, Memory and Trauma will take place Thursday March 1, 2012 at Goldsmiths, University of London as part of the Thursday Club. The symposium is part of the art initiative Through the Roadblocks, by NeMe. The event is hosted by Prof. Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths College and is organized in collaboration with Prof. Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University, Peter Ride, University of Westminster and
Mathias Fuchs and Jeff Conefry exhibited at the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. borderline (machinima video) by Mathias Fuchs was one of the artworks that I selected and curated for the exhibition titled Dislocations that was part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial and of ISEA2011 Istanbul. Senior curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Tihomir Milovac. Within
