Lanfranco Aceti

About Lanfranco Aceti

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as an artist, curator, and academic. He is a visiting professor and research affiliate at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is the founder of The Studium: Lanfranco Aceti Inc., the founder and Director of OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology), and founder and Director of MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts).

TRIMMING THE ARTS

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

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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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DEADLY CUTS TO THE ARTS: THE ART OF SURVIVAL, RESISTANCE OR FIGHT?

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 -

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DEADLY CUTS TO THE ARTS

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

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FIFTY SISTERS (AND OTHER RELATIONS)

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

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DEATH, AFTERLIFE AND IMMORTALITY OF BODIES AND DATA

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

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WE HAVE COME TO SHACK UP WITH YOU

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

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THE COST OF LIVING

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

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NO DETECTABLE LEVEL

No Detectable Level, by Tom Corby and Gavin Baily. Exhibition Dates: March 21 – April 20, 2013. Senior Curator: Lanfranco Aceti; Associate Curator: Vince Dziekan; Curators: Ozden Sahin and Jonathan Munro. Produced in collaboration with Goldsmiths College, Sabanci University, Kasa Gallery, the University of Westminster and IAVC (International Association for Visual Culture). No Detectable Level (Art, Data, Economics and Health) is a new exhibition by

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BODY OF EVIDENCE

Body of Evidence by Tom Corby and Gavin Baily and curated by Lanfranco Aceti is an exhibition produced in collaboration with MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts), Goldsmiths College, Sabanci University and the University of Westminster. Body of Evidence by British artist Tom Corby, in collaboration with Gavin Baily, is taking place at Kasa Gallery, Istanbul from March 21 to April 20, 2013. The exhibition initiates

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