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).

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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THE MARKET WILL SAVE THE WORLD

2013 opens with a new curated exhibition titled The Market Will Save The World by Bill Balaskas. The exhibition is a Kasa Gallery collaboration with the Royal College of Art, Kalfayan Galleries (Athens – Thessaloniki) and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC). The Market Will Save the World will present a survey of Balaskas’ practice that spans from the analysis of the economic crisis in

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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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WHO TERMINATED THE CYBORG?

This was my keynote for the IMAC2012 and the Re-New Digital Art Festival, at Aalborg University Copenhagen. The conference was chaired by Morten Søndergaard. The annual Re-New digital arts festival presents a wide selection of the newest ground-breaking works in digital music, video, installations, performative, and distributed / collaborative art. The full essay is forthcoming with the title: "Who Terminated the Cyborg? The Normalization of

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HOMEWORK: “MAKE MY DAY”

Kasa Gallery, in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Westminster, and the MA in Media Studies at The New School has initiated an annual residency program for young artists from Turkey. Launched in 2012 by Lanfranco Aceti, Kasa Gallery Director and Senior Curator, the residency program will continue to support one artist

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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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TALK AT CHELSEA COLLEGE

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

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ZERO1 BIENNIAL

Together with Richard Rinehart I am announcing a special issue on augmented reality art of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac titled Not Here Not There at the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose. This special issue is a curatorial and academic collaboration between Kasa Gallery (Sabanci University) and the Samek Art Gallery (Bucknell University). The issue follows two exhibitions of augmented reality art, one at Samek Art

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ON THE BBC

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:

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NATIONAL PANTIES

As the complexity of the economic situation creates barriers between the haves and have nots, we are also assisting to a resurgence of national pride. National Panties is a project that, first presented at the AND Festival and showcased in the Guardian, speaks of the contemporary social realities which are increasingly made of people left wearing, as the title says, just their panties and the

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