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).

ART, CULTURE, MEMORY AND TRAUMA

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

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CHARLES CSURI – DISLOCATIONS

Charles Csuri exhibited a new version of his artwork Random War (1966) on the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Csuri was one of the artists 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.

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MATHIAS FUCHS – DISLOCATIONS

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

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RONEY & CONEFRY – DISLOCATIONS

Danielle Roney and Jeff Conefry exhibited Opposing Views at the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Opposing Views (2008) by Danielle Roney and Jeff Conefry 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

RONEY & CONEFRY – DISLOCATIONS2018-02-06T18:38:49+00:00

DAVID COTTERRELL – DISLOCATIONS

David Cotterrell exhibited Theatre (2008) at the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. This is a selection of the images of the exhibition shot by Tomislav Smider. Theatre (2008) by David Cotterrell 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

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SONGUL BOYRAZ – DISLOCATIONS

Songul Boyraz exhibited the art video UT.(Hanna) at the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. The actress is Hanna Victoria Bauer. This is a selection of the images of the exhibition shot by Tomislav Smider. UT.(Hanna) by Songul Boyraz was one of the artworks that I selected and curated for the exhibition titled Dislocations that was part of the Official

SONGUL BOYRAZ – DISLOCATIONS2018-02-06T18:38:50+00:00

DISLOCATIONS

Dislocations was an art program of re-contextualization and transmediations that saw the participation of Songul Boyraz, David Cotterrell, Charles Csuri, Mathias Fuchs and Danielle Roney. Their work was exhibited on the Media Facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and was part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Re-interpretations, misinterpretations and un-related contexts create new modalities of perception

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SCREAMS AT GOOGLE

Artistic Squatting is an art exhibition that virtually 'invaded' Google's Headquarters. The exhibition started in 2009 and is still available to be visited on Google's virtual grounds without need for 'permission or forms of identification'. This is what I always liked about contemporary digital media: the virtual impossibility of stopping a process of participation and layering of concepts over the institutionally framed hierarchies.

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CURATING POST-HUMANITY?

CURATING POST-HUMANITY? ART IN BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the vision of a future that has moved from the optimistic approach of the Futurists, in which a technologically based utopian world would represent the panacea to the problems of humanity, to one of a contemporary dystopian vision in which the ‘maimed’ post-human body represent a temporary hybrid response to the cataclysmic

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E-SCAPES

February 7, 2012, is the vernissage for the E-SCAPES exhibition that I curated with Vince Dziekan and Ozden Sahin. It is the first exhibition for 2012 of Kasa Gallery. ISBN: 978-1-906897-15-4 ISSN: 1071-4391 The exhibition is titled E-Scapes: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science with artworks by Jane Prophet and Paul Catanese. The exhibition runs at Kasa Gallery from February 1, 2012 to

E-SCAPES2018-02-06T18:38:53+00:00
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