Spent the day at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona for the Arts in Barcelona class that I am teaching as part of the Arts Administration @ Boston University. We will be working with the students on a series of initiatives and projects developing ideas, journals, and art projects. Of course, that also includes the writing of an academic paper. The one below is the abstract
"Bashed on the Head: Global and Local Tensions in the Life of an Artist," is the new essay that I am writing for the TransCultural Exchange conference at Boston University organized by Professor Mary Sherman. The essay, which also gives the title to the panel, will be a moment of conversation between esteemed colleagues and the audience. The panel location is: Boston University, George Sherman
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), in collaboration with MIT Press, announces the publication of L.A. Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking to be available at the College Art Association (CAA) conference February 4, 2016. The event is supported by the Arts Administration Program @ Boston University. During the launch Lanfranco Aceti, Director of the Arts Administration Program and Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic
The print issue of LEA Volume 21 Issue 1 L.A. Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking is available on Amazon and the open access articles are available on LEA (Leonardo Electronic Almanac). The issue analyses how current location technologies have become tools used by contemporary artists, theorists, designers and scientists to reformulate our understanding of social engagement within an enlarged concept of place. These new
"The Cultural Body’s Death by a Thousand Cuts: Why Society Is No Longer a Body and Why It Can Be Cut to Pieces," is my article for the Journal of Visual Culture titled CUT. This themed issue poses questions concerning financial cuts and their impact on contemporary society and the arts. It presents a collection of perspectives, in particular from Greece, in order to examine artistic
The Cuts Have Been Made: Welcome to the Aesthetic of Capitalistic Vampirism is the title of a panel which will see Lanfranco Aceti in conversation with Bill Balaskas, Mark Fisher and Irini Papadimitriou. The panel will reflect and discuss the recent issue CUT published by the Journal of Visual Culture. The event, chaired by Marquard Smith Editor in Chief of this seminal refereed journal, will
A new special issue titled Death, Memory and the Human in the Internet Era has been published as part of the journal Mortality: Promoting the Interdisciplinary Study of Death and Dying (Taylor & Francis). Editors of this issue were: Connor Graham and Alfred Montoya. Contributors: Lanfranco Aceti, Michael Arnold, Louis Bailey, Jo Bell, Gregory Clancey, Masato Fukushima, Martin Gibbs, Connor Graham, David Kennedy, Tamara Kohn,
Cut Out or Cut In? A Reflection on Contemporary Insurrectional Art and Media is the talk and panel that will launch the special issue titled "CUT" of the Journal of Visual Culture, which is edited by Lanfranco Aceti, and features contributions by Bill Balaskas, Marina Gioti, Katerina Koskina, Nikos Navridis, Poka-Yio, Artemis Potamianou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Kostis Velonis and Yorgos Zois. Before
CUT is the themed issue of Journal of Visual Culture. The issue is a collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and is supported by Boston University and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens - Thessaloniki. International contributors provide a range of perspectives on the contemporary crisis and its results questioning how the arts and social structures are being affected by the financial cuts. Contributors come from a
Crossing the Line: Rituals and Realities of Life and Death in the Contemporary Mediterranean is my new essay presented at Harvard University for the conference Spaces, Scales, and Routes: Region Formation in History and Anthropology. The conference is convened by Professor Vincent Brown and Professor Ajantha Subramanian and it is an important analysis of contemporary social practices globally and in the Mediterranean. The conference seeks
