Check out Mish Mash on Amazon. I am rolling out the LEA publications on Amazon. The first one is MISH MASH on which I worked as volume editor. Since I took it over in 2009 LEA has had a major re-vamp and is re-establishing itself as an internationally regarded publication. It has been an incredible hard work and the second part of 2012 will see
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
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
Touch and Go, Leonardo Electronic Almanac This is another call for papers at the Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with Watermans. I look forward to working with Prof. Janis Jefferies at Goldsmiths College, Irini Papadimitriou and Jonathan Munro. Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with Watermans and Goldsmiths College in occasion of the Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012 announces a special issue
Speed, Dromology and Invisibility, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Deadline January 31, 2012 Are we moving from the futurist's speed through contemporary dromology to the disappearance of the human body? What are the future trajectories of a continuous process of acceleration? Is the disappearance of the body through artificial speed a process of invisibility or that of a visibility through acceleration? The instantaneous communication across Web 2.0
Far and Wide: Nam June Paik, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art Creative Technology) and following an exhibition organized by FACT and Tate Liverpool on Nam June Paik announces a special issue titled: Far and Wide: Nam June Paik. LEA Call: FAR AND WIDE. This issue explores the role of Nam June Paik in shaping the future vision
NOT HERE NOT THERE Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with The Samek Art Gallery and with Kasa Gallery announces a special issue titled: Not Here Not There. LEA Call PDF: NOT HERE NOT THERE This LEA special issue follows two previous exhibitions, one at Kasa Gallery titled NOT THERE and one at the Samek Art Gallery titled NOT HERE. This call for papers
Mish Mash is the first of the revamped issues of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) that I have worked on as senior editor. My thanks as Editor in Chief of LEA go to Ozden Sahin, Deniz Cem Onduygu and John Francescutti.
THE NORMALIZATION OF THE CYBORG: FROM FUTURISTIC ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF MUTILATION TO DAILY AESTHETIC BEAUTY ABSTRACT The concept of mutilation as a permanent scarring of the integrity of the body has been overcome by the representation in visual culture of the cyborg, the bionic human and the genetically and bionically engineered mutant. Mutants with bionic prosthetics in the X-Men film trilogy, the bionic man in
UNDER CONSTRUCTION CONSTANTLY: EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OR TECHNOLOGICAL CATCHING UP? THE DAMNATION OF NEW MEDIA CONTENT PRODUCERS ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS ABSTRACT If you are a content producer the relationship with the continuous technological developments is one regulated by frustrations, challenges and excitements. To set up a framework that is both stable and permanent over the Internet is an oxymoron. The reasons that are behind this particular
