Journal of Visual Culture, in collaboration with the International Association for Visual Culture, Operational and Curatorial Research, the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and Kasa Gallery, is pleased to announce a new refereed issue titled Visions of Contemporary Cuts. The issue is guest edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Sabanci University, Istanbul; and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Visions of Contemporary Cuts is a special call for a
Cloud Banks, the new exhibition by Mark Amerika at Kasa Gallery, will coincide with another of Mark Amerika's exhibitions titled Precipitations at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, continuing the aesthetic analysis of the theme of Art and Economics. Cloud Banks at Kasa Gallery will explore the way artists, political and economic theorists, metaphysical philosophers, and businessmen use language as a tool to construct their vision of
Nowhere 2013: Computational Arts Exhibition. Private view: Thursday 12 September, 6-9pm. Performances: 7-9pm. Open to the public: 13 - 16 September, 10am-7pm (except Sunday 15 September, 10am-4pm). Performance: 2-3pm & 6-7pm (except Sunday). Location: St James Church, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London. Admission: Free. Nowhere 2013 is the culmination of works by postgraduate students in Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London This unique exhibition showcases a diverse range of work by 25 international practitioners from
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 5, 6pm to 9pm. Exhibition: September 6 to October 6. Leonardo Electronic Almanac – in conjunction with Operational and Curatorial Research – and Boston Cyberarts are pleased to present Mathematical Rhymes – an exploration of art-making practices based in algorithmic and mathematical systems that translate into generative forms of moving image media. The exhibition pairs some of the earliest artworks dealing with
Please join us at the Kellen Auditorium -The New School, on Saturday, September 7, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm - for a screening of artworks and a conversation between curators/editors Lanfranco Aceti and Pat Badani, Convenor Prof. Sven Travis, and “ManifestAR” founding artists on the subject of Augmented Reality. This emerging technology engages the public sphere in social and political critique by placing - in specific virtual
I Am Occupied Occupying: Rhetoric and Realities of Artistic Interventions from Performance to Augmented Reality Art is a talk at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, Monday September 9, 2013 at 16:55. The discussion, convened by Prof. Robert Rowe, will see curators Lanfranco Aceti and Pat Badani analyze together with AR artist Mark Skwarek, the meaning, possibilities and limitations of contemporary AR political interventions
The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Clouding occurs when information becomes veiled, foggy, fuzzy, obscure or secretive, or when it condenses, blooms and accretes into atmospheres of chaotic turbulence and pressure vectors, into tidal flows and storms. The cloud also is a new formation of data as a global
The MoCC Pavillion at the Venice Bienniale is a phantasmic representation of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts. The Museum of Contemporary Cuts decided to respond to the premise of the 55th Venice Biennale "Il Palazzo Enciclopedico" with a metaphorical representation of the process of search, collecting and navigation of large amounts of information, data and events. How do you search through the existing knowledge, in
This essay was started during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in June 2013 and has been presented as a Master Lecture at the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham City University. The talk was chaired by Professor Johnny Golding, director of CFAR, and provided me with the opportunity to order and formalize some of my thinking on the relationship between contemporary politics
The second of the conference series titled Sound Curating will take place at ZKM. Over the last decade, many interesting new methodologies have emerged within the field of sound art curating / curating sound. These methodologies are tied up with the creative use of digital technologies and computational techniques such as physical and tangible computing. More specifically, interactive art and design seem to offer a
