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
Soma is a new series of artworks by Lanfranco Aceti exhibited at Supermarket 2015 in Stockholm which focuses on the use of the human body and the contradictions and failures of contemporary social politics in Europe. Soma consists of an installation, a series of drawings, texts (oil paint on canvas) and a performance. The performance will provide the public with the ‘opportunity’ to slap, for
OCR with its Media Exhibition Platform announces an international call for artworks that deal with the issue of 'Digital Queers' in all of its multifaceted manifestations. The exhibition is curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart and will be presented online from June 1, 2015 to July 15, 2015. The call is opened to exploring a wide range of media: from memes to gifs, from
As part of the Sounds, Images and Data conference in collaboration with New York University, Steinhardt School, OCR and Goldsmiths, University of London, we are launching a call for music scores and sound art. We are looking for artworks that range from electronic music to sound installations which will provide the opportunity to showcase some of the most experimental contemporary interactions between sounds, images and
Who the People? is a series of new artworks produced by Lanfranco Aceti and installed at Chetham's Library and Museum as part of their permanent collection. The artworks, 16 framed prints, deal with issues of identity, data, post-capitalism and enslavement. Based on a concept of portraiture that mixes data, surveillance and the erasure of individuals’ stories, the installation at Chetham’s Library generates a narrative on
Who the People? is a series of artworks presented for FutureEverything in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Department of Design Informatics. This is a new art project based on a series of recent works produced by Lanfranco Aceti that represent, through the use of data and social media, the relationship between people’s participation in and support of systems of data-mining, dehumanization, bureaucratic enslavement and
Digital Queers is a conference that will take place at The New School, June 25, 26 and 27, 2015, and will coincide with the Gay Pride in New York. During the month of June is also expected a sentence of the American Supreme Court on Equality and this event will be another opportunity to discuss issues and problems regarding equality and social justice with both
