[rohrpost] The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features LANFRANCO ACETI

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The ARCHIVE of DIGITAL ART features LANFRANCO ACETI
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Lanfranco ACETI works across the borders of academia, art and
curatorial practice and currently is the Director of Arts Administration
at Boston University. His extensive interdisciplinary research focuses
on a variety of subjects such as transmedia, inter-semiotic translations
between traditional and new media and digital hybridization processes 
and digital activism. He has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary
Art (ICA) in London and created digital art interventions
internationally at venues such as TATE Modern, MOMA, ICA and the Irish
Museum of Modern Art, was Artistic Director and Conference Chair for
ISEA2011 Istanbul, and held lectures at numerous international
conferences and institutions (Visual Culture Biennial, Boston
University; Goldsmiths University; Victoria and Albert Museum; NYU).
Furthermore, he is editor-in-chief and author of the Leonardo Electronic
Almanach Series. Aceti is currently based at Boston University as
Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Arts Administration.

Both as an artist and curator, Aceti is known for his interest in
politicized art media practices that bring new critical perspectives and
alternative forms of engagement. During his time at Sabanci University
in Istanbul, he was director of Kasa Gallery, where he exhibited a range
of innovative artworks like 75Watts by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen
from the MoMA collection, or Paolo Cirios Loophole for all.

In 2012, he founded the Operational and Curatorial Research in Art,
Design, Science and Technology (OCR) and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts
(MoCC), which develop artistic and curatorial commissions, projects,
publications, and academic events for international biennials, museums,
and festivals. As lead artist and curator, he has developed a series of
international projects over the past twenty years and continues to do so
by creating synergies between institutions and cultural operators
internationally. 

Jonathan MUNRO: Through his artworks, installations, performances and
activism, Aceti explores the incongruity of contemporary times and the
dissolution of social space. Absurdity, folly and a dark irony
characterize his artworks which explore the Kafkian relationship between
the individual, the body and the power of personified corporations and
institutions.

Dalia BOLOTNIKOV: One of Acetis fundamental goals as an artist is to
justly represent the multitude of personal recollections, realities, and
reflections during times of war and immense violence.  He sees great
potential in digital art for merg[ing] the narratives of the military
and those of the civilians and constructing the locus of a compromise,
where the images, by layering a shared past, wage war against each other
in the attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable nature of the event that
they represent. 

Download articles and find out more about Lanfranco ACETI on ADA:
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/scholar-detail/artist/aceti.html


The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA), the first web 2.0 based online
archive in the humanities, expands its scope of documentation by
including scholars to the database. ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to
become members of the online community and set up their ADA profile! 
To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or
exhibitions are required to become members of the ADA community. Apply
for an account here:
www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html 

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY 
Community members can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming
events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other
relevant news. 

ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology.  ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are
invited to join the community and set up their own archive pages. 

EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the
ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes
account of the specific conditions of digital art. 

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER,
Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO,
Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG,
Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken
RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN,
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY,
Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER &
MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL,
et al.

Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.

ADA TEAM:
Oliver GRAU 
Janina HOTH, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN, Viola RÜHSE, Devon
SCHILLER (Editorial Team)
digitalart.editor at donau-uni.ac.at