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<BODY style="FONT: 10pt Segoe UI; MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><STRONG>The ARCHIVE of DIGITAL ART features LANFRANCO ACETI<BR></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><A href="http://www.digitalartarchive.at/">http://www.digitalartarchive.at</A></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"> <BR><BR><BR>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. <BR>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.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>Download articles and find out more about Lanfranco ACETI on ADA: </SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><A href="https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/scholar-detail/artist/aceti.html">https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/scholar-detail/artist/aceti.html</A></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"> <BR><BR>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! <BR>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: </SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><A href="http://www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html">www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html</A></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"> <BR><BR>SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY <BR>Community members can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other relevant news. <BR><BR>ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS<BR>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. <BR><BR>EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART<BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.<BR><BR>ADA TEAM:<BR>Oliver GRAU <BR>Janina HOTH, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN, Viola RÜHSE, Devon SCHILLER (Editorial Team)<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"><A href="mailto:digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at">digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at</A></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000; FONT: 10pt Segoe UI"> <BR><BR></SPAN></BODY></HTML>