Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, department of Art and Computing, London; teaches Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,Sabanci University, Istanbul; and is Editor in Chief of theLeonardo Electronic Almanac (the MIT Press, Leonardojournal and ISAST). Currently he is the Artistic Director and Conference Chair for ISEA2011 Istanbul. He has a Ph.D. from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,University of the Arts London. His work has been published in Leonardo, Routledge and Art Inquiry and his interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection between digital arts, visual culture and new media technologies.

Lanfranco Aceti is specialized in contemporary art, inter-semiotic translations between classic media and new media, contemporary digital hybridization processes, Avant-garde film and new media studies and their practice-based applications in the field of fine arts.

He has worked as an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Virtual Reality Environments atUniversity College London. He has exhibited works at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London and done digital interventions at TATE Modern, The Venice Biennale, MoMA, Neue Nationalgalerie, the ICA and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Previously an Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, Dr. Aceti has also worked as an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media and as Visiting Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Location

Istanbul

Disciplines

• Art History
• Digital Humanities
• History
• Languages
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Performing Arts
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Visual Arts

Affiliation

Sabanci University and University College London

Website

http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com