Lanfranco Aceti
Biographic Data
| ID | 5896290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lanfranco Aceti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lanfranco |
| FAMILY NAME | Aceti |
| SIGNATURE | ACETI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lanfranco Aceti (educator, artist, author), London University, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, U.K.. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cultural Body’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
This essay explores the British, Russian and Greek pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and a marginal event that took place at the foundation Prada di Ca’ Corner della Regina during a visit to the exhibition opening of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. The author examines the relationships between art, money and power as indicators of the tensions of post-democracy, post-citizenship and the increasingly fraught representations of the cu…
The Cuts Have Been Made
This themed issue poses questions concerning financial cuts and their impact on contemporary society and the arts. It presents a collection of perspectives, in particular from Greece, in order to examine artistic and aesthetic practices. It explores how society is being transformed into a post-democracy and how citizens are becoming post-citizens. These transformations will have implications in the redefinition of both post-democracy and post-cit…
Eternally present and eternally absent
Have contemporary digital technologies as well as aesthetic and cultural approaches reinforced the simulacral representations of a thanatophobic society? This essay analyses the processes of data preservation and self-eternalisation that construct personal and social narratives that offer to the individual the illusion of memorialisation and eternalisation. It is in this context that postmodern and aesthetic cultural constructions provide an oppo…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
Without Visible Scars
What is the role of the artist in re-creating a cultural landscape where the psychology and identity are shaped by multiple narratives of wars? The author's art practice attempts to demonstrate the role of digital media in providing a platform for visual representation of multiple narratives
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
Without Visible Scars
What is the role of the artist in re-creating a cultural landscape where the psychology and identity are shaped by multiple narratives of wars? The author's art practice attempts to demonstrate the role of digital media in providing a platform for visual representation of multiple narratives
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
The Cultural Body’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
This essay explores the British, Russian and Greek pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and a marginal event that took place at the foundation Prada di Ca’ Corner della Regina during a visit to the exhibition opening of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. The author examines the relationships between art, money and power as indicators of the tensions of post-democracy, post-citizenship and the increasingly fraught representations of the cu…
The Cuts Have Been Made
This themed issue poses questions concerning financial cuts and their impact on contemporary society and the arts. It presents a collection of perspectives, in particular from Greece, in order to examine artistic and aesthetic practices. It explores how society is being transformed into a post-democracy and how citizens are becoming post-citizens. These transformations will have implications in the redefinition of both post-democracy and post-cit…
Eternally present and eternally absent
Have contemporary digital technologies as well as aesthetic and cultural approaches reinforced the simulacral representations of a thanatophobic society? This essay analyses the processes of data preservation and self-eternalisation that construct personal and social narratives that offer to the individual the illusion of memorialisation and eternalisation. It is in this context that postmodern and aesthetic cultural constructions provide an oppo…
Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)