[spectre] What if the only legacy of new media is a static image? Aceti lecture in Carrara

[Alessandro Ludovico]

The New Technology Art School of The Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, 
the UCAN research center and Neural magazine present,

"What if the only legacy of new media is a static image?
The curatorial struggle in preserving new media's aesthetics and art 
practices."

A lecture by Lanfranco Aceti, Associate Professor at Sabanci 
University (Istanbul)

Thursday 11 June, 10 AM
at the The Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Via Michelangelo 
Buonarroti 1, Carrara, Italy

The preservation and exhibition of computer and media artworks is 
affected by the necessity to present a traditional and objectified 
image to the viewers. New media practices and computer arts are 
characterized by evolutionary processes and technological supports 
that contribute to shaping and defining the aesthetic. If 'migration' 
and 'emulation' represent a curatorial strategy or methods for 
collections' management, preservation and display deal with the 
obsolescence of computer and media-based artworks. The strategy of 
'extrapolation and objectification' may represent another opportunity 
to address some of the difficulties presented by the immateriality of 
these art forms. Perhaps the methodologies of display should be 
changed and the possibilities of new media technologies exploited for 
new curatorial approaches even when they challenge the authority of 
both the author and the curator by focusing on the representation of 
the environmental interaction and the importance of multiple media 
formats of circulation of contemporary digital cultural expressions.


Biography.
Dr. Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is 
Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the 
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul. 
His research focuses on the intersection between digital arts, visual 
culture and new media technologies. He is specialized in 
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 is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of 
Computer Science, Virtual Reality Environments at University College 
London. Previously an Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of 
Fine Art, he has also worked as an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
at Birkbeck College, University of London and as Visiting Research 
Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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