What if the only legacy of new media is a static image?

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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