It’s Time is a conversation between Prof. Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths and Harvard) and Prof. Lanfranco Aceti (MIT and BU) on issues of time and its relationship to the contemporary databased and mediated narratives. The lecture will take place in the Plimpton Room, Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University on Monday, December 4, 2017, from 6:30pm to 8:00 pm. Inspired by Italo […]

Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics, senior editors Professor Lanfranco Aceti, Professor Paul Thomas, and Professor Edward Colless, has received a great review by Sander Hölsgens for the London School of Economics Review of Books. Hölsgens, who is currently based at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, writes that “the volume orients the arts and sciences towards each other rather than suggesting […]

LEA, published by MIT Press, continues to rise in the academic rankings. During 2017 LEA reached number 17. This is thanks to a series of new publications and to the support of Goldsmiths, University of London. Despite the current financial crisis and a general lack of support for the arts, LEA has continued to operate thanks to our editors and […]

It is with great pleasure that I have received the news that the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is one of the top twenty art journals in the world in the Google Scholar rankings. It feels a great accomplishment after eight years of hard work to see the publication thrive and to be in the company of highly respected international publications. […]

THE SOCIAL is the title of the 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference (IAVC2016@Boston). You can visit the conference site at OCR Visual Culture 2016. IAVC2016@Boston invites papers, presentations, interventions, collaborations, and events from researchers, artists, academics, curators, and activists on post-democracy, post-society, anger, violence, future visions, crisis, zombie democracies, social media, neo-slavery, post-capitalism, post-data, social evolution, revolution, actionism, post-state, […]

L.A. Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 21 Issue 1 ISBN: 978-1-906897-36-9 ISSN: 1071-4391 Date of Publication: January 15, 2016 Number of Pages: 244 Special Issue Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Hana Iverson and Mimi Sheller Editorial Manager: Caglar Cetin The print issue of LEA Volume 21 Issue 1 L.A. Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking is available on Amazon. […]

LEA Digital Media Exhibition Platform FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN – TRANSMEDIATING CHARLES CSURI’S RANDOM WAR The exhibition Fragments That Remain – Transmediating Charles Csuri’s Random War is across social media and can be viewed on LEA’s Facebook Album through a Direct URL: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151331367151253.536830.209156896252&type=3 The previous exhibition by Chris Meigh-Andrews, In Darwin’s Garden, can be accessed via the Direct URL: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151112821296253.504662.209156896252&type=3 Reinterpretations […]

Check out Touch and Go on Amazon. Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) in collaboration with Watermans and Goldsmiths University of London in occasion of the 2012 Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art is pleased to announce Touch and Go, a new LEA special issue available on Amazon. The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, coincided with the Olympics and Paralympics […]

Touch and Go Special Issue Launch, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 6:30 – 8:30pm Wednesday 26th September 2012 Watermans Arts Centre 40 High Street Brentford London TW8 0DS An introduction by Lanfranco Aceti about Touch and Go, a special LEA issue produced on the occasion of Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art; a year-long festival coinciding with the Olympics and Paralympics in […]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 The Phenomenological Impact of Interface on the Analysis of Digital Music and Sonic Art The experience of an artwork is just as important as any other constituent element of the work, particularly in contemporary digital music and sonic art. While theorists analyze a piece to find out “how it works,” the actual experience of the […]