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Editorial Interns Leonardo Electronic Almanac

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Istanbul January-10-2009

SUBJECT Editorial Interns

LEA Internship Opportunities

LEA, an international leading publication in art, science and technology and part of Leonardo, ISAST and MIT Press family, is looking for two skilled and enthusiastic recent graduates to join our team.

We commission new work, produce online and offline exhibitions, publish magazines and special issues as full color PDFs and for Print on Demand.

Sales & Marketing Internship
We are looking for an intern to assist in the planning, production and delivery of LEA marketing activities. This will include, but is not limited to, assisting in the organization and delivery of online and offline marketing materials, data collection and database management and contacting advertisers. The job will also include contributing to fundraising activities. The candidate should be a graduate or post-graduate interested in arts management and business management or someone interested in working with an international art and science organization.

Project Internship
We are looking for an intern to work with our Head of Projects to assist in the planning, production and delivery of LEA projects. These may take the form of commissions, exhibitions, research, education events, talks and special audience development projects.

The suitable candidate should have some knowledge and interest in contemporary art, curatorial studies and the interactions between art, science and technology. An interest in supporting the management of research projects would be welcome.

Both interns will gain practical experience of working within an internationally renowned art organization and the opportunity to develop transferable skills while working in a stimulating and creative environment.

Please note that these are unpaid positions starting in March 2010, working 2-3 days a week for a 6-month period minimum. The work can be done remotely and international candidates are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for applications: February 10, 2010 at 5pm.

Interviews will take place via skype in the week beginning February 22, 2010.

Please send a one page cover letter, a one page statement of purpose and a curriculum vitae to: info@leoalmanac.org stating in the subject heading the internship you are interested in.

For further information please contact Ozden Sahin at ozden.sahin@leoalmanac.org and specify which internship you are interested in.

LEA: Leonardo Electronic Almanac is a publication based in Istanbul, Turkey. The Editor in Chief, Lanfranco Aceti, and the Co-editor, Paul Brown, commission new art, science and technology projects, produce exhibitions and publications, and initiate research and education programs.

Posted by:  Patrick Tresset

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.