Untitled Picture (“Subtext”), Julie Levin Russo, April 2008, digital image.

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DAC09, The First LEA Special Issue Is Out

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DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 2

ISBN: 978-1906897-16-1
ISSN: 1071-4391
Link: https://leoalmanac.org/vol17-no2-dac09-after-media-embodiment-and-context/

From Technological Queers to Game Based Pedagogy: The Best of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research in Digital Art Culture and Media.

As Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, I am very happy to present the first of the LEA Special Volumes done in collaboration with Prof. Simon Penny. DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context was generated from the conference by the same name that Prof. Penny chaired at the end of 2009.

The collaboration with Prof. Simon Penny has offered the opportunity to create a special volume that collates the contemporary developments in the fields of new media and digital art culture.

I am very grateful to the authors in this volume who will provide the reader with an insight in current research and possible future developments in contemporary interdisciplinary fields. DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context is a seminal volume that introduces innovative perspectives and presents new conceptualizations and artistic approaches.

Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Simon Penny.
Contributors: Stephanie Boluk, Mauro Carassai, Kenny Chow, Sharon Daniel, Kristen Galvin, D. Fox Harrell, Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell, Garnet Hertz, Ji-hoon Felix Kim, Patrick LeMieux, Elisabeth Losh, Mark Marino, Michael Mateas, Chandler B. McWilliams, Carrie Noland, Anne Sullivan, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Jichen Zhu.

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.