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Two LEA Curators Vince Dziekan and Jeremy Hight

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LEA Announces Two New Curators for its Digital Media Exhibition Platform

We have two new curators. One is a LEA Digital Media Curator: Vince Dziekan, Ph.D. (Monash University) Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University Melbourne & FACT Associate, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology Liverpool.

The second curator is a LEA New Media Curator Jeremy Hight, MFA (Cal Arts). He works as an editor for Leonardo Electronic Almanac and now as New Media Curator.

A series of artworks will be launched across platforms in the fall as we move in the second phase of LEA. Stay tuned as new issues and artworks appear.

Posted by:  Lanfranco Aceti

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.