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Check out DAC09 on Amazon.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac presents its first special issue on Amazon. This special issue is titled DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context and presents a series of research articles on contemporary interdisciplinary research in digital art culture and media part of the DAC09 conference.

Special issue volume editors are 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; Deniz Cem Onduygu (Art Director) and Zeynep Ozel (Designer).

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.