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E-SCAPES Volume 18 Issue 1

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E-SCAPES, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 18 Issue 1, February 2012

ISBN: 978-1-906897-15-4
ISSN: 1071-4391
Number of pages: 84

The full issue of E-SCAPES is available on Amazon.

Authors: Lanfranco Aceti and Vince Dziekan

The first exhibition catalog of LEA (LEA Volume 18 Issue 1) is E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science, featuring the works of Jane Prophet and Paul Catanese.

The full Catalog is available for download as a PDF: E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science.

E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science Curatoriate

Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul (senior curators)
Vince Dziekan (curator)
Ozden Sahin (in-house curator)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Physical and Virtual Structures of the Landscapes of Contemporary Art
Introduction by Lanfranco Aceti

Explorations, Structures, Observations, Analyses, Canons: Who Can Say That Contemporary Art Is All About Unchecked Freedoms?
by Lanfranco Aceti

The World Needs Forms
by Vince Dziekan

“Explorations of Structure”
by Jane Prophet

Interview with Jane Prophet, “Explorations of Structure”

“Visible From Space”
by Paul Catanese

Interview with Paul Catanese, “Visible From Space”

Reference: Lanfranco Aceti and Vince Dziekan, E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science (San Francisco, CA: Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Leonardo/ISAST, 2012).

Previously shown online at LEA’s Digital Media Exhibition Platform, Prophet and Catanese’s works are exhibited in the physical space of Kasa Gallery between February 1 – March 1, 2012. The exhibition page on the Kasa Gallery website can be accessed here.

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.