Mary Sherman: What if You Could Hear a Painting: Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 21, No. 2

Lanfranco Aceti is a curator, academic and artist based in Boston. He is the director of the Arts Administration Programme of Boston University. He held fellowships at Goldsmiths University of London and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has lectured at several universities, including Yale, Harvard, Sabanci, the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. In addition, he is the editor in chief of the international academic journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac, which is published by the MIT Press. From 2010 until 2015, Aceti served as the director and chief curator of Kasa Gallery in Istanbul, where he exhibited for the first time in the city works with strong political character, such as ’75Watts’ of Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen from the MoMA collection, or ’Loophole4all’ of Paolo Cirio, which was awarded the 2014 Golden Nica award at the Ars Electronica festival (Linz). In 2011, he curated the new media art exhibition ’Uncontainable’ for the parallel programme of the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and in 2014 the exhibition ’The Small Infinite’ at the John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK), which included works by the pioneer British artist John Latham, which were exhibited for the first time. He is the founder and director of the research organisation Operational and Curatorial Research in Art, Design, Science and Technology (OCR), as well as of the online platform Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC), which focuses on the relationship between the economy and contemporary art. In 2016, Lanfranco Aceti curated a series of performances and installations in Boston in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum, the Old South Meeting House and the National Park Service.