About
OCR — Observations, Creations, and Reflections
OCR is an independent archive of the writings of Lanfranco Aceti and Dolores de Alma Blanca: non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Established in 2012 as a research centre in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London, and Sabancı University, it is now the place where these texts are published first, in full and free to read. Each work is also being issued as a Kindle and print edition by Passero, with a DOI for the permanent record.
Lanfranco Aceti
Lanfranco Aceti is a writer, artist, curator, and academic. He holds a Ph.D. in Fine Art, New Media, and History of Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2005), written under Malcolm Le Grice and Laura Mulvey.
From 2008 to 2024 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Leonardo-ISAST/MIT Press), where he edited and published volumes including Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Interference Strategies, Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics, and Sound Art Curating. In 2015 he guest-edited CUT, an issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on post-democracy and financial crises.
He has been Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Arts Administration at Boston University (2015–2019), Visiting Professor and Research Affiliate in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT (2017–2018), and Visiting Professor at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University (2019–2020). Since 2020 he has been Director of Exhibitions and Public Spaces at Heliopolis 21 – Resilient Communities, for the XVII and XVIII Venice Architecture Biennale.
His art—installations, projects in public space, and performances—addresses social justice, post-democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance, and matriarchal social hypotheses. It is documented at lanfrancoaceti.com; his curatorial practice is hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts.
Dolores de Alma Blanca
Dolores de Alma Blanca is a poet. Her first collection, The Poems of the Poet Laureate, written in the streets of London in 1998 and refined at the turn of the millennium, is a satire of power and of those who serve it: a laureate who, having sung of “the human animals, the bloody commoners,” now offers her “velvety tongue” to the court in exchange for absolution. Passero published it in 2021.
Three further collections followed in 2026: Norwegian Salmon & Mayonnaise and The Psychopompos & Other Poems in January, and Where Time Folds in February. No Grime on My Soul and A Bird in My Mouth are forthcoming. Her work appears in Lanfranco Aceti’s translation.