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DIGICULT EDITORIAL BOARD & STAFF:


From 2005, Digicult has being an online/offline cultural and editorial platform which focuses on the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Founded and directed by Marco Mancuso, is now based on the active participation of quite 50 professional people, who represent a wide international Network of journalists, curators, artists, theorists, practioneers and critics.


Digicult is also the editor of the monthly magazine Digimag, which focuses on some cultural, productive and artistic issues like: internet & networks, hacking & hacktivism, video art & experimental cinema, sound art & electrinic music, audiovideo and live media, design & architecture, art & science, new media & social media, software art & generative art, performing art & interactive dance, with a strong critic and deep journalistic approach. Digicult produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, Digipod, linked to the world of netlabels and independent audiovisual productions online, and also has its own international newsletter service Diginews.


Digicult is actually working with the art agency Digimade as curator/promoter of some Italian audiovisual artists and designers, presenting their work within festivals, galleries, exhibitions, events and cultural centers in Europe and worldwide.Finally, Digicult works as media partner for festivals, exhibitions & events, developing special curatorial projects, writing texts for catalogues, organizing workshops and seminars, joining lectures in academies and universities.

 

 

CONTACTS, HEAD QUARTER AND AGENCY:

 

 

DIRECTION AND MANAGEMENT COMMITEE:


Marco Mancuso
(Professor at NABA Academy of Milan, Visiting Professor at Transmedia of Brussels)

Claudia D'Alonzo

(PhD student in Audiovisual Studies at University of Udine)

Bertram Niessen

(Researcher at Sociology Faculty of University Statale - Milan Bicocca)

Lucrezia Cippitelli

(Phd at La Sapienza of Roma, Professor at Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila)

 

 

EDITORIAL STAFF AND TRANSLATIONS:


Marco Mancuso (Executive Director)
; Claudia D'Alonzo
(Press Office) ; Fabio Franchino (Technical Consultancy) ; Paolo Ceresatto, Alessandra Saviotti, Martina Panelli (Editing) ; Paolo Borsatti (Marketing & Service Designer) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Lara Freschi, Francesca Lattanzi, Stefano Avola, Andrea Cariello, Valentina Venegoni, Maria Cidonelli (Magazine Translations) ; Roberta Buiani (Translations Reviewer) ; Eugenia Fratzeskou (International & Academic Networks & Cooperation Consultant)

 

 

ADVISORY BOARD:


International Digimag Advisory Board will be announced soon...

 

 

AUTHORS:


Tatiana Bazzichelli
; Bertram Niessen ; Teresa De Feo ; Luigi Ghezzi ; Giulia Baldi ; Domenico Quaranta ; Massimo Schiavoni ; Monica Ponzini ; Valentina Tanni ; Silvia Bianchi ; Lucrezia Cippitelli ; Claudia D'Alonzo; Barbara Sansone ; Giulia Simi ; Silvia Scaravaggi ; Alessio Galbiati ; Antonio Caronia ; Loretta Borrelli ; Carla Langella ; Silvia Casini ; Jeremy Levine ; Herman B. Mendolicchio ; Serena Cangiano ; Micha Cardenas ; Mark Hencock ; Pasquale Napolitano ; Zoe Romano ; Enrico Pitozzi ; Eugenia Fratzeskou ; Mattia Casalegno ; Robin Peckam ; Sabina Cuccibar ; Silvia Bertolotti ; Simone Broglia ; Claudio Musso ; Claudia Maina ; Elena Biserna ; Maria Chatzichristodoulou ; Neva Pedrazzini ; Mathias Jansson ; Felipe Zuniga ; Alexandra Purcaru ; Pia Bolognesi ; Julianne Pierce ; Emanuele Andreoli ; Alessandra Saviotti ; Alfredo Cramerotti ; Martina Panelli ; Alessandra Coretti ; Nicola Bozzi ; Jamie Ferguson ; Mauro Arrighi

 

 

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Digicult in an editorial project with Head Quarter and Editorial Board at
Via Thaon di Revel 9, 20159 Milan. The Editorial Press is registered at Milan Court, number N°240 of 10/04/06. Digimag is a monthly magazine with ISSN Code: 2037-2256. All contents are under Creative Commons Licence



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DIGICULT NEWS

TRANSMEDIA: 3 DAYS SEMINAR

Marco Mancuso leaded for Digicult a three days seminar at Transmedia, a two-year, full-time course in arts, media and design. The program focuses on research as an integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. The multidisciplinary, international environment fosters a dialogue with experts about your artistic practice.
 
SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES: SCREENINGS + LECTURE

Marco Mancuso and Claudia D’Alonzo have been invited by Subtle Technologies festival Toronto to present "Phenomena: A journey around audiovisual art-science": 2 Videoscreenings ("Hidden Worlds" curated by Marco Mancuso and "When the Eye Flickers" curated by Claudia D’Alonzo) + 1 lecture ("A myriad of vibrant phenomena by M.Mancuso)
 
DIGICULT PART OF THE CELESTE PRIZE JURY

Marco Mancuso and Bertram Niessen from Digicult, will select this year's Celeste Prize finalists and shortlisted artists. The Jury and Selection Committee headed by Eugene Tan chose Digicult to select the 10 finalist works for the Live Media & Performance Prize, togheter with Marius Watz, Claudio Sinatti, Jose Peirera ed Erik Dunlap

 
CULTURAL BLOGGING IN EUROPE

Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known category within the blogosphere and LabforCulture wanted to find out more. Who blogs? What are they blogging about? Which audiences and communities are being engaged? What are the economic models and how sustainable are they? These are some of the questions that are explored in the new Cultural Bloggers Interviewed publication. The bloggers were interviewed between 2009 and 2010 and were challenged to answer questions about their motivation, business models and subsequent opportunities that came from starting their blogs

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DIGICULT SUGGESTS




INTERNATIONAL CALLS

FUTURE EVERYTHING: 2012: call for artworks

Faces In The Cloud is the theme of the FutureEverything 2012 art programme and also a major theme within the FutureEverything 2012 conference. Curated by Drew Hemment and Charlie Gere. The art programme at FutureEverything 2012 will bring these issues to life through the work of artists, researchers and designers that provoke and inspire with new perspectives on this theme. FutureEverything is an ideal platform for this project, owing to its long-term engagement with questions of mass participation and crowd sensing and its close relation to the new AHRC Hub.

Application Deadline: 09 January 2012

EUROPEAN MEDIA PROGRAM: development funding

The European MEDIA Programme offers development funding (grants up to € 150.000 or
50% of the development budget) for interactive
projects that complement an audiovisual project.
Grants of this type are aimed at independent European companies whose main object and activity is audiovisual production and/or the production of interactive works, games development. Companies submitting an application must have completed a previous eligible interactive work and prove that the work has been commercially distributed during the two calendar years preceding date of submission.

Application Deadline: 13 April 2012

SIGGRAPH 12: call for entries

39th International Conference and Exhibition on
Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques,
Los Angeles, USA, August. SIGGRAPH 2012 invites
you to showcase your unique talents and skills.
From students to studio executives, from scientists
to artists, SIGGRAPH is the world's largest annual
gathering of the best and brightest minds in
computer graphics. This is your opportunity to
present your best work at SIGGRAPH 2012. SIGGRAPH 2012 seeks to build on a long tradition of excellence, and to do so we need you and all of the diverse talents and skills you bring to our community.

Deadline: January/February 2012









WEB AESTHETICS. VITO CAMPANELLI AND THE MEDIA AESTHETICS
Vito Campanelli – media theorist and lecturer...
Pasquale Napolitano

RADICANT AESTHETICS. LIBIA CASTRO & OLAFUR OLAFSSON
Last June, on the train to Venice, I was reading with...
Elena Biserna

MAURO CEOLIN: ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINARY
Mauro Ceolin, present in September and October to Triennale...
Claudio Musso

CADA: DID YOU SAY YOU WANTED AN EVOLUTION?
CADA is a cultural, multi-disciplinary platform based in Lisbon:...
Marco Mancuso

DELETE: THE VIRTUE OF OBLIVION. AN INTERVIEW TO VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER
In our digital era we have a...
Simona Fiore
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KOEN VANMECHELEN. CHICKENS, CHICKS & EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS
During the international arts exhibition LIV,...
Silvia Casini

ART & NETWORKED CULTURE. TALLIN AND THE NEW MEDIA ART
The Culture Capital of Europe 2011 is Tallinn in...
Mathias Jansson

KINETICA ART FAIR 2010. INVISIBLE IMMERSION INTO KINETIK ART
Kinetic, a word that derives from the Greek...
Alessandra Migani

SONAR 2008: THE FEMININE FACTOR
Digicult has confirmed its media partnership with Sonar, the most important...
Marco Mancuso

IN VIDEO COLLABORATION
Towards the end of the '90s, long before the whole world found out about web 2.0,...
Giulia Baldi
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THE THEATRE OF SOUND. ACOUSTIC RESEARCH BY FANNY & ALEXANDER
Among the most interesting backgrounds on...
Enrico Pitozzi

GUIDE TO AN UN-DOCUMENTARY. VISION - RAPRESENTATION - RICREATION
This article is the result of a series...
Emanuele Andreoli

OPERATIVE TRANSFORMATION. PART 2
This two-part essay offers a critical investigation into the notion...
Eugenia Fratzeskou

IN THE BEGINNING WAS CYBERNETICS. RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE & ARTISTS
What relationship is there between...
Teresa De Feo

ORGANIC RESONANCES. ON GINETTE LAURIN
As one of the most relevant figures in the international scene,...
Enrico Pitozzi
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