DIGICULT NETWORK AND AUTHORS:

The DIGICULT project is directed by Marco Mancuso, from January 2005 without any money supporting and with a cultural activist approach. It is based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field of electronic culture. And on a multitude of updated strategies around new media communication and networking activities.

The power and the great potentiality of the DIGICULT project is its electronic and public character. People and contacts of the involved communities and the people who form the DIGICULT community add up to a very great number of potential users and readers.

DIGIMAG is an e-mag aimed at informing and deepening all the themes related to the world of digital art and culture, emphasizing the existing different realities and their synergies. Contents of the magazine are written from the people belonging to the Network, contacted specifically for their past experiences in some specific areas. These professional people have been doing their bit for the magazine realizing interviews and articles to meet the increasing demand for information on national and international digital culture and art world and protagonists.

There are two reasons why DIGIMAG was created: first of all we had the professional need to find an open, specific and periodic information instrument based specifically on digital art and culture, second we had the necessity to open a constantly updated review on what is going on in the digital culture and art world and, finally we had the idea to prime processes of professional dialogue by the Network's members and the main national and international subjects working in the field.

DIGIMAG is a magazine born to give voice to the main Italian authors, journalists, critics and professional people, to break the strict national editorial rules by exploiting Internet potentialities, Networking activities, Social Networks dynamics to evolve, survive and spread out.

	Silvia Bertolotti Silvia Bertolotti is a Brussels based free lance writer. With a Degree in Philosophy and a Master in Art and Cultural Management, she also had long study and work experiences both in Paris and New York.
Beside her main activity as writer, Silvia works also as web communication and marketing consultant for an HR consultancy group. Since 2005 she started collaboration as web writer and communication manager for cultural and art organizations, both in Italy and abroad. She also writed art exhibition catalogue introductions and critics about contemporary artists and, aside from that, she’s the curator of web based projects and cultural blogs. She writes not only for professional purposes but also for artistic ones:  short novels, poetry and text for performances. Areas of special interest to Silvia are digital arts, web culture, literature, writing and music. She’s also part of the experimental-electronic music duo, for which she writes lyrics, texts and plays bass and electronics
	Tatiana Bazzichelli Tatiana Bazzichelli is a communication sociologist. She is a Ph.D. Scholar at Aarhus Univeristy, Denmark. She is member of the board of DARC, the Digital Aesthetics Research Center of Aarhus Univeristy.
She is developing a research on Networking 2.0. An aesthetic, technological and social critique of collective art and teaching an M.A. class about "Hacktivism and Networking. From Mail Art to Web 2.0". From August to December 2009 she was visiting scholar at Stanford University, hosted by the Stanford Humanities Lab, as part of the H-STAR research program. She wrote "Networking. La rete come arte | The Net as Artwork" book published in December 2006 by Costa & Nolan, Milan. She is founder of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (2001), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2007. She founded the aha@lists.ecn.org mailing-list regarding artistic activism and net culture in Italy. Since the end of the 1990s she organised events and conventions, such as Sousveillance (Aarhus, 2009), HACK.Fem.EAST (Berlin, 2008), Hackmit! (Berlin, 2007), Cum2Cut (Berlin, 2006-2007), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and Telestreet (Munich, 2004), AHA (Rome, 2002), Hacker Art Lab (Perugia, 2000).
	Simona Broglia Born in Milan. He graduated in philosophy with a thesis about the using of space and electronics in Luigi Nono's Prometeo. He focused his research on aesthetic and perceptual issues arising from the use of technology in music.
He has scientific essays on DeMusica, Rivista italiana di filosofia della musica, and one about La voce dall’Inferno composed by Sciarrino that will appear in the paper entitled Doctor Virtualis. Editor for the indipendent magazine Mescalina.it since 2003 and Premio Tenco’s joror. Member of the foundation Musica Musicisti e Tecnologie: organization annual workshop Il segno del suono about electronic and musical improvisation and festival Elektronica. Founder of association zer0zer0 to support production and discussion about experimental music. Has also written on: Late for the sky, Insound, Drexkode.net, WU.
	Serena Cangiano Serena Cangiano is a researcher and project manager. Her main reserach interest concerns the relationship between art, design, new technologies and innovation. http://www.culturalcatalysm.net http://www.maind.supsi.ch/maindzine
Graduated in Communication Sciences, she specialized in in technology ehnanced communication for cultural heritage at the University of Lugano, presenting a thesis about the design of interactive applications for digital art archives. She collaborated on projects about virtual archaeology (Archeovirtual, Paestum, 2005) , she worked as project manager for the realization of a web platform for documenting and archiving interactive works of art (Innetproject, Milano, 2007). After some experiences in the field of web design (concept and information architecture) and service design in Milan (2008), she is currently carrying out projects of applied research at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). She is also assistant of the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design SUPSI and editor of the digital magazine MAInDzine – Plotting Interaction Design Knowledge
	Antonio Caronia Antonio Caronia studied mathematics, logic and linguistics at the University of Genova. In the Seventies he was a political activist and leader in the left-wing groups. After 1977 he turned to the study of mass culture and communication theory, especially of the relationship between science, technology and imagination.
He researchs in philosophy and anthropology, in regard to science fiction, comics, digital images, virtual reality and telematic networks. He teaches in the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milano), and he is Director of Studies of M-Node, linked to the Planetary Collegium directed by Roy Ascott in Plymouth (UK). Besides many essays published in anthologies and reviews, he wrote Il cyborg. Saggio sull’uomo artificiale (The Cyborg. Essay about the Artificial Man, 1985 - 2008), Il corpo virtuale (The Virtual Body, 1996), Houdini e Faust. Breve storia del cyberpunk (Houdini and Faust. A Short History of Cyberpunk, 1997, with D. Gallo), Philip K. Dick: La macchina della paranoia (Philip K. Dick: The Paranoia Machine, 2006, with D. Gallo), L’arte nell’era della producibilità digitale (Art in the Eve of Digital Producibility, 2006, with E. Livraghi and S. Pezzano), Universi quasi paralleli (Almost Parallel Worlds, 2009).
	Sabina Cuccibar Sabina Barcucci is a designer and an urban researcher and she works on urban spaces and global landscapes connecting architecture, social innovation and urban representation.
Her research focuses on design computational technologies and on their new perceptives, conceptual, organisational and productive outcomes. She works as an architect between Milan and Berlin.
	Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade is an artist/theorist whose transreal work mixes physical and networked spaces in order to explore emerging forms of queer relationality, biopolitics and DIY horizontal knowledge production. http://transreal.org/
Micha's work spans from erotic mixed reality performance in motion capture studios to dislocative border disturbance art in remote desert areas, always striving to identify limits and challenge them. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at UCSD. She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab and the b.a.n.g. lab. Micha holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from FIU. Her current collaboration with Elle Mehrmand, mixed relations, was the recipient of the UCIRA Emerging Fields Award for 2009.
	Mattia Casalegno Mattia Casalegno was born in Naples, Italy. At the crossing point of video-art, new media art and generative design, his work moves from the necessity to explore relations and interconnections between musical and visual languages. http://www.mattiacasalegno.net/
His aesthetics are driven by research in the relationships between the fields of information (in-forms, to give form), biology (bio-logos, discourse on living) and ecology (in the Batesonian term), pointing on the centrality of code as tools and metaphor of his aesthetic. His work spans architectural video installations, immersive environments, live media performances and interactive systems. He performed and exhibited in festivals as RomaEuropa, Netmage in Italy, Mutek in Canada, Optronica in UK, OFFF in Spain, AVIT. His recent commissions include clients such as FENDI, R.Capucci, Sonia Rykiel, J.P. Gaultier. Since 2009 is based in Los Angeles to earn his MFA in Design Media Art at UCLA.
	Silvia Casini Silvia Casini is a a free-lance curator and researcher at Observa – Science in Society. Among her interests there are art and science cross-fertilizations, neuro-cultures and curatorial practices related to new media. http://www.silviacasini.net
Silvia Casini has curated the exhibition Movimenti Urbani (Urban Movements) with artworks by Angelo Accardi, Ruggero Ruggeri and internationally-acclaimed video-maker Jean-Claude Mocik and the exhibition Sur-faces: Marc Didou and Gabriele Leidloff, accompanied by a catalogue and a DVD. Silvia holds an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies at Queen’s University of Belfast (UK). Besides a number of articles and reviews written for The Journal of Media Practice, Parallax, Dublin Four Courts Press, CIRCA, Digimag, etc., an article entitled “The Aesthetic of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from the Scientific Laboratory to a Work of Art” has been published in Contemporary Aesthetics, the chapter “Art in Science Centres: a Challenge to both Visitors and Evaluators” will be published for MuseumsETC. She has also coordinated the Horizons section at the Venice International Film Festival.
	Lucrezia Cippitelli Scholar and curator, lives in Brussels and Roma. Professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L'Aquila, Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, cocurator of the project TIME_FRAME, Art, Technology, Contemporary Culture in Latin America and Africa (with Montevideo, Amsterdam)
Scholar and curator, lives in Brussels and Roma. Professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L'Aquila, Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, cocurator of the project TIME_FRAME, Art, Technology, Contemporary Culture in Latin America and Africa (with Montevideo, Amsterdam). Lucrezia holds a Phd in Art History and has a curriculum of researches, exhibitions, professorships and cultural cooperation projects, developed in several international Biennals, exhibitions, cultural centers, universities.
	Claudia D'Alonzo Graduated in Contemporary Art History, she attends the International Doctorship in Audiovisual Studies. She has be interested for several years in new media art, particularly in the audiovisual interactions allowed by electronic and digital technologies.
Within the Digicult network she takes care of press office activities and curatorial projects. She belongs to the managment committee of Digimag magazine, with which she collaborates also as writer in the audiovisual experimental cinema section. She has published catalogues and articles for contemporary art magazines, among which “Exibart” and “Luxfluflux Prototype”. She is editorial consultant for Milan’s lettera27 Foundation for editorial activities. She collaborated with Galleria Sala1, in Rome, MLAC, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, in Rome, DOCVA Centro di documentazione per le arti visive, in Milan. She has been curator for national and international presentations, screenings and exibitions.
	Teresa De Feo Teresa de Feo, scenographer and graduand in philosophy, is an art history teacher and digital art expert. For years she has been paying attention particularly to the relationship between art, new technologies and epistemology of complexity, from Cybernetic to theory of chaos and complexity.
Teresa has been one of promoters of Arcnaut project created by Mario Canali whose aim has been to promote digital thought. She worked with Mario Canali to the building of a traversal research between art, interactive systems, complexity paradigms, science and serendipity for the course “Virtual reality and complexity paradigms” at the Academy of Art of Brera, Milan. She lives and works in Milan.
	Simona Fiore Simona Fiore is a web writer and corporate blogger. She studies with great interest the web 2.0 dynamics and the way they effect every field of our society, including social, political, cultural. From 2007 to 2009 Simona writes for Dialoghi Digitali, a section of the corporate Ciaoblog.net
In the blog she realised a set of interviews by reviewing the history of the Italian web, from the very beginning. From 2009 she writes about information and new media for the social blog Yurait, a non-profit project, and moreover she works for the corporate blog of Sinapsia.it/blog, an Italian web agency, writing about the following topics: social networking, unconventional marketing and persuasive copywriting.
	Eugenia Fratzeskou Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou is a London-based artist, researcher, author, editor, critic and educator. Pioneering types and processes of digital site-specific art and drawing have been the outcomes of her research since 2000 http://www.sarcha.gr/ViewAssociateDocuments
Eugenia has advanced a wider discourse on digital visualisation systems and virtual environments in site-specific, digital media art and architecture, through inventing methodologies for mapping the invisible inter-passages between virtual and actual architectural spaces within new types of site-specific virtual environments. She has created new relationships between art, architecture, philosophy, computer science and virtual reality. Her expertise expands into the relationship between symbolic logic, Boolean set operations, algebraic, geometrical processes, VR, built architecture and cosmology. Her qualifications include an AHRC-funded practice-based PhD in digital site-specific art (Oct. 2002 – Mar. 2006, University of Surrey/Wimbledon College of Art, London), an AHRC-funded MA Fine Art: Drawing (2002, WCA), a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting (2001, WCA) and a CLTAD certificate in Higher Education teaching

	Alessio Galbiati Alessio Galbiati is a freelance critic, journalist and graphic designer. He got M. A. in Arts, Music and Performance Studies, at University of Bologna http://www.rapportoconfidenziale.org
In life he is primarily (dis)engaged in cinema, with particular interest in independent and artisan cinema. He has worked and collaborated with a great number of publishing, cultural and commercial realities, mainly in cinematic field. In 2007 he founded Rapporto Confidenziale - digital magazine about cinematic culture, project concretized in a Web site and in a free pdf monthly magazine published under Creative Commons Licence. He is Editorial Director, Editor and Graphic, and author from the first issue of RC. In 2010 he directed Scerbanenco, Milano, Pinketts, first of a series of documentaries about being issued. From 2006 on he has been active as ilcanediPavlov!, performing nickname for his VJing practice and live editing. He lives in Milan.
	Elena Gianni Elena was born in the Tuscan countryside. She moves to the north for studying telecommunication engineering first and then media engineering at Turin Polytechnic http://dkds.ciid.dk/idp09/students/elena-gianni/
At Turin Polytechnic she graduated with a thesis about Processing and ActionScript3 programming languages. She fall in love with interaction design because of her passion for technology, contemporary art, design, possible and impossible futures, and this love bring her to work as a flash developer for Experientia interaction design studio in Turin. She would like to change the world to help people live better. In the meanwhile, she waste her time reading bunches of comics, books and blogs.
	Carla Langella Architect, assistant professor in the faculty of Architecture of Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli in sector ICAR/13. She lectures in “Matter design” and “Environmental requisites for the industrial product” in the Degree Course in Industrial Design.
Carla carries out an intense research activity in the design oriented,sectors through studies and experimentation on the relation between industrial product and environmental and social sustainability, by using the biomimetic approach and life cycle analysis (LCA) tools. A theme which is central to numerous investigations and publications is the role of design in the interpretation and application of new materials and new technologies.
	Marco Mancuso Marco Mancuso is an art critic, curator and lecturer in the field of digital and audiovisual art, founder and director at Digicult and Digimag, projects focused on new technologies and their applications on art, design, culture & society. http://www.digicult.it
With a degree in Letters at Università Statale in Milan, he also direct the art-agency Digimade, working for art festivals & events as guest curator and media partner, organizing exhibitions and cross media events, workshops, meetings and screenings, and is also working as promoter for some Italian and international artists. Marco Mancuso teaches "Multimedia Art Languages" at the NABA-New Academy of Arts in Milan and "New Media Art" & "Audiovisual Art & Design" at the IED-European Institute of Design in Milan, and he's invited as guest lecturer in many Italian Universities presenting theories concerning connections between history of experimental cinema, expanded cinema, live cinema, electronic music and contemporary digital audiovisual art, including the relationship to space, the sciences, the open source technologies and generative, interactive or architectural design installations
	Donata Marletta Donata Marletta is PhD researcher at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Faculty of Arts and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research project is an ethnographic study which focuses on new media art festivals and the emergence of new social spaces – actual and virtual, which rotate around the digital culture's scene.
Donata presented papers and attended international academic conferences like EVA – Electronic Visualisation and the Arts in London (July, 2008), Cybercultures Exploring Critical Issues in Salzburg (March, 2009), and Emotions in Motion in Leeds (July, 2009). During her research fieldwork has attended the professional networking event International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA) in Montreal (May 2008/2009), and several panels and symposia at international festivals like Mutek, Ars Electronica, Elektra, Transmediale and CTM. She currently lives between Leeds and Catania.
	Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio DHerman Bashiron Mendolicchio is a PhD Candidate in “History, Theory and Criticism of Arts” and a scholar of the department of History of Art of the University of Barcelona. http://www.interartive.org
He has studied Humanities and Philosophy at the “Università degli Studi Roma Tre” and is currently integrated into the research group “Art, Architecture and Digital Society”, directed by Lourdes Cirlot. His current lines of investigation expand onto the subjects of interculturality in contemporary art, the decolonial thought, the interactions between artistic and cultural practices in the Mediterranean and the impact of new technologies on art, communication and contemporary society. He has participated in several international congresses and developed projects and research stays in Europe, Asia and Middle East. He works also as a critic and indipendent curator and is co-founder of the platform www.interartive.org
	Alessandra Migani Alessandra Migani has a professional experience as freelance Exhibition Curator and Producer within the Arts and Film industry. http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/ http://www.roomsmagazine.com
Her research started in the university years with the intention of studying the music video as an art form, an expression of a new sensorial esthetic, able to influence and change the way to look and make film and advertising. In 2002 she starts a long collaboration with the festival Enzimi in Rome. She presents works of artists such as Cunningham, Gondry, Sigismondi, Hammer & Tongs, Shynola, Lynnfox, Carolina Melis and onedotzero festival. In 2003 she moves to London where she attends an internship at onedotzero. In 2006 she curates the presentation of Enzimi at ICI in London. She also publishes her first articles for Digimag. She attends the course ‘Become an Independent Curator’ at the Central Saint Martins in London (2008). Her new research looks into the problematic of identity within art forms such as photography, video art and site-specific installation. She works with artists: Sal Idriss, Cesar Baracca, Marco Bolognesi, Akim Monet e Raimi Gbadomosi. She is currently involved as a Curator in the launch of a new free art magazine, Rooms art uncovered (Spring 2010).
	Matteo Milani Matteo Milani is a sound designer and composer living in Milan, Italy. He started his career at the end of the 80’s in radio stations, cutting inches of music on analogue tape. http://www.usoproject.com
In the mid 90’s Matteo pioneered the rising of digital audio workstations. Now, he’s reflecting most of his creativity blending “synthetic” and “organic” sound materials and performing electroacoustic music as 'U.S.O. Project - Unidentified Sound Object'. U.S.O. Project was born from the desire to discover new paths and non-linear narrative strategies in both aural and visual domains. He is also the co-founder, along with Federico Placidi, of the label "Synesthesia Recordings", a repository of electroacoustic works.
	Annamaria Monteverdi Specialized in Digital Performance, Annamaria received the Ph.D in Audiovisal and Theatrical Narration with a dissertation about Robert Lepage. http://www.xlabfactory.org/ http://www.ateatro.it/
She shooted the first Italian video-documentary about Lepage, La faccia nascosta del teatro (direction/postproduction: G.Verde). From 1992 to now Annamaria teached at several Universities and Academies of Fine Arts; now she teaches Digital Video at the Academy of BRERA and Digital Performance at the Dpt of Art, Music and Theatre, University of Genova. Invited in International Congresses for panels about Theatre and Media, Annamaria published a monographic book about Lepage and with A. Balzola the first complete Italian book about Media Arts: “Le arti multimediali Digitali” (Garzanti, 2004). She wrote several essays for catalogues and anthologies. She founded with O.Ponte Di Pino the web mag www.ateatro.it. Annamria is member of the multimedia group XLABFactory and she works as production manager for multimedia events: Ars Genius, Message in a bottle, La vista del mondo, Fattoria degli anormali, Racconti del Mandala.
	Pasquale Napolitano Pasquale Napolitano, is a PhD researcher in design and visual communication. He graduated at the University of Salerno, with a thesis on the aesthetics of remix. He is a stable collaborator of the faculty of Visual Communication. http://www.soundbarrier.it
	Bertram Niessen Bertram Niessen is an electronic artist, teacher and sociologist. In 2001 he has been founding member of the Milan-based experimental collective otolab with whom he investigates visual dramaturgic representation of sound. http://www.otolab.it
He teaches theories, methodologies and tecniques of the audiovisual performance at NABA in Milan, LABA in Brescia and in several other seminars and courses around Italy. He holds a PhD in Urban European Studies at the University of Miano-Bicocca (UNIMIB); his research in urban sociology investigates the relationships among city, creative economy and social innovation processes, with a special focus on artists co-optation in post-fordist economies (the title of his PhD thesis was "Going Commercial: Integration of underground artists in Milan and Berlin”). Now he is a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan (UNIMI) and works on the EU funded project EDUFASHION, dealing with P2P economies, crowdsourcing and fashion. As a sociologist he held several graduate and post-graduate courses in methodology, sociology of culture, urban sociology and new technologies for social sciences.
	Robin Peckham Robin Peckham is a Shanghai-based writer whose critical interests lie in the development of a vocabulary to discuss art and culture in greater China without resorting to stale complaints about the supposed lack of particular modules like independent criticism, education, and so on.
His work concentrates on infrastructural histories, tracing the development of galleries, curators, exhibitions, artist studios, record labels, music venues, publishers, and other conceptual poles as a way to understand the cultural production of this system. Ultimately, this project links contemporary art and culture in China with similar and occasionally coextensive international networks. Peckham studied Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and is currently pursuing an advanced degree in Media Art Histories at Danube University Krems. In 2008 he founded the Hong Kong-based Society Experimental Cultural Production, a curatorial office and production team that organizes exhibitions through the exploration of connections between experimental artists musicians, curators, and critics across greater China. Prior to that effort he directed Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing, a premier international commercial gallery space; contributed to early curatorial efforts at Long March Space, one of Beijing’s first nonprofit art entities; coordinated international programs at live art venue Hart Salon; and curated the musical program at pioneering live sound art and underground music venue What?!. His writing has been published in Yishu, Artforum.com and Artforum.com.cn, Redbox Review, Arttime, and in a range of catalogs for galleries and alternative spaces in Beijing & Hong Kong.
	Enrico Pitozzi Enrico Pitozzi is Professor-in-Charge of the course “Forme della scena multimediale” in the Music and Performing Arts Department – at the University of Bologna. He is visiting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM (2010 e 2011).
Enrico currently collaborates with the scientific committee of the project “Performativité et effets de présence” directed by Josette Féral and Louise Poissant at the UQAM. He works for the art’O magazine as assistant assignment editor. He has published as author, with Annalisa Sacchi, the book Itinera. Trajectoires de la forme Tragedia Endogonidia, Arles, Actes Sud, 2008 and the text Étendre la peau. Scène, perception, dispositifs technologiques, in Ensemble / Ailleurs; Together / Elsewhere, L. Poissant e P. Tremblay (by), Montréal, PUQ (2010). He is working on the book Corpo, anatomia, percezione. Scena performativa e dispositivi tecnologici, Roma, Bulzoni (2010) and, with Roberto Paci Dalò, Electroscene, Napoli, Cronopio (2010).
	Monica Ponzini Born in Milan, she received her degree form the University of Milan in Classical Literature, with a specialization in Modern Linguistics and Italian Literature http://www.stategrezzi.com
She lives in New York, where she works as a Digital Video Librarian for the news. For Digimag, she writes articles, interviews and produces video contents regarding digital arts, with a focus on video and net art. She’s been a freelance contributor for Italian magazines and websites (Gulliver, Exibart, Permesola), for which she wrote articles, reviews and interviews on contemporary art and culture. She has worked as a News Producer for RAI (Italian TV) at the New York bureau, where she worked with Channel 1, 2 and 3. She also has experience as a Web Copywriter and Production Assistant, and as a Press Officer for a non-profit organization. She’s co-founder of the VJ crew state grezzi
	Domenico Quaranta Domenico Quaranta is a contemporary art critic & curator. He focused his research on the impact of the current techno-social developments on the arts, with a focus on art in networked spaces, from the Internet to virtual worlds. http://domenicoquaranta.com/
As an art critic, he is a regular contributor to Flash Art magazine; his essays, reviews and interviews appeared in many magazines, newspapers and web portals, such as: Magazine électronique du CIAC (CA), Rhizome (US), A Minima (SP), Vague Terrain, HZ Journal, MESH (AU), RCCS (Resource Center For Cyberculture Studies, US), Maska (SLO), Around Photography (IT), FMR Bianca (IT), Digimag (IT), Exibart (IT), Noemalab (IT), Arte e critica (IT), Drome (IT), Cluster (IT), L'Unità (IT) and many others. His first book titled, NET ART 1994-1998: La vicenda di Äda'web was published in 2004; he also co-edited, together with Matteo Bittanti, the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (Milan, October 2006) and contributed to a number of books and publications. Since 2008 he edits, for the italian publisher FPEditions, a series of books on New Media Art (edited titles: Todd Deutsch – Gamers, 2008; Gazira Babeli, 2008; Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, 2008; UBERMORGEN.COM, 2009; RE:akt! | Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting, 2009). He curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, including: Connessioni Leggendarie. Net.art 1995-2005 (Milan 2005); GameScenes (Turin 2005); Radical Software (Turin 2006); Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age (Bruxelles 2008); For God's Sake! (Nova Gorica, 2008); RE:akt! | Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting (Bucharest – Lijubliana 2009); Expanded Box (ARCO Art Fair, Madrid 2009); Hyperlucid (Prague Biennal, Prague 2009); Once Upon a Time in the West (Nova Gorica, 2009); Playlist (LABoral, Gijon 2009 - 2010). He lectures internationally and teaches “Net Art” at the Accademia di Brera in Milan.
	Marco Riciputi Marco Riciputi is freelance journalist for the newspaper La Voce and collaborates with various websites that deal with European policies including cafebabel.com, europeandme.eu, indigomag.eu, orangelo.eu, taurillon.org, wavemagazine.net for which he writes, translates and does back office work.
Marco is also a member of youthpress.org, the pan-European association that brings together 48,000 journalists committed to developing a European way to communicate and has been editor in web portals of the European Commission such as youthweek.eu and eujournalist-award.eu. He is interested in comic books, virtual worlds and new technologies applied to the cinema.
	Zoe Romano Zoe Romano is a media activist and visual artist based in Milan working on precarity, material and immaterial labor in creative and service industries. www.serpicanaro.org
With a Degree in Philosophy at University of Milano and a Master in Media Science and Technology at University of Pavia, since 2000, she has co-developed several projects in the context of the Italian and European post-1999 movement, such as Chainworkers.org, EuroMayDay.org, and the icon of Italian precarious laborers and their struggles, San Precario  In 2005, she was part of the initiators of Serpica Naro media hoax, the fictive fashion designer  accepted to the official calendar of Milano Fashion Week, whose identity - anagram of San Precario – saw the collaboration of precarious workers, stage hands, taylors and designers. Since then, she's been working to develop the Serpica Naro Ccollective brand with several events and initiatives. She earns her bread working for advertising agencies as copywriter and concept designer.
	Stefania Russo Stefania Russo is a free lance curator and editor. Graduate in Contemporary Art History, with a thesis about public arts and outskirts. She takes care of music and digital arts. She lives and works in Naples.
She has curated the following group exhibitions:Teatro Minimo, T.I.N., Naples with artworks Alberto Scodro, Rosaria Iazzetta, Institute for Standard Research (Danilo Correale e Mirko Smerdel);C.A.P. 80073_Capri Art Projec, Not Gallery Contemporary Art Factory/Franco Senesi Fine Arts, Capri, with artworks of Nordine Sajot, Kristine Alksne, Yoko Miura, Enzo Calibè;Video&Installation Container, Not Gallery Contemporary Art Factory, with artworks of Iabo, Roxi in the box, Macro, Moio&Sivelli, Danilo Correale, Bianco/Valente, Walter Picardi, 2/4 Our;PNP project. Photo, talks and installations about crime and social life, with the visual artist Rosaria Iazzetta. She has curated Napoliconnected, artists residency program for Parallel_41,( Barbara De Dominicis, Davide Leonardi, Julia Kent), Lanificio 25, Naples.
	Jordì Salvadò Jordi Salvadó, electronic and industrial technician with a musical formation of piano and guitar, from 1992 works in the field of the sound, in live events or in recording studios. In 2004 it discovers the sound art working in the festival Sonar of Barcelona.
From that moment, he begins to be interested in the audio programming (Max/MSP, PD) and in microcontrollers for interactive objects (Arduino) and it continues to work in festival of sound art like Sonar and Hurta Cordel, besides to offer technical assistance to the members of the IBA (Improvitzadors de Barcelona Associats). Currently he's dedicated to the design and the realization of systems for sound events and in personal within develops systems of virtual sound distribution and computing erratic synthesis.
	Barbara Sansone Barbara Sansone, an Italian now living in Barcelona, brings together her broad personal and professional experience with her growing interest in multimedia and its comprehensive, omnipresent impact. http://www.headroom.ws
This combination provides the aegis under which she continues her current research. Having studied classic and foreign linguistics, Barbara has turned her eye onto another equally exotic field: the electronic material found in new technologies, many of which have assumed increasing importance on the Internet and in emerging digital media. She has also participated in numerous artistic and cultural events aimed at creating greater awareness about evolving multimedia uses, devices and technology. Currently, she collaborates with various magazines and web sites focused on digital culture, directs the department of research & development at an interactive marketing agency, and is experiencing the world of free software, free hardware and physical computing.
	Silvia Scaravaggi Silvia Scaravaggi is a freelance editor and curator; her research focuses on video, interaction design, art-science-technology. She got a Master Degree in Theory and Technique of Audiovisual Media (University of Pisa) http://www.exhibitionow.com/silviascaravaggi
Silvia also studied Cinema and New Media Art at UvA (Amsterdam) and at Aiace-Milan, Silvia collaborated on Techne05 and Invideo (2003-2005). Since 2005, she has worked at the Cultural Department of the Province of Cremona; from 2008 she is the contact for the study of the Cultural District. For ContemporaneA Association in Cremona, from 2008 she is leading the project ContemporaneA for emerging art. For the Municipality of Cremona, she is curator of 7 Note, she has been committee member for BJCEM (2009) and curator of GemineMuse (2008). She collaborates with the emerging artists: Gianluca Ferrari (There’s Light. Her Light, Galleria Rallo, Cremona, 2008), Margherita Martinelli, Elena De Prezzo, Mt Piezein Circle (Spazio_Tempo_Loop, 2009). She wrote articles for Exibart.
	Massimo Schiavoni Massimo Schiavoni is a theater critic, project manager, photographer entertainment and professor academic. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Macerata and then specialize to University of Ferrara and the Ca Foscari of Venice.
Massimo is very attentive to the experiences of the young stage performative and interaction of theatrical forms with anthropology, sociology and aesthetics of new media. Lives between Ancona, Venice and Amiens.
	Giulia Simi Giulia Simi was in love since chidlhood with the evocative power of storytelling and immagination she preferes the refutable visions of art to the presumed objectivity of science. http://www.excentrica.it
She therefore went for Literature at Pisa University, where she was introduced to electronic and digital art by Sandra Lischi. She graduated with a thesis on the experimental cinema and multimedia installations of Klonaris and Thomadaki, published in an edited volume by L’Harmattan in France. Her love for new media has carried her to the internet, which right now is the medium that allows her to pay the mortgage. Since 2005, in fact, she’s dealing with digital contents, design and marketing but she doesn’t give up with the investigation on contemporary languages. She lived in Paris, Florence, Rome, Milan. She currently lives in Bologna.
	Valentina Tanni Art critic, curator and lecturer. She is mainly interested in new media art and multimedia publishing. She is among the founders of Exibart and Exibart.onpaper, projects to which she contributes since the late Nineties. http://www.random-magazine.net
In 2000 she founded ExiWebArt, the first Italian web column entirely dedicated to Net Art, and in 2001 Random Magazine, a daily website on new media art. She worked as a consultant for Monti & Taft, a cultural marketing company and as Web Editorial Director for FMR Group. She curated the Net section of the art show Media Connection (Rome and Milan, 2001), the exhibitions Netizens (Rome, 2002) and L’oading. Genetically Modified Videogames (Syracuse, 2003) and the residency project Mediaterrae (Avellino, 2007). She also works with some digital arts Festivals (Interferenze, Peam) and she’s currently one of the guest curators of FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (photography and new media section // 2010-2012). She wrote articles and insights for various magazines (Exibart, Flash Art, Gulliver, Campus, Time Out Roma, Digicult, Neural… ) and she worked as a teacher and lecturer for public and private institutions (La Sapienza University in Rome; Udine University; IED, Accademia del Lusso, Accademia delle Arti e delle Nuove Tecnologie). In 2009 she founded Editees, an agency that provides editorial services for the web. Valentina lives in Rome (Italy).