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Digicult presents:
TRANSMEDIALE 2012: AN INTERVIEW TO THE NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KRISTOFFER GANSING
THE LAST QUESTION
http://www.digicult.it/en/2012/TransmedialeKristofferGansing.asp
by Marco Mancuso
Digicult publishes the final question and completes the interview to the transmediale 2012 new artistic director Kristoffer Gansing, made by Marco Mancuso.
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transmediale is finally coming. The 2k+12 edition of the media art, design and culture Berliner festival is running to the opening the next 31 January, taking place until 5 February at the wonderful Haus der Kulturen der Welt, one of the most important European leading centre for the contemporary arts.
Waiting for the rich program of symposia, workshops, special events, exhibitions and performances, Digicult as media partner of the event, has taken the chance to interview the new artistic director Kristoffer Gansing. I have met him at transmediale head office, at Podewil / Kulturprojekte Berlin last December. It has been the chance for a long chat about the new directions and targets of the festival and himself, his background, ideas and critical thoughts.
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Link:
http://www.digicult.it/en/2012/TransmedialeKristofferGansing.asp
Marco Mancuso is a curator, critic and consultant in the field of digital technologies applied to art, design and contemporary culture.
Founder and director at Digicult and Digimag Journal, he teaches “Linguaggi delle Arti Multimediali” at NABA, “Sistemi Interattivi” at IED in Milan, “Nuovi Sistemi Editoriali per l’Arte” at Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo, “Digital Media Management” at IED Masters in Milan and is visiting professor at Transmedia-Postgraduate Program in Arts+Media+Design in Brussels and MAIND Interaction Design Master at SUPSI in Lugano.
With the Digicult Agency he curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, round-tables, meetings and events including Mixed Media (Milan, 2006), Screen Music (Florence, 2006-2007), Otolab ‘op7’ (Bergamo, 2008), Graffiti Research Lab (Rome, 2008), Sincronie Festival (Milan, 2008-2009), Thorsten Fleisch Retrospective (Milan, 2009), The Mediagate (Lodz, 2010), he presented his screenings and productions at art and cultural events, including Dissonanze (Rome, 2006), Cimatics (Brussels, 2008), Strp (Eindhoven, 2008), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, 2009), Nemo (Paris, 2009), Elektra (Montreal, 2010), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011) and he lectured among others at Market for Digital Arts/Elektra (Montreal 2008), Fabrica Workshops (Treviso, 2009), Laptop’r’s (Madrid, 2010), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011) and Isea (Istanbul, 2012).
Marco Mancuso partnered with most of the main media art festival in Italy and worldwide and he recently developed the “Digicult Editions” open-publishing online service. Marco Mancuso has been expertising from years on wider subjects like open communication, social networking and digital publishing.
While collaborating with many editorial magazines, Marco Mancuso also curated the publication “The Open Future” by "MCD-Musiques et Cultures Digitales" magazine / Issue#68 in 2012 and he was included in the publication “Cultural Blogging in Europe” by LabForCulture.org in 2010.
Michael Connor