Connecting La Havana - Edited by Lucrezia Cippitelli - Digicult Editions, Milan 2013

Lucrezia Cippitelli, Connecting La Havana, Digicult Editions, Milan 2013. Soft cover, 82 pp, English & Spanish, € 18.00, ISBN 978-1-291-42251-1


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Digicult Editions is proud to announce the release of Connecting La Havana, the first publication from the “Making Peers” new series.

Connecting La Havana is a research and educational project developed in Havana /Cuba between September 2010 and September 2011. Initiated by TIME FRAME (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Netherlands Media Art Institute - NIMK, has the support of Mondriaan Foundation and Prince Claus Fund. TIME FRAME investigates the intersection of media, technology, art and society in the current contemporary art practices in Africa and Latin America, stimulating and promoting sustainable media art training, discussion, production and the transit of new artwork in Europe.

Edited by Lucrezia Cippitelli, scholar and curator, professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L’Aquila, co-curator of the project TIME_FRAME, Connecting La Havana has been developed as a long-term research and educational program, focused on time-based and media art from a South/South perspective. The project started with two weeks of visits, informal presentations and small-scale workshops in Havana on September 2010.

This book is not a simple documentation of the project Connecting Havana. The aim of the publication is primarily to introduce the work of those artists who participated to the process of learning, teaching, presenting, sharing, researching. A general survey of critical perspectives on contemporary art practices in Havana from the very last years: surely a complicated time-frame for Cuba and for its cultural production.

Focusing on time-based and media art as tool of self-representation and critical process of creation and participation, Connecting La Havana had the chance to visit and involve local creativity, discovering a local context of artists and producers who use the languages of contemporary creation as tool of social interaction, political intervention, cultural critique. Not calling themselves dissidents, not questioning the revolutionary history of the Country, sometimes working within or with institutions.

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Digicult Editions (http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/digiculteditions), is a publishing side of the Digicult online cultural platform. Digicult Editions' goal is to be active in the publication of the Digimag Journal, critical and theoretical essays commissioned to international authors, university theses of special interest, publications edited in collaboration with other national and international publishers, as well as artists' books. Digicult Editions has now 4 different book series: "Journal", focused on publishing the Digimag journal, "Artists' Books", which edited the book PageRank#CMdc01B by Mauro Ceolin and Claudio Musso, "Making Peers" with the book Connecting La Havana by Lucrezia Cippitelli and "Self Portrait", which will release soon two books collecting critical texts by Paul Prudence (dataisnature.com) and Garnet Hertx (www.conceptlab.com/) Digicult Editions uses all digital formats and print on demand strategies to publish critical quality contents around media art, design and culture, with a cross-disciplinary and over-boundaries attitude. Digicult Editions creates accessible bridges to open publishing, free of charge releases and multi-platform digital publications. All its contents, as Digicult itself, are circulated under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons 2.5 Italy (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) license.