Digicult: Digimag 36/July-August 08_English Version Online

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Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG 36 / JULY-AUGUST 2008
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp

The english version of Digimag, Digicult monthly e-magazine of digital
culture and electronic arts, is available online

You can read all the past articles and issues in the Archive section here:
http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/

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[INTERVIEWS]:

- THIERRY DE MEY by Massimo Schiavoni
- ROBERT LEPAGE - by Annamaria Monteverdi
- DEREK HOLZER/TUNED CITY - by Bertram Niessen
- NICO VASCELLARI - by Silvia Scaravaggi
- ROB KENNEDY - by Monica Ponzini

[REPORTS]:

- SONAR 2008 - by Silvia Bianchi
- SONARMATICA EXHIBITION - by Claudia D'Alonzo
- SONARAMA - by Marco Mancuso
- SONARCINEMA SCREENING - by Alessio Galbiati
- DIBA 2008 - by Barbara Sansone
- HACKER SPACE FESTIVAL - by Clemente Pestelli
- NODE FESTIVAL - by Giuseppe Cordaro
- GENIUS LOCI - by Annamaria Monteverdi

[FEATURING]:

- BRUMARIA, MILITAN PUBLISHING - by Lucrezia Cippitelli

[THEMES]:

- SYNTHETIC PERFORMANCES - by Antonio Caronia
- THE ARTIST AS ARTWORK - by Domenico Quaranta
- FROM PUNK TO WEB 3.0 - by Giulia Simi
- DIGITAL INCLUSION - by Luigi Ghezzi

[COVER]:

- Marco Mancuso - Sonarama 2008 - Cube/Minus

[TRANSLATIONS]:

- Virginia Cavalletti, Francesca Magnaghi, Ornella Pesenti, Chiara Resmini

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DIGICULT is a cultural project involved in digital culture and electronic
arts. The DIGICULT project is directed by Marco Mancuso and based on the
active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent a wide
Italian network of journalists, curators, artists and critics working in the
field of electronic culture and digital art. And on a multitude of updated
strategies around new media communication, web 2.0 and networking
activities. Translated in english, DIGICULT is today a web portal updated
daily with news and , but it's also the editor of the monthly magazine
DIGIMAG, discussing with a critic and journalistic approach, about net art,
hacktivism, video art, electronica, audio video, interaction design,
artificial intelligence, new media, software art, performing art.
DIGICULT produce the electronic music and audiovisual podcast DIGIPOD and
the newsletter international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved
in side activities like media partnership and special journalistic/critic
reports for festivals and exhibitions, consultancy and curatorial activities
and is now working for Italian artists international promotion with its new
born art agency DIGIMADE, presenting their works to main international
festivals, cultural events, platforms and centers working with digital and
electronics

www.digicult.it
www.digicult.it/digimag
www.digicult.it/podcast
www.digicult.it/agency
www.digicult.it/credits

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[GENERAL DIRECTION]:

- Marco Mancuso - concept, editing, direction and design

[EDITORIAL STAFF]:

- Luca Restifo - programming

- Silvia Scaravaggi - editing

- Claudia D'Alonzo - press office

- Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast

[AUTHORS]:

Luigi Pagliarini, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo,
Miriam Petruzzelli, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Lorenzo
Tripodi, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Domenico Sciajno, Valentina
Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Motor, Isabella Depanis, Tiziana Gemin, Fabio
Franchino, Alessandra Migani, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Francesca
Valsecchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Sara Tirelli, Alessandro
Massobrio, Eleonora Oreggia, Paolo Branca, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi,
Maresa Lippolis, Francesco d'Orazio, Alessio Galbiati, Alessio Chierico,
Claudia Moriniello, Giuseppe Cordaro, Cristiano Poian, Antonio Caronia,
Clemente Pestelli

[TRANSLATIONS]:

- Virginia Cavalletti, Francesca Magnaghi, Ornella Pesenti, Chiara Resmini

Comments

, Vijay Pattisapu

RE: FROM PUNK TO WEB 3.0 by Giulia Simi
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1240

“Punk origins”? DIY is just DIY. “Punk” seems an imposition here, not to mention the fact that the label was itself a marketing scheme.

Rock & roll is rock & roll. Now, I didn’t grow up in the warm-and-fuzzy-feeling-MTV-and-VH1-and-Rolling-Stone-try-to-conjure-up times of punk, but everything “punk” seems like the new burrito Taco Bell comes out with every now and then: the same bullshit dressed up differently with a new name to make you buy into it. To that extent punk buys into Modernist and capitalist fantasies that I think a great deal of net artists and hackers see through.

One might object that punk was new and different in that people made their own record labels and started their own market for music outside of the large music labels. Sorry, that economic history was never unique to punk (cf. blues, hip hop, jazz, bhajans, broadside ballads…).

“Punk” is as empty a label as “Net Art (2 | 3 | n).0,” symlinks whose referents, if any existed, have moved elsewhere.

Don’t get me wrong: I love Taco Bell. I just don’t rush home to blog about the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.

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