Tue Jul 31, 2012 00:00

DIGIMAG JOURNAL || "PLACES AND SPACES"
International Call for Papers
Deadline: July 31, 2012

Call: http://www.digicult.it/call-for-papers/
Guidelines: http://www.digicult.it/guidelines-for-authors/
Journal: http://www.digicult.it/journal/

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Call for papers: “Places and Spaces”

The birth, growth and development of spaces open to the creative and experimental use of Media and Digital technologies have affected the production and dissemination of contents, have enriched the art system and its boundaries, have provided new methodologies of production, modes of art display and creative practices (and the daily work of individuals engaged in the field).

These groundbreaking practices span visual art and design, science and technology innovation, social studies and politics, ecology and economy, music and architecture. The context where they take place is hybrid: hacklabs and bureau of research; mailing lists; virtual and physical exhibition spaces; media centers and museums.

This call for contributions wishes to assess these emergent places of innovations and this rich proliferation of research, critical thinking and radical praxis based on horizontal cooperation, by addressing the history, present and future, of projects developed to contribute, support, search, create and spread creativity and innovation using Media and digital technologies.

The call considers, but is not limited to, the following questions:

- How have the reciprocal relationship between spaces, research and creative/artistic processes been transformed? Is it possible to map the historical contexts that gave rise to spaces involved in creative practices based on Media?

- How to describe, from a critical perspective, the tension between public and private, institutional and independent space?

- What kind of economies have emerged from these spaces working with new media creative practices? What are the links (if any) between these spaces and contemporary art, culture markets and immaterial culture and the city? The institutionalization of independent spaces and their long term development has been in most cases supported by public fundings. Given the recent cuts, what new strategies of survival are available?

- How has Media culture affected mainstream culture and its spaces? And in turn, how have spaces been affected by issues of production and dissemination of art and knowledge? Are there new objectives and strategies to be followed by spaces and institutions involved in these fields?

- What spaces could (and can today) be considered most relevant to the development of production, exhibition, research and archiving of Media Art? How are methodologies and practices of archiving, preserving and disseminating Media Art evolved? What displaying techniques created by institutional and independent spaces can be considered the most significant and experimental?

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Digicult is inviting proposals for an issue addressing these and related topics, especially from individuals active in the fields: curators, critics, hackers, fabbers, creative producers, lab managers, activists, designers, theorists, independent and academic writers, scholars, artists, etc.

Please, send full manuscripts (Max. 5000 words + 200 words for the abstract), books and events reviews and interviews (1000 to 2000 words) to: journal@digicult.it

a) Deadline for submission of full article for consideration: July 31 2012

b) 5 to 10 images at 72 dpi resolution, 700pixels width

c) correct captions for images

d) please follow the guidlines

If you wish to send us inquiries and proposals for a special topics to be featured in the next issues, please, contact journal@digicult.it

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We look forward to hearing from you!

Roberta Buiani, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D’Alonzo, Marco Mancuso, Bertram Niessen 
(Digicult Editorial Board)

Mon Jun 04, 2012 16:25 - Tue Jun 04, 2019

Sorry for any crosspostings

DIGICULT 3.0 IS READY
WE ARE ONLINE WITH THE NEW PLATFORM
http://www.digicult.it/

Finally, after so much time and such hard work, the new platform is ready. A new website to better browse all our old contents and to deeply share the new ones: interviews, essays, reports, calls, books, news & more. The Archive of our past projects, curatorships and partnerships, and an overview to new online and offline Services. The launch of 3 new activities: the Digimag Journal, the Digicult Agency and the Online Publishing service. Let's check our new Board, the Editorial Staff, our Partners, the Artists involved and the Network Authors profiles. Any feedbacks and comments will be welcome, and thanks for your never ending support.

More news about the first Call for Papers by the new Digimag Journal, soon. Stay tuned...

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Since 2005, Digicult has been a cultural platform that examines the impact of digital technologies and sciences on the arts, design, culture and contemporary society. Marco Mancuso, critic, teacher and curator, founded and currently directs Digicult, based on the active participation of over 50 professionals that represent an national and international wide Network of journalists, critics, curators, artists, theorists, and professionals.

Digicult was born to give voice and visibility to a new generation of interdisciplinary authors, expand their circuits into an international context, and simultaneously break the existing inflexible publishing rules of the press, by exploiting potentialities of the Web, and its free networks in order to grow, to survive and to spread.

Currently, Digicult is a web platform updated daily by its editorial staff whose main activity is based on the collection and publication of news of events, festivals, meetings, workshops and exhibitions at the international level, announcements and calls for artists, researchers and professionals, book publications, presentations of artistic and research projects. In addition, it produces interviews to the protagonists of the arts scene, reports from the most significant events and critical and theoretical in-depth articles related to the impact of digital technologies on the arts, design and contemporary society. More than 2000 articles (interviews, reports and insights) produced in recent years by Digicult, are collected in its archive section collecting its content by author names and specific issues, providing a unique online resource for researchers, academics, scholars or simply enthusiasts.

In recent years, Digicult has given special importance to the creation of an internal circuit of professionals and an external network of contacts and professional relationships with artists, designers, schools, festivals, publishers, galleries, museums, media centers and institutions dealing with research, development, production, and exposition of creativity through digital technologies. So, using specific communication tools such as the Web Platform, the Newsletter Service and Social Networks, Digicult provides several support activities to facilitate online communication and media partnerships for cultural and artistic events. Working also as a of press office, Digicult is able to furnish media coverage of events and to develope special editorial projects with external partners.

The Digicult Agency promotes and organizes the work of selected international media and A/V artists, presenting their work in Europe and worldwide. In the last years, Digicult has been having the possibility to collaborate with national and international partners, working with art and cultural institutions, festivals and events, media centers, art galleries and exhibitions, schools and academies and online platforms. Working side by side with all its partners, Digicult Agency has been developing exhibitions and concerts, special events, workshops, lectures and screenings, seminars and round tables, involving also the Digicult Network members and their backgrounds, theoretical studies and professional experiences. This international Digicult Network is made of selected professionals and academics, such as educators, journalists, curators, artists, theorists, practioners and critics, with a track record of research, academic and professional practice in the fields of contemporary digital arts, design and culture.

Today Digicult is a Cultural Association with an Editorial Board (Marco Mancuso, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Bertram Niessen, Roberta Buiani & Claudia D'Alonzo) and an Editorial Staff (Alessandra Saviotti, Silvia Bertolotti & Giulia Tonucci), working in the field of contemporary creativity and cultural avant-gardes dedicated to the research at the crossroad between technologies, sciences and tactical use of media; it is currently engaged in developing a new production strategy, Digicult Publishing, whose goal is to be more active in the publication of 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 peer-reviewed publication with institutional partners.

All these activities have allowed Digicult to initiate the development of a new sustainable economy, operating independently and autonomously from any form of institutional or private support.
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Marco Mancuso | Digicult Director
Critic, Curator and Professor
http://www.digicult.it

Fri Apr 13, 2012 20:00 - Fri Apr 13, 2012

New York, New York
United States of America

After having taken Milan by storm, during one of the most important events in the food industry in Italy, our hunger doesn’t stop there, on the contrary, it grows and is infectious. Identità Affamate (Hungry Identities), the most recent work by artist Franca Formenti, mixes art, food and activism, and will be part of the UMAMI: Food and Art Festival www.umamifestival.org, taking place from 12th to 17th April in New York.

The artist has been invited to present one of her videos of her previous performance entitled Beggar’s Food - Ho fame/Hai fame? (I’m Hungry/Are You Hungry?) (2010, www.foodpower.it) and will take the opportunity to entice taste buds and brain cells by getting the public and chefs involved in the game of Identità Affamate attempts to emphasise the differences between hunger and gluttony, concentrating on fragmented identities in urban settings and inviting New York chefs to contribute to the project. Identità Affamate will give:

1 Fork to the chef who will accept to offer a taste of his/her own cuisine to a member of the public who could normally never afford to sit at a “starred” table;

2 Forks to the chef who will accept to spoon feed that member of the public;

3 Forks to the chef who will accept to cook with the member of the public;
The people involved will be asked to talk about the food they have tasted. The action will be videotaped.

In anticipation of the event in New York, here are the videos of the first event during Gourmand Identities (February 2012)

Chef Paolo Donei
(hungry identity G.N.)


Chef Lorenzo Cogo
(L. Cogo)


Chef Christian Puglisi
(hungry identity V.N.)


www.identitaffamate.it
Concept: Franca Formenti

info@identitaffamate.it
+39 3406793582
skype: franca.formenti
Press: pressmail@digicult.it

Wed Mar 21, 2012 17:20 - Sun Apr 15, 2012

Sorry for any crosspostings:

DIGICULT STAND BY: SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW PLATFORM ONLINE IN APRIL
http://www.digicult.it/en/2012/LetterStandBy.asp

The most loyal among our readers will have surely noticed something was going on. For several weeks the publication of articles and updates on the Digicult portal, as well as our activities on social networks, have interrupted their schedule.

The reason is simple: we are working on the new platform!

A brand new website, developed and improved on the graphic aspects, but especially when navigating the huge amount of content that have been created in this significant adventure that has lasted 6 long years.

An operation that has been wondering in the air for several months now, daughter of constantly more urgent editorial needs and the determination to offer our readers an always better cultural tool, continuosly updating, according to the dictates of Web 2.0. This is a project that may be an important reference point for professionals, critics, curators, artists, designers, researchers and enthusiasts.

For this reason a beautiful chapter closes, leaving space to open another, again, that will take shape in the coming month of April. The reasons that lead us to develop what, in our intention is a quantum leap, are essentially linked to the desire to give birth to a cultural project, definitelly more complex and qualitatively better than what has been produced until now.

This happens always with strong independence from institutions and private investors. A project that we like to call "cultural activism", innervated permanently within the international circuit. A project that soon will require your help.

With the publication of the English version of Digimag n. 72 of March, our monthly magazine will go on standby.

The contents of the classic magazine (interviews, reports and theoretical studies) will become part of the portal Digicult, which will always be produced by our network of authors and with the contributions of a real editorial structure. To this will be added the usual news, reports on books and theoretical texts, professional calls, a range of Self Publishing services and editorial collaborations that will increase the cultural proposal of Digicult.

The main intention is to transform Digimag in a Journal, with real call for papers, to follow directly from our Board, open to the entire global community of "media studies". A new publishing project, on a quarterly basis, with an even larger capacity.

Without forgetting the usual curatorial consulting, communication and agency activities. In fact, gradually we will start again the collaboration with artists and professionals in the Network, promoting their work within the international circuit of festivals, media centers, galleries and cultural spaces that Digicult has been able to create in the course of these last, rich years.

We ask you to be patient for a little while. If we are silent, it is to be then much noisier than before. Let's wait for us....

Marco Mancuso
Executive Director

Tue Mar 06, 2012 15:55 - Tue Apr 03, 2012

Sorry for any crosspostings

Digicult presents:

TRANSMEDIALE 2K12: THE WHOLE "REPORTAGE"
http://www.digicult.it/en/2012/TransmedialeReport.asp
http://www.transmediale.de/

In the era of the apparent and inexorable (dis)integration between man and machine and the inevitable absorption of media universe into the connective meta-media, someone feels the need to focus on the breaks rather than on the multiple and simultaneous processes of simulate synthesis and real-time embedding.This is the attempt of the 25th edition oftTrasmediale "In/compatible", whose title clearly shows that still there is a part of residual in the network-numerical-policy paradigm that several users/ global citizens are experiencing from a psychic-pragmatic point of view.

transmediale 2012:Intro
The principle of incompatibility and the bet on the rest
http://www.digicult.it/En/2012/TransmedialeIntro.asp

transmediale 2012: Exhibition
Dark Drives. Uneasy energies in Technological Times
http://www.digicult.it/En/2012/TransmedialeExhibition.asp

transmediale 2012: Screening
Unusual pictures for unusual times
http://www.digicult.it/En/2012/TransmedialeScreening.asp

transmediale 2012: Symposium
in/compatible systems, publics, aesthetics
http://www.digicult.it/En/2012/TransmedialeConferences.asp

transmediale 2012: reSource
A partisan account
http://www.digicult.it/En/2012/TransmedialeReSource.asp

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TRANSMEDIALE 2K12: IL "REPORTAGE" COMPLETO
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/
http://www.transmediale.de/

Nell'era dell'apparente e inesorabile (dis)integrazione tra uomo e macchina e dell'inevitabile assorbimento dell'universo mediale in quello meta-connettivo, qualcuno sente l'esigenza di porre lo sguardo sulle rotture piuttosto che sui processi multipli e simultanei tipici di quei processi di simulate synthesys o di real-time embedding, così frequenti e ramificati nella società contemporanea. Ad esempio, la 25ima edizione del festival transmediale 2k12 è stata caratterizzata da un titolo, In/compatible, che ha mostrato chiaratamente quanto ci sia di residuale nel paradigma network-numero-programmazione, di cui gran parte degli users / cittadini nel mondo stanno facendo esperienza da un punto di vista psico-fisico.

transmediale 2012:Intro
Incompatibilità e la scommessa sul resto
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2279

transmediale 2012: Exhibition
Uneasy energies in Technological Times
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2282

transmediale 2012: Screening
Unusual pictures for unusual times
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2285

transmediale 2012: Symposium
in/compatible systems, publics, aesthetics
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2278

transmediale 2012: reSource
A partisan account
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2275

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Marco Mancuso
Digicult Director, Critic & Curator
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Professor at Naba & IED, Milan
Visiting Professor at Transmedia, Brussels
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