Digicult_Digimag 50 / December 2009-January 2010

Sorry for any crosspostings

Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG 50 / DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp

The archive section, past articles and issues:
http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/

The updated list of authors and critics
www.digicult.it/en/credits

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"I think there are several media art festivals that remain critical in their
curation and approach, but many are losing touch with the critical nature
that brought them into existence in the first place. If you look at the
early history of Ars Electronica, for instance, those early works verged on
the hyper-critical, where artforms often called themselves into question as
well as their audience. They were considered "fringe arts" and no integrated
into the mainstream commercial art world. Currently, as computers and
digital media become more evident in popular culture, media art is both a
strong and accepted form of artistic output and is gaining a much wider
audience than it previously held in the early years of its inception. The
festivals have changed to incorporate this era of mainstream digital
acceptance, and are perhaps now becoming more of an "entertainment" vehicle
than one that critical engages with technology. Thus instead of questioning
technology, these festivals often merely "celebrate" it by accepting many
projects that have no critical focus or drive. I would like to see festivals
investigate projects that question technology's influence on mainstream
culture and how it's use has pervaded and changed our lives for the better
and worse".

Jonah Brucker-Cohen, from "Jonah Brucker-Cohen: new media, from web 2.0 to
web 4.0" by Donata Marletta

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[INTERVIEWS]:

- THE YES MEN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1675 - by Clemente Pestelli

- CHRISTIAN ZANESI
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1674 - by Matteo Milani

- JOOST REKVELD
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1671 - by Silvia Scaravaggi

- JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1673 - by Donata Marletta

- FRANCESCA PROIA
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1683 - by Massimo Schiavoni


[REPORTS]:

- CIMATICS 2009
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1670 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli

- MEDIAMATIC TRAVEL
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1679 - by Giulia Tiddens


[FEATURING]:

- MARIANNE WEEMS
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1682 - by Annamaria Monteverdi

- EDGAR MORIN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1677 - by Teresa De Feo

- TERAYAMA & TANIKAWA
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1667 - by Francesco Bertocco


[THEMES]:

- THE ACTIVIST EAST
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1676 - by Zoe Romano

- THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1681 - by Simona Fiore

- CROWDSOURCING
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1678 - by Giulia Baldi

- FLUCTUATING ITELLIGENCES
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1672 - by Carla Langella

- THE ORIGINS OF GENERATIVE ART
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1684 - by Pasquale Napolitano

- BABEL OF INFORMATIONS
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1680 - by Luigi Ghezzi


[COVER]:

Nino Romeo: Mixed Media 2006
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[EDITORIAL STAFF]:

- Marco Mancuso - director and editor
- Claudia D'Alonzo - press office
- Luca Restifo - technical consultancy
- Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design
- Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM - editing
- Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast
- Mauro Minnone e Luigi Ghezzi - web 2.0 strategies

[AUTHORS]:

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia
Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Valentina
Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Claudia
D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis,
Alessandra Migani, Alessio Galbiati, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli,
Donata Marletta, Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi,
Otherehto, Carla Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Gianni, Matteo Milani,
Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Micha Cardenas, Alex Foti,
Serena Cangiano, Zoe Romano, Pasquale Napolitano, Simona Fiore, Enrico
Pitozzi, Sabina Cuccibar, Mattia Casalegno

[TRANSLATIONS]:

Emanuela Cassol, Luisa Bertolatti, Margherita Castelli, Monica Fontana,
Francesca Lattanzi, Giulia Tiddens, Sara Cavagna

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DIGICULT (www.digicult.it/en) is an online/offline Italian cultural and
editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture
worldwide. DIGICULT focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern
sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT was
founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active
participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first vast
Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field
of digital art and culture. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly
magazine DIGIMAG (http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/), which focuses, on
some important cultural and artistic issues like net art, hacktivism, video
art, electronica, audio video, interaction design, artificial intelligence,
new media, software art and performing art with a critic and journalistic
approach. DIGICULT produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast,
DIGIPOD (http://www.digicult.it/podcast/), linked to the world of netlabels
and independent audiovisual productions online, and also has its own
international newsletter service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT is also involved with
the art agency DIGIMADE (http://www.digicult.it/Agency/) in activities like
special projects and curatorials in Italy and worldwide, media partnerships
and special journalistic/critic reports of some important festivals, and is
actually working as curator/promoter of some Italian Audiovisual artists and
designers, presenting their work within some important festivals, galleries,
exhibition, events and cultural centers in Europe and worldwide.
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Marco Mancuso
Digicult Director - Digital Art & Culture
Critic, Curator & Teacher
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