[Syndicate]:::DIGICULT:::ENJOY THE DIGITAL CULTURE

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Dear all,

I would like to introduce myself to the list. I'm Marco Mancuso, new media
art journalist, curator and critic. I live and work in Milan, Italy and I
would like to introduce you the cultural and editorial project DIGICULT
(http://www.digicult.it) that I founded at the beginning of 2005. It's the
first Italian web portal about electronic arts and digital culture and it's
deep involved in the pubblication of the first monthly e-magazine called
DIGIMAG (http://www.digicult.it/digimag) speaking about: netart, hacktivism,
software art, video art, electronica, audiovideo, artificial intelligence,
new media, performing art, interaction design.  DIGICULT is also the first=
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italian
network of almost 30 people and 10 huge italian communities and projects
collaborating to the magazine and the portal at large; some the best italian
journalists, curators, critics and professionists of the growing and
spreading new media culture in Italy. We would like to be the first
cultural-editorial activist network project in Italy, completely
indipendent, no dipending from any owner, writing and speaking and
discussing and reflecting freely about everything we consider important
today in the world of electronic culture and arts. From September you can
browse DIGICULT also in english at http://www.digicult.it/index_eng.htm

You can read here a deep description of the project DIGICULT and the people
and communities involved

Peace
mk

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DIGICULT is a project of promotion and spreading of digital culture and
electronic arts in Italy. It's based on a web portal, daily updated on
themes:

- Net Art
- Hack Art
- Software Art
- Video Art
- Elettronica
- Audio Video
- Performing Art
- Intelligenza Artificiale
- Interaction Design
- Tech Media

DIGICULT is the pubblisher of the monthly e-magazine DIGIMAG
about electronic culture and digital arts

DIGICULT is a professional reality made by different people, artists and
freelancers that have experience in digital culture and electronic arts, and
also in this border land that is communication through new media. Around a
bunch of people working at editing process, concept, design and project
ideation, there are some freelancers involved in the italian digital
culture, themselves representative of small or bigger net community.

///EDITORIAL STAFF

- Marco Mancuso - concept, design e coordinamento

///COLLABORATORS

- Riccardo Vescovo - design magazine

- Luca Pertegato - design portale

- Luca Restifo - programmazione

- Arianna D'Angelica - immagini

///CONTRIBUTORS

- Luigi Pagliarini - produz. contenuti-Intelligenza Artificiale

- Tatiana Bazzichelli - produz. - Hack Art e Net Art

- Gianluca Del Gobbo - content production - Net Art

- Bertram Niessen - content production - Audiovideo

- Teresa De Feo -content production-Interaction Design

- Miriam Petruzzelli - prod. contenuti - Interaction Design

- Luigi Ghezzi - content production - Tech Media

- Giulia Baldi - produzione contenut - Elettronica

- Simona Brusa - content production-Interaction Design

- Tiziana Gemin - content production-Interaction Design

- Alex Dandi - content production - Elettronica

- Simone Bertuzzi - content production - Elettronica

- Domenico Quaranta - content production-Software Art

- Maria Molinari - content production - Hack Art

- Lorenzo Tripodi - content production - Tech Media

- Massimo Schiavoni -content production-Performing Art

- Mariangela Scalzi - prod. contenuti - Interaction Design

- Monica Ponzini - content production - Video Art

- Domenico Sciajno - content production - Audiovideo

- Valentina Tanni - content production - Software art

- Anna Manteverdi - content production- Performing Art

- Motor - content production - Intelligenza Artificiale

- Isabella Depanis - content production - Video Art

- Beatrice Ferrario - content production - Net Art

- Regine Debatty - content production - Hack Art

- Fabio Franchino - content production - Software Art

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The DIGICULT project is based on the active participation of professional
people who operate in the fields of culture and digital and electronic arts.
Every professional person is involved in a web ommunity formed by other
professional people, artists or just enthusiasts interested in the specific
themes treated by DIGICULT project, i.e. web-art, net-art, hacking,
video-art, electronics, audio-video, interaction design, robotics,
Artificial Intelligence, the new media and technology.

The large number of these communities - with the addition of a DIGICULT
internal community - forms a great number of digital associations, which are
kept constantly informed by the new monthly issue of DIGIMAG magazine of
every activity concerning live events, news and media partnerships. Every
community is called on to actively participate, also with the key
professional people who are directly involved in the project.

- ARTIFICIALIA - Luigi Pagliarini

///Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Artificialia is a cultural association aimed at promoting and protecting
electronic art in Italy through artistic confrontation and far-reaching
cooperation. Artificialia promotes the PEAM (Pescara Electronic Art
Meeting), the yearly meeting of electronic artists.

- AHA - Tatiana Bazzichelli

///Artivism and hacktivism

AHA, Activism-Hacking-Artivism, is a networking project focused on
hacktivism and experimental net art forms. The project was born in 2001. AHA
organizes events and collective exhibitions; it manages a mailing list on
artistic activism and is concerned with the spread of Italian and
international hacktivism.

- OTOLAB - Bertram Niessen

///Audiovideo and electronic music

Otolab is a Milanese group concerned with the audiovisual in live media art,
live electronics, the DJ-ing and VJ-ing fields. Since 2001 the group has
been making significant attempts to integrate audio and video and set up
site-specific performance.

- SHOCKART - Gianluca Del Gobbo

///Netart and audiovideo

The Shockart project was born in 1999 on the initiative of the Vernice
cultural association. Shockart has now become a cultural landmark, and it is
aimed at increasing the value of and spreading digital and web art. This
project is also very close to the Flxer project, a VJ-ing open source
software, which many Italian and European VJ-ing enthusiasts are now using.

- ARCNAUT - Teresa De Feo/Miriam Petruzzelli

///Interaction design

Arcnaut is a laboratory of the imaginary. It is devoted to interactive
installations, the visual arts, robots, artistic, video and design
productions. It originated from an idea of Mario Canali's. As a cultural
centre, it is also involved in the promotion of events that combine
technology and philosophy.

- 48 ORE - Luigi Ghezzi

///Tech media

48 ORE aims to develop digital writing by means of various kinds of literary
performances. The project is animated by six characters, and the main
theatre is represented by certain Italian cities. These characters live and
transcribe their meetings and feelings in real time (48 hours), which become
real metropolitan short stories.

- RISONANZAMAGNETICA/INVERNOMUTO-SimoneBertuzzi

///Electronic music

Since 2003 Risonanza Magnetica has operated as an electronic music server
and mail order supplier. Starting from an original sound and rhythm concept,
RM has become concerned with the most creative hip hop and the most
maddening electronic experiments. Invernomuto, created in 2003, is an
audio-video experimentation group. The group periodically publishes a
magazine called ffww_mag.

- OGI:NO KNAUSS - Lorenzo Tripodi

///Tech media and audiovideo

Since 1995 Ogi:no knauss has been an independent research group concerned
with communications, expression and making over the human environment. It is
mainly a laboratory of mutant cinema, the laboratory constantly researching
new means of expression and ways of communication through performances,
video installations and VJ-ing applications.

- HK-HACKER KULTURE- Maria Molinari

///Hacktivismo

HK-Hacker Kulture is the first Italian web site devoted to hacker culture,
philosophy, art, ethics and history. It was created in July 2002 within the
Dvara.net site. HK contains a great number of data, information, texts,
historical references, projects, fiction and reality. It provides a modern
and updated retrospective view on the hacker culture and its cyberpunk
beginnings.

- ANTITESI - Domenico Sciajno

///Audiovideo and electronic music

Antitesi is a self-documentation research and interdisciplinary development
centre for modern art. Since 1995, it has devised various performing and
promotion events where sound - and sound compared with other arts - plays
the chief role. The latest projects are XS [not_only_sonic_acts] and
Live!iXem, a contest-cum-festival. Sciajno is the creator of Antitesi, and
in 2003 he started IXem, a virtual group formed by artists who conceive
sound as an essential element in electronic experimentation and reflect on
sound in relation to other arts.

- RANDOM - Valentina Tanni

///netart e new media art

Random =E8 dal 2001 una webzine che si occupa di new media art e cultura=20
digitale. Dal 2001 al 2004 Random =E8 stata ospitata all'interno del portal=
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dell'arte Exibart.com. Dopo qualche mese di pausa, =E8 tornato rinnovato,=
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nella forma e nei contenuti, con un sito tutto suo. Tutti i territori della=
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creativit=E0 elettronica ci interessano. Tutte le ibridazioni tra tecnologi=
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idee ci stimolano. Artisti, progetti, festival, dischi, film, conferenze,=
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libri e siti web. Random =E8 anche una community di appassionati, ricercato=
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studiosi e curiosi. Un posto dove condividere idee e conoscenze.

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Marco Mancuso
Redazione Digicult
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www.digicult.it
www.digicult.it/digimag
www.digicult.it/index_eng
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Largo Murani 4, 20100
Milano - Italy
Tel. +39-02-26117166
Mob. +39-340-8371816