[spectre] Digicult presents: +39:CallForItaly_Cimatics Festival 2007

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"+39: CALL FOR ITALY" @ Cimatics Festival 2007

Live Performances, Video Screenings, Urban Installations from modern Italian 
Electronic Art&Design
Project presented within Cimatics Festival 2007
November 22-24, 2007
Beursschouwburg - Brussels

Project curated by Marco Mancuso with the collaboration of Claudia D'Alonzo 
(Video Screening) for Digicult

http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp
http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc

Digicult is invited with the project +39:CALL FOR ITALY to take part at the 
fifth edition of the international festival Cimatics, one of the most 
important European event in the field of artistic and cultural transactions 
between digital audiovisuals, music, cinema and design. The project will 
focus on the develpoments in Electronic Art, Design and Culture in Italy in 
the last 10-15 years. Within the four days of Cimatics, Digicult will 
collaborate and introduce some of the most experimental and suggestive 
Italian musicians, designers, graphics, video makers, sound artists, vjs and 
audiovisual artists, with projects of Live Cinema (Ogino Knauss), 
Audiovisual live set (Otolab and Quayola), 8bit Audiovisual Show 
(Postalmarket/Daniele Lazzarin) and Vjset (Kinotek) and with a Video 
Screening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo of some of the most talented Italian 
video makers, video artists and graphic designer. Digicult will present also 
the Italian duo of architects and designers Limiteazero, called by Belgian 
designers collective Lab[au] to create an audiovisual urban installation for 
their Doxia Tower curating project "Spectraum".

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by Marco Mancuso

Following the Italian cultural tradition in design and project, extending it 
to the ultimate forms of audiovisual art and creativity linked to the usage 
of new and digital media, the exhibition "+39" wants to be a breathing space 
on the artistic evolution of some among the most representative protagonists 
of the most recent Italian electronic scene.

Without any celebratory ambition, conscious of the intrinsic value of the 
presented works, the exhibition "+39", articulated through a series of 
performances, video exhibits and urban installations, is the first 
retrospective on those artists, musicians, designers, videomakers, vjs and 
programmers who, in the last 10-15 years in Italy, have consciously 
developed languages and easthetics within an ever-changing and spreading 
cultural ambit.

"+39" is therefore the first opportunity, within a prestigious international 
context such as the Cimatics Festival in Brussels, for a whole movement of 
professional Italian creatives working in the digital domain to get together 
and be acknowledged as a proper 'scene'. The term is abused of, loved and 
hated, still it is indicative of a cultural-artistic current, of common 
ideological-creative grounds that unite human and professional experiences, 
contexts and ambits that are sometimes very far apart. The Italian scene is 
ready for international confrontation. Far from being exhaustive, "+39" 
wants to uncover the existence of a movement, show an imagery, highlight 
work and project methods that are linked to the country and its 
protagonists.

The conscious spectator shall then recognize traces of Italian 
documentaristic and video-activist tradition in the live-cinema-vjing 
project Urban Skin by pioneering collective Ogino-Knauss, an art-project 
coming from a long exploration practice of urban global space, inquiring the 
semanthic value of the city as a communicating surfaces system: a test of 
"urban dermatology" in a form of Live Media. Internationally representing 
Italian design applied to new technologies, code, audiovisual research and 
interactivity, both Op7 - an audiovisual performance by the Otolab 
collective reinterpreting optical art with a strongly synaesthetic approach 
that links electronic music and visual scenography - and the urban 
intervention at the Doxia tower by Limiteazero - duo of 
designer-architects - feature an approach which is strongly linked to the 
project with an open reference to graphic design.

Moreover, Quayola, Kinotek and the duo Postal M at arket/Daniele Lazzarin show 
how - each with their own style - graphic design, video, electronic music 
and videogames have evolved thanks to the crossover between academic and 
underground cultural ambits. Graphic design, digital animation, 
game-consolle hacking, djing and vjing improvisation are the main issues in 
the live audiovisual project Path to Abstraction by Davide Quagliola, in the 
vjsets by Mattia Casalegno and in the 8-bit audiovisual easthetics of 
Giuseppe and Daniele Lazzarin.

Digicult's project at Cimatics is rounded off by a rich and varied video 
screening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo, member of the collective and 
editorial staff of Digicult. The potentialities of the screening reside in 
the ample and complete vision of all forms of creativity associated to 
videomaking, videoclips, audiovisual synaesthesy, research, graphic 
animation and illustration. Niko Stumpo, Fabio Franchino, Blu, Mylicon/en, 
Zimmerfrei, Hfr-Lab, Progetto Antenna, Virgilio, Vinz Beschi, 47th Floor, 
Elec are some of the featured artists within a project that will eventually 
be released on DVD.

One last word to thank all those at Cimatics, for the opportunity given to 
Italian artists and to Digicult as cultural operator, for having allowed 
space to "+39", a self-promoted project which decides to move independently 
at an international level in a situation of absolute lack of institutional, 
political, public and private support, acknowledgement and funding. In a 
country which is culturally far behind, unable to give value to its own 
resources, amidst the objective difficulties of everyday professional life, 
among the choices of a whole generation, a digital and electronic cultural 
scene is born, in spite of everything. Let us pay the necessary tribute.

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Presentation Text: http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp
Video Screening Text: 
http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc
Live Performances Infos: http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeLive.pdf
Video Screening Infos: 
http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeVideoScreening.pdf

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DIGICULT is a cultural project involved in digital culture and electronic 
arts. DigiCult project is directed by Marco Mancuso and based on the active 
participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide 
Italian network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field 
of electronic culture. And on a multitude of updated strategies around new 
media communication and networking activities. DigiCult is a web portal but 
is 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 an electronic music 
and audiovisual podcast and the newsletter international service DigiNews. 
DigiCult is involved in side-activities like media partnerships and 
journalistic/critic reports, consultancy and curatorial activities and 
Italian artists international promotion.

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