[spectre] Digicult: new home page release

[Redazione Digicult]

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DIGICULT
The new home page release

http://www.digicult.it/en
http://www.digicult.it

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[THE PORTAL]

DIGICULT enters its third year of life with a gift for all its readers, 
critics and detractors: a brand new home page that collects and emphasizes 
all contents and all activities carried out by the Network and opens doors 
to future developments regarding sharing and dissemination by means of new 
technological platforms.

Beside being the usual critical observatory (run by Silvia Scaravaggi and 
Claudia D'Alonzo of the editorial office) with news and information on 
national and international digital art, Digicult updates its portal, thanks 
to Luca Restifo's constant and valuable technical work, with the following 
services:

:: WHAT'S NEW ON DIGICULT: information on supervision and partnership 
activities by Digicult and its agency Digimade;
:: INTERVIEWS: list of the best interviews by Digimag;
:: IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS: list of the best critical articles published on 
Digimag;
:: REPORTS: list of the best reports of festivals and exhibition selcted by 
Digimag;
:: FLICKER PAGE & SLIDESHOW: the best images by Digimag's account Flicker;
:: VIMEO PAGE: the best videos by Digicult's account Vimeo;
:: DIGIMAG: archives of Digimag's past editions;
:: PARTNERSHIPS: Digicult's actual and past media partnerships;
:: CALLS: national and international most interesting calls for artists and 
event supervisors;
:: SONAR RADIO: 24/7 electronic music radio.

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[THE MAGAZINE]

Digicult's activity as publisher of the monthly online magazine DIGIMAG, 
which has discussed and deepened for 35 issues by now all themes related to 
national and international digital art, continues: from net art to video 
art, from hacktivism to performing art, from software art to electronics, 
from audio-video to interaction design, from new media to A.I.

The magazine keeps an eye, month after month, on the main events, the most 
interesting works, the most successful and the most promising artists, the 
principal tendencies, the most topical themes in the field of digital 
culture and electronic arts; all reported through editorials, 
recommendations, in-depth analysis and interviews to national and 
international electronic scene protagonists.

www.digicult.it/digimag

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[THE PODCAST & NEWSLETTER]

Besides, Digicult continues its international service of electronic music 
podcast and audiovisual works DIGIPOD, supervised by Giuseppe Cordaro and 
boasting Alessandro Descovi's new layout, which houses audio and video 
contents coming from a large and fertile international community of artists, 
musicians, independent net labels.

The number of users joining our periodical newsletter service DIGINEWS is 
growing constantly and at present consists of a composite and selected 
community of over 5000 people interested in contemporary digital art and 
culture.

www.digicult.it/podcast

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[THE ART AGENCY]

Finally, by means of the newborn agency DIGIMADE, Digicult is always 
involved in a series of collateral activities, such as media partnerships, 
critical and journalistic reports on festival and exhibitions, supervising 
projects in Italy and abroad, acting also as supervisor/promoter for Italian 
and international artists, through the enhancement of their works within the 
main European and international festivals, events, platforms and cultural 
centres connected to digital technologies and electronics.

www.digicult.it/agency

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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


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[GENERAL DIRECTION]:

- Marco Mancuso - concept, editing, direction and design

[EDITORIAL STAFF]:

- Luca Restifo - programming

- Silvia Scaravaggi - editing news

- Claudia D'Alonzo - press office

- Giuseppe Cordaro & Alessandro Descovi - 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

[TRANSLATIONS]:

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