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///Digicult International Press Release///

Born 5 years ago, the Digicult project has been able to achieve, step by 
step, a significant role, both nationally and internationally, in the fields 
of reviews and on-line publishing, having focused on digital culture and art 
as well as, in broader terms, the impact new technologies and modern 
sciences have had on art, design, culture and contemporary society.

In order to discover some more about Digicult, as well as in order to better 
understand its origins and its future aims, various interviews have been 
published on-line recently by some well-known, on-line, international 
cultural projects:

  a.. the interview by Annette Wolfsfberger on the multilanguage website Lab 
For Culture 
(http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents/research-in-focus/cultural-blogging-in-europe/interview-with-marco-mancuso-digicult), 
the networking platform which allows people to always be up to date on the 
subjects of art and European culture as well as to establish professional 
co-operation beyond any boundary.

  b.. the interview by Ana Ascencio on the Elektra Festival Blog 
(http://blog.elektramontreal.ca/index.php?/archives/470-Interview-Marco-Mancuso-directeur-de-Digicult.html), 
one of the most important and long-lasting international festivals of 
electronic and audiovisual art

  c.. the interview by Ana Carvalho on VjTheory 
(http://www.vjtheory.net/interviews/marco.htm) website, a cultural platform 
and on-line community of digital and audiovisual art

Born in January 2005, based on an idea of Marco Mancuso, art critic and 
curator, the project, which has been a multi-platform project (portal, 
magazine, podcast, newsletter and agency) right from the very beginning, has 
been characterised by a strong will to work within the net and by the 
sharing and mix of knowledge and disciplines. Its core depends also on a 
strong desire to create a vast network in Italy of professional people and 
artists, working together to give life to it and to enhance it, a large and 
complex editorial and cultural project strongly linked to 
contemporaneousness.

Thanks to the experience and professionalism of the first artists and 
collaborators involved in the project, Digicult (http://www.digicult.it/en/) 
has been able to expand and enrich itself, on the one hand, letting the new 
generation of reviewers, curators and journalists who work in Italy in the 
fields of art, design, society and technology congregate; on the other, 
interacting with various Institutions, Festivals, Cultural Centres, 
Exhibition Centres and Academies both in Italy and internationally in order 
to promote curatorial and artistic projects.

Digicult today is a cultural platform, both on-line and off-line, firmly 
based on the active participation of more than 40 professional people, 
representing the first broad network, in Italy, made up of journalists, 
curators, reviewers and artists who work in the field of digital art and 
culture. It is a web-portal, updated daily, with news and analyses regarding 
the world of the new media art. In it there are calls for artists, reviews, 
theoretical texts and articles, relevant links and artistic projects. It is 
a project deeply connected to the net and the web 2.0 dynamics which is also 
related to some Rss Feed available for the users as well as some tools like 
Facebook, Flicker, Delicious, Vimeo, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Digicult is also the editor of Digimag 
(http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/), a monthly magazine which covers some 
artistic and cultural issues like internet art, hacktivism, video-art, 
electronic music, audio-video, design, art and science, new media, software 
art and performing art, as relevant subjects of its critical and 
journalistic approach.

Digicult produces a podcast of electronic music and audiovisuals, Digipod 
(http://www.digicult.it/podcast/). It is related to the net-labels world as 
well as the one of on-line independent audiovisual production. It has its 
own international Diginews newsletter system.

Digicult is, moreover, involved in some collateral activities managed by 
Digimade (http://www.digicult.it/Agency/). Through its press-office it is 
able to activate media partnerships for festivals and shows, both nationally 
and internationally, thanks to the huge amount of contacts in the field of 
contemporary art, digital art and design, as well as some special projects 
and curatorships in Italy and abroad. Digimade is the tool with which 
Digicult, involving each time every single member of the network, works on 
specific curatorial projects like events, exhibitions, seminars, workshops 
and festivals as well as editorial projects of catalogues and articles. It 
updates its professional contacts in Italy as well as abroad day by day

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Marco Mancuso
Digicult - Digital Art & Culture
Critic, Curator & Consultant
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Digicult Founder and Director
Naba Academy, Laba and Supsi Teacher
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Via Thaon di Revel 9
20159, Milan - Italy
Mob. +39.340.8371816
skype. sostakovich