[spectre] Digicult_Digimag 49 / November 2009_english version online

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Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG  49 / NOVEMBER 2009
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 some interesting scenarios about the future of the 
body, most of them generating contestable futures. So, I'm not suggesting 
some kind of utopian sci-fi futures for the human body, but the human body, 
for example, unexpectedly has recently become the host for its machines. 
Increasingly technology has become microminiaturized and it is now being 
safely inserted inside the body. At a nanotechnology scale, the technology 
will be able to re-colonize the human body. So, now we are colonized by 
bacteria and viruses: in the future will be re-colonized by machines, 
sensors and nanorobots. And this is a quite a plausible scenario. Instead of 
the Japanese manga, sci-fi external extensions of the body through 
exoskeletons - that I have done - perhaps the future of the body will be a 
future with the body itself becomes the host for its machines and all 
technology of the future will be invisible because will be inside of the 
body. This is a possible scenario, but there are many others..."

Stelarc, from "Stelarc's extrabody: the technologic chimera" by Serena 
Cangiano

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[INTERVIEWS]:

- STELARC
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1641  - by Serena Cangiano

- SCOTT ARFORD
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1633 - by Claudia D'Alonzo & 
Marco Mancuso

- SOSOLIMITED
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1649 - by Marco Mancuso

- BOONE OAKLEY
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1643 - by Giulia Simi

- TEATRINO ELETTRICO PIGRECO
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1638 - by Marco Mancuso

[REPORTS]:

- FUTURE PLACES
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1645 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli

- ALMOST CINEMA 09
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1634 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli

- ART FUTURA 2009
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1635 - by Barbara Sansone

- FROM FRIEZE TO ED RUSHA
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1646 - by Stefano Raimondi

- REFF/REWF
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1640 - by Penelope.di.Pixel

- ISTITUTO CIID COPENHAGEN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1636 - by Elena Gianni

[FEATURING]:

- WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1647 - by Annamaria Monteverdi

- KENNETH ANGER
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1651 - by Francesco Bertocco

- JOY ITO
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1637 - by Giulia Baldi

- TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INNOVATION
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1650 - by Alessandra Migani

- EMERGENCIA / AGENZIA EMERGENTE
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1644 - by Micha Cardenas & 
Felipe Zuniga

[THEMES]:

- CLIMATTIVISTA!
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1639 - by Alex Foti

- IN PRINCIPIO FU LA CIBERNETICA
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1642 - by Teresa De Feo

- CAM GIRLS AND SEX ON SECOND LIFE: A REPORT
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1648 - by Marco Riciputi

[COVER]:

Ryoichi Kurokawa live visuals

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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, Tiziana Gemin, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia 
Bianchi, Francesca Valsecchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia 
Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Alessandra Migani, Alessio 
Galbiati, Giuseppe Cordaro, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli, Davide 
Anni,Donata Marletta, Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi, 
Otherehto, Carla Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Gianni, Matteo Milani, 
Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Marvin Milanese, 
Penelope.di.pixel, Alex Foti, Serena Cangiano

[TRANSLATIONS]:

Emanuela Cassol, Luisa Bertolatti, Monica Fontana, Francesca Lattanzi, 
Margerita Castelli, Giulia Tiddens, Sara Cavagna, Valeria Grillo

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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 about, who represent the first wide 
Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field 
of digital art and culture. DIGICULT is today a web portal updated daily 
with many news from all over the world, with calls for artists, with events 
and projects highlights, links, reviews and theoretical texts. DIGICULT is 
also the editor of the monthly magazine DIGIMAG 
(www.digicult.it/digimag_en/index), which focuses, with a critic and 
journalistic approach, on some important cultural and artistic issues like 
net art, hacktivism, video art, electronica, audio video, interaction 
design, artificial intelligence, new media, software art, performing art. 
DIGICULT produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD
www.digicult.it/podcast), linked to the world of the netlabels and 
indipendent audiovisual productions online, and has also its own newsletter 
international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved with the art 
agency DIGIMADE (www.digicult.it/agency) in activities like special projects 
and curatorial 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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