[spectre] Stand By: Service Announcement. New platform online in April.

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DIGICULT STAND BY: SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW PLATFORM ONLINE IN APRIL
http://www.digicult.it/en/2012/LetterStandBy.asp


The most loyal among our readers will have surely noticed something was
going on. For several weeks the publication of articles and updates on the
Digicult portal, as well as our activities on social networks, have
interrupted their schedule.

The reason is simple: we are working on the new platform!

A brand new website, developed and improved on the graphic aspects, but
especially when navigating the huge amount of content that have been
created in this significant adventure that has lasted 6 long years.

An operation that has been wondering in the air for several months now,
daughter of constantly more urgent editorial needs and the determination to
offer our readers an always better cultural tool, continuosly updating,
according to the dictates of Web 2.0. This is a project that may be an
important reference point for professionals, critics, curators, artists,
designers, researchers and enthusiasts.

For this reason a beautiful chapter closes, leaving space to open another,
again, that will take shape in the coming month of April. The reasons that
lead us to develop what, in our intention is a quantum leap, are
essentially linked to the desire to give birth to a cultural project,
definitelly more complex and qualitatively better than what has been
produced until now.

This happens always with strong independence from institutions and private
investors. A project that we like to call "cultural activism", innervated
permanently within the international circuit. A project that soon will
require your help.

With the publication of the English version of Digimag n. 72 of March, our
monthly magazine will go on standby.

The contents of the classic magazine (interviews, reports and theoretical
studies) will become part of the portal Digicult, which will always be
produced by our network of authors and with the contributions of a real
editorial structure. To this will be added the usual news, reports on books
and theoretical texts, professional calls, a range of Self Publishing
services and editorial collaborations that will increase the cultural
proposal of Digicult.

The main intention is to transform Digimag in a Journal, with real call for
papers, to follow directly from our Board, open to the entire global
community of "media studies". A new publishing project, on a quarterly
basis, with an even larger capacity.

Without forgetting the usual curatorial consulting, communication and
agency activities. In fact, gradually we will start again the collaboration
with artists and professionals in the Network, promoting their work within
the international circuit of festivals, media centers, galleries and
cultural spaces that Digicult has been able to create in the course of
these last, rich years.

We ask you to be patient for a little while. If we are silent, it is to be
then much noisier than before. Let's wait for us....


Marco Mancuso
Executive Director
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