[Spectre]DigiMade: the new DigiCult agency_+39:Call for Italy at Nemo 2008

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DIGIMADE:
THE NEW DIGICULT AGENCY

http://www.digicult.it/agency


At the beginning of its fourth year of activity, Digicult is proud to 
present its new side project, DigiMade, the first cultural and artistic 
agency promoting Italian digital artists worldwide. DigiMade is a part of 
the Digicult platform, including the web portal, the monthly magazine 
DigiMag, the audiovisual podcast DigiPod and the newsletter service DigiNews



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>From its birth, Digicult had the chance to collaborate with some national 
and international partners, in the field of electronic arts and culture, 
both as curator and media partner and consultant. Some of partnserhips and 
curatiorial project followed during this period were with festivals like 
Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Sonar (Barcelona), Elektra (Montreal), Mixed Media 
(Milan), Optronica (London), Strp (EIndhoven), Todaysart (Den Haag), 
Dissonanze (Rome), Netmage (Bologna), Ixem (Palermo), Peam (Pescara) and 
many others..



Thanks to this net of contacts and collaborations weaved during last two 
years, Digicult has decided to start a professional path to valorize Italian 
digital artists internationally, in the field of audiovisual art, 
interaction and urban design, graphic animation, electronic music and 
experimental video art. Working as an agency, DigiMade promotes and 
organizes the work of some well-known experimental artists of the Italian 
panorama, starting with Otolab, Quayola, Kinotek, Zimmerfrei, Mylicon/en, 
and promotes the critic and research activity of the members of its Network. 
With critical sense and curatorial attitude, DigiMade acts as a cultural 
bridge between Italy and the rest of the world, because of the lack of 
Culture Institution in charge of this work and because of a total absence of 
help and funding by Institutions.



Within its critic, curatorial, networking and journalistic activity, 
Digicult had finally the possibility to develop specific projects, that will 
be part of the DigiMade activity in the next future. "+39:Call for Italy" is 
just the last one in order of time, produced for the Cimatics festival 2007 
in Brussels: it is a format that goes from live performances to 
installations and videoscreenings about the relationships between 
Audiovisual art and Design with the aim to promote the Italian rich 
tradition internationally.


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+39: CALL FOR ITALY
Live Performances, Video Screenings, Installations from modern Italian
Electronic Art & Design

http://www.digicult.it/en/2008/+39CallforItaly.asp

Nemo Festival 2008
10th - 20th of April 2008
Élysées Biarritz - Paris
http://www.arcadi.fr/rendezvous/rv.php?id=1
http://www.arcadi.fr/telechargements/nemo_2008.pdf

Project curated by Marco Mancuso with the collaboration of Claudia D'Alonzo 
(video screening)

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Featuring:
otolab - op7
Mylicon/En - Put down the gun
Quayola - Path to abstraction
Videoscreening
Presentation


Program:
+39 VideoScreening (curated by Claudia D'Alonzo): friday 11th of April 21.00 
hrs

Presentation +39 (curated by Marco Mancuso): friday 11th of April 22.00 hrs

Live Set Quayola ("Path to Abstraction"): friday 11th of April 22.45 hrs
Live Set Otolab ("op7"): friday 11th April 23.45 hrs

Live Set Mylicon/En ("Put down the gun"): saturday 12th of April 22.15 hrs




Texts:
Presentation Text (curated by Marco Mancuso): 
http://www.digicult.it/public/+39CallForItaly_ENG.doc
Video Screening Text (curated by Claudia D'Alonzo): 
http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc
Video Screening Infos: 
http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeVideoScreening.pdf

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After the European Premiere at Cimatics festival in Brussels last November 
2007, Digicult will present the project +39:Call for Italy at the 
international festival Nemo in Paris, curated by the cultural association 
Arcadi from 10th to 20th of April 2008, one of the most important European 
meeting related to artistic and cultural transtitions between audiovisuals, 
music, cinema and design with digital tools. The project focuses on the 
develpoments in Electronic Art, Design and Culture in Italy in the last 10 
years. With the project +39:Call for Italy, Digicult introduces some of the 
most experimental and suggestive Italian musicians, designers, graphic 
animators, video makers, sound artists, vjs and audiovisual artists, with 
projects of Live Cinema (Mylicon/En), Audiovisual Live Sets (Otolab and 
Quayola) and with a Video Screening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo of some of 
the most talented Italian video makers, video artists and graphic designer. 
The project is finally enriched with a keynote lecture/presentation by Marco 
Mancuso about +39:Call for Italy concept and the developments of the 
presented Digital Art forms in Italy


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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 the 
first wide Italian network of journalists, curators, artists and critics 
working in the field of electronic culture and digital art. Translated in 
English, DigiCult is today a web portal updated daily with news and 
informations, 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 partnerships for festivals and exhibitions, 
curatorial projects and special productions, and is now working for Italian 
artists international promotion through the new born art agency DigiMade.

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www.digicult.it/digimag
www.digicult.it/podcast
www.digicult.it/agency
www.digicult.it/en/Credits