[spectre] Digicult: the new platform is online

[Redazione Digicult]

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DIGICULT 3.0 IS READY
WE ARE ONLINE WITH THE NEW PLATFORM
http://www.digicult.it/

Finally, after so much time and such hard work, the new platform is ready.
A new website to better browse all our old contents and to deeply share the
new ones: interviews, essays, reports, calls, books, news & more. The
Archive of our past projects, curatorships and partnerships, and an
overview to new online and offline Services. The launch of 3 new
activities: the Digimag Journal, the Digicult Agency and the Online
Publishing service. Let's check our new Board, the Editorial Staff, our
Partners, the Artists involved and the Network Authors profiles. Any
feedbacks and comments will be welcome, and thanks for your never ending
support.

More news about the first Call for Papers by the new Digimag Journal, soon.
Stay tuned...

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Since 2005, Digicult has been a cultural platform that examines the impact
of digital technologies and sciences on the arts, design, culture and
contemporary society. Marco Mancuso, critic, teacher and curator, founded
and currently directs Digicult, based on the active participation of over
50 professionals that represent an national and international wide Network
of journalists, critics, curators, artists, theorists, and professionals.

Digicult was born to give voice and visibility to a new generation of
interdisciplinary authors, expand their circuits into an international
context, and simultaneously break the existing inflexible publishing rules
of the press, by exploiting potentialities of the Web, and its free
networks in order to grow, to survive and to spread.

Currently, Digicult is a web platform updated daily by its editorial staff
whose main activity is based on the collection and publication of news of
events, festivals, meetings, workshops and exhibitions at the international
level, announcements and calls for artists, researchers and professionals,
book publications, presentations of artistic and research projects. In
addition, it produces interviews to the protagonists of the arts scene,
reports from the most significant events and critical and theoretical
in-depth articles related to the impact of digital technologies on the
arts, design and contemporary society. More than 2000 articles (interviews,
reports and insights) produced in recent years by Digicult, are collected
in its archive section collecting its content by author names and specific
issues, providing a unique online resource for researchers, academics,
scholars or simply enthusiasts.

In recent years, Digicult has given special importance to the creation of
an internal circuit of professionals and an external network of contacts
and professional relationships with artists, designers, schools, festivals,
publishers, galleries, museums, media centers and institutions dealing with
research, development, production, and exposition of creativity through
digital technologies. So, using specific communication tools such as the
Web Platform, the Newsletter Service and Social Networks, Digicult provides
several support activities to facilitate online communication and media
partnerships for cultural and artistic events. Working also as a of press
office, Digicult is able to furnish media coverage of events and to
develope special editorial projects with external partners.

The Digicult Agency promotes and organizes the work of selected
international media and A/V artists, presenting their work in Europe and
worldwide. In the last years, Digicult has been having the possibility to
collaborate with national and international partners, working with art and
cultural institutions, festivals and events, media centers, art galleries
and exhibitions, schools and academies and online platforms. Working side
by side with all its partners, Digicult Agency has been developing
exhibitions and concerts, special events, workshops, lectures and
screenings, seminars and round tables, involving also the Digicult Network
members and their backgrounds, theoretical studies and professional
experiences. This international Digicult Network is made of selected
professionals and academics, such as educators, journalists, curators,
artists, theorists, practioners and critics, with a track record of
research, academic and professional  practice in the fields of contemporary
digital arts, design and culture.

Today Digicult is a Cultural Association with an Editorial Board (Marco
Mancuso, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Bertram Niessen, Roberta Buiani & Claudia
D'Alonzo) and an Editorial Staff (Alessandra Saviotti, Silvia Bertolotti &
Giulia Tonucci), working in the field of contemporary creativity and
cultural avant-gardes dedicated to the research at the crossroad between
technologies, sciences and tactical use of media; it is currently engaged
in developing a new production strategy, Digicult Publishing, whose goal is
to be more active in the publication of critical and theoretical essays
commissioned to international authors, university theses of special
interest, publications edited in collaboration with other national and
international publishers, as well as peer-reviewed publication with
institutional partners.

All these activities have allowed Digicult to initiate the development of a
new sustainable economy, operating independently and autonomously from any
form of institutional or private support.
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Marco Mancuso | Digicult Director
Critic, Curator and Professor
http://www.digicult.it
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