26 Sep 2009

New Digimag 47 / September 2009 Issue Now online!

Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG 47 / SEPTEMBER 2009
www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp

The archive section, past articles and issues:
www.digicult.it/en/Archive/

The updated list of authors and critics
www.digicult.it/en/credits.asp

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Semptember Issue of Digimag is online. Digimag is a monthly magazine of digital art and culture pubblished by Digicult

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'...When I lived in Holland I tried to make a medialab. I find the idea of a medialab connected to a fixed place is a bit archaic, a bit dated. Personally, I don't want to criticise other forms of practice in medialabs, but I'm very interested in transitory situations. I'm interested in creating multi-use areas that are quick and temporarily autonomous. In creating a transitory situation like 'let's do something quick, in on week', you must not worry about the problem of being continuously eco-friendly or about long-term issues. For example, in the 80's there were many initiatives, now they have stopped and they keep sucking up locations, money and oxygen. I've seen a lot of situations like these and they bore me, as well as being a complete waste. I believe that to create temporarily autonomous situations is more exciting. It's a way to use the best elements of existing organisations, to take portions of them, configure them and make the next step...'.

Derek Holzter
'Sommercamp+Workstation. Temporary autonomous culture'
by Valeria Merlini

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[INTERVIEWS]

- ROBERT LIPPOK -
by Alessandra Migani

- BALINT BOLIGO'-
by Silvia Scaravaggi

- ALESSANDRO GILIOLI -
by Marco Mancuso

- FLUID FORMS -
by Elena Granulla

- DEREK HOLTZER -
by Valeria Merlini

- GEORGIA TAGLIETTI -
by Giulia Baldi

- APPARATI EFFIMERI -
by Marvin Milanese

- ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI -
by Massimo Schiavoni

[REPORTS]

- MARINA ABRAMOVIC PRESENTS: -
by Donata Marletta

- CONTOUR 2009 -
by Lucrezia Cippitelli

- SUMMERLAB -
by Barbara Sansone

- SPUTNIK OBSERVATORY -
by Monica Ponzini

[FEATURING]

- DEREK JARMAN -
by Francesco Bertocco

- KRYSZTOF WODICZKO -
by Silvia Casini

- FAKEPRESS -
by Penelope.di.Pixel

- THE ART OF SUBVERSION -
by Antonio Caronia

[THEMES]

- NON-LOCALITY PHENOMENON -
by Jeremy Levine

- E-PARTECIPATION -
by Luigi Ghezzi

[COVER]

- Toys'R'Us wall shop, New York City -
Photo by Marco Mancuso

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[EDITORIAL STAFF]

- Marco Mancuso - director
- Claudia D'Alonzo - press office
- Luca Restifo - technical consultancy
- Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design
- Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, 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 Granulla, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Philippa Barr, Marvin Milanese, Penelope.di.pixel

[TRANSLATIONS]

Emanuela Cassol, Chiara Resmini, Luisa Bertolatti, Monica Fontana, Philippa Barr, Giulia Tiddens, Sara Cavagna, Valeria Grillo

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DIGICULT (www.digicult.it/en) is an Italian cultural platform and a Network of critics, curators, artists, teachers, created to critically focus on digital art and culture. DIGICULT focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is founded and 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_eng/index.asp), 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.