[aha] Digicult presents: +39:CallForItaly@Cimatics Festival 2007

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"+39: CALL FOR ITALY" @ Cimatics Festival 2007

Live Performances, Video Screenings, Urban Installations from modern Italian 
Electronic Art&Design
Project presented within Cimatics Festival 2007
November 22-24, 2007
Beursschouwburg - Brussels

Project curated by Marco Mancuso with the collaboration of Claudia D'Alonzo (Video Screening) for Digicult

http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp
http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc

Digicult is invited with the project +39:CALL FOR ITALY to take part at the fifth edition of the international festival Cimatics, one of the most important European event in the field of artistic and cultural transactions between digital audiovisuals, music, cinema and design. The project will focus on the develpoments in Electronic Art, Design and Culture in Italy in the last 10-15 years. Within the four days of Cimatics, Digicult will collaborate and introduce some of the most experimental and suggestive Italian musicians, designers, graphics, video makers, sound artists, vjs and audiovisual artists, with projects of Live Cinema (Ogino Knauss), Audiovisual live set (Otolab and Quayola), 8bit Audiovisual Show (Postalmarket/Daniele Lazzarin) and Vjset (Kinotek) and with a Video Screening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo of some of the most talented Italian video makers, video artists and graphic designer. Digicult will present also the Italian duo of architects and designers Limiteazero, called by Belgian designers collective Lab[au] to create an audiovisual urban installation for their Doxia Tower curating project "Spectraum".

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by Marco Mancuso

Following the Italian cultural tradition in design and project, extending it to the ultimate forms of audiovisual art and creativity linked to the usage of new and digital media, the exhibition "+39" wants to be a breathing space on the artistic evolution of some among the most representative protagonists of the most recent Italian electronic scene.

Without any celebratory ambition, conscious of the intrinsic value of the presented works, the exhibition "+39", articulated through a series of performances, video exhibits and urban installations, is the first retrospective on those artists, musicians, designers, videomakers, vjs and programmers who, in the last 10-15 years in Italy, have consciously developed languages and easthetics within an ever-changing and spreading cultural ambit.

"+39" is therefore the first opportunity, within a prestigious international context such as the Cimatics Festival in Brussels, for a whole movement of professional Italian creatives working in the digital domain to get together and be acknowledged as a proper 'scene'. The term is abused of, loved and hated, still it is indicative of a cultural-artistic current, of common ideological-creative grounds that unite human and professional experiences, contexts and ambits that are sometimes very far apart. The Italian scene is ready for international confrontation. Far from being exhaustive, "+39" wants to uncover the existence of a movement, show an imagery, highlight work and project methods that are linked to the country and its protagonists.

The conscious spectator shall then recognize traces of Italian documentaristic and video-activist tradition in the live-cinema-vjing project Urban Skin by pioneering collective Ogino-Knauss, an art-project coming from a long exploration practice of urban global space, inquiring the semanthic value of the city as a communicating surfaces system: a test of "urban dermatology" in a form of Live Media. Internationally representing Italian design applied to new technologies, code, audiovisual research and interactivity, both Op7 - an audiovisual performance by the Otolab collective reinterpreting optical art with a strongly synaesthetic approach 
that links electronic music and visual scenography - and the urban intervention at the Doxia tower by Limiteazero - duo of designer-architects - feature an approach which is strongly linked to the project with an open reference to graphic design.

Moreover, Quayola, Kinotek and the duo Postal M at rket/Daniele Lazzarin show how - each with their own style - graphic design, video, electronic music 
and videogames have evolved thanks to the crossover between academic and underground cultural ambits. Graphic design, digital animation, game-consolle hacking, djing and vjing improvisation are the main issues in the live audiovisual project Path to Abstraction by Davide Quagliola, in the vjsets by Mattia Casalegno and in the 8-bit audiovisual easthetics of Postal M at rket and Daniele Lazzarin.

Digicult's project at Cimatics is rounded off by a rich and varied video screening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo, member of the collective and editorial staff of Digicult. The potentialities of the screening reside in the ample and complete vision of all forms of creativity associated to videomaking, videoclips, audiovisual synaesthesy, research, graphic animation and illustration. Niko Stumpo, Fabio Franchino, Blu, Mylicon/en, Zimmerfrei, Hfr-Lab, Progetto Antenna, Virgilio, Vinz Beschi, 47th Floor, Elec are some of the featured artists within a project that will eventually be released on DVD.

One last word to thank all those at Cimatics, for the opportunity given to Italian artists and to Digicult as cultural operator, for having allowed space to "+39", a self-promoted project which decides to move independently at an international level in a situation of absolute lack of institutional, political, public and private support, acknowledgement and funding. In a country which is culturally far behind, unable to give value to its own resources, amidst the objective difficulties of everyday professional life, among the choices of a whole generation, a digital and electronic cultural scene is born, in spite of everything. Let us pay the necessary tribute.

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Presentation Text: http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp
Video Screening Text: http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc
Live Performances Infos: http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeLive.pdf
Video Screening Infos: http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeVideoScreening.pdf

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DIGICULT is a cultural project involved in digital culture and electronic arts. 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 in the field of electronic culture. And on a multitude of updated strategies around new media communication and networking activities. DigiCult is a web portal but is 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 an electronic music and audiovisual podcast and the newsletter international service DigiNews. DigiCult is involved in side-activities like media partnerships and journalistic/critic reports, consultancy and curatorial activities and Italian artists international promotion.

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