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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sorry for any
crosspostings<BR><BR><BR>"+39: CALL FOR ITALY" @ Cimatics Festival
2007<BR><BR>Live Performances, Video Screenings, Urban Installations from modern
Italian <BR>Electronic Art&Design<BR>Project presented within Cimatics
Festival 2007<BR>November 22-24, 2007<BR>Beursschouwburg -
Brussels<BR><BR>Project curated by Marco Mancuso with the collaboration of
Claudia D'Alonzo (Video Screening) for Digicult<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>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".<BR><BR>--------------<BR><BR>by Marco Mancuso<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>"+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.<BR><BR>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 <BR>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.<BR><BR>Moreover, Quayola,
Kinotek and the duo Postal M@rket/</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Daniele</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> Lazzarin show how -
each with their own style - graphic design, video, electronic music <BR>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@rket and Daniele
Lazzarin.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>Presentation Text: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/En/2007/+39CallforItaly.asp</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Video Screening Text: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/TestoVideoScreening_ENG.doc</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Live Performances Infos: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeLive.pdf"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeLive.pdf</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Video Screening Infos: </FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeVideoScreening.pdf"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/public/SchedeVideoScreening.pdf</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>-----------<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/en"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/en</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/podcast/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.digicult.it/podcast/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.digicult.it/en/Credits.asp"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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