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Digicult from 2005 has being an online/offline cultural and editorial platform which focuses on the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 50 professional people, who represent a wide Network of journalists, curators, artists, theorists, practioneers and critics. Digicult is also the editor of the monthly magazine Digimag, which focuses on some cultural, productive and artistic issues like: networking, hacktivism, video art, sound art, audiovideo, design, art+science, new media, software art and performing art with a critic and journalistic approach. Digicult produces an
electronic music and audiovisual podcast, Digipod, linked to the world of netlabels and independent audiovisual productions online, and also has its own international newsletter service Diginews. Digicult is also involved with the art agency Digimade in activities like special projects and curatorials 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.

Digicult Website
Magazine Digimag
Digipod Podcast
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Marco Mancuso is new media art critic, curator, journalist and teacher, expert of the impact of digital, interactive, software and open source technologies on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Founder and Director at Digicult project and Digimag magazine, Marco Mancuso focuses his researches on the connection between sound, light, image & space, with an historical/theoretical point of view, among a cross-disciplinary territory crossing art, cinema, music, design, architecture & science. As Digicult director, Marco Mancuso has been also expertising and skilling in the last years on networking strategies, online marketing & comunication developments and web 2.0 editing & journalistic activities. With the art-agency Digimade he is working for international art festivals, galleries, cultural and media centers as guest curator and media partner, organizing exhibitions and cross media events, workshops, meetings, performance and screenings and promoting, among others, Italian live media & live cinema artists. His interviews and critical texts can be read on Digimag archive, while his essays were published in festival and exhibition catalogues, and lectures and presentations he joined, both nationally and internationally. Marco Mancuso regularly teaches "Multimedia Art Languages" at NABA-New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and "Audiovisual Design" at IED-European Institute of Design in Milan, and he is invited as guest lecturer to seminars and workshops at schools and labs in Italy and Europe.


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