Activities Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Technology, art and contemporary culture. The Digicult experience

In the frame of the “Art Talks” series curated by Silvia Grandi at Alma Mater University in Bologna, Marco Mancuso will talk about the impact of digital technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary culture, and about Digicult which is from 2005 one of the main online critical and curatorial platforms in the field.... READ MORE...

Map and a visiting studio program for Milano Digital Week

Marco Mancuso and Digicult curated the "Open House program: mapping of Digital Art and Culture in Milan", a map and a visiting studio program of the most vital and important production studios in Milan, curated for the Milano Digital Week event the next 15-18 March 2018 in Milan... READ MORE...

Digimag Journal | Issue 78 | Call for Papers

After the wide success of the last Winter issue, we're happy to announce the Call for Papers for the new Digimag Journal for the next Spring 2018. The issue number 78 is themed "Overworlds and New Narratives" and the deadline is settled to the next 15 April 2018. We are waiting for you...... READ MORE...

Presentation of the book by Carlo Zanni at Adiacenze, Bologna

Marco Mancuso is the moderator of the presentation of the book "Art in the Age of the Cloud" by Carlo Zanni published by Diorama Editions. At Adiacenze in Bologna, the next 10 March 2018, with the partecipation of Carlo Zanni, Zoe De Luca (Diorama) and Fabiola Naldi... READ MORE...

Seminar at RUFA Roman University of Fine Arts: Art and Future

Marco Mancuso is invited from 05 to 08 March 2018 as guest professor to lead the seminar "Art and Future. The technological cosmology of contemporary art and design", focused on the impact of technologies and sciences on our society and culture. At RUFA Roman University of Fine Arts... READ MORE...

Presentation of the Digicult project at Iuav University in Venice

Presentation of the Digicult project, its research and its development, within the Scuola di dottorato Iuav: Architettura Città Design, together with Maddalena Maddalenadesign Mometti and Mario Ciaramitaro. Thanks to the invitation by professor Raimonda Riccini, Iuav University, 28 February 2018, Venice... READ MORE...

Daniela Cattivelli: UIT live acusmatic show

The musician and sound artist Daniela Cattivelli presents her UIT live acusmatic show with Acusmonium at San Fedele Musica / Inner Spaces series. The invitation is curated by Marco Mancuso, at Auditorium San Fedele on 26 February 2018 in Milan... READ MORE...

Symposium #2: a meeting around art, technology and society

Marco Mancuso is invited as special guest on 14 February 2018 in Rome at "Simposio #2: a meeting on art, technology and society", within the series of meetings curated by media design studio NONE Collective. Together with Quayola, Emanuele Braga (Macao) and Matteo Cremonesi (Iocose)... READ MORE...

The new Digimag Journal | Issue 77 | Winter 2017: out now

The new Digimag Journal | Issue 77 | Winter 2017 is out now. With the theme "The Arts Ecosystem", the publication is edited by Silvia Bertolotti and Marco Mancuso, available as free download PDF, EPUB, MOBI and as Print on Demand paperback... READ MORE...

Round table on Art, Science and Ecology in the Anthropocene era

The environmental crisis, which has become an urgent and crucial issue in our contemporary world, is having a noticeable impact on cultural and visual art production. On this round table Andreco will present his most recent artwork, “Climate Art Project”. Marco Mancuso will present the new issue of the Digimag Journal together with Claudio Musso, Fabiola Naldi and Andrea Lerda.... READ MORE...

Presentation of the book by Irene Fenara at Adiacenze, Bologna

Marco Mancuso is the moderator of the presentation of the book "Who needs eyes when you have sapphire crystal lenses" by the artist Irene Fenara at Adiacenze in Bologna, next Saturday 27 January, with the partecipation of Cristina Rota of The Blank Contemporary Arts and the critic Luca Panaro... READ MORE...

CLICK CLACK: the exhibition of Virgilio Villoresi at Adiacenze, Bologna

The solo exhibition of Virgilio Villoresi at Adiacenze in Bologna, curated by Marco Mancuso for Digicult, will open the next 2 February 2018 within the program of Arte Fiera. The exhibition is focused on kinetic and interactive installations, never exposed as a whole, completing and defining borders of this unique artist... READ MORE...

Blending aesthetic form and technical function. Interview with Michael Takeo Magruder

Michael Takeo Magruder is a visual artist and researcher who works with new media and makes work in and around the Internet. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.... READ MORE...

Accademia Carrara di Bergamo: talk with Gionatan Quintini

The second talk within the Academic Year 2017-2018 of the Publishing for the Arts class, will be thursday 14 December 2017, with Gionatan Quintini: software artist, activist, part of the artistic group, Les Liens Invisibles, he will lecture on art, net, code and print.... READ MORE...

Accademia Carrara di Bergamo: talk with Irene Fenara

The first talk within the Academic Year 2017-2018 of the Publishing for the Arts class, will be thursday 7 December 2017 with the artist Irene Fenara and with Cristina Rota, project manager at The Blank to introduce the book "Who Needs Eyes When You Have Sapphire Crystal Lenses?"... READ MORE...

Muta Metu #3: Frankenstein OVO live

Thursday 7 December at Cinema Beltrade in Milano, Marco Mancuso will curate the third chapter of the Muta Metu series - Silent films with sound environments and retellings between noise and electronic experiments: Frankenstein by James Whale, 1931, with live sound by OVO... READ MORE...

Digicult at 8208 Lightining Design Festival 2017

Next Saturday 18 November 2017 Federica Fontana will be special guest at 8208 Lighting Design Festival, at Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli - IED Como to talk about Digicult, the philosophy behind the project, its networking strategies from 2005, its open and free culture production activities within interdisciplinary fields of international contemporary Media Art.... READ MORE...

Digicult at FRID 2017: Italian Forum of design doctoral research

On 16 and 17 November 2017, the Digicult project will be introduced within the program of FRID 2017: Fare ricerca in design Forum, at Scuola di dottorato Iuav of Università Iuav in Venice, as a platform on which contributions and future perspectives on research converge. Thanks to the invitation from Raimonda Riccini... READ MORE...