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Mediagate: the exhibition at Lodzki Dom Kulturi

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In the polish city that gave birth to the director Zbigniew Rybczynski, home to one of the most prestigious film schools in Europe, beloved by David Lynch that here directed much of his masterpiece Inland Empire, Globalne Ocieplenie / The Mediagate is an exhibition produced by Lodzki Dom Kulturi in Lodz and curated by Marco Mancuso and Claudia D'Alonzo.... READ MORE...
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Exploding Cave: C.S.O.A. Cox 18

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With a double reference both to the “existentialist caves” of 1950′s Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol‘s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Exploding Cave was a 2-days event, organized to support Cox 18 fight against police sopression, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts.... READ MORE...
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E. Domnitch & D. Gelfand, Hidden Worlds screening: Sincronie Festival 2009

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On Tuesday the 15th of December 2009 at Teatro Arsenale in Milan, Digicult presented DATA, the third meeting of the Sincronie Festival 2009, a contemporary and experimental music event that began in 2003. DATA is an event, a reflective critique on the existing relationship between contemporary art and science on the basis of mathematical processes, numbers, logic abstractions and formulae... READ MORE...
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Thorsten Fleisch: Screening and Exhibition

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Digicult presented for the first time in Italy, the works of Thorsten Fleisch, German artist and filmmaker, author of the 2003 movie Gestalt, one of the best achievements in contemporary audio-visual art, awarded an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003. His works are, as very seldom happens, completely timeless pieces of art that will last in the years to come, standing out in the creative chaos of our time.... READ MORE...
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+39 Call For Italy: Cimatics Festival 2008

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Digicult has developed “+ 39:Call for Italy” for Cimatics Festival in Brussels in 2007, invited by Nikolas Wierink, a modular project of live experimental Live Media and Live Cinema performances (curated by Marco Mancuso) and a video-screening which (curated by Claudia D'Alonzo) which focuses on the developments in digital arts in Italy in the last 10 years.... READ MORE...
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Graffiti Research Lab: Enzimi Festival 2007

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Marco Mancuso as Digicult collaborated with Enzimi Festival in Rome as guest curator, inviting Graffiti Research Lab for the first time in Italy. G.R.L. are a think tank from New York that mixes open source technologies with practice of metropolitan activism of writers and artists. G.R.L presented in Rome their worldwide famous project L.A.S.E.R. TAG and their playful Led Throwies... READ MORE...
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Screen Music 2: Festival della Creatività 2007

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In the first edition of Screen Music, Digicult focused on the analysis and description of the most modern forms of electronic audiovisual interaction in terms of projections and live performances. The second edition Screen Music 2 wanted to point out the need of a reflection on the audiovisual aesthetics of tangible, of effectiveness, of manual character and analogic mechanicalness.... READ MORE...
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Otolab “Op7″: the exhibition at Traffic Gallery

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Starting November 8, Traffic Gallery in Bergamo hosted the exhibit “op7″, by the Milan-based collective otolab, curated by Marco Mancuso and Claudia D’Alonzo for Digicult. The exhibit wanted to document and reinterpret one of otolab’s most famous live performance works, conceived in 2006 for the Mixed Media festival which took place in the Hangar Bicocca in Milano... READ MORE...
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“Analogital” exhibition: the transitional space between analogue and digital

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Analogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue and digital. Specifically the notion analyzes the forms that emerge from our culture’s conversion from film grain to computer pixel. However, more broadly the term identifies a perceptual evolution in the human experience and its mediation.... READ MORE...
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Italians Do It Better: Optronica Festival 2007

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Digicult and VJcentral.it have collaborated as guest curator for Optronica Festival (London) producing the video-installation (at the Optronica Lounge area) and screening-DVD "Italians Do It Better, an overview of some of the most innovative Italian audiovisual artists working on the concept of AV experimental electronic synesthesia and the eclectic use of codes and softwares.... READ MORE...
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Screen Music 1: Festival della Creatività 2006

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Screen Music is an idea of Gianni De Simone and is curated by Marco Mancuso, with the precious collaboration of Andrea Mi, Director of Videominuto and Federica Linke from Basebog. In contemporary experimentation within new multimedia areas, artists invited to present their recent video productions and to realize live shows inside the marvellous location of Teatrino Lorenese della Fortezza da Basso in Florence... READ MORE...
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Visual Music: Dissonanze Festival 2006

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Digicult was called by Giorgio Mortari to collaborare with the Dissonanze Festival in 2006 to curate the whole program of the Theatre Hall at Palazzo dei Congressi, one of the three parts of the festival together with the Terrace and the Dancehall. A video-screening were prepared, called "Visual Music", critically collecting some international audiovisual artists working on the aesthetic and synesthetic connection between sounds and images, both in live performances and videos.... READ MORE...
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Mixed Media Festival

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A festival of new media art, architecture and sound/audiovisual events, held in Milan. Divided in an exhibition, meetings with artists and designers, theoretical investigations and a series of performative moments, Mixed Media was an important moment of reflection for the city of Milan on the themes of artistic and professional creativity related to the use of new digital technologies.... READ MORE...
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Wave: Piemonte Share Festival 2005

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Wave section of Piemonte Share Festival 2005 registered the collaboration of Digicult in the ambit of the audiovisual section of the festival that will be held in the Atrium Space headquarter, in Turin. Wave in Atrium is thought to question the unexplored and explored bounds of the audiovisual experimentation, through the invitation of some italian leading artists like: Pirandelo and Otolab.... READ MORE...
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“The image always has the last word”. Cinema according to Peter Greenaway

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Water is a recurring theme that cyclically recurs into the imagination of Peter Greenaway, a multifaceted artist who has studied to be a painter and has a career as director in film. Even his new project staged in Salerno, conceived for the unusual space of the blast furnace on the shores of the Irno river, is located into that visionary current started from Drowning by numbers - a movie awarded at Cannes in 1988 - and was then integrated into the performance/concert Writing on water in 2005, in which the director combined the theme of water with three literary sources: the famous novel “Moby Dick”, the English poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and, above all, “The Tempest” by Shakespeare (the latter was the cornerstone of his movie, “The Prospero’s Book” of 1991).... READ MORE...
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