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DIGIMAG 50 / DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp The archive section, past articles and issues: http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/ The updated list of authors and critics www.digicult.it/en/credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "I think there are several media art festivals that remain critical in their curation and approach, but many are losing touch with the critical nature that brought them into existence in the first place. If you look at the early history of Ars Electronica, for instance, those early works verged on the hyper-critical, where artforms often called themselves into question as well as their audience. They were considered "fringe arts" and no integrated into the mainstream commercial art world. Currently, as computers and digital media become more evident in popular culture, media art is both a strong and accepted form of artistic output and is gaining a much wider audience than it previously held in the early years of its inception. The festivals have changed to incorporate this era of mainstream digital acceptance, and are perhaps now becoming more of an "entertainment" vehicle than one that critical engages with technology. Thus instead of questioning technology, these festivals often merely "celebrate" it by accepting many projects that have no critical focus or drive. I would like to see festivals investigate projects that question technology's influence on mainstream culture and how it's use has pervaded and changed our lives for the better and worse". Jonah Brucker-Cohen, from "Jonah Brucker-Cohen: new media, from web 2.0 to web 4.0" by Donata Marletta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [INTERVIEWS]: - THE YES MEN http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1675 - by Clemente Pestelli - CHRISTIAN ZANESI http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1674 - by Matteo Milani - JOOST REKVELD http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1671 - by Silvia Scaravaggi - JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1673 - by Donata Marletta - FRANCESCA PROIA http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1683 - by Massimo Schiavoni [REPORTS]: - CIMATICS 2009 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1670 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli - MEDIAMATIC TRAVEL http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1679 - by Giulia Tiddens [FEATURING]: - MARIANNE WEEMS http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1682 - by Annamaria Monteverdi - EDGAR MORIN http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1677 - by Teresa De Feo - TERAYAMA & TANIKAWA http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1667 - by Francesco Bertocco [THEMES]: - THE ACTIVIST EAST http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1676 - by Zoe Romano - THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1681 - by Simona Fiore - CROWDSOURCING http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1678 - by Giulia Baldi - FLUCTUATING ITELLIGENCES http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1672 - by Carla Langella - THE ORIGINS OF GENERATIVE ART http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1684 - by Pasquale Napolitano - BABEL OF INFORMATIONS http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1680 - by Luigi Ghezzi [COVER]: Nino Romeo: Mixed Media 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EDITORIAL STAFF]: - Marco Mancuso - director and editor - Claudia D'Alonzo - press office - Luca Restifo - technical consultancy - Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design - Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM - editing - Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast - Mauro Minnone e Luigi Ghezzi - web 2.0 strategies [AUTHORS]: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Valentina Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Alessandra Migani, Alessio Galbiati, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli, Donata Marletta, Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi, Otherehto, Carla Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Gianni, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Micha Cardenas, Alex Foti, Serena Cangiano, Zoe Romano, Pasquale Napolitano, Simona Fiore, Enrico Pitozzi, Sabina Cuccibar, Mattia Casalegno [TRANSLATIONS]: Emanuela Cassol, Luisa Bertolatti, Margherita Castelli, Monica Fontana, Francesca Lattanzi, Giulia Tiddens, Sara Cavagna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIGICULT (www.digicult.it/en) is an online/offline Italian cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture worldwide. DIGICULT focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern 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 40 professional people, who represent the first vast Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field of digital art and culture. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly magazine DIGIMAG (http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/), which focuses, on some important cultural and artistic issues like net art, hacktivism, video art, electronica, audio video, interaction design, artificial intelligence, new media, software art and performing art with a critic and journalistic approach. DIGICULT produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD (http://www.digicult.it/podcast/), 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 (http://www.digicult.it/Agency/) 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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