DIGICULT enters its third year of life with a gift for all its readers, critics and detractors: a brand new home page that collects and emphasizes all contents and all activities carried out by the Network and opens doors to future developments regarding sharing and dissemination by means of new technological platforms.

Beside being the usual critical observatory (run by Silvia Scaravaggi and Claudia D’Alonzo of the editorial office) with news and information on national and international digital art, Digicult updates its portal, thanks to Luca Restifo’s constant and valuable technical work, with the following services:

:: WHAT’S NEW ON DIGICULT: information on supervision and partnership activities by Digicult and its agency Digimade;
:: INTERVIEWS: list of the best interviews by Digimag;
:: IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS: list of the best critical articles published on Digimag;
:: REPORTS: list of the best reports of festivals and exhibition selcted by Digimag;
:: FLICKER PAGE & SLIDESHOW: the best images by Digimag’s account Flicker;
:: VIMEO PAGE: the best videos by Digicult’s account Vimeo;
:: DIGIMAG: archives of Digimag’s past editions;
:: PARTNERSHIPS: Digicult’s actual and past media partnerships;
:: CALLS: national and international most interesting calls for artists and event supervisors;
:: SONAR RADIO: 24/7 electronic music radio.

[THE MAGAZINE]

Digicult’s activity as publisher of the monthly online magazine DIGIMAG, which has discussed and deepened for 35 issues by now all themes related to national and international digital art, continues: from net art to video art, from hacktivism to performing art, from software art to electronics, from audio-video to interaction design, from new media to A.I.

The magazine keeps an eye, month after month, on the main events, the most interesting works, the most successful and the most promising artists, the principal tendencies, the most topical themes in the field of digital culture and electronic arts; all reported through editorials, recommendations, in-depth analysis and interviews to national and international electronic scene protagonists.

www.digicult.it/digimag

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[THE PODCAST & NEWSLETTER]

Besides, Digicult continues its international service of electronic music podcast and audiovisual works DIGIPOD, supervised by Giuseppe Cordaro and boasting Alessandro Descovi’s new layout, which houses audio and video contents coming from a large and fertile international community of artists, musicians, independent net labels.

The number of users joining our periodical newsletter service DIGINEWS is growing constantly and at present consists of a composite and selected community of over 5000 people interested in contemporary digital art and culture.

www.digicult.it/podcast

[THE ART AGENCY]

Finally, by means of the newborn agency DIGIMADE, Digicult is always involved in a series of collateral activities, such as media partnerships, critical and journalistic reports on festival and exhibitions, supervising projects in Italy and abroad, acting also as supervisor/promoter for Italian and international artists, through the enhancement of their works within the main European and international festivals, events, platforms and cultural centres connected to digital technologies and electronics.

www.digicult.it/agency

DIGICULT is a cultural project involved in digital culture and electronic arts. The DIGICULT project is directed by Marco Mancuso and based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent a wide Italian network of journalists, curators, artists and critics working in the field of electronic culture and digital art. And on a multitude of updated strategies around new media communication, web 2.0 and networking activities. Translated in english, DIGICULT is today a web portal updated daily with news and , but it’s 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 the electronic music and audiovisual podcast DIGIPOD and the newsletter international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved in side activities like media partnership and special journalistic/critic reports for festivals and exhibitions, consultancy and curatorial activities and is now working for Italian artists international promotion with its new born art agency DIGIMADE, presenting their works to main international festivals, cultural events, platforms and centers working with digital and electronics

[GENERAL DIRECTION]:

- Marco Mancuso - concept, editing, direction and design

[EDITORIAL STAFF]:

- Luca Restifo - programming

- Silvia Scaravaggi - editing news

- Claudia D’Alonzo - press office

- Giuseppe Cordaro & Alessandro Descovi - podcast

[AUTHORS]:

Luigi Pagliarini, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Miriam Petruzzelli, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Lorenzo Tripodi, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Domenico Sciajno, Valentina Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Motor, Isabella Depanis, Tiziana Gemin, Fabio Franchino, Alessandra Migani, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Francesca Valsecchi, Claudia D’Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Sara Tirelli, Alessandro Massobrio, Eleonora Oreggia, Paolo Branca, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Francesco d’Orazio, Alessio Galbiati, Alessio Chierico, Claudia Moriniello, Giuseppe Cordaro, Cristiano Poian

[TRANSLATIONS]:

- Virginia Cavalletti, Francesca Magnaghi, Ornella Pesenti, Chiara Resmini

Every day for the past year, Morneau has composed and posted a new sixty-second composition. That’s just over six hours of new music in sixty-second installments. For this project, Morneau explored a wide variety of musical styles and techniques, including musique concrète, sine wave synthesis, digital sampling, 8-bit constructions, process music, acousmatic composition, and post-techno beat manipulations. He found the requirement to make a new, complete piece every day an exhilarating challenge, and reveled in the constant variety of ideas the project embraced. This project began as a challenge to compose more, and ended up as an audio diary of the past year.

Morneau chose to compose specifically for the internet because of an interest in its effect on the creation and dissemination of music and art. One-minute compositions are easy to download. The podcast format encouraged listener subscription. 60×365 was presented as a series of shorter pieces over time, in a particular order. However, this order was only one possibility. Some listeners waited until many pieces were posted and then chose their own path through the archive. Some listened with headphones, some with computer speakers of varying quality, some on a mobile device, some listened with friends, some listened alone.

The entire project will remain online at http://60×365.com where listeners can explore the archive by date, by title, and by category. http://5of4.com
http://60×365.com

Selections from 60×365 will be included in a radio broadcast as part of the 2008 Expo Brighton, a festival of sound art and experimental music in Brighton, UK. The festival will take place July 4-6.

Through ArtCast folly explores the possibilities of the podcasting medium and provides a platform for public access to new and innovative art.

ArtCast, launched in October 2007 alongside folly’s VELOCITY festival of digital culture, with a series of audio podcasts selected from an international open call. This series is available to download from www.folly.co.uk/artcast and has been described as “outstanding” and “unique” by those who have experienced it. Since folly first started publishing podcastable content, nearly 15,000 people have experienced art in this format via www.folly.co.uk

Listen to 2007 example:

In April 2008 folly will release the second ArtCast series, in collaboration with the moves08 festival -

Building on moves07’s success in positioning itself as a key platform for the industry and audiences interested in screen-based work exploring ‘choreographed movement’, moves returns for the fourth year in Manchester, Lancaster, Chester and Liverpool.

Taking place 22-26 April 2008, moves08 will showcase a three-day conference focusing on the interaction of choreographed movement and sound in screen-based work, seven international screenings including a North West showcase, a five-day filmmaking lab throughout the North West, a masterclass, live events and installations in Manchester,
Lancaster, and Liverpool. A programme of work curated for the BBC Big Screens will also be showing throughout the UK. Through its Discovery strand, moves08 will give a special place to students and emerging artists.

For April’s ArtCast series, folly is calling for submissions of existing moving image and audio work, from the broad spectrum of contemporary arts practice. Submissions should address themes and subjects broadly relating to the theme of moves08: the interaction of choreographed movement and sound.

Submissions are welcome from all artists working with film, video, moving image or sound, dancers and choreographers, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists etc, basically anyone who has created work which they consider to be suitable for a video or audio podcast.

folly welcomes submissions from international artists.

moves08 Festival Director, Pascale Moyse, and Award-winning filmmaker and moves’ board member, Rachel Davies, will join folly in the selection of works in early March 2008.

Successful submissions will be published as podcasts from 3rd April 2008

Please note that there is no fee available for selected works.

For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or +44 (0)1524 388550

How to submit:

Submissions should be accompanied by a submission form and equal opportunities monitoring form, available to download online at www.folly.co.uk/artcastcall

File Format: OGG
Video Codec: theora, 320 x 240, 480kbps
Audio Codec: vorbis, Stereo, 128 kbps, 44100KHz
Maximum file size 30MB (For video this means a maximum duration of
approximately 5 min 30 sec)
Questions about these file requirements can be directed to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk

Please send your submissions by email to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk Or on disc by post to Jennifer Stoddart, Programme Coordinator, folly, 6.4.4 Alston House, White Cross Lancaster UK LA1 4XQ

Using the RiffWorks desktop recording application, up to four musicians can connect and collaborate on a song simultaneously. As a layer records, it instantly streams to other players’ running RiffWorks. As the Riff loops, other players can add more. All contributions are saved on RiffWorld.com and can be opened later for further collaboration.

As Mike at Garagespin says: It’s “kind of an interesting spin on the space touched on by music collaboration & social networking sites Kompoz, Light Speed Audio, eJamming Audio, SpliceMusic, and a bunch of others. They’re all pretty different — some focusing on loop-generated music, some focusing on pure songwriting ideas, and others focusing on live interaction. ” (Mike hadn’t tried it out yet and neither have I; still you might want to have a look.)

Riffworld recording software includes automatic track creation, loop recording, guitar-oriented effects, InstantDrummer, professionally recorded drum tracks, online music collaboration, and instant podcasting so you can broadcast any song created in RiffWorks – whether it’s a solo effort or collaboration – for the RiffWorld community to hear. You can listen to songs, get feedback about them, talk about what your fellow musicians are creating, and find other musicians to jam with.

Thanks to MikeB.

For this project, Morneau is exploring a wide variety of musical styles and techniques, including musique concrète, sine wave synthesis, digital sampling, 8-bit constructions, process music, acousmatic composition, and post-techno beat manipulations. Each daily post brings something new and different, a constant variety. The daily deadline means the works sometimes lose their preciousness as they become explorations in process and method for Morneau—with his form or his audience—as much as they are works of art.

Morneau chose to create a composition specifically for the internet because of an interest in its effect on the creation and dissemination of music and art. One-minute compositions are easy to download. The podcast format encourages listener subscription. 60×365 is presented as a series of shorter pieces over time, in a particular order. However, the listener may wait until many pieces are posted and then listen in any order he desires. You can listen online everyday @ http://60×365.com.

Tonight’s programme features Bristol noise duo Benzer, master of the drone Tuba Tom Heasley, Formication, Hassan Khan, Stephan Mathieu, Luca Formentini, Icelandic instrumental ensemble Amiina, the legendary Harry Parch and a new ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ remix. As always we also have a live online visual mix from our regular VJ’s Grazmaster & Neil. To get the radio stream and the online visual mixing open 2 browser windows with the following URLs in each window. Subscribe to our podcasts of current and past programmes from the radio menu of the site.

The launch of ArtCast coincides with VELOCITY - a stunning new arts festival along the coastal rail route around Morecambe Bay in England’s North West. folly invited Sonic Arts Network - to join them in the selection of podcasts from an international open call. You can hear submissions from artists working with sound, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists, both locally and from across the world.
The podcasts, chosen to complement the VELOCITY experience, can be downloaded to your mp3 player and enjoyed during train journeys around the Morecambe Bay area, from the comfort of your own home, or at any other location in the world.

This series not only explores the practical delivery of sound art on the internet, but also the very nature of communication through broadcasting; from the transmissions of a cosmonaut beyond our own atmosphere, to communicating ideas about spirituality through frequency, and through inviting sounds from our computers to occupy our environment as a backdrop to our own lives. You will hear (and become the proud owners of) strange music, stories and electronic noises, and all of them have the potential to change your life.

A new edition will be released every Thursday for 7 weeks from the 4th of October.

Recordings of the symposium presentations and discussion panel are now online. Links for either download or streaming options can be found at the bottom of each segment’s listing on the programme page. http://www.sound-space.info/index.htm and http://www.digitalmediacentre.org/podcast.html

These recordings, created for podcast distribution, were made in the southeast of the United States on various points along Interstate 95 from Richmond Virginia and Fayetteville North Carolina. They capture profiles of American consciousness as competing sectors of the consciousness industry represents them and simultaneously they are the decomposition of preconfigured and seemingly stable consciousness moving at high velocity toward utter decay and slippage into forbidden, unclaimed and contested spaces.

The artist’s automobile acted as crude mixing instrument as it was driven recklessly between competing frequencies sliding in and out of coherence and exploring the spaces between stations, colonized electromagnetic frequencies and codified identities.

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