Digicult is invited with the project + 39:CALL FOR ITALY to take part at the fifth edition of the international festival Cimatics, one of the most important European event in the field of artistic and cultural transactions between digital audiovisuals, music, cinema and design. The project will focus on the develpoments in Electronic Art, Design and Culture in Italy in the last 10-15 years . Within the four days of Cimatics, Digicult will introduce some of the most experimental and suggestive Italian musicians, designers, graphics, video makers, sound artists, vjs and audiovisual artists, with projects of Live Cinema ( Ogino Knauss ), Audiovisual live set ( Otolab and Quayola ), 8bit Audiovisual Show ( Postalmarket/Daniele Lazzarin ) and Vjset ( Kinotek ) and with a Video Screening curated by Claudia D’Alonzo of some of the most talented Italian video makers, video artists and graphic designer. Digicult will present also the Italian duo of architects and designers Limiteazero, called by Lab[au] to create an audiovisual urban installation for Doxia Tower.
Following the Italian cultural tradition in design and project, extending it to the ultimate forms of audiovisual art and creativity linked to the usage of new and digital media, the exhibition “+ 39” wants to be a breathing space on the artistic evolution of some among the most representative protagonists of the most recent Italian electronic scene.
“+ 39” is therefore the first opportunity, within a prestigious international context such as the Cimatics Festival in Brussels, for a whole movement of professional Italian creatives working in the digital domain to get together and be acknowledged as a proper ‘scene’.
The conscious spectator shall then recognize traces of Italian documentaristic and video-activist tradition in the project Urban Skin by pioneering collective Ogino-Knauss, an art-project coming from a long exploration practice of urban global space, inquiring the semanthic value of the city as a communicating surfaces system: a test of “urban dermatology” in a form of Live Media. Internationally representing Italian design applied to new technologies, code, audiovisual research and interactivity, both Op7 – an audiovisual performance by the Otolab collective reinterpreting optical art with a strongly synaesthetic approach that links electronic music and visual scenography – and the urban intervention at the Doxia tower by Limiteazero – duo of designer-architects – feature an approach which is strongly linked to the project with an open reference to graphic design.
Moreover, Quayola , Kinotek and the duo Postal M@arket/Daniele Lazzarin show how – each with their own style – graphic design, video, electronic music and videogames have evolved thanks to the crossover between academic and underground cultural ambits. Graphic design, digital animation, game-consolle hacking, djing and vjing improvisation are the main issues in the live audiovisual project Path to Abstraction by Davide Quagliola, in the vjsets by Mattia Casalegno and in the 8-bit audiovisual easthetics of Giuseppe and Daniele Lazzarin .
Digicult’s project at Cimatics is rounded off by a rich and varied video screening curated by Claudia D’Alonzo, member of the collective and editorial staff of Digicult. The potentialities of the screening reside in the ample and complete vision of all forms of creativity associated to videomaking, videoclips, audiovisual synaesthesy, research, graphic animation and illustration. Niko Stumpo, Fabio Franchino, Blu, Mylicon/en, Zimmerfrei, Hfr-Lab, Progetto Antenna, Virgilio, Vinz Beschi, 47th Floor, Elec are some of the featured artists within a project that will eventually be released on DVD.
