The next interview in the Cultural blogging in Europe series offers up a serving of Italian critical culture when Annette Wolfsberger spends some time with Marco Mancuso of Digicult.it, chatting about his emergence as a web journalist/blogger and his drive for the “promotion and dissemination of digital art and culture.”
In fact, it is easy to admire the dexterity of Marco Mancuso, the Director of Digicult, a Curator and a Teacher at Nuova Accademia di belle Arti (NABA) and Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan (IED). He has also built multi-faceted services under the Digi brand: Digimag (magazine), Digimade (art agency) and Digicult (the online platform), and runs the platform/blog Digicult.it on a shoe string budget. Digicult.it centres on digital art and culture and the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary society and Mancuso works specifically on audiovisual art and design, with a focus on electronic music and visual art.
The interview exposes interesting commentary on the future of journalism and offers up an insight on participation from regular contributors. Mancuso differs from the other blog interviewees in the series to date, as he describes the Digicult.it platform as not representing a personal viewpoint but one that is “perceived as informative and a critical platform, tool and magazine rather a pure blog.” He experiences the same funding restrictions as most of the other bloggers do and makes income from other sources connected to his platform/blog whilst looking at future possibilities within the Italian funding structure.
Tagged as:
blogging, cultural, marco mancuso
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