Cult
Edited by Paola Dubini
Cultural Institutions as Enterprises
“What can the world of industry do for culture?”. This was the question posed in a round table discussion organized by the Turin Industrial Association, an occasion for interaction between local enterprises and the world of culture, in which I recently took part. A first answer seems to be the following: culture is important, it should be protected and supported; business is enlightened and dedicates attention and funding to culture, obtaining visibility and consideration in exchange. It’s encouraging that the industrial world is seeking ways to support culture. Yet I wonder why it is so ...
A Clash between Fields
Göteborg, Autumn 2016. The main book fair in Northern Europe, that celebrates 250 years of Swedish constitutional law on freedom of the press – the first in the world – was the subject of incredible media attention. The reason was that the fair admitted among the exhibitors a publishing company that publishes an extreme right-wing organ. The debate in traditional media and social media continued for over 15 months, with the publication of approximately 12,000 articles in all types of media, and more than 18,000 Tweets dedicated to the issue. In this public debate, the episode of the book ...
New Media Art between Technology, Science, and Industry
In a historical period of growing economic recession and widespread cuts to cultural initiatives, there is an increasing number of artists, designers, creatives, and enterprises – in the areas of ICT and scientific research – who use production processes functional to the creation of “cultural objects” as standardized as possible. The new creative classes, with various types of training and backgrounds, that are not all necessarily institutionalized, are able to create relationships between the industrial world and an ecosystem made up of research centers, laboratories, academies, and ...