Artdigiland publishing house was founded in Dublin in 2011, with registration at the CRO (Companies Registration Office) on 30 May 2011, n. 499327, as a private limited company, founded by Silvia Tarquini, still director and legal representative. The registered office is at Raheny Accounts Ltd TA Irish Accounts, 6 Abbey Business Park, Baldoyle Industrial Estate, Dublin 13, Rep. of Ireland.
It is an international and multilingual editorial project (currently English, French, Italian, Portuguese), specialized in the observation and dissemination of contemporary artistic production, mainly in the fields of cinema, theatre, visual and installation arts, photography and literature. It adopts new on demand technologies and distributes internationally online. It produces interview books, essays, monographs, collections of materials, artist diaries, literary works; it also publishes DVDs of independent films, such as Mirna, the last masterpiece of the director Corso Salani.
The interest in independent cinema has seen the collaboration with the Fuorinorma "expanded festival" project, founded and directed by the film critic and historian Adriano Aprà, within which Artdigiland published in 2019 a 500-page illustrated catalog on around 130 "neo-experimental" works produced in recent years.
Among the most successful book series is the one dedicated to the masters of Italian cinematographic photography, born in 2012 and currently active, which has found the patronage of the Italian Association of Cinematography Authors, of the European Association of Cinematographers Imago, of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Terre di Cinema Film Campus - International Cinematographers Days, and sponsorships from the major Italian industries in the image sector, such as Cartocci - Cinematography and Television, Cartoni - Professional Camera Support, De Sisti - Lightning the Future, Cinetech Italiana. To date, the series has produced paper volumes and ebooks dedicated to Luca Bigazzi, Giuseppe Lanci, Luciano Tovoli, Tonino Delli Colli, Giuseppe Pinori, Vladan Radovic, Mario Masini, Daniele Nannuzzi and to films: Nostalghia by Andrej Tarkovskij, Suspiria by Dario Argento, The Great Beauty of Paolo Sorrentino, Il traditore by Marco Bellocchio, in Italian and English, always regarding the use of light and photography.
The commitment in the literary field is notable with the publication, in French, of the works of the filmmaker and writer Marc Scialom, one of the French translators of the Dante’s Divine Comedy, of whom a novel and three collections of short stories have been published to date: Les autres étoiles, Invention du réel and Pourqoui?, Dormeur. A bilingual critical volume, Italian and French, has also been dedicated to Scialom's cinematographic and literary work, to his work as a translator and to his biographical story linked to the wounds of postcolonialism, with contributions from the major Italian cinema essayists such as Marco Bertozzi, Federico Rossin, Roberto Silvestri. Of particular interest were the publications on the links between literature and cinema in the experience of two great Italian writers, Italo Calvino and Cesare Zavattini, both edited by a now deceased master of film criticism, Lorenzo Pellizzari.
In the theatrical field, the collaboration with the Italian director and visual artist, as well as theoretician, Fabrizio Crisafulli, is intense and precious. On his work we published the book Place, Body, Light, edited by the dance historian Nika Tomasević, and, written by him, the volume Il teatro dei luoghi and the English and French translations of his Italian book Luce attiva. Questioni della luce nel teatro contemporaneo. After the publication in English of Active Light: Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre, Fabrizio Crisafulli was awarded an Honorary Degree for philosophical and theatrical research by the Danish Roskilde University (2015). On dance and performance we also remember, in Italian, Un libro chiamato corpo by the Japanese butoh master Akira Kasai, edited by Maria Pia D'Orazi.
However, the Artdigiland project is not just a publishing house in the traditional sense. It is above all a tool for research and intervention in reality, also through events and blog contributions. Numerous events, often wide-ranging as retrospectives - we remember the first Roman retrospective of the director Eugène Green -, promoted in recent years in collaboration with important Italia international institutions such as the National Cinema Museum of Turin, the Cineteca of Bologna, the Centro Sperimentale of Cinematography - Cineteca Nazionale, the Venice International Film Festival, the Pesaro International Film Festival, the Turin Film Festival, the Rome Film Festival, the Pordenone Days of Light, Rete Cinema Basilicata, the Macro Museum and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, the Bi&Fest in Bari, the film clubs Detour (Rome), Apollo 11 (Rome), Azzurro Scipioni (Rome), associations such as Open Piave, Cineforum Labirinto and Moving School 21 (Treviso), the Italian Cultural Institutes in Dublin, and in Paris, Moscow, Helsinki, Copenhagen.
Artdigiland is also an international web community of over 22,000 artists, filmmakers, photography and art lovers.