Margarita D'Amico
{{Short description|Venezuelan journalist}}
{{infobox person
| name = Margarita D'Amico
| image =
| birth_date = 1938
| death_date = 12 October 2017
| nationality = Venezuelan
| alma_mater = Central University of Venezuela
University of Paris
| occupation = Journalist, researcher, and professor
| website = [http://labohemiahipermediatica.weebly.com/ Margarita D´Amico]
}}
Margarita D'Amico (1938 – 12 October 2017) was a Venezuelan journalist, researcher, and professor who made a substantial impact on art criticism and cultural journalism in Venezuela.{{cite web|url=http://www.coleccioncisneros.org/es/editorial/statements/margarita-damico|title=Margarita D'Amico|access-date=5 November 2017|author=Miguel Miguel García|author-link=(|date=2 November 2017|website=coleccioncisneros.org|publisher=|language=es}}
Career
D'Amico graduated with a Bachelor in Journalism and Arts from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in 1961 and with a postgraduate in Audiovisual Information in the University of Paris in 1964. She became a professor at the Social of Communication Faculty of the UCV.
D'Amico is the author of the book Lo Audiovisual en Expansión (Monte Ávila Editores, 1971). She also authored several columns published in the El Nacional newspaper, including Videosfera, Los novelistas invisibles, Sí y No, Espacios, La Nueva Música. In the newspaper El Universal D'Amico authored the column Vanguardia Hipersónica.{{Cite news|title=Margarita D'Amico: lo audiovisual en expansión|url=http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/historico/margarita-damico-audiovisual-expansion_46940(|date=21 September 2015|access-date=22 December 2016|publisher=El Nacional}}{{cite web|url=http://www.celarg.gob.ve/Ingles/TrayectoriadeunPremio/PremioI/mdamicolosnovelistas10051967edicion.htm|title=Margarita D'Amico. Los novelistas invisibles|access-date=5 November 2017|author=|author-link=(|date=10 May 1967|website=celarg.gob.ve|publisher=El Nacional|language=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030334/http://www.celarg.gob.ve/Ingles/TrayectoriadeunPremio/PremioI/mdamicolosnovelistas10051967edicion.htm|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|title=Murió la periodista e investigadora Margarita D'Amico|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/cultura/murio-periodista-investigadora-margarita-damico_673802|date=13 October 2017|access-date=5 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015210006/http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/cultura/murio-periodista-investigadora-margarita-damico_673802|archive-date=15 October 2017|publisher=El Universal|language=es}}
D'Amico created the television series Arte y Ciencia y Pioneros, broadcast on channels 5 and 8 of Venezolana de Televisión, as well as the radio program Vanguardia Hipersónica, on Radio Caracas Radio. She also organized several video workshops and festivals in Venezuela and abroad.{{cite book|title=El periodismo en internet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEdwZs_Z3LAC&q=%22Margarita+D%27Amico%22&pg=PT83|access-date=22 December 2016|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Fondo Editorial Humanidades|isbn=9789800020920|language=es}} To investigate new communication methods, D'Amico founded Proyecto Arte y Ciencia ("Art and Science Project"), starting with the pilot program Creando con los Polímeros.
She was a collaborator in the Comunicación del Centro Gumilla magazine and the researcher center Cultura Visual del Centro de Investigación y Formación Humanística (CIFH) of the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB).
Until the end of her life, D'Amico explored subjects like the creation of images through new technologies, technological possibilities for expression, and other topics having to do with aesthetics and modern communication.
D'Amico published her historic archive, La bohemia hipermediática, through UCAB.{{cite web|url=http://labohemiahipermediatica.weebly.com/|title=La bohemia hipermediática|access-date=22 December 2016|website=La bohemia hipermediática}}
References
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External links
- [http://margaritadamico.blogspot.com/ Toques de contemporaneidad Blog de Margarita D'Amico]
- [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A35913&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order= Videos de Castillito MOMA1]
- [http://sisbiv.bnv.gob.ve/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:D'Amico,%20Margarita Margarita D'Amico en la Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com/2011/11/probes_19.html MOM]
- [http://www.traficovisual.com/2012/09/04/conferencia-nuevos-medios-y-su-impacto-en-el-arte-contemporaneo-por-margarita-damico-en-el-marco-del-taller-curatorial-experimental-ii-2012-en-periferico-caracas/ D’Amico, Margarita, Nuevos medios y su impacto en el arte contemporáneo] (Conferencia en Taller Curatorial Experimental II, 2012 en Periférico Caracas).
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Category:Venezuelan women journalists
Category:Venezuelan people of Italian descent
Category:Central University of Venezuela alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
Category:University of Paris alumni