Celebrating the Fifth Piemonte Share Festival, directed by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi. In this year
of worldwide financial crisis, the theme chosen for the Festival will not fail to attract attention for its
capacity to read and in a way anticipate the profound impulses and movements that bring contemporary
reality to life. Market Forces has been in the air for some time.
From complexity theory to squatting supermarkets, the Fifth Piemonte Share Festival will be giving
shape to the myriad forms of chaos, with installations, exhibitions, performances, debates and, of
course, the much-awaited awarding of the Share Prize. Building on ManuFacturing, the topic of the 2008 Festival, complexity was the starting point for
organising this year’s Festival. How do you live in an unstable reality where the unexpected plays
such a fundamental role? How can we think about a future which can no longer be imagined in a
linear way, where complexity would appear to be the only approach left to us?
The answer from Andy
Cameron, guest curator and chairman of the judging panel for Share Prize 2009, is the market. The
market is a mechanism for dealing with the complexity of the future and the unpredictable; it is an
ecosystem. The successful and highly topical outcome of these considerations is Market Forces.
This is the topic which artists, intellectuals, curators and the public are being called to reflect upon
this year.
THE PROGRAMME
The vast programme, scheduled to unfold over six days from 3rd to 8th November, highlights the
Festival’s capacity to build networks and co-operates with the local territory, to establish a dialogue
with a broad variety of subjects and absorb new stimuli.
Share Festival will be opened on 3rd November at 6.30 PM at the Museum of Natural Science. To
celebrate, at 8 PM a special performance by the Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti (OMM), playing live Nag
Hammâdi. Taking inspiration from the eponymous gospels, the thirteen papyri discovered in Egypt in
1945 containing pagan and Gnostic texts written in Coptic, the performance by Angelo Comino a.k.a.
Motor, inventor of the OMM, explores the ties linking technology, science and Gnosticism. OMM is
also the first success of Action Sharing, involving the co-operation of the Polytechnic and the
Chamber of Commerce of Turin.
Share Festival will be opening its doors to the city this year, broadening its range and perspectives.
Share Festival will be in the halls of the University and the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts to share
with students its experience of cultural, artistic and technological research and production. Share
Festival will be taking part in the European debate on creativity and innovation, at the international
conference create: connecting ict research and creative enterprises at the Virtual Reality & Multi
Media Park, a complex dedicated to innovation technology. In partnership with Rivoli Castle, the
Museum of Contemporary Art will be opening its doors free of charge to the Share Festival’s audience.
Share Festival will be presenting the thematic exhibition “Market Forces”, curated by Simona Lodi,
offering an international stage to twenty artists from around the world, who with an ironic, irreverent,
playful and critical spirit have explored our relationship with shopping, goods and places of consumption.
Share Festival has invested in the special project “squatting superMarket”, a radical version
of the market place and points of sale, presented in augmented reality. Finally, Share Festival will be
focusing on critical reflection through its conferences and debates, and the exhibition “until the end
oF cineMa”, curated by Luca Barbeni, taking viewers on a critical journey through the various types of
audio-visual content available on the Internet. Opening also to the art gallery of the city, presenting
for the first time in Italy Erik Natzke's works at the Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea.
Share Festival has also unveiled a completely new website to keep in touch with the public.
Representing a true editorial work in its own right, and completely restructured in terms of its architecture
and graphic interface, the new website hosts a multiple-author reblogger platform.
Digital Orbit Night is reserved to the italian premiere of the international collective for synesthetic
media OPTOFONICA, created by Maurizio Martinucci aka Tez. Featuring Tez, Martis Fennis and Evelina
Domnitch+Dmitry Gelfand, with the project “10000 peacock Feathers in FoaMing acid”.
Welcome to Digicult, the online/offline cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture. Digicult focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field.
To learn more about Digicult, you can read some deep online interviews did in the last months: the one taken from Lab For Culture, the one from Elektra Blog, the one from project Vj Theory and the last one from Russian magazine Art-Manager.
Here you find all the Credits and here our rich Archive of articles, and you can contact us at:redazione@digicult.it
Created at Mutek festival
at Monument National (Montréal) in May 2009, POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations.
SKETCH-A-MOVE
Sketch-a-Move is a 5 weeks project by Loiuse Victoria Kinkler did with Anab Jain. The brief was set by Mattel Hotwheels to come up with a new concept for their small toycars.
BUSCANDO SR.GOODBAR
Buscando Al Sr.Goodbar from Transmediale award winning Michelle Terran, is a journey through Murcia, that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos.
DIGITAL ZOETROPE
Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year’s festival 'Citystates'. Opting to create an installation and identity that integrate into each other, Troika designed a modern digital zoetrope as the cornerstone of the identity.
SILICON DREAMS
The exhibition, Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union, will take place at Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián It explores the convergence of these three fields from the perspective of a group of artists
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: POLITICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
It is an abstract submission for an edited book on the creation, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and Middle East. The intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.
555 KUBIK
555 KUBIK "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle
CALL: CYNETARTS
TMA Hellerau hosts the international competition of Cynetart, an digital art and technology festival, that takes place in Dresden, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects. The call for entries ends bu will be extended until March 2010
INJECT BY HERMAN KOLGEN
It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the INJECT project. The genesis of the principal visual material for this project was a shoot, in an immense cistern filled with water, which lasted six consecutive days.
LIGHT BULB
light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.
MEETING THE MEDIA GURU: GEERT LOVINK The official and awaited moments before meeting our mind myths are... Francesca Valsecchi / Translation: Giulia Artioli
13 MOST BEAUTIFUL AVATARS In the balance between references at the pop culture and digressions in virtual... Monica Ponzini
UCLA SCI | ART NANOLAB 2010 LOS ANGELES: 21 JUNE / 2 JULY 2010
A two week summer course including lecture, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, offered through UCLA's Summer
Institute. Open to high school students. This introductory studio / lab course explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on
contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences -
bio and
nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas
that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific
research study.
Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases this year in Paris top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms.
