An international panel of judges consisting of Jurij Krpan (Ljubljana), Andy Cameron (London), Fulvio Gianaria (Turin), and Bruce Sterling (Austin/Turin) assessed the submissions. After a very interesting meeting and a professional, in-depth analysis of all the works, it is with great pleasure that we announce the six incredible artists who have been short-listed for the Share Prize 2010.

JURY STATEMENT

Jurij Krpan (artistic director Kapelica Gallery, Ljubjana) - president
Andy Cameron (Interactive Creative Director, Wieden + Kennedy, London)
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin)
Fulvio Gianaria (president Fondazione Arte CRT, Torino)

Established in 2007, the Share Prize is widely known in the world of  digital arts.  In 2010,  two hundred and seventy artists sent in entries to Share Prize from all over the world.

It was the Jury’s duty to examine these entries and select just six works for Share Festival’s, six ambitious attacks on the electronic limits of artistic possibility.  With judges from four countries, the selection process itself was a lively set of synergetic maneuvers as unique as the festival itself.

The Share topic of “Smart Mistakes” reflects an emergent world generated by social networks, synchronicities, strange disasters and happy accidents.  Only Share Festival would bring Torino a musical DJ set performed by a living bed of ants.

Fragility, entropy and the junk aesthetic reflects a global lifestyle of breakdowns and make-dos, embodied by the Electrical Theater, which is made of repurposed household objects and zombie machinery.

Web cinema shows its unique strengths with a crowd-sourced digital remake of Djiga Vertov’s classic “Man with a movie camera”.   Every shot of this seminal silent film is to be re-shot and displayed by Internet volunteers — especially the Turinese, whose Cinema Museum has become a world center for studies in cinema.

A gentler, more personal kind of interaction is represented by a responsive, towering ripple of misty light in the ambient architectural spaces of Torino’s Museum of Natural Science.

Amid the airless vitrines of stuffed animals is a glowing, whirling, breath-propelled installation of digital particles, with the breathing artist herself performing in darkness.

Our sixth fortunate mistake is a shambling, anonymous performer who will roam Turin while remaining unseen by video surveillance.   The power of network society manifests itself through complex effects, devoid of obvious causality.

These six artworks are haunted rather than intentional, generative as well as expressive.
By making “Smart Mistakes,” artists can break walls, break windows, and break new ground,  achieving unforeseeable effects impossible without asserting the universal right of both humans and machines to fail in the best way possible.

THE SHORTLIST

Kuai Auson (EC), 0h!m1gas (2008)
0h!m1gas is a biomimetic stridulation environment, based on the activity of an ant colony under video and audio surveillance, transforming the ants into DJs and creating a sound-reactive space which reveals the connection between scratching, as an aesthetical expression created by human culture, and the stridulation phenomena produced by ants as a communication mechanism.
http://kuaishen.tv/0hm1gas

Perry Bard (CDN), Man with a Movie Camera (2007)
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net, where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film.
http://dziga.perrybard.net

Sonia Cillari (IT), As an artist, I need to rest (2009)
The artist is lying still on the floor of the exhibition space, exhaling through a very long cable, which departs from inside her left nostril and ends at the centre of the main screen, suspended from the floor. A digital creature which she calls ‘feather’ is entirely generated by her exhaling into the suspended screen. During the performance, Sonia Cillari exhales 14,000 digital elements and brings the digital feather into more than 6 different states of beings, from ‘addition’ to ‘resistance’ patterns of life.
http://www.soniacillari.net/AaA-IntR_dedicated.htm

Ernesto Klar (IT/VE/USA), Luzes relacionais (2009-10)
Luzes relacionais” (Relational Lights) is an interactive audiovisual installation that explores our relationship with the expressional-organic character of space. The installation uses light, sound, haze, and a custom-software system to create a morphing, three-dimensional light-space in which spectators actively participate, manipulating it with their presence and movements. “Luzes relacionais” is pays homage to the work and aesthetic inquiry of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.
http://klaresque.org/?p=63

knowbotic research (CH), macghillie_ just a void (2009-10)
In the public performance project MacGhillie, urban sites are visited by a figure, clad in a camouflage suit, who shows neither the traits of an individual, or even of a person. The so-called Ghillie Suit was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting and was later also used during the First World War (bis heute). Its camouflage anonymizes and neutralises of the person who wears it in public. The figure oscillates between the hyperpresence of a mask and visual redundancy.
http://krcf.org/krcf.org/?p=249

Teatrino Elettrico (IT), DC12V (2009)
DC12V is a board-game version of elektrolivecircus. Sounds are generated using analogue instruments only, recordings of movements, percussion, friction and the electromagnetic fields of various everyday machines. Small in converted into big, futile into necessary, objects into personages, the board into a location. A desktop tragedy in one act for self-propelled machines.
http://www.teatrinoelettrico.org/works/dc12v.html



our friend and magician filmmaker Gianmarco Bonavolontà produced this video of the Atlas we produced for the Festa dell’Architettura a few days ago, a large scale interactive installation for public spaces.

Project Linki

http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=1169

Form the 28th till the 39th of June willl be held in Torino the conference  “University and Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age”, http://university-and-cyberspace.org.

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

This broad social importance is paralleled within the gates of academe, as the Internet and related technologies are provoking unprecedented changes in the way universities can and must function, responding to the needs of so-called digital natives, the opportunities for information and knowledge sharing, and the demand for physical and virtual spaces that support these populations and activities. Students (and faculty) are increasingly immersed in technology, with different ideas about and expectations for these processes [and just about everything they do]. The core enterprises of the university are shifting massively due to the new capacity to create, process, and share information, scholarship, and knowledge. The importance of place and physical architecture are shifting to accommodate the new modes of university activity, including creation of resources that support interactions that are asynchronous, distributed, and self-organized. The discussion about open access publishing, the growth of a commons of knowledge, advanced forms of e-learning or platforms of collaboration and education are only the most visible manifestations of these tectonic shifts.

While each of these topics is a conference in itself, by bringing them together we aim to develop forward looking approaches to creating a future in which the challenges are opportunities not just in their immediate locus of impact, but form part of an integrated approach to the networked age, offering far reaching positive benefits. More specifically, we will ask: How is the role of universities as knowledge creating, sharing, and applying institutions going to change due to the Internet? How should universities use cyberspace to best implement their mission with respect to society? Taking into account the characteristics of the new generations of students, faculty and staff, how should the informational and the spatial (both physical and virtual) infrastructures of universities be shaped to improve learning, discovery, and engagement? What about the new opportunities to enhance the civic role of universities – who prepare people for citizenship and contribute to the public sphere - in our democratic societies?

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for articulating possible answers to these and other questions, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

June 11th-12th at “La Pelanda” MACRO Testaccio - Firs edition of “Festa dell’Architettura - Index Urbis“, Paolo Valente, Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico present:

“Atlas of Rome”

The rapid development that the new media and the web 2.0 era are bringing to the world of communication and interaction suggests brand new possibilities able to considerably modify reasons and solutions for the transformation of the contemporary city. The tools of representation and design of the city are increasingly insufficient and inadequate to the complexity and speed themes which are characteristic of the Global dimension.

From the representation of the territory to the redefinition of the map concept, a new idea of Atlas will come to life in the exhibition area of the Pelanda at Macro Testaccio, helping to enrich the contemporary debate on architecture, the digital city and the metropolis of Rome, that from June 9th to 12th will animate the Festival of Architecture.

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The Installation
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The idea of an “atlas of visions” is aimed to move the point of view given by conceptual perception of the world based on the systemic and cognitive approach typical of modernity, towards an emotional perception born to the man as an individual who, by virtue of his own experience, offers a vision as a guideline of complexity. A liquid mapping, involved, an emotional geography which collects man’s history and his way of living moment to moment.The Atlas expresses itself through a web platform, even beyond the event, publically opening itself to individuals, groups and institutions which express a point of view on the city.

The work consists of a work of about 35 m x 4m in which four interactive info-visualizations describe a multiplicity of points of view on the city of Rome on the theme: “The imagination of architects and the real city”, redesigning the traditional idea of map as Cartesian matrix embedded in the physical dimension of the territory, on the base of the more contemporary concept of “scape”: a territory made up of relationships, emergent and distributed, continuously redefined by the those who live and take part in it.

In “Linearity” visions assume the appearance of mechanisms whose own life principle derives from the interaction between subject and main themes. The spheres represent the visions and are constantly fed by the themes to which they are connected.

linearity

“Neo Map” does not explore the territory through its geophysical features or place names, but describes it through the planning, actions and life which exist in it. In the visualization the circles represent the visions, placed according to their respective geographic positions and connected by main themes, thus describing a new look on the territory.

NeoMap

“Bridges” tests the domain of interconnections.Visions revolve around the reference themes, in a cyclical procession. Dynamically, visions and themes show bridges and connections, according to the themes and interactions which they have in common.

bridges

“TimeScape” trasforms the flow of time into a landscape. The visions are represented according to their temporal dimension, occupying an area proportional to their duration and succession. The geography is defined, shown and made interactive by placing visions and themes along the axes of time and correlation.

timescape

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Credit
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A project by: FakePress (www.fakepress.it)
Realisation: Art is Open Source (www.artisopensource.net)
Interaction design, experience design, information aesthetics, sound & environment design: Salvatore Iaconesi
Information architecture e network politics: Oriana Persico
Curated by: Paolo Valente
Collaboration: Alessandro Tartaglia

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Photo and Video from the event
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On Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xdxd_vs_xdxd/sets/72157624141905661/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indexurbis/
On YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=rjU6hHpYm14&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=GA3_qneS5eM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O983V_3cfq4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JrTVXuubN0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epy-rB5DWhs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULONESG94o&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDgzi8xmeEw&feature=player_embedded

The deadline to subscribe to Share Prize 2010 has been postponed to the 13th of June 2010.
Continue to subscribe!

The Share Prize, that aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts, is open to all the italian and foreign artists.
The contest is dedicated to artists that use digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material.

The jury is:
Jurij Krpan (artistic director Kapelica Gallery, Ljubjana) - president
Andy Cameron (interactive creative director, Wieden+Kennedy, London)
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin)
Fulvio Gianaria (president Fondazione Arte CRT, Torino)

A short list of six finalists will be announced within July 2010.
The award candidates are invited to participate in the VI edition of Share Festival in Turin that will be from 2th-7th of November 2010, in Regional Museum of Natural Science.

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Aksioma organizes a seminar, called Tactics&Practices: New Media Drivers, about new media arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from the 1st till the 5th of June.
Among the partecipants Simona Lodi will speak on 2nd of June about the organization of a digital art festival.

The 5-day free pilot seminar aims to refresh and expand the new media arts educational offering in Slovenia and provide useful tools and insights into the field for creators at various stages in their careers. By utilizing various interdisciplinary teaching methods and modalities (lectures, coaching sessions, workshops, conversations, participatory actions, performances, presentations) the seminar connects the new generation of new media arts creators with renound professionals in the field to build a bridge from an academic “learning environment” to a “working environment”, and champions the values of process-oriented and lifelong learning through direct contact, communication, and dialogue.

The seminar compiles a snapshot of the state of new media art today from different angles while at the same time wanting to “demystify” it. Regardless of how you currently contribute or seek to contribute to the field, you are invited to participate in the week’s events and update your own new media drivers.

Every year, Share Festival seeks to explore a new and different theme, in an effort to broaden the mind, sharpen critical skills and give inspiration to creativity.

The VI Piemonte Share Festival this year will be looking at the artistic and cultural significance of technological and media error, biological mistakes and chance discoveries of all kinds. Hence the focus is on the role of error in the creative process.

Smart Mistakes
error, mutilation, failure, dysfunction, discrepancy, accident, unexpected change, chance discovery, the aesthetics of error, mass waste, project failure, project abandoned, disaster, mistake, flaw, inconvenience, misappropriation, side-effect, slip-up, flop.

With the launch of the VI Piemonte Share Festival, we invite you to come and take part in the conference organised jointly with the Park of Living Art, in partnership with Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival:

Friday, 4th June, 2010
Organised by Share Festival and PAV - Park of Living Art
in partnership with XIII Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival
PAV, Via Giordano Bruno 31 - Admission is free

8.30 PM SMART MISTAKES, round table conference
10 PM FILM FESTIVAL Screening Another World is Plantable! (Germany, 2007, 40’) by Ella von der Haide
11 PM FILM FESTIVAL Screening I giorni della merla (Italy 2009 - 52’) by Andrea D’Ambrosio, Carla Del Mese

The round table conference Smart Mistakes has been organised as a warm-up to the VI Piemonte Share Festival, and as a theoretical spotlight on the issues explored by the PAV in its programme.

The debate will specifically focus on error and mistake as the guiding thread of evolution, as every unexpected, and hence chance, result or finding in research can be seen alternatively as a problem to be resolved or as an exception to the rule. In nature, error is closely tied up with becoming and the impermanency of the life, but where error has particularly extreme consequences, it can cause genetic mutations and environmental imbalances.
Under the auspices of World Environment Day and with a look at the works of artists who have dedicated their artistic creativity to the causes of activism, the speakers will explore in an open debate how and when art once again began to embrace social issues such as the protection of the environment, and how new media have become the channels through which to voice social concerns. From the first ‘Netstrikes’ organised in Italy by Strano Network to the The Yes Men’s international hoaxes, artists have spared none of the perpetrators of environmental error, derailing websites, broadcasting false news, sending stock markets crashing and throwing entire on-line institutional organisations into havoc. All culture jamming actions that use situationist détournement to champion social causes through desecrating parody.
The event is part of the Giorno per Giorno 2010 programme, one month of contemporary art in Piemonte.

Speakers:
Piero Gilardi, artist and theorist; moderator
Simona Lodi, artistic director of the Share Festival
Franco Torriani, expert in new media
Tommaso Tozzi, artist and theorist

Cronosfera presents Visions of the Future 2010.: MONDIRIDESCENTI:. international festival dedicated to video and Live Media, immersive projections on three screens.
Audiovisual researchers and video makers, shaping live image and sound, will carry the viewers in other dimensions.
Visions from the Future turns vivid looks to heaven and earth inspired by cosmological and cosmogonic visions, exploring the alchemy of earth, evolution, spirituality and unexplored landscapes that surround the man and nature.

PROGRAM:
Friday 28 Cinema Massimo hours 20:30 to 00:00:
Screenenig videos selected and winners from the competition “Visions from the Future” second
edition 2010.: MondIridescenti:. (Short film, computer art, video art)

Saturday 29 Hiroshima Mon Amour
18:30: aperitif and dinner organized by the festival
19:30 Modotti Hall: projection .: MondIridescenti:. video contest participants
21:00:Central hall LIVE MEDIA performances from the competition:
Stefan Bünnig & Matthias Grübel (DE): “Telekaster”
XX+XY (IT): “Luma”
Giorgio Partesana & Duncan Pinhas (IT/FR) : “Geo, Opus II - Solid Matter”
Special guest: Paul Prudence (UK) : “ryNTH”
immersive audiovisual performance
concert: SIGNAL ELECTRIQUE (FR)
live electronics / fusion
T.A.Z. sound system (IT), heavy dub

Sunday 30 Hiroshima Mon Amour
18:30: aperitif and dinner organized by the festival
19:30 Modotti Hall: video projections - Festival 700is edition 2010 (Iceland)
video projections - Festival Video in Progress 3 , by Kolektiva (Slovenia)
21:00:Central hall LIVE MEDIA performances from the competition:
Influx & Pietro Riparbelli K11 (IT): “He tries to come to us”
Ludwig Parentela & Fabio Alvino (IT) : ”l’Esercito dei cubi “
special guest with inedited performance:
Alessandro Amaducci (IT) “ Shining Shadows”
OTOLAB (IT) : “Sole Prismatico”
concert: FILTHY GENERATION (IT)
experimentally industrial and post-punk

>>> FREE ENTRY TO ALL THE EVENTS <<<
CRONOSFERA organizes cultural and artistic events that unfold in different forms and places,
promoting and disseminating expressive, perceptive and scientific research with attention to
human aspect, creating opportunities to meet, exchange and contemplation.

From 27th to 30st of May 2010, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the eighth edition of LPM - Live Performers Meeting: International encounter of live video performers, visual artists and vjs, dedicated to live video performances.

LPM will again use its 4-day formula, creating a unique and unforgettable event, which every year grants a program full of workshops and showcases of projects, softwares and brand-new products.

Cornelia Sollfrank, I DON'T KNOW

Spotlight on:

THURSDAY 27: DIGITAL FREEDOMS

Digital Freedoms is a day of meetings that will reunite together leaders and creators of the italian digital and electronic culture. The intent is to bring together theorists, experts, activists and artists for a single date, to present and discuss the most important updates of this sector. The core theme of the day is the essence of culture, politics and communication throughout new medias, always keeping straight and firm the spirit of freedom that characterized them for decades. As coordinators of the day, a committee of excellence, Luigi Pagliarini (Artificialia), Simona Lodi (Piemonte Share), Arturo Di Corinto (FHF), Filippo Martorana (Linux club), Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi (Art is Open Source).

At 6.00 pm opening of the exhibition

Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal!

curated by Simona Lodi

For some years now, it has become common among digital artists to focus on illegal art practices. Countless Cease & Desist letters have been sent out by companies to pirates, plagiarists, hackers and disturbers, which are shown off as trophies in exhibitions, web communities and mailing lists. Action artists promote controversial forms of art, using guerilla tactics to protest against the fairness of copyright and intellectual property laws.

Receiving a Cease & Desist letter has become the latest badge in championing the freedom to create in the Corporation Age. Any artist interested in taking part in the movement chooses a good lawyer rather than a good gallery owner. What is happening to the future of art? What rights and freedoms are these artists championing? Does all this have something to do with the end of techno-utopias?

In what way has business co-opted the values of hackers, exploiting open source initiatives, web freedom and on-line equality and sparking the use of these practices?

Artists and works:

0100101110101101.ORG | Eva & Franco Mattes

Vaticano.org (1998)

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0100101110101101.ORG | Eva & Franco Mattes

Nike Ground (2003)

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Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, UBERMORGEN.COM

Amazon Noir (2006)

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Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, UBERMORGEN.COM

GWEI | Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

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etoy

The Digital Hijack (1996)

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etoy

Toywar (1999)

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Salvatore Iaconesi | Oriana Persico

REFF | romaeuropa.org (2009)

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Pete Ippel

oBay (2006)

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Les Liens Invisibles

Liberté, Egalité, Volonté :: The Blasfemous Art Riot (2007)

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Les Liens Invisibles

Seppukoo (2009)

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Moddr_

The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (2009)

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GWBush.com (1999)

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Cornelia Sollfrank

I DON’T KNOW (1968/2006)

Conversation between Andy Warhol and Cornelia Sollfrank

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The Yes Men

The legendary BBC Bhopal Hoax (2004)

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UBERMORGEN.COM

The Injunction Generator (2003)

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here more: THURSDAY 27: Cease & Desist Art: yes, this is illegal! | LPM 2010 - LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING.

Ear on Arm / Stelarc

Stelarc has been experimenting with art and biomedical research for over 30 years. The philosophy behind his work: Prostheses not as means of compensating for physical deficiencies but rather as ways to enhance our physical capabilities. Instead of replacing a missing or defective body part, Stelarc improves or expands the form and functions of his body with the help of custom-developed interfaces and apparatuses. “Ear on Arm,” an ear implanted onto his forearm, consists of soft tissue and flexible cartilage, and is thus a prosthesis that could possibly be produced right on the body itself. It’s based on a concept that originated in the 1990s. The artist has been continually conducting research and upgrading the ear’s functional efficiency, using his own body as a field of experimentation, as a human-machine interface.

Diaspora – the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network

We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data.

What is it?

Enter your Diaspora “seed,” a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG) your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity. Once we have built a solid foundation, we will make Diaspora easy to extend to facilitate any type of communication, and the possibilities will be endless.

For a little more detailed explanation, checkout this blog post.

Piemonte Share announces the new edition of the Share Prize, an international prize for realized digital art projects.
Competition entry since 23th of april till the 6th of june 2010 at www.toshare.it.

The prize that aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts, is open to all the italian and foreign artists.
The contest is dedicated to artists that use digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material.

A Jury will award a prize of Euro 2,500 to the work (published or not) that best represents experimentation of arts and new technologies.

The jury is:
Jurij Krpan (artistic director Kapelica Gallery, Ljubjana) - president
Andy Cameron (Interactive Creative Director Wieden + Kennedy, London)
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin)
Fulvio Gianaria (president Fondazione Arte CRT, Torino)

A short list of no more than six finalists will be announced within July 2010.
The award candidates are invited to participate in the 6th edition of Share Festival in Turin that will be from 2th till the 7th of November 2010.

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Thursday, may 13th, 2010, 5 p.m.
Palazzo Nuovo, Laboratorio “G. Quazza”, via S.Ottavio 20, Torino

Silvia Giachello, researcher at the Department of Literary and Philological Studies at the University of Turin, has created interactive documentation tracing the topics and people that brought to life Share Festival 2009. The concept behind the initiative is the map.

A map is an interpretation of the territory it represents. Documenting an event means designing and creating a map of a complex territory. The presentation and the lauch of M.A.P. (Multimedia and Audiences Profiling) – the web-based conceptual map generator for the audio-visual documentation of events and the study of multimedia issues – will be an occasion to reflect, starting with the material produced on the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, on how documentation is about interpreting and restoring flows of consciousness, and how digital media and the Internet can contribute to and shape the creation of documentation.

roBOt: a festival of vast international flavor that in 2010 reaches it’s third edition, through fast growing journeys packed with excitement and always ready to pick up new challenges for new art forms, experimentation and entertainment in a world where renovation, social, aesthetic and ideal, is a palpable daily and continuous reality, also thanks to the arrival of innovative technologies.

New technologies and new forms of artistic expressions call out for new actors able to practice new means and conditions. The image of the nerd had upped it’s level, leaving behind any kind of negative undertone, transforming it’s image, thanks to his technological intelligence, which is fundamental.

This stereotype of a person, that at one point was constantly lost in the complex corridors of the cyber net, is today, the person that is most suited to pick up the challenge of auto-production, the creation and handling of the channels of interaction between the public and the performer; all this topped up with a profoundly personal touch born from practice, and the need to raise the bar first hand, when it comes to facing new technologies and the will/necessity to joust ones knowledge of the mechanisms and function of everything that composes this very personal world.

roBOt is election ground for whoever wishes to lay themselves on the line – with a strong human component that is at the base of everyone of us, so –to tackle contemporary arts, which are able to interact smoothly with technology. Knowledge of new media, with a strongly emotional approach (and that is ably to operate on the audience’s emotion).

Selected projects and works will be included in roBOt 03 programme.
The official subscription form can be downloaded from our web site, www.robotfestival.it and has to be  sent within JUNE, 15th together with:
• 1 demo of the production in DVD
• presentation of the project
• data on the activities of the author
• Detailed Product Sheet

at the following address:
Associazione Culturale  Shape
via De’ Pepoli 8/b
40125 Bologna

*Friday, 7th May, at 6 PM* at the Antico Palazzo di Città in Mondovì Piazza (via Giolitti 1), the cultural association Marcovaldo, the Municipality of Mondovì, and The Sharing are proud to present the conference Squatting Supermarket, featuring Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico. Admission is free.

The conference will be showcasing the story of Squatting Supermarket. Squatting Supermarket is an interactive installation that reproduces a supermarket in augmented reality. The technological focal point of the installation is the iPhone application ‘iSee’, developed by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico for the Share Festival 2009. The application uses the physical and communication infrastructure of the marketplace (sales outlet + logo) to radically redesign our shopping experience.

Alongside archive images, videos and slides from past events, conferences and initiatives, a special preview will be given of some of the content created for the installation, including microdocumentaries, infodesigns and interactive experiences that broaden the shopping experience and inform users. The partnership initiative built on Squatting Supermarket between the Tor Vergata and La Sapienza Universities of Rome will also be presented. Similar initiatives will soon be launched with the Polytechnic of Turin.

http://www.smirproject.eu/mondovi/?p=22

Links
Squatting Supermerkets - scheda riassuntiva
Squatting Supermerkets - statement artistico by Salvatore Iaconesi
iSee - scheda riassuntiva
Premio per la Tecnologia a Impatto “0″ EnviParK,Torino - Piemonte Share Festival ‘09
Presentazione @Facoltà di Architettura “La Sapienza” 05/04/2010 - Rom2

Site Reference
www.smirproject.eu
www.toshare.it
www.artisopensource.net
www.fakepress.it
www.hubroma.net
www.designinteraction.it