Last Sunday I went to the town of Novello to see a small literature festival conceived and organised by the writer Filippo Taricco.
The title of the historic launch of the festival was Collisions – the collision to two very different worlds: literature and the Langhe district.
It took some courage to come up with an event […]

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RomaeuropaFAKEfactory is an international Videoart, Music, Literature, GIF-Art, Architecture, Design, Landscape and Law Art competition started in January 2009 as a critical reaction to the Fondazione RomaEuropa’s WebFactory, to develop an action/reflection on the meaning of art, culture and creativity in the contemporary era, on the models for access and on the relations among intellectual […]

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LPM 2009 - LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING
SEVENTH EDITION
 live video performers meeting + festival
may 28th / 31th - Rome
From 28th to 31st of May 2009, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the seventh edition of LPM - Live Performers Meeting: International encounter of live video performers, visual artists and vj meeting, dedicated to live video […]

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Animal Spirits: a bestiary of the digital commons.
Speakers: Matteo Pasquinelli, Bruce Sterling
Moderator: Luca Barbeni
1st April 2009 || 5.00 pm
Laboratorio G. Quazza, via Sant’Ottavio 20, Torino
Admission is free.
After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet […]

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As we move closer to the next edition of Share Festival, scheduled for the 4th-8th November at the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Piemonte Share is organising two days of events dedicated to the students of Turin University and city’s Academy of Fine Arts.

Workshop Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti
27th March 2009 || 02.45-06.30 pm
Accademia Albertina […]

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The international competition RomaEuropaFAKEFactory re-lauches in Rome on March 20th and 21st with two dense days dedicated to the theme “Freedom to Remix“: at the Italian Senate, at the Libreria Flexi and at the Neo Club, with a triple event crossing the borders between different spaces and contexts of the metropolis, from institutional ones to […]

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William Burroughs, famous for his cut-up technique, allowing for the creation of beautiful literature compositions by remixing pieces of existing works, was rejected from the literature section of the RomaEuropa Web Factory. “This is not original work!” was the scream of the Jury’s competition, whose rules execlude artworks made with remix, mash-up, manipulations of contents.
Here […]

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This year’s Share Festival in Torino has been postponed. You will have to wait a little longer for this year’s Share Festival in Torino: “Market Forces” has turned out to be the theme of Share 2009 in more ways than we expected. This means that Share will not be held as planned in March 2009 […]

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14th February, 2009 – 10.30 PM
ART & LOVE VI
LOVE SHARE - Love in the Age of Social Networks
VILLA CAPRIGLIO
Strada al Traforo di Pino 67, Torino
“Love Share - Love in the Age of Social Networks” is an event dedicated to love and eroticism at Villa Capriglio, on occasion of the “Innamorati della Cultura” night in support […]

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- Simona Lodi, art director of the Piemonte Share Festival, an event with international resonance dedicated to new media arts: a presentation for the readers of Artsblog.
The Share Festival was born as a sequel to a net.art exhibition that i curated during 2002 in Turin at the Murazzi del Po. The setup was very simple, […]

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