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The most important date with Italian art, digital culture and new media is back, with its
second edition. PIEMONTE_SHARE_2006 runs parallel with the XX Winter Olympic Games
in Turin 2006 and kicks off during the Paralympics with the theme "Limitless": breaking
down the barriers.
In the information technology society, this theme represents many sides of the intellectual
challenge that animates technological research. In digital culture, these issues represent
two sides to the intellectual challenge that animates technological research. Distant
transmissions, virtual reality, intelligent environments, but also open source, managing
copyright/copyleft, and Creative Commons - these are technology and legal issues that
we are still learning to live with. They have been designed to overcome the time and space
dimension, the physical aspect, body limits, the digital divide, but they also lead to the
problem of sharing knowledge with Third World countries and debates on the social and
political aspects that the digital culture inevitably brings with it.
But don’t these challenges of breaking down barriers also include the passion of sport?
Technology and sport both move with the aim of increasing our chances of succeeding in
what we do, by overcoming all physical and mental barriers. In fact, opposition due to dull
or heavy bodies
During the Festival a workshop on new media - Story Telling Machine - has
explored the concept of LIMITLESS. Click
here to see.
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