<nettime-ann> share festival 2009

[Simona Lodi <simona.lodi@toshare.it>]

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4th-8th November, 10 AM-7 PM, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Via 

Giolitti 36, Turin

Dear nettimer friends of the Share Festival,

the Market Forces programme is now on-line. From complexity theory to 

artistic supermarkets, the fifth Piemonte Share Festival gives shape to 

the myriad forms of chaos through installations, exhibitions, 

performances, debates and, of course, the much-awaited announcement of 

the winners of the Share Prize.

Once again, this year's Share Festival will be opening its doors to the 

city, offering new perspectives, works and initiatives - In the hallowed 

halls of the University and the Academy of Fine Arts for students; In 

our institutions, taking part in the European debate on creativity and 

innovation “CreATe: Connecting ICT Research and Creative Enterprises”; 

In museums, in partnership with the Contemporary Art Museum in Rivoli 

and the PAV, which will be opening their doors free of charge to our 

audience. And through the Turin-based festivals clubtoclub and 

Viewconference, where the Digital Orbit project was first conceived.

All the most important digital art events in town will be opening their 

doors in synergy, with a programme of events of international acclaim, 

forming part of a whole month called Contemporary Art in Turin, tracing 

out a path, a map, an orbit sweeping through the city.

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SPOTLIGHT ON....THE EXHIBITIONS!

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SHARE PRIZE

Share Prize Exhibition ---> Launched in 2007, the Share Prize is the 

pride and joy of the Festival. Designed to discover, promote and support 

the digital arts, artists from all around the world take part in the 

contest every year. This year, the six finalists short-listed by the 

international panel of judges are: Ernesto Klar Convergenze parallele | 

Lia Proximity of needs | Andreas Muxel Connect

Francesco Meneghini-William Bottin Sciame 1 | Ralf Baecker Calculating 

Space | Random International / Chris O’Shea Audience

Squatting Supermarket

Squatting Supermarkets ---> Artist Salvatore Iaconesi aka xDxD.vs.xDxD 

looks at how our everyday lives have evolved through shopping, piercing 

into the pulsating heart of Market Forces. Browsing products on shelves, 

choosing, paying, running up debt, being convinced and seduced, relating 

to places, messages and other people: shopping is an experience that 

fills our days, an experience constructed through images, suggestions 

and strategies that are all so complex that we, as final users, 

systematically fail to perceive them.

MARKET FORCES

Market Forces Exhibition ---> Taking as its starting point Salvatore 

Iaconesi’s special project for Share Festival 2009, Squatting 

Supermarkets, which narrates how our everyday lives have evolved through 

“augmented” shopping, the statement made by the exhibition, curated by 

Simona Lodi, explores the issue of whether artists can be an alternative 

source of information on the economy.

End of cinema

Until the End of Cinema ---> curated by Luca Barbeni. The exhibition 

screens a series of audio-visual works that begin where the cinema 

ceases to exist, taking us from the linear to the interactive, from the 

collective to an individual perspective. The works can no longer be said 

to be cinema, but nor are they something else.

NATZKE

Form Follows Nature - Erik Natzke Exhibition ---> Erik Natzke, artist, 

designer and programmer, creates and gives material substance to his 

ideas through immaterial computer code. His sensibility, combined with 

his stubborn resolve, has enabled him to push back the limits of his 

medium, beyond known methods and approaches. Natzke’s work focuses on 

aesthetics and methodology, in which code and numbers generate beauty. 

When Natzke wants to draw something, he doesn’t pick up a pencil. He 

opens his Flash software editor and starts programming.

7th-14th November - Allegretti Contemporanea Gallery, via San Francesco 

D’Assisi 14, Turin. Opening Saturday 7th November, 7 PM


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