The Turin artist Diego Scroppo recounts his work ‘Cristallo di Luce’, inaugurated on Thursday 29 September 2022, in Cittadella dei Giovani, as a journey made up of reflections and thoughts on how art can restore energy, figurative and otherwise, to society.
Cristallo di Luce is a traveling installation of public art, capable of generating energy for local communities. A contemporary monument that triggers performances and performative actions capable of narrating possible models of sustainable development, produced by The Sharing.
Inside the work there is an olive tree, a plant of ancient origins with great environmental value, protector of life and biodiversity. Cristallo di Luce is also a deconstruction of the obelisk in a modern key, whose shape recalls the geometric perfection of the peaks of the Alps, beautiful and majestic but at the same time fragile and in need of protection. A combination of art, nature and technology that integrates organically into the surrounding environment with very low environmental impact.
The project won the “ART~WAVES” tender, promoted by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, which supports projects aimed at the artistic and cultural sphere, aimed at the enhancement, production and use of cultural assets and activities in the Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta.
Crystal of Light is present in the Citadel of the Young until May 2023.
The XV edition of Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary tech art and science, with the Artistic Direction of Bruce Sterling, announces the opening of the call for application.
The theme of this edition of Share Prize is: RIOTS, HERE WE ARE
Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary tech art and science, with the Artistic Direction of Bruce Sterling announces the Jury of Share Prize XII edition.
ANDREA GRIVA, vice President School of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
LIA, austrian artist, pioneer of software and net art
DOMENICO QUARANTA, contemporary art critic and curator
JASMINA TESANOVIC, Share Prize XII edition curator
BRUCE STERLING, artistic director of Share Festival XIV edition
Our international Jury will select six candidates for the award, who will be invited to take part in the exhibition, which will take place in Turin in May 2019.
By March 2019 the names of the finalist will be announced.
OPEN REGISTRATIONS UNTIL 3 FEBRUARY 2019 – 12:00 p.m
Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary tech art and science, with the Artistic Direction of Bruce Sterling announces the opening of the call. The theme of the Share Prize XII edition is:
GHOSTS
Are we the living ghosts of dead ancestors, of the otherness of the past, its invisible shadows? Or is the past the ghost of ourselves, present, alive and visible? Do we speak to our ghosts, consciously, every day, through art, mind and the material world, or do the ghosts act, fiercely driving us to the unavoidable but creative path of continuity? Science has its paranormal aspects, when the invisible powers that shape our world become visible to us: bacteria, the DNA within our cells, electricity… Our computation and our neural networks aspire to the telepathic and the telekinetic… Art and science join hands to expand our senses and illuminate the unseen and the unknown. Electronic art is at the core of that relationship: so technical and yet so ethereal, untouchable, invisible, virtual… Pushing the borders of unearthly, the sensible and the nonsensible, nothingness or epiphany… Ghosts have been always popular, and the dead for outnumber than the living. Literature and movies teem with ghosts, and in classic cinema, the actors, screenwriters and directors who parade across our screens are all long-dead. A cultural tradition means that the dead are still living. Those we once loved never leave us; they expand within us as we grow. The gifts we receive from the dead are the world’s only genuine gifts. The dead are, by definition, those who give to us without reward. Their gifts to us are valuable tools for understanding and healing. In Share Festival’s history we have had many artists, friends, precursors , spiritual ancestors, who left their ghostly traces and voices, whom we want to evoke and cherish with this call. Ghosts can be angels or demons, Hamlet’s vengeful ghost or secretive ghost writers. They can be male or female or transgender. They can be a political heritage we must never forget, or personal demons we must keep at a distance. Ghosts can be famous or anonymous, seers or spies. Turin is well-known as the esoteric capital of black and white magic, and Share Festival thrives in Turin. This year we will unleash and reveal our ghosts, mysterious, wild, unpredictable. The invisible will become visible, the phantoms will be realized. This year at Share Festival we invite the planet’s ghosts to a seat of honor at our seance table.
Share Festival, the Italian art fair of electronic art, digital art and new media, in its XIII edition
FRANKESTEIN, IL MODERNO PROMETEO
announces
Share prize XI edition jury, meant to evaluate the artistic responses to the genuinely “monstrous” aspects of technology:
LAURA MILANI, President of Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino
REGINE DEBATTY, writer, blogger, curator and founder of we-make-money-not-art.com
DANIELE TERZOLI, writer and coordinator of ‘Trieste Science+Fiction Festival’ JASMINA TESANOVIC, creator of the “IoWT” and curator of Share Prize Xi edition
BRUCE STERLING, Share Festival Art Director
Our fabulous five jurors will pick up six artwork, among which the winner of the Prize and that will displayed in the first days of June in Turin.
Send your artwork until the 18th of February 2018 for apply for Share Prize XI edition Frankenstein.
