Suguru Goto Action Sharing Winner

March 11, 2011 4:38 pm

Suguru Goto (Photo: Nino Romeo)

Japanese artist Suguru Goto has been named the winner of the Action Sharing 2010 prize for his project Cymatics.

Now in its second year, the competition is organised by The Sharing and directed by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi, and sponsored by the Torino Chamber of Commerce. Its aim is to produce artistic projects with strong syncretic elements from contemporary art, representing the convergence of art, science and technology.

According to Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Torino Chamber of Commerce, “Action Sharing aims to reward the project that best builds on and combines the artistic and technological capabilities of the local territory, by creating an opportunity for contemporary art and innovation in the Torinese mechatronics industry to come together.”

Contemporary art that takes shape within technological spaces needs to create its own imagery and a hero, a myth to produce and identify with. Action Sharing highlights just such issues, thus contributing to the cultural modernisation of the local territory and the country as a whole.

Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi have endorsed the judges’ decision, stating that “Suguru is the right artist for this competitive production initiative because he imagines a process that expresses a heightened awareness of the problems of environmental disharmony, presenting us with a vision rooted in Japanese philosophy, where elements representing nature and technology do not contrast or conflict, but instead coexist in mutual harmony.”

After having reviewed with skill and expertise all the entries submitted to the Action Sharing 2 Ideas Competition, the panel of judges – consisting of Guido Bolatto, Massimo Banzi, Federico De Sario, Bruce Sterling, Pietro Terna, and Andrea Tonoli – named Suguru Goto, and his project Cymatics, winner of the competition.

Special commendation was given to Andreas Muxel and Florian Gassmann for their project Lost In Space.

Jury Statement
Suguru Goto was found to have successfully interpreted the issues that have engaged the Action Sharing platform ever since its launch…(read more)

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