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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 di Belle Arti, via Accademia Albertina 6, Torino.
Angelo Comino, author of the show OMM plays Nag Hammadi and creator of the theatrical machine Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti, will be presenting to students the technology behind Max MSP, MIDI and DMX512, and will actively engage with students in the second part of the workshop to explain the potential of open source software processing.
Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti consists of two drummer robots that play live on oil drums, while interacting with a human performer. The workshop is reserved to students of the Academy of Fine Arts and to the students of Professor Gianni Corino of Plymouth University.
www.toshare.it/OMM

Followed by the screening of a video documentary on OMM
27th March 2009 || 7.00 pm
Microplex King Kong, via Po 21, Torino
All are invited to this presentation of the video-doc on the productive phase of the show Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti. OMM was the first project developed by Action Sharing, a platform dedicated to innovation that merges art and entrepreneurship. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Torino, the documentary is produced by Diecidecimi and directed by Guendalina Di Marco.
Admission is free.

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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 activism and the art world still celebrate Creative Commons and the ‘creative cities’ as the new ideals for the Internet generation. Unmasking the animal spirits of the commons, Matteo Pasquinelli identifies the key social conflicts and business models at work behind the rhetoric of Free Culture. The corporate parasite infiltrating file-sharing networks, the hydra of gentrification in ‘creative cities’ such as Berlin and the bicephalous nature of the Internet with its pornographic underworld are three untold dimensions of contemporary ‘politics of the common’. Against the latent puritanism of authors like Baudrillard and Zizek, constantly quoted by both artists and activists, Animal Spirits draws a conceptual ‘book of beasts’. In a world system shaped by a turbulent stock market, Pasquinelli unleashes a politically incorrect grammar for the coming generation of the new commons.
Presentation of the book : Matteo Pasquinelli, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers / Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.
Introduction and  index of the book: http://www.rekombinant.org/mat