What did Market Forces inspire in you at the Share Festival?
November 23, 2009 11:34 am
What did Market Forces inspire in you at the Share Festival?
Dear friends,
as we take down the exhibitions, the time has come for us to say good-bye. You can’t imagine how empty we feel without the supermarkets, shopdropping, randomly bouncing balls, electronic insects, magic dust, generative art, friends, experts, conference speakers, students, artists, journalists and families with lots of kids around us.
The time has come to thank our guests and hear about what they – and you, friends of the Share Festival – found most inspiring at this year’s festival.
We’ve already gathered just how much you liked our new venue, the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, where all the festival exhibitions, conferences and the Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti performance were held, seeing as you filled all the events on the jam-packed Festival programme to the brim! You also seemed to appreciate Espace, where the Optofonica collective performed, the Quazza Laboratory at the University of Turin, where the Digital Orbit conferences were held, and the studios of the Virtual Reality Multimedia Park, where you seemed to hang off every word at the CReATE conference.
Over six thousand of you came! Thanks to you, we’ve become one of the most important events in Italy for the digital arts and new media.
The leading, avant-garde quality of the contents and perspectives showcased by the Piemonte Share Festival was also reflected in the attention and interest shown in us by local and national media, which dedicated without exception flattering words and key space to the event.
It was not only the in-depth theoretical discussions and interesting perspectives opened up by the conference that attracted you though. In fact the activist edge of the festival also attracted curiosity and interest, as Shopdropping in downtown Turin proved great crowd-magnet to students, ecologists and curious standers-by, who accompanied Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, who presented the installation Squatting Supermarket at the festival, in their rounds.
Even the virtual suicide on Facebook won you over, as over 1000 users of the world’s most popular social network committed seppukoo, and over 15,000 connections were made to the website www.seppukoo.com following its launch at the Piemonte Share Festival!
“Turin is the capital of the future” was the full-spread headline printed across the national culture section of La Stampa. Together with Piemonte Share Festival, another two events were a part of Digital Orbit this year, the Regione Piemonte project designed to celebrate the leading role the region plays in new cultural movements tied to ICT. Together with View Conference and Club To Club, as well as CReATE, Piemonte Share Festival has taken Piemonte a step further into the future.
Visit us tomorrow to see the best of the post-festival, featuring feedback from artists and conference speakers, photos and videos.
Discover what Market Forces has inspired for the future of the people who took part in the event.
The last extra-festival event will be Ennio Bertrand’s workshop at the PAV on Saturday 28th November. After the workshop at 6 pm, an encounter will be held to take stock of this year’s event, in the lead up to the Sixth Piemonte Share Festival in 2010!