SMART MISTAKES, round table conference at Park of Living Art
May 28, 2010 3:32 pm
Every year, Share Festival seeks to explore a new and different theme, in an effort to broaden the mind, sharpen critical skills and give inspiration to creativity.
The VI Piemonte Share Festival this year will be looking at the artistic and cultural significance of technological and media error, biological mistakes and chance discoveries of all kinds. Hence the focus is on the role of error in the creative process.
Smart Mistakes
error, mutilation, failure, dysfunction, discrepancy, accident, unexpected change, chance discovery, the aesthetics of error, mass waste, project failure, project abandoned, disaster, mistake, flaw, inconvenience, misappropriation, side-effect, slip-up, flop.
With the launch of the VI Piemonte Share Festival, we invite you to come and take part in the conference organised jointly with the Park of Living Art, in partnership with Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival:
Friday, 4th June, 2010
Organised by Share Festival and PAV – Park of Living Art
in partnership with XIII Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival
PAV, Via Giordano Bruno 31 – Admission is free
8.30 PM SMART MISTAKES, round table conference
10 PM FILM FESTIVAL Screening Another World is Plantable! (Germany, 2007, 40’) by Ella von der Haide
11 PM FILM FESTIVAL Screening I giorni della merla (Italy 2009 – 52’) by Andrea D’Ambrosio, Carla Del Mese
The round table conference Smart Mistakes has been organised as a warm-up to the VI Piemonte Share Festival, and as a theoretical spotlight on the issues explored by the PAV in its programme.
The debate will specifically focus on error and mistake as the guiding thread of evolution, as every unexpected, and hence chance, result or finding in research can be seen alternatively as a problem to be resolved or as an exception to the rule. In nature, error is closely tied up with becoming and the impermanency of the life, but where error has particularly extreme consequences, it can cause genetic mutations and environmental imbalances.
Under the auspices of World Environment Day and with a look at the works of artists who have dedicated their artistic creativity to the causes of activism, the speakers will explore in an open debate how and when art once again began to embrace social issues such as the protection of the environment, and how new media have become the channels through which to voice social concerns. From the first ‘Netstrikes’ organised in Italy by Strano Network to the The Yes Men’s international hoaxes, artists have spared none of the perpetrators of environmental error, derailing websites, broadcasting false news, sending stock markets crashing and throwing entire on-line institutional organisations into havoc. All culture jamming actions that use situationist détournement to champion social causes through desecrating parody.
The event is part of the Giorno per Giorno 2010 programme, one month of contemporary art in Piemonte.
Speakers:
Piero Gilardi, artist and theorist; moderator
Simona Lodi, artistic director of the Share Festival
Franco Torriani, expert in new media
Tommaso Tozzi, artist and theorist