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June 22, 2012 6:06 pm
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June 12, 2012 10:49 am
Dig@ran, unreleased Festival, will take place in the Aran Valley from Friday June 29th until Sunday July 8th.
During 10 days, interactive work arts as parties, dances and digital installations will invade the Aran Valley.
Come and discover these unreleased and innovative work arts this summer in the Aran Valley!
June 8, 2012 5:44 pm
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June 8, 2012 10:41 am
Geert Lovink presents his latest book Networks Without a Cause
Face to face with the author
13th June – 9 PM
Circolo dei Lettori
On 13th June at 9 PM, at the Circolo dei Lettori in Turin, Geert Lovink will be presenting his latest book Networks Without a Cause. Translated into Italian as Ossessioni collettive and published by Egea, the Bocconi University press, the new Italian release by the Dutch thinker and founder/director of the Institute of Network Cultures will be introduced by Vito Campanelli, followed by a discussion with Simona Lodi and Luca Barbeni within the framework of Share Festival 2012.
In its critique of social media, the book takes as its starting point the fact that the vast majority of Facebook users are too caught up in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’ to pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives.
Geert Lovink asks just what is it that compels us, as though it were a duty, to engage so diligently every day with social networks such as Twitter, Flickr and FourSquare. The book examines the collective obsession with online identity and image, connecting it with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to online culture. Nobody is spared as Lovink provides a path-breaking critical analysis of search engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media activism and the Wikileaks saga.
Probing but never pessimistic, Lovink offers a critique of the political structures and conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape our daily lives.
On Thursday, 14th June, Geert Lovink will be in Milan for a Meet the Media Guru event to be held at the Mediateca Santa Teresa at 7:30 PM, and on 16th June he will be in Bologna for an encounter organized by the publisher Egea at the Centro Sociale TPO at 6 PM.
We would like to thank all the sponsors supporting this event, in particular the Dutch Consulate of Milan for having made it possible to organize the event in three different Italian cities.
June 7, 2012 3:17 pm
The Apparition of the Invisible and Pink Unicorn – Pre-event to Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses.
5-6th June 2012, Plymouth University.
Venue: Room 206-207, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, PL4 6AA
Organizers: School of Architecture and i-DAT Plymouth University, UK
Remediating Urban Space Symposium.
Communication technologies remediate everyday urban life, resulting in subtle shifts in the spatial, temporal, scalar and material processes which are ‘all too often overlooked in conventional and binary approaches opposing the “virtual” realm of new technologies to “real” urban places’ (Crang 2007). We need to move beyond an artificially created dichotomy of a real and a virtual world as if the two were opposed. Instead, we must develop a new understanding of our activities and behaviour in the spaces of the city; since online and mobile socially networked spaces and real-world places are connecting and converging in numerous and complex ways. The challenge before us is finding ways to engage with these changes as designers.
The aim of the workshop is to consider more fully the multiple, subtle, and interdependent spatio-temporalities which together work to constitute ICT-based urban change. How do we start to create meaningful spaces that merge digital and physical interactions?
The workshop will examine and propose design responses for how to remediate urban space through a range of ICTs, locative media and smart objects.
It will draw on an interdisciplinary field of architecture, human computer interaction, geography, media studies, art and sociology to explore questions of how urban space can be conceived and inhabited when it is mediated, and the nature of these mediated experiences at an everyday level.
More info here
The Invisible and Pink Unicorn pre-event.
An atheist rave will be evoking the mystic apparition of The Invisible and Pink Unicorn by Les Liens Invisibles, 5th June at 10 PM, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, UK. Hundreds of devoted ‘pink believers’ will be taking part in this artistic ‘hacking action’ by the artists Les Liens Invisibles.
‘Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them’ (Steve Eley).
Plymouth is the place where in 1620 a bunch of hopeful people came together to set off on the Mayflower, headed for a new world; it is also where Charles Darwin set off on the expedition that would inspired the book The Origin of Species and the theory of evolution. Today, while the world is shaken by another troublesome time in history, we’re headed for the same place where the Mayflower set sail, taking a leap into another dimension of Faith and Hope for the evolution of society — and where, one year after Her first apparition, the Invisible Pink Unicorn will be evoked by Her followers at the stroke of midnight on 5th June. They will of course be dressed in pink, aiming their smartphones in the direction of her coming.
After pilgrims and tourists joined to surprising effect for the apparition in St Peter’s Square in Rome in 2011, the goddess’ apparition has become a ritual that can be repeated every time Her faithful folk call upon her. Come and keep vigil for the Invisible Pink Unicorn with us! As the curators Simona Lodi and Gianni Corino say, ‘on the one hand, communication is about message transmission, but on the other it is a ritual performance that reinforces a sense of social and cultural affiliation.’
The performance is curated by Simona Lodi and Gianni Corino. It is part of the official conference programme Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses
bio:
Les Liens Invisibles is an imaginary Italy-based artist duo consisting of Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their work is an eclectic recombination of pop net culture, reverse engineering techniques, social media subvertising, and any other kind of media manipulation. Since 2007 Les Liens Invisibles have been infiltrating global communication networks in order to join and expand the invisible connections between art, the mediascape and real life. Most of their artworks and online interventions have been internationally exhibited in galleries, museums (MAXXI Rome, New School of New York, KUMU Art Museum of Talinn) and at international art and media-art festivals (International Venice Biennale, Piemonte Share Festival, Transmediale). Les Liens Invisibles were recently awarded an honorary distinction at the Transmediale media art festival (2011).
Website of the Monument to the Invisible Unicorn
www.monumenttotheinvisiblepinkunicorn.com
Video & photo documentation of the apparition
http://invisibile.unicornorosa.org/gallery
Website of the apparition
www.unicornorosa.org
Watch the Pink Unicorn in the Augmented Space with Layar
http://m.layar.com/open/thepinkunicorn
June 5, 2012 11:38 am
We at Share Festival were heartbroken to hear of the death of Andy Cameron. We met Andy Cameron for the first time in 2009, when Luca Barbeni introduced him to the Share crew. He accepted the invitation to be the guest curator of four seasons of the Share Festival with great enthusiasm, constantly bubbling over with ideas to contribute in so many different fields.
He was brilliant and full of ideas, with a wonderfully intuitive grasp of what is happening in this moment of world history. As guest curator of the festival, he focused it one year on Market Forces, offering a significant point of view on what was then called the ‘credit crunch’ and anticipating the crisis we are living through today three years before it happened.
The Share Festival brought out his critical spirit, which was just one of his many talents.
His AntiRom manifesto was a sort of riot against market forces, and we were delighted to hear his ideas and his conceptual way of criticizing the market. Often, when someone claims to hate the business they end up becoming the business; in Andy’s case, he was in the business but kept a healthy distance.
What really impressed us was his talent in understanding what was art and what was garbage. He had great intuition in this and we enjoyed working with him and appreciating that instinct of his (he would never be a curator or art critic). He was the chairman of the Share Prize in 2009, lending the Share Festival that year one of its most interesting exhibitions ever. He was a great worker with a great soul.
Now for some more personal memories of him. Having spent ten years in Italy he was really an honorary Italian — the only Englishman we knew who spoke Italian so fluently.
Language means culture, and he was warm and funny rather than cold and ironic in hishumour. He became a natural part of the famiglia!
It is so hard to believe that his huge, generous heart should have stopped working like it did. We miss him dearly. After first working together in 2009, we never lost touch and he would always get involved in the Share Festival.
There’ll be no more drinks with him, with his favourite glass of red, in Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Turin.
Condolences to Andy’s family and to the friends who loved that great man.
Andy Cameron was also a columnist for Creative Review.
Patrick Burgoyne, editor of Creative Review, has written a tribute to him covering his whole career.
This is the AntiRom manifesto.
Together with Richard Barbrook he co-wrote the famous essay ‘The California Ideology’, which can be found on Wikipedia
And this is Share Festival 2009, curated by him.
June 1, 2012 4:33 pm
THE COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT IS CLOSED.
The Share Prize, designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age.
The contest is dedicated to artists that use digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material.
The Share Prize this year will focus on the theme for the 8th Share Festival, entitled Open Your City.
Open Your City is the guiding theme for the Share Festival 2012. A theme that contains three key, simple and direct words, the pillars on which this year’s festival programme will be built. Open Your City will also provide the blueprint for this year’s Share Prize.
An international jury will short-list six finalists for the prize, who will be invited to take part in the 8th Share Festival, to be held in Torino from 30th October to 11th November 2012, at the Regional Museum of Natural Science.
The winner will receive a cash prize of EUR 2,500.00.
The names of the short-listed finalists (maximum six nominees) will be announced by the end of July 2012.
May 28, 2012 9:23 am
Opening May 30th at 07.00 pm
Open to the pubblic from May 31st until June 5th 2012 from 12.00 to 8.00 pm – free entry
Piazzale Valdo Fusi – Turin
Cymatics by Suguru Goto
On occasion of Turin’s Smart City Festival Visible Cities, and as a warm-up to Share Festival 2012, Action Sharing is proud to present Cymatics by Suguru Goto. Cymatics is a kinetic sound sculpture that expresses the artist’s vision of nature, which harmonises a series of symbolic elements in a technological context.
Sound waves act on natural elements such as water, bringing it into motion to create harmonious environments. Cymatics creates environments that are both metaphysical and spiritual at the same time. A place where art becomes a bridge between the material and spiritual worlds, between technology and nature, the humanities and science. Water is put into motion, creating an environment in which sound waves transform the element into geometrical shapes. Music to be seen and images to be heard are the outcome of a creative tour de force by the artist, in his search to give a sensory representation of the complexity of human perception.
The interactive sculpture, produced in partnership with the LIM, will be powered by solar energy. This blending of nature and technological innovation is brought to you by the Torino Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Regional Museum of Natural Science, the Environment Park, Vass Technologies and Gallo Legnami.
Suguru Goto is a composer, musician, inventor and multimedia artist, considered one of the most innovative representatives of a new generation of Japanese artists.
His works have been presented at leading international festivals, such as Resonaces/IRCAM, Sonar, ICC, Haus der Kultures der Welt, ISEA, NIME, STRP Festival 2009, the Venice Biennale and the Share Festival.
Action Sharing is a platform created in 2006 as the production arm of Piemonte Share, bringing together artists, engineers, computer scientists and local companies to develop research projects that combine art and innovation. Action Sharing is sponsored by the Torino Chamber of Commerce.
The installation will be opened at 7 PM on 30th May, 2012 in Piazzale Valdo Fusi, Turin, by Guido Bolatto, Secretary General of the Torino Chamber of Commerce, and Enzo Lavolta, Torino City Councillor for Innovation.
The work will be open to the public from 31st May to 5th June, 2012 in Piazzale Valdo Fusi, Turin, 12–8 PM daily.
May 25, 2012 5:20 pm
It is now open call4roBOt, the ban of research for all the pioneers of digital arts, promoted by roBOt festival. To participate at the project and join the 5th edition of roBOt festival, you must nominate your work no later than June 24th, by filling in the online form.
The ban is reserved to audio-video works such as:
– Installations
– Videos and animations
– Performances
– Photography
– Design of auto-productions
The participation at the ban (and the relative admission at the festival) are free of charge.
The names of those who will be chosen to participate at the 2012 edition of the roBOt festival will be announced at the end of July.
On September 26th and from October 10th to the 13th , Bologna won’t be the same.
This is announced officially by the organizers of the roBOt festival, that this year reaches its fifth edition.
Through the preview of September 26 (in a prestigious location) and in the first half of October – from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th – in the steady site of Palazzo Re Enzo, roBOt Festival will present the results of the 2012 research on the new forms of arts, experimentation and entertainment, all of which connected to digital technologies.
If it is true that for a festival the fifth is the maturity year, roBOt gets to the heart of the preparation, studying with its head down every single detail to arrive impeccable at this important test.
Further information about call4roBOt.
May 25, 2012 5:04 pm
The eleventh edition of LPM Live Performers Meeting begins on May 31, 2012 in Rome.
LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world.
This year LPM returns with a new location: Planet Alpheus in Rome, a multifaceted area of 3,000 square meters perfectly suited to accommodate the different souls of the Meeting. Part of the Meeting will take place at the Teatro Valle, a historic landmark in Rome which, since almost one year from the occupation, will host some installations, av performances and vj / dj set.
Again, this XI edition seeks to promote the practice of live video performance, thanks to a rich and unpredictable programme aimed at exploring different themes through new audiovisual languages, techniques and technologies.
The daily schedule of the event:
15:00 to 21:00 Workshops
15:00 to 16:00 Lectures and conferences
16:00 to 18:00 Presentations of projects and products
18:00 to 04:00 AV Performances and VJ / DJ sets
Vj, artists, designers, professionals and the general public will be involved in the manifold planned activities: from experimental audiovisual performances, architectural mapping shows, and DJVJ sets to workshops, roundtables, and presentations of products and hardware, with a special regard for Free and Open Source projects. Meeting areas devoted to the interaction among the hundreds of participants will be the corollary for the whole duration of the event.
more information:
http://2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/concept/