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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DOCKS DORA

May 4, 2012 12:50 pm

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DOCKS DORA
New Opportunities for Creation in the Digital Age
Panel
Saturday 5th May 6 PM
Via Valprato 68, former Docks Dora warehouses

Simona Lodi will be taking part in Centenario Docks Dora, the first event to be organized by SAL—Spazio Ad Libitum to celebrate one hundred years of the Docks Dora complex. The centennial celebrations will consist of three days of events—Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May—including video-art screenings, panels on issues in contemporary art such as women & art and new technology, a collective exhibition and a night dedicated to new directions in electronic music.

Celebrations will kick-off on Friday, 4th May at 6:30 PM with the opening of three exhibitions: an installation by Assila Cherfi, produced by SAL; a collective exhibition organized by Spazio Ferramenta in the SAL exhibition halls, showcasing works by Trung Anh Vu, Edoardo Piva and Alfredo Vinti; and a one-man show dedicated to Gianluca Lombardo, organized by BOCS, Catania. A video screening organized by Filippo Maria Selvaggio will start at 9 PM, featuring documentaries by Marco Scotuzzi and Paolo Campana.

On Saturday, 5th May the exhibitions halls will open to the public at 3 PM. The first panel will get underway at 6 PM, focusing on the topic of New Opportunities for Creation in the Digital Age, organized by Marco Mastino and Carolina Dei Pieri, with guest speakers Alessandro Amaducci, video maker and lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, Music and Performing Arts (DAMS) of the University of Turin; Inlandempire Project; Sandro Carnino, film director; Francesca Cirilli, photographer; Martina Coletti, curator; Irene Dionisio, philosopher and video artist; and Simona Lodi. After drinks and appetizers offered by SAL, the programme will continue with a second video screening starting at 9 PM, showcasing works by Annamaria Caparotta, Alessandro Lo Casci, Mapi Rizzo and Maria Rebecca Ballestra, and then a Sound Set by Flavio Scutti till late, organized by Inlandempire Project.

On Sunday, 6th May, the exhibition halls will again open their doors at 3 PM, before hosting at 5 PM the symposium Feminine and Personal. Everyday Creative Urgency, organized by Fiammetta Strigoli, with guest speakers Giulia Caira, Chicco Margaroli, Elena Pignata, Yael Plat and Agnese Purgatorio. After drinks and appetizers, a third video screening will get underway at 8 PM, featuring works by Ilaria Pezone and Irene Dionisio.

Admission to the exhibitions, panels and video screenings is free and open to the public. For the Sound Set on Saturday night, a cover charge of €5 applies.

For full details of the programme, visit the Spazio Ad Libitum website

The Visible City. TURIN 1988-2012

April 13, 2012 2:12 pm

THE VISIBLE CITY. TURIN 1988-2012

The Circolo dei Lettori and the International Book Fair join together to tell the tale of a changing metropolis.
13th April, 9 PM – Via Bogino 9, Turin.

It was twenty-five years ago that the International Book Fair was first held in Turin. Perhaps never as in this last quarter of a century has Turin been at the forefront of epoch-making transformations in industry, urban planning, art, cinema and music, extraordinarily leading the way in all fields. The very label that the city of Turin has always adopted so willingly-that of the “city-testing ground”-has become too commonplace and trite to be left unquestioned.
The Visible City is a series of seven dates-held at 9 PM at the Circolo dei Lettori, two Fridays per month from February till April 2012-preparing the ground for this year’s 25th International Book Fair. Each event brings together the faces and voices of change.

On 13th April, at 9 PM, the sixth date of the series will focus on Architecture/Urban Planning.
Chaired by Carlo Ratti of the firm Carlo Ratti Associati, with guest speakers Mario Botta, architect; Benedetto Camerana, architect and chairman of the National Automobile Museum; Augusto Cagnardi, urban planner and lecturer; Giuseppe Culicchia, writer; and Angelo Miglietta, secretary of the Fondazione CRT; as well as the firms Negozio Blu, Marc and brh+.
During the debate, a series of video interviews will be screened, presenting to the audience and guest s the point of view of a number of people from Turin’s art, craft and cultural scenes. Simona Lodi, artistic director and founder of the Share Festival will also be featured in an interview in true steampunk style-so don’t miss out on the night!

For the dates and the full list of guests see here.
Each event will also be streamed live online.

Back to the future

March 15, 2012 3:21 pm

Conference : Simona Lodi "Art in Digital Culture and in the New Media Era. The Spread of New Organizational and Democratic Models" Read more»

Jasmina Tesanovic and Simona Lodi at SXSW 2012, Austin Texas

March 5, 2012 6:00 pm

Panel:
The European Tech Art Scene presented by Jasmina Tešanovi? and Simona Lodi. Special guest Bruce Sterling.

For the first time ever, Piemonte Share will be featuring at the SXSW Interactive Festival, through an appearance by Simona Lodi. Sunday, 11th March at 12.30 pm Texas local time (19,30- Italy), the artistic director of Piemonte Share Festival will be invited as speaker at a panel presented by Jasmina Tešanovi? on the innovative, intangible and provocative art scene in Europe, with special guest Bruce Sterling.

The discussion will start with a consideration of the structural differences between cultural production in North America and Europe, taking a look at emblematic examples of art works, with a special focus on the works that to date have won the Share Prize.
The XXVI SXSW Festival edition will be held in Austin, Texas, from 9th–18th March.

A key event for the international arts scene, SXSW is the biggest cultural festival in North America. Divided into three sections, held on consecutive weeks, the festival features a vast programme dedicated to interactive art, music and film, offering a perfect location to catch bands, premiere screenings and the latest from around the world.

The strength of this mega event over the years has been its ability to bring together mainstream productions and the independent scene, attracting to Austin for ten days musicians, film directors, artists and innovators of the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Willem Dafoe, Ray Kurzveil, Bruce Sterling, Tim O’Reilly, Stephen Wolfram and Jaron Lanier.

The week dedicated to interactive art is more than just a festival—it’s a hotbed for cutting-edge technology, where the most inspired minds in new, emerging fields present their websites, games, applications and amazing ideas.

Links:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP12786
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQh4Sn89yw&feature=player_embedded#!
http://sxsw.com/
http://jasminatesanovic.wordpress.com/
http://twitter.com/jasminatwitter
http://toshare.it/

Share Festival 2012 & Share Prize 2012

February 29, 2012 12:45 pm

Partecipate to the 6th edition of Share Prize. The aim of the Share Prize is to discover, promote and support contemporary art in our global and digital age. The competition is open to all artists that explore issues concerning our society today, in which globalisation and the pervasive reach of technology and new media have become the object of artistic interest, against a backdrop of continuing, non-stop change.
The subscription to Share Prize will open on the 23th march 2012.

Cymatics wins artist in residence in Colombia

February 9, 2012 2:26 pm

Cymatics by Suguru Goto

Cymatics by Suguru Goto won the program Red de Residencias Artísticas LOCAL of the National University of Colombia. The Japanese artist will be invited to spend a month at the University inside the program of Multimedia and Animation located in the Conservatory of Music.

The Red de Residencias Artísticas LOCAL program seeks to strengthen links between artists interacting with foreign artist residence programs as well as with international cultural management institutions: the university as an art node that facilitates dialog between artists, enhance projects through creation of interchanging proposals networks with other high level programs and institutions.

It is important for the residence that the resident artist might have a feedback with the original community and consequently strengthen links in between artists and spreading new artists interaction networks. The artist should be aware to the diversity of the social, political and cultural space of Colombia.

The other winning artists are Dan Popa, Orlan, Tom Watson, Carlos Cuevas Ceron, Alexander Nieuwenheus, Lucrecia Cippitelli, Stephany Loveday.