Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY March 12th 2008

Accademia Albertina, Via Accademia 6 – Torino

02:30 p.m. Manufacturing: From Digital to Digifab

Share Festival confereces start – Sterling and Boeri discuss about digital manufacturing. As Bruce Sterling says “mappa c’è più di quanto ci sia sul territorio”, but it is certainly true that “nella materialità mi sento a mio agio come mai nessuno prima d’ora”.

– Bruce Sterling, Share Festival guest curator, writer

– Stefano Boeri, architect, publishing director of Abitare magazine

The development of digital technologies have led to new themes for art and design. Three different European projects present their production processes concerning digital art and design: ArtTechMedia, project to promote digital art,  digifab activity of university department of design at Akademie der Kunste Berlin, GogBot Festival, Ducth event focused on creative applications on Robots.

– Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco, artists

– Katina Sostmann, researcher

– Kees de Groot and Viola van Alphen, GogBot Festival direction

How can artists contribute to design public space and re-define the social sphere? Being part of the shared social network system, art and digital communication are the driving forces behind urban transformation, especially in public areas as museum, galleries, squares and shopping centres.

– Gianni Corino, researcher at Plymouth University

– Hugo Derjike, artist

– Chiara Boeri, artist

Amantes, Via Principe Amedeo 38/a, Torino

Talk with director Lutz Dammbeck and screening of the movie “The Net”.

“The Net” presents the intriguing past of Ted Kaczynski, aka Unabomber, and CIA, LSD, Tim Leary, Ken Kesey and Heinz von Foerster are the characters of this journalistic enquiry that expounds a debatable thesis on the story of the cyber revolution.

In collaboration with “Strane Visioni”.

– Lutz Dammbeck, author and film director

– Maurizo Lorenzati, indipendent curator

– Claudio Paletto, film director

Accademia Albertina, Via Accademia 6 – Torino

02:00 p.m. Dramatic Manufacturing.

Presentation of theatre and research projects concerning the post dramatic patterns of digital storytelling. The theatre is conceived as stage machinery where the actor is the performer and technologies play as characters.

– Motor, artist

– Mauro Lupone, sound designer

– Andrea Balzola, media theorist and play writer

The researcher from V2, Rotterdam, shows us the way electronic art is integrating electronic art studio as a meeting table to enter into new agreements among different subjects.

– Anne Nigten, managing director V2_Lab

03:00 p.m. Manufacturing Intelligence

Which is the physical, intellective and emotional relationship between man and machine? A new definition of “mind” that is finally able to be free from the prejudice that intelligence is exclusively belonging to human being, or more generally biological beings, thus assessing that artefacts can take part in this new procedure.

– Luigi Pagliarini, artist and neuropsychologist

– Franco Torriani, critic

– PierLuigi Capucci, university professor Università di Bologna

– Gordana Novakovic, artist

– Video by Stelarc, artist

05:00 p.m. Manufacturing Robots

– Stefano Carabelli, university professor Politecnico di Torino

– Pietro Terna, university professor Università di Torino

– Owen Holland, university professor University of Essex

Hallo of Honour, Valentino Castle

ore 9:30-13:00 Workshop Rhinoceros

Workshop with Daniele Ale, author of the book “Rhinoceros per professionisti”, edited by Apogeo.

Pecha-Kucha Night is a meeting where architects, artists, interior designers, art editors, video artists, fashion designers, photographers, free-lance journalists, students and anyone making part of the creative industry present a work, a project an idea in public. The peculiarity of Pecha Kucha is the way the participants will be presented: “20×20 format”. 12-14 participants will be presented every night and everyone will show 20 images, 20 seconds per each image, for about 7 minutes in total. Laurent Haug, director of LIFT Conference, will be among the audience.

Accademia Albertina, Via Accademia 6 – Torino

12:00 a.m. Aha-Pre Camp
Kong, via Po – Torino
The biggest Italian community regarding digital art (http://www.ecn.org/aha) created as a part of AHA networking project – Activism-Hacking-Artivism (http://barcamp.org/aha), that meet to organize a possible future Italian ahaCamp, concerning hacktivism and art activism. The pre/ahaCamp, at the Share Festival in Turin is the first collective meeting for the members of the mailing-list.

Now objects are on-line too – blogjects , blogging objects. Once “things” are connected to the Internet, they immediately become part of the relational system, thus improving and boosting the connections in the social network, and they finally define a new relationship between presence and mobility in the physical world. With a pervading Internet network objects are now “citizens” of our space, with the possibility to communicate and interact with them.

– Julian Bleecker, university professor University of Southern California

In the 90s digital art was referring to immateriality, now the society has a more natural relationship with technologies, thus letting what is immaterial to become real, and experimenting new interaction processes between man and machine,

that has completely become part of everyday life in the meantime. Manufacturing is also referring to digital art, where such equipment as Arduino and the explosive advent of 3D printers and devices for digital manufacturing led to integrate what is digital into what is real.

– Massimo Banzi, Arduino co-founder

– Fabio Franchino and Giorgio Olivero, artists

Donal Norman presents his latest book, “Design del futuro”, where objects, agents of an operating macrosystem, are inter-connected within a pervasive network where relation is more important than function. Relation must be focused on sustainability as well, since a harmful element can infect the whole system.

– Donald Norman, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science

– Bruce Sterling, writer

– Luca De Biase, publishing director of Nova24- Sole24Ore magazine

– Gino Bistagnino, university professor Politecnico di Torino

Accademia Albertina, Via Accademia 6 – Torino

Recent facts in contemporary society, dazzled by consumer offers and information pollution – people can experience forms of collective hypnosis, created by a communication system whose cultural machines are turning alienation and difference into agreement, thanks to “emotional” strategies that can mould people’s consciousness: where does communication finish and propaganda start?

– Janez Jansa, artist

– Paolo Cirio, artist

– Antonio Caronia, theorist

Presentation of the book “Dalla land art alla bioart”, editedby Hopefulmonster Press, by Ivana Mulatero.

– Piero Gilardi

Life is now part of the manufacturing process that may produce hybrid examples widely including the two different aspects: natural living entities and technical products. Biofacts, Zootechnosemiotics, Nanotechnology: a new “parallel biology” is rising, where artificial organisms can count on some living beings’ peculiarities?

– Franco Torriani, critic

– Luis Bec, artist

– Nicole C. Karafyllis, biologist and philosopher

The architecture theorist Marcos Novak and Bruce Sterling discuss about Novak’s concepts such as “trans-vergence”, “trans-architecture”, “trans-modernity”, “liquid architecture”, “navigable music”, “habitable cinema”, “archimusic”. Architectonic explorations into expanded, mixed and alternative virtual reality.

– Marcos Novak, architect

– Bruce Sterling, writer