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2nd November 5 pm
John Cage Music Circus: A House Full of Music
Jasmina Tesanovic

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of John Cage (1912–1992), the father of  electronic and conceptual music, Jasmina Tesanovic presents the film of Belgrade  pianist Nada Kolundzija’s celebrated performance, while giving her own freely  inspired Cage performance with the participation of the festival audience.

9th November 6 pm
Alan Turing. Strange Oceans of Thought
Bruce Sterling

To celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, Share Festival is featuring a special cameo by science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling. His keynote address explores a hypothetical fiction to present the great mathematician in a new light. Both a mathematician and logician, Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science and a wartime hero. But Alan Turing was also homosexual. Under pressure from police questioning, he confessed what at his time was a crime and was sentenced to punishment by chemical castration.
A few months later, at the age of 41, he committed suicide.
Bruce Sterling takes this story and complicates it even further to explore how a wartime hero, whose work contributed to breaking the Nazi’s legendary Enigma code, was annihilated by the very nation he had helped save. In his fictitious version of events, Alan Turing is German, the deciphered code belongs to the British, and to end the war the Americans drop the A-bomb on Europe.
Plunging into the strange oceans of Alan Turing’s thought leads Bruce Sterling to reflect on artificial intelligence, sexuality, contemporary art and creativity, bringing him to the conclusion that the influence of computers on traditional art has been “colossal” and much bigger than that of mass production, like a “Walter Benjamin on steroids.”