[spectre] Cops & Robbers | Share Prize 2011 | 7th Piemonte Share Festival

[Simona Lodi]

Dear Spectres,

(sorry for any cross-posting) I'm forwarding the newsletter for this 
year's Share Prize 2011, and the dates and the title of the 7th Share 
Festival.

As you will notice, we've made some substantial changes.

Feel free to spread the word!!


Best wishes,


Simona Lodi
director Share Festival






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Newsletter
Share Prize 2011 - Piemonte Share
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Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the *Share Prize*, the 
international competition designed to discover, promote and support art 
in the digital age.

Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from *25th June *to *20th 
August 2011*, by completing the entry form on the website www.toshare.it.

The competition is open to both Italian and foreign artists.

The Share Prize this year will focus on the theme for the 7th Share 
Festival, entitled */*Cops & Robbers*/.*

The theme takes its inspiration from the use of *appropriationism*, 
*activism *and *plagiarism *in art, which today has turned *fakes*, 
*mash ups* and *remixes *into an avant-garde artistic stance that flirts 
with what customarily is the wrong side of the law. A theme that fits 
perfectly with the sort of ‘networking’ that, ever since its beginnings, 
has straddled the dialectical line between legality and illegality, 
between theft and giving, between openness and closure, between 
intellectual property and sharing, and hence between widespread 
participation and a position of dominance.

An international jury will short-list six finalists for the prize, who 
will be invited to take part in the 7th Share Festival, to be held in 
Torino from *2nd* to*6th November 2011*, 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 August 2011.

The entrants short-listed for the prize will be invited to take part in 
the 7th Share Festival, to be held in Torino from *2nd* to *6th November 
2011*, at the Regional Museum of Natural Science.

DOWNLOAD COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
<http://www.toshare.it/shareprize/shareprize2011_EN.pdf>

SUBSCRIBE ONLINE
<http://www.toshare.it/shareprize/submit.php?lang=en>

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