[spectre] Call for proposal | Share Festival | Cops & Robbers

[Simona Lodi]

Dear Spectres,

(sorry for any cross-posting)

The Share Festival is dedicating Saturday, 5th November to tactical 
media, to explore the fusion of art, media, politics and cultural 
activism and look at new forms of social protest and their media dimension.

The day is an encounter open to all people who wish to voice their own 
contribution in a climate of free, open debate, as well as a chance to 
demonstrate that culture does not close, but opens doors to people, to 
the community, to the population, creating an opportunity for 
participation and discussion. A community response through its presence, 
to ask what sort of sustainability is possible? How do we live? What is 
the real world like for people? To ask, whose side are you on? Are you a 
cop or a robber?

It will also be an occasion to retrace the history of media activism. 
First emerging in artist and activist circles in the 1990s, tactical 
media has since become a fully-fledged movement that targets anyone who 
tries to produce communication tools to support a political mission. It 
is a form of media activism that realizes that the distinction between 
street protests and media broadcasting—between the reality of the 
streets and its representation by the media—is not longer sustainable.

A day for analysing how new forms of protest are being influenced by 
multimedia images and messages distributed by the Internet, mobile 
phones, social media, Internet video platforms and, naturally, 
traditional media such as the press, radio and television—from the 
"Twitter revolution" of the "Arab Spring" to the protests of Europe's 
"indignados", across the saga of Wikileaks.

Saturday, 5th November
3.00 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science
Open Meeting - Art, Activism, New Media

Featuring:

Dmytri Kleiner, one of the founders of Telekommunisten, a collective 
involved in artistic projects that explore the way that communication 
technologies come with social relations embedded within them.

Franca Formenti, who will present Wikifood, a social network that 
focuses on certain protagonists of our contemporary society: the tongue 
and the mouth. An invitation to reflect upon the concept of privacy 
through culinary and ludic means.

Annette Wolfsberger, born in Austria, she worked in the Netherlands and 
the United Kingdom for the ten years for various different art 
festivals, before moving to Amsterdam to become production manager for 
Sonic Acts . She will speak about the difficult cultural situation in 
the Netherlands and the "Dutch Culture Under Attack" campaign.

Giovanni Ziccardi, who will present a national preview of the 
Observatory on Human Rights and Electronic Resistance in the Digital 
Era, a project by the University of Milan.

Closing the day at 9.00 pm will be a Hacking and Digital Resistance 
Party—a hacker-style party to celebrate and commemorate, on Guy Fawkes 
Day no less, all the hackers throughout the four corners of earth, out 
there fighting censorship, state firewalls, global surveillance, big 
brother, restrictions on artistic freedom, repression and violence.

Submit your proposal here info at toshare.it

Greetings,

Simona

www.toshare.it

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Simona Lodi
art director
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Cops&  Robbers | Share Festival 7th ed.
art in digital culture
2/13 November 2011
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali
Torino - IT
www.toshare.it
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SMIR Sant'Evasio
Multimedia Center
European Project Alcotra
Mondovi - Embrun
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The Sharing
Via Rossini 3 - 10124 Torino (IT)
phone: 0039.011.588.36.93
skype: simona.share.festival