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<DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Newsletter
10.02.2010<BR><SPAN lang=en-GB><EM>Share Festival 2010 - Smart
Mistakes</EM><BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>2nd–7th November,
2010<BR></SPAN>Regional Museum of Natural Science<BR>Turin,
Italy<BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV>
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<P>Dear Share Festival friends, <SPAN lang=en-GB>in just less than a month, this
year’s 6th festival, </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Smart
Mistakes</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>, is due to begin.</SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB><SPAN lang=en-GB>From </SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG>2nd </STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG>–</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG> 7th November
2010</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=en-GB>, the Regional Museum of Natural
Science in Turin will come alive with conferences, performances, screenings, the
works of the six finalists in the running for the Share Prize, this year’s
special thematic exhibition, and the special project <EM>Reality Is Out
There</EM> by Les Liens Invisibles.</SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify><SPAN lang=en-GB>The artistic directors </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Simona Lodi</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB> </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>and Chiara Garibaldi,
</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>together with the organising team,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>have dedicated this 6th Piemonte
Share Festival to the artistic and cultural import of error and chance
discovery</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>. <STRONG><EM><FONT
size=3>Smart Mistakes</FONT></EM></STRONG> is the oxymoron wrapping up the theme
this year, focused on the history of error and the watershed moments in human
history that error, in the form of chance discovery, has brought. </SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify><SPAN lang=en-GB>This year, the role of guest
curator of the Piemonte Share Festival has been split three ways so as to triple
the festival’s scope of enquiry into the artistic and cultural import of error
</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>–</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB> from </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>technological and media mistakes
</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>concerning the relationships between
humans and machines, dysfunction, and transmission errors, to </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>biological mistakes</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB> such as mutations, biodiversity and living art, and finally to
</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>chance
discovery</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB> in the form of serendipity,
random discovery, accidents and unexpected variance. </SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify><SPAN lang=en-GB>For each thematic cluster, a
keynote speaker will shed insight on the value of error in creative enquiry. In
this way </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>technological and media
mistakes </FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>will be looked at by the
californian </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Kim
Cascone</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>, musician and theorist of the
aesthetics of failure, while the Australian artist and performer </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Stelarc</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>,
together the curator and artistic director of the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana,
</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Jurij Krpan
</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>will focus on </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>biological mistakes</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB>. Celebrated writer Bruce Sterling will instead be lecturing on the
value of </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>chance
discovery.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-GB>Confirmation of their participation has so far
been received from </SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Nicolas Nova,
Tatiana Bazzichelli, Geoff Cox, Cristophe Bruno, Mario Calabresi, Anna Masera,
David Orban, Max Casacci, Wu-Ming 1, Edoardo Boncinelli, Caden Mason, Antonio
Caronia, Siegfried Zielinski, Marco Aime, Alex
Giordano.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify><STRONG><FONT size=3>This year’s 6th Share Festival
has broadened its cultural horizon to include the progressive pervasiveness of
the digital in mainstream society</FONT></STRONG>, while keeping its critical
eye on technology as sharp as ever. When we set off on this cultural and
artistic odyssey, the digital arts were considered entirely experimental, and
not integrated into the business side of the art world. Today, <STRONG><FONT
size=3>media art is an important and accepted artistic language</FONT></STRONG>,
attracting an audience of growing proportions. Until not so long ago, digital
art was just beginning to be taken into consideration. Today we talk about art
in the digital age.</P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify><SPAN lang=en-GB>Within the programme of events for
</SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Your
Time,</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Torino 2010 European Youth
Capital</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-GB>, Share Festival together with
ClubToClub, Musica90 and Prospettiva will be presenting </SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB><STRONG><FONT size=3>Youth Museum</FONT></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-GB>, which from 15th October to 7th November will provide the backdrop
at the magnificent exhibition spaces of the Regional Museum of Natural Science
in Turin.</SPAN></P>
<P lang=en-GB align=justify>More info on Warm-Up events and the final Share
Festival programme will be coming soon. Stay tuned!</P>
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