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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> 12/22/2015<br /> <br /> CALL FOR SHARE PRIZE 2015 - House Guests<br /> <br /> Piemonte Share Festival announces the IX° EDITION OF THE SHARE PRIZE ,<br /> an international competition that promotes and supports contemporary art<br /> in the digital age .<br /> <br /> It will be hosted in "<a href="http://casajasmina.arduino.cc/" target="_blank">CASA JASMINA</a>" and <a href="http://fablabtorino.org/" target="_blank">FABLAB TORINO</a> in<br /> partnership with <a href="http://local.arduino.cc/torino/" target="_blank">Officine Arduino</a>.<br /> <br /> "CASA JASMINA" is a project in the business space of domestic electronic<br /> networking, or, "the internet of things in the Home", a new way of<br /> housing related to open source .<br /> <br /> FROM 22TH DECEMBER, 2015 UNTIL 14TH FEBRUARY 2016 entries can be<br /> submitted for the prize using the online registration form at the<br /> bottom.<br /> <br /> The prize will focus on the use of electronic art inside the private<br /> domestic space: "HOUSE GUESTS".<br /> <br /> What happens when net.art leaves the desktop screens, kiosks, and<br /> gallery installations, and becomes domestic art?<br /> How can this provocative guest escape cyberspace and join the family?<br /> When Internet art becomes "Internet-of-Things art," how can it flourish<br /> in the kitchen, the bedroom, the nursery and the terrace?<br /> How do artistic property relations change as homes are permeated with<br /> internet and social media? Is this "house guest" a friend, a renter, a<br /> squatter, an illicit lover entering by the back door as the surveillance<br /> cams look elsewhere?<br /> When digital art enters private ownership much like the family<br /> portrait cherished on the wall who owns that art, who collects it,<br /> who maintains it?<br /> How do the children inherit the art?<br /> What new roles can be played by the artist, the gallery, the curator and<br /> the patroness?<br /> Is art for the house best made in the house itself?<br /> <br />An international panel of judges will short-list six nominees for the<br /> prize which will be invited to participate in the usual exhibition, to<br /> be held in Turin from 19th to 28th May, 2016 .<br /> <br /> The exhibition will take place in "CASA JASMINA " and FABLAB TORINO in<br /> partnership with Officine Arduino.<br /> The names of the short-listed finalists will be announced BY THE END OF<br /> MARCH 2016. <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.toshare.it/tshr/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SharePrize2015_EN.pdf" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT</a><br /> <br /><a href="http://goo.gl/forms/8DxTlFBY5A" target="_blank">SUBSCRIBE ONLINE</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.toshare.it/tshr/?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.toshare.it</a><br /><br /><br /></div>
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