Share Festival is coming

September 10, 2009 10:12 am

Dear friends of Share Festival,

the 5th edition called Market Forces is starting in a just a bit over two months .
From the 3rd to the 8th of November, 2009 at the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin and other locations in the city, there will be lectures, performances, screening, the Share Prize exhibition with the six finalists, the exhibition dedicated to the this year’s theme and the personal exhibits of  Erik Natzke.

The title Market Forces stems from the awareness that the market has become the prime battleground for any idea or product where issues related to chaos and value, meaning and randomness, politics and economics collide. These relationships arise because of external forces acting on the culture which will influence the material, symbolic and strategic levels. Each force is a relation. Each force has the potential to influence, educate and create.

We have asked the guest curator Andy Cameron to address the issue of complexity as a central subject of the conferences.
According to Andy Cameron, a systemic approach that looks for homologies and conflicts that arise from market forces and culture is central to addressing the complexity of the future and the unpredictability of the cultural system and business.
The unexpected acts on market forces playing a decisive role. And the theory of complexity is particularly interesting because of its ability to handle the unexpected, which in this case is a variable included in the system. So what to do? Our guest lecturers will be handling such issues at Share 2009.
So far Richard Barbrook, Joel Baumann, Erik Natzke, Sorin Solomon, Alessandro Ludovico, Franzisca Nori, Bruce Sterling, John Ferrero, Roberto Burlando, Kath Kelly have confirmed their presence.

Please follow the evolution of the program on our website which we have updated and refurbished, both the GUI and contents thanks to Salvatore Iaconesi who has helped us in the concept, architecture and development.
The most important thing is to launch a publishing project devoted to the art of digital society. The goal is to aggregate new collaborations with critics, journalists and artists active in innovation culture, to be an instrument of information, reports and discussion.

In order to let you know about our previews, links, warm-up real time events you can check us out on Twitter and Facebook, so that you can follow us throughout the pre-production process and the exhibition.
As during the months before the event, we will continue to use social networks as a way to keep you updated regarding the exhibition, artists, events, projects, conferences, texts and blogs that have inspired and enriched the development of the program.

We are also glad to announce that on September 23rd , the “Meccanica Marinetti” orchestra will be presented at the Polytechnic of Turin.