Bruce Sterling interviews the Versificatore at Share Festival, 2025

*The Versificatore is being a really good sport about this. *We should all express our gratitude. https://bruces.medium.com/il-versificatore-public-interview-share-festival-2025-85ded7b4b66b

Well, that was Artissima 32

*It was pretty good. I wish I could have moved in and lived there. In a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome. ARTISSIMA CHIUDE LA SUA TRENTADUESIMA EDIZIONE Si è conclusa in un clima di entusiasmo e concretezza, la trentaduesima edizione di Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino. Diretta per il quarto anno da Luigi Fassi, Artissima […]

Is this an archive?

*I don’t know where this meme come from, but the “helmet as archive” is very “design-fiction diegetic-prototype.”

Christine Schöpf 1948 — 2025

*She founded the Ars Electronica prize. *Alas, at Share Festival we know how it feels to lose a person like that. https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2025/10/26/christine-schoepf/ It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Christine Schöpf—a formative figure in media art and for all of us, without whom Ars Electronica would not be what it is today. […]

Artissima Day 1

Well, I was there on day one, and that’s them, all right. https://youtu.be/VSm11FlW7vM?si=LP0JypZsZ9UYkVMA

Turin during “Art Week”

*Some peculiar scenes.

Yancey Strickler opining at Metalabel

*A little odd that he doesn’t mentiion artists who are dead, who also tend to be the most profitable and the most famous and influential artists. https://blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-difference-between-an-artist-and-a-creator/?ref=the-metalabel-blog-newsletter (…) An artist is a self-directed artistic expressor. They work for themselves and express what they want. There’s no one beyond their anxiety looking over their shoulder telling […]

Share Festival! It’s happening! In Moncalieri!

I was there, I saw it. It’s real!

xCoAx 2026: 14th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X

xCoAx 2026 14th International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X 8-10 July 2026 Torino, Italy https://xcoax.org/ Submit before February 1, 2026. xCoAx explores the intersections where computational tools and media meet art and culture in the form of multi-disciplinary enquiries on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects and affects them […]

Meanwhile, at OGR Torino

Quantum Visions, Electric Dreams. At OGR Torino art meets technology with three international exhibitions Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING | Binario 1 ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet | Binario 2 Erzë Dinarama. DRUMMING FOR LOVE | Binario 3 OPENING | 31 October 2025 7 PM RSVP Dear Bruce, OGR Torino, […]