Share Festival Call for Artists 2026! “Popular Singularity”

Popular Singularity
By definition, a “Singularity” happens when science is advancing so fast that even scientists can’t understand it.

However, *artists* can intuit it!

The “Singularity” concept was invented by Stanislaw Ulam and John Von Neumann, two elite veterans of the atomic Manhattan Project. A Singularity is always associated with scientists, programmers, rich moguls, and billionaire investors, even though none of them ever seem to know what it means and how feels. Instead, a *lived* singularity is left to the daily experience of all the rest of us.

Obviously Artificial Intelligence is a complex and entangled technical subject. The software is dense and stochastic, the server-farms are costly and gigantic, we know all that. But if you’re a young modern child, you’re simply born in that fire. You’re not amazed about it, you were given no choice. If you’re ninety, it’s even more of your same old world, where you arrived long before any of these so-called amazing marvels.

So, this year, we ask our artists for clear, lucid, sincere art about the Singularity. A popular, heartfelt folk art about it, immediate and accessible, without any tech-jargon, or any ugly, lazy AI-slop. Our city’s ivory tower is a National Cinema Museum, so we know “new media” and we also know “dead media.”

Art will last when hype dies!

What is the Turinese “Arte Povera” version of a “singularity”? An elegant, aestheticized singularity. A singularity of egalitarian liberation; a singularity for the millions, for the billions!

Bruce Sterling, Direttore Artistico di Share Festival
Jasmina Tešanović, Curatrice di Share Prize