{"id":6361,"date":"2026-04-03T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:48:25","slug":"share-festival-call-for-artists-2026-popular-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/share-festival-call-for-artists-2026-popular-singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Share Festival Call for Artists 2026!  &#8220;Popular Singularity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*For the people!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.com\/S<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Banner-sito_SITO.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Popular Singularity<br \/>\nBy definition, a &#8220;Singularity&#8221; happens when science is advancing so fast that even scientists can&#8217;t understand it.<\/p>\n<p>However, *artists* can intuit it!<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Singularity&#8221; 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.  <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;re a young modern child, you&#8217;re simply born in that fire.  You&#8217;re not amazed about it, you were given no choice.   If you&#8217;re ninety, it&#8217;s even more of your same old world, where you arrived long before any of these so-called amazing marvels.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s ivory tower is a National Cinema Museum, so we know &#8220;new media&#8221; and we also know &#8220;dead media.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Art will last when hype dies!<\/p>\n<p>What is the Turinese &#8220;Arte Povera&#8221; version of a &#8220;singularity&#8221;?  An elegant, aestheticized singularity.   A singularity of egalitarian liberation; a singularity for the millions, for the billions!<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Sterling, Direttore Artistico di Share Festival<br \/>\nJasmina Te\u0161anovi\u0107, Curatrice di Share Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*For the people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Share Festival Call for Artists 2026! &quot;Popular Singularity&quot; | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Share Festival Call for Artists 2026! &quot;Popular Singularity&quot; | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/share-festival-call-for-artists-2026-popular-singularity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Share Festival Call for Artists 2026! 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