Projects

“The aim of Piemonte Share is to create real, effective opportunities (exhibitions, events, workshops, seminars and productions) for developing and raising awareness of digital culture, and for promoting research and innovation in the visual arts, interaction design, the internet, mechatronics, information technology, graphic design, and interactive installations.”

In order to encourage and help future ranks of artists to emerge, we need to work with the avant-garde of artists and designers today, those pushing back the frontiers marked by software, expressive language and new communication channels, in the tumult of an innovative process that never stops.

Hence, Piemonte Share has outlined a series of projects to meet a very real need, which are all economically viable, and which feature winning content for young artists.

Accordingly, we have focused our energies and resources onto three different projects, each created to support and develop the pressing issues of technological innovation, integrating art and business, research into new expressive languages, and teaching.

The SMIR project, produced by the association Marcovaldo in partnership with the The Sharing, is based on the idea of creating a multimedia art space, taking the actual territorial needs of Mondovì as its starting point. The area of interest revolves around art and interaction design, for developing creativity in highly technological and interdisciplinary environments.

Share Crossing is a special section of the Piemonte Share Festival dedicated to web cinema and the production of works that seek to combine and blend the contents of movie genres with digital communication platforms.

The Share Campus programme is targeted at junior high school, university and fine arts students with the aim of providing opportunities for practical experience in order to develop their creative talents and understand the production systems used in art, music, cinema, interaction design, robotics, new media and web design.

Artists who would normally find themselves on stage, in museums or in art galleries have found space for creation within the research labs of the companies involved and the University, space shared with engineers and computer scientists for the construction of a new and entirely unconventional approach to innovation.

Internet of Women Things | CJ_#1

Monica Taverniti

The initial idea for CJ_#1 was inspired by recent research conducted at the Wyss Institute of Harvard University, where a pneumatic-based soft robot was created called Octobot, which can move with a high degree of autonomy.

Soft robotics takes a different approach to the idea of a moving machine, in which the priority is not on the geometric precision of movement in space, but on controlling its ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Control of the indeterminate.

What we find fascinating is the possibility of indetermination, of engineering a degree of unpredictability in an object designed to interact with the human body. The body is a always a “one-off”. Its very identity, living material, senses and thoughts are not repeatable. And our experience of the inanimate world around us is not universal. It is a unicum. That is why we needed something completely different.

CJ_#1 will not have a definite function. It will be strictly personal, interactive (obviously), and sensitive to the body it comes in contact with, which means its behaviour will be adaptable. It will be able to stroke, stimulate, heat, care and console – as though it had artificial intelligence, which is what, in theory, it aspires to.

MonsterTiling

IED Torino

MonsterTiling is a system of intelligent components for architectural skins. They have been developed in order to enhance passive behavior on external layer of the building envelope. Each component is specialized for different and unique performances. Insulation, thermal mass, shading, solar radiation, natural ventilation. Four kind of components have been designed and 6 prototypes of each have been 3d printed with a robotic arm by the students of the Master in Smart Buildings and Sustainable Design of IED Torino. Each component has a dimension of 25x10x25(h)cm, and they stand together over a wooden backframe to create a surface of 120×200(h)cm. The passive architectural behavior is empowered by an active system of artificial intelligence equipped with environmental sensors that trigger automatic actuators to ameliorate the overall performance of the components. These equipments collect the environmental data registered during their activity in an open web database that can be used to map and optimize the system.

SMIR

SMIR was a joint project run by the City of Mondovì in Italy and Embrun in France. Its aim was to create new cultural opportunities for contemporary art, building on a highly innovative approach focused on the latest trends in research and experimentation.
The old Church of Saint Evasius in Mondovì, a true gem of Renaissance architecture, was chosen for its ideal location in the borough of Carassone to become an arena for experimental art involving the use of new technologies.

The church was one of the oldest in the entire Mondovì district, though it had been abandoned for almost two centuries and so was in a precarious state, desperately requiring conservation and restoration work to assure its structural integrity.

The Capuchin Chapel in Embrun was chosen to become the church’s French “twin”. It also required restoration work to permit its use for cultural events showcasing cutting edge trends in contemporary art.

The Marcovaldo association was the driver behind the project, which was funded under Alcotra 2007–2013—the European operational programme for cross-border co-operation.

Piemonte Share was entrusted with the artistic direction of works on the former church.

Share Crossing

Share Crossing is a special section of the Piemonte Share Festival dedicated to web cinema and the production of works that seek to combine and blend the contents of movie genres with digital communication platforms.
The centennial celebrations of the birth of the great Piedmontese writer Cesare Pavese were seized as an opportunity and fertile ground for the creation and production of a web cinema piece which, using new communication technologies, proved to be a flexible and pertinent tool for drawing a vast young audience closer to the works and life of the celebrated writer.

The result was entitled A Sud di Pavese, an interactive, non-linear web documentary produced in 2008 in partnership with Stefilm, where the spectator becomes the author of an investigation into the memory of Pavese in our contemporary world.

Taking three quintessential settings from the works of Cesare Pavese as its starting points – the Langhe, Turin and the Calabrian seaside – this web documentary weaves its way between the writings of Pavese and images, creating new, unexpected associations between the places and the stories narrated.

Footage shot by Matteo Bellizzi thus became, with the collaboration of Antonio Rollo, the source material for an “open” documentary which quite literally raises the curtain on the movement that lies behind the film: a journey that takes literature as its starting point to arrive elsewhere, encountering along the way the stories told by Pavese.
A Sud Di Pavese

Share Campus

The Share Campus programme is targeted at junior high school, university and fine arts students with the aim of providing opportunities for practical experience in order to develop their creative talents and understand the production systems used in art, music, cinema, interaction design, new media and web design.

Formats

  • One-day, intensive courses
  • Workshops
  • Short series of interactive lectures

Share Campus is closely tied to the regional project WI-PIE and university documentary archives (such as webradio 110, TV Extraexperience, and the magazine Futura), in an effort to document and disseminate course experiences as widely as possible.

Institutions Involved

  • Accademia Albertina – Fine Arts Academy of Turin
  • Department of Fine Arts, Music and Performing Arts (DAMS) of the Faculty of Education Science, University of Turin
  • Faculties of Architecture and Engineering, Polytechnic of Turin
  • The high school ‘ITIS Avogadro’, Turin

Share Campus Events

  • A joint initiative involving the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin and the University of Plymouth, in which students took part in the workshop “Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti,” held on 25th March 2009 by Angelo Comino.
  • Conference “Bestiary of the Commons” with Matteo Pasquinelli and Bruce Sterling, held at the CIRMA centre (DAMS) in Turin on 1st April 2009.
  • Workshop “The Artist’s Supermarket” with Salvatore Iaconesi, held in partnership with the Industrial Department of the Polytechnic of Turin at the CEAN centre in Moncalieri on 23rd May 2009.
  • Workshop & demo show “Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti” by Angelo Comino and Andrea Festini, held at the Mechatronics Department of the Polytechnic of Turin on 27th May 2010.
  • Workshop & demo show “Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti” by Angelo Comino at ITIS Pininfarina in Moncalieri, October 22nd 2010.
  • Workshop & demo show “Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti” by Angelo Comino at IPSIA Galileo Galilei in Torino, 29th October 2010.
  • Workshop & demo show “Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti” by Angelo Comino at ITIS Avogadro in Torino, 12th November 2010.

If you are interested in organising a Share Campus Event write to info@toshareprojects.it