[aha] Share Festival 2010 - Smart Mistakes

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Newsletter 10.02.2010
Share Festival 2010 - Smart Mistakes
2nd-7th November, 2010
Regional Museum of Natural Science
Turin, Italy
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Dear Share Festival friends, in just less than a month, this year's 6th festival, Smart Mistakes, is due to begin.

>From 2nd - 7th November 2010, the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin will come alive with conferences, performances, screenings, the works of the six finalists in the running for the Share Prize, this year's special thematic exhibition, and the special project Reality Is Out There by Les Liens Invisibles.

The artistic directors Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi, together with the organising team, have dedicated this 6th Piemonte Share Festival to the artistic and cultural import of error and chance discovery. Smart Mistakes is the oxymoron wrapping up the theme this year, focused on the history of error and the watershed moments in human history that error, in the form of chance discovery, has brought. 

This year, the role of guest curator of the Piemonte Share Festival has been split three ways so as to triple the festival's scope of enquiry into the artistic and cultural import of error - from technological and media mistakes concerning the relationships between humans and machines, dysfunction, and transmission errors, to biological mistakes such as mutations, biodiversity and living art, and finally to chance discovery in the form of serendipity, random discovery, accidents and unexpected variance. 

For each thematic cluster, a keynote speaker will shed insight on the value of error in creative enquiry. In this way technological and media mistakes will be looked at by the californian Kim Cascone, musician and theorist of the aesthetics of failure, while the Australian artist and performer Stelarc, together the curator and artistic director of the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Jurij Krpan will focus on biological mistakes. Celebrated writer Bruce Sterling will instead be lecturing on the value of chance discovery.

Confirmation of their participation has so far been received from Nicolas Nova, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Geoff Cox, Cristophe Bruno, Mario Calabresi, Anna Masera, David Orban, Max Casacci, Wu-Ming 1, Edoardo Boncinelli, Caden Mason, Antonio Caronia, Siegfried Zielinski, Marco Aime, Alex Giordano.

This year's 6th Share Festival has broadened its cultural horizon to include the progressive pervasiveness of the digital in mainstream society, while keeping its critical eye on technology as sharp as ever. When we set off on this cultural and artistic odyssey, the digital arts were considered entirely experimental, and not integrated into the business side of the art world. Today, media art is an important and accepted artistic language, attracting an audience of growing proportions. Until not so long ago, digital art was just beginning to be taken into consideration. Today we talk about art in the digital age.

Within the programme of events for Your Time, Torino 2010 European Youth Capital, Share Festival together with ClubToClub, Musica90 and Prospettiva will be presenting Youth Museum, which from 15th October to 7th November will provide the backdrop at the magnificent exhibition spaces of the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin.

More info on Warm-Up events and the final Share Festival programme will be coming soon. Stay tuned!

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