Opening Share Festival | Cops & Robbers

Dear Share Festival friends, the date is nearing!
As in the past, a key part of this year's Share Festival will be the large-scale interactive exhibition of the artworks shortlisted for the Share Prize 2011.
So here are some of the warm-up events leading us up to the opening night.
SHARE FESTIVAL WARM-UP
Thursday, 27th October 2011
6.30 pm - Torino Chamber of Commerce, Via Carlo Alberto 16, Turin
Opening of the exhibition Cymatics, by Suguru Goto
Monday, 31st October 2011
5.00 pm – Guido Quazza Multimedia Lab, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, Turin
Encounter with the theatre company Belarus Free Theatre.
Wednesday, 2nd November
6.30 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science
Opening of " Cops & Robbers" – Share Festival 2011. Presentation of the Share Prize to the winning artist and commendation of the runner-up. The exhibition will be open until 13th November, 10 am–7 pm.
8.00 pm - Regional Museum of Natural Science
Performance: Action30, MagmAction
Staring from 3rd November, a series of conferences will open the way for an engaging dialogue that takes as its starting point globalization and technological medialization, to then expand into other fields of inquiry, from political philosophy to economic sociology, shining a light, along the way, on the interaction between activism, society, new media and art.
Cops and robbers, the innocent and the guilty, legalitarians and subversives, law-abiding citizens and revolutionaries.
The impression is that there is always somebody stealing something and somebody else on their pursuit, like in Cops & Robbers, but the good guys today are often on the wrong side of the law. Roles have become unclear, ideas all mixed up.
Even the guests of this year's Share Festival are in their own way robbers, in the form of counterfeiters, pranksters, culture jammers, interventionists, sign thieves, symbol makers, political agitators, and hacktivists, who take-over the digital dazibaos and surveillance cameras, hacking into civic information systems, claiming back the streets and inciting participation.
Here are their names: Suguru Goto, Nikolai Khalezin, Natalia Koliada, Action30, Janez Janša, Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico, Andrea Caccia, Giorgio Scianca, Steve Kurtz, Annette Wolfsberger, Dmitry Kleiner, Franca Formenti, Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni, Mariano Equizzi, Simone Arcagni, Francesco Bernabei, Joseph Grima, Paolo Cirio, Sander Veenhof, and Bruce Sterling.
For more information, see the program on-line
www.toshare.it