Share Prize 2011 | Cops&Robbers | Short List

Dear friends of Share Festival,
Piemonte Share is announcing the short list of the Share Prize.
The Share Prize this year is focused on the theme for the 7th Share Festival, entitled Cops & Robbers.
The theme takes its inspiration from the use of appropriationism, activism and plagiarism in art, which today has turned fakes, mash ups and remixes into an avant-garde artistic stance that flirts with what customarily is the wrong side of the law. A theme that fits perfectly with the sort of 'networking' that, ever since its beginnings, has straddled the dialectical line between legality and illegality, between theft and giving, between openness and closure, between intellectual property and sharing, and hence between widespread participation and a position of dominance.
Six finalists for the prize are invited to take part in the 7th Share Festival to be held in Torino from 2nd to 13th November 2011, at the Regional Museum of Natural Science, Turin.
Now are you ready to discover the group of artists called to take part in a Share Festival?
Some 250 projects from 20 countries were submitted for consideration for the Share Prize 2010. A jury composed by Bruce Sterling and the curator of the exhibition Simona Lodi has made a complex and thorough consideration of all the works that will compete for the coveted victory.
Read the jury statement
Selected Works:
Paolo Cirio | Alessandro Ludovico (IT), Face-to-Facebook (2011)
Mul Geert (NL), God's Browser (2010)
IOCOSE (IT), Sun Flower Seeds on "Sunflower Seeeds", (2011)
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH), Chess For CCTV Operators (2010)
SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production) Douglas Easterly (NZ) | Matt Kenyon (USA) | Tiago Rorke (NZ) Tardigotchi (2010)
Julian Oliver (NZ) | Danja Vasiliev (RU), Newstweek (2011)
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