Exibition Piemonte Share Festival2007

Event: “Piemonte Share Festival 2007”
Festival of culture and arts linked to the new media and digital technologies
When: from Tuesday, 23rd January to Sunday, 28th January 2007
Where: Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti main premises
Via Accademia Albertina, 6 - Torino
website: www.toshare.it e.mail [email protected]


INAUGURATION:
Accademia Albertina Tuesday 23rd January 2007 from 6 to 10 pm
With aperitif and live performances




EXHIBITION:
Share Award 2007
From Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th January 2007
Accademia Albertina
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from: 10 am - 8 pm /Saturday, Sunday from: 2 -8 pm

The works of the six Share Prize 2007 finalists will be exhibited in the Accademia Albertina exhibition rooms. The works that have been selected for the final phase are:


Artist: Stanza (UK)
Work: Sensity - The Emergent City
Web: http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity2/index.html
Short description: Sensity is made from real time data that is collected across the city in real time and visualized as a dynamic public installation which is also viewable online. Sensity visualizes the patterns we make, the forces we weave, which are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined as artworks. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.
The artist is attempting to move on towards a point where the landscape is a hybridized audio visual representation of the space. That is an audio visual experience based on the sounds and sights of the city pollutions, noise, traffic data , that are captured via sensor network. In other words sensors are used to environmentally monitor the city and the data output is used to create a public domain artwork describing the city data space.
How we understand and value information is of great importance. It seems reasonable to suggest that visual metaphors might simplify our understanding of data in space.


Artist: UBERMORGEN.COM, Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico (AT, USA, IT)
Work: Amazon-noir.com
web: http://www.amazon-noir.com/text.html
Short description:The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Lizvlx, Ludovico, Bernhard) steal copyrighted books from Amazon.com - by using sophisticated robot-perversion-technology coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. A massive media fight and a brutal legal fight escalates into an online Showdown with the heist at the center of the story. Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM has daily shoot outs with the global massmedia, Ludovico and Bernhard hardly resist kickback-bribes from powerful Amazon.com and Cirio violently pushes the boundary of copyright. Betrayal, blasphemy and pessimism splits the gang of bad guys. In the end the good guys (Amazon.com) win and drive off with the beautiful and seductive femme fatale (the massmedia).
Amazon noir is a project by UBERMORGEN.COM, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico (European based collective including Italy) provides a critique of propriety model of cultural production and distribution. The project exploits a legal loophole in amazon.com software that makes it possible to collect the single pages of the entire book making a sale / profit irrelevant. In this way, the project critically reflects on the issue of copyright and also plays with the inherent structures of the online media. Furthermore it proposes more open model for content use and distribution as we see developed in open source practice which is based on sharing content.


Artist: Gregory Shakar (USA)
Work: The Analog Color Field Computer (ACFC) web:http://www.moodvector.com/acfc/acfcShare.htm
Short description: the Analog Color Field Computer is an interactive video and sound installation. It's sculptural computers produce surging pulses of colours and tones, conveying a symphony of sonic texture and luminescent patterns into the sparsely lit exhibition space. Each ACFC provides controls for users to adjust its hues, pitches and rhythms.
Moodvector from Gregory Shakar is a beautiful landscape of computers and screens displaying basic colours and sounds. The work points to the earlier artworks researching the relationship between sound and color (Skriabin). It involves public on the level of manipulation of both sound and color in this installation. Simple, beautiful, elegant, easy.


Artist: 5VOLTCORE (Emanuel Andel - Christian Guetzer) (AT)
Work: Shockbot Corejulio
web: http://www.5voltcore.com/index.html?/content/roboter.html
Short description: “Shockbot Corejulio” creates aesthetic information out of disfunction in the form of audio and visual output.
Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts: 1st the programme that controls the shockbot, 2nd the controlling circuit board, that operates, via relays, the (3rd) motors that then move the shockbot.
Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the shockbot. The computer sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on it's tracks targeting random points within the computer hardware.
At the point of contact it creates a short-circuit that leads to fault current. This error is recognized as a command and in an attempt to interpret the disinformation, the computer creates, together with the shockbot, random pictures on the display.
As the damage to the computer increases a proportional rise of dysfunction to the controll signal occurs. This overload of errors ends in a total collapse of the system.
Roboter from Andel 5voltocore deconstructs the formal process of generating sound and image in the computer through the deployment of a small robot that randomly creates shortcuts in the circuits of the machine. In this way it creates unforeseen audio-visual outputs that are printed and displayed in the exhibition. By doing so it slowly destroys itself. The project emphasizes the idea of an error and dysfunction as part of the creative process. Furthermore, the destruction of the system itself is implemented as part of the performative act of the artists.



Artist: Christophe Bruno (FR)
Work: Human Browser
web: http://www.iterature.com/human-browser
Short description: A human being embodies the World Wide Web, the sum of all the speeches of mankind. Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we know: the human being.
Thanks to its headset, an actor hears a text-to-speech audio that comes directely from the Internet in real-time. The actor repeats the text as he hears it. The textual flow is actually fetched by a programme that hijacks Google, diverting it from its utilitarian functions. Depending on the context in which the actor is, keywords are sent to the programme and used as search strings in Google so that the content of the textual flow is always related to the context.
In the Human Browser project by the French artist Christophe Bruno, the visitor is getting into a conversation with an actor in the exhibitionspace. This conversation is manipulated and given direction by the Google search engine. This is possible because the actor, with whom the visitor is talking, carries a microphone, headphones and webcam which are wirelessly linked to the artist who is sitting at home, in France, behind his computer. He can follow the conversation through the webcam carried by the actor.
So as the visitor talks to the actor, Bruno folows the conversation online via his computer. He picks out keywords from the conversation and types the into the Google search engine. A text to speech program he developed vocalises the search results and transmitts them to the actor's headphone. She or he, in turn, repeats these Google text results, including URLs, numbers and punctuation. Videos of these conversations are exhibited as part of the artwork.
Human browser is a very funny artwork that directs the conversations in different kind of contexts as the output from Google is filtered, ranked and doesn’t discriminate between useless information and/or meaningfull information, something consciously played with in human conversation. The Human Browser tries to invest in language derivative by-products, in a deflationary global semantic market - as was remarked on the website of The Thing.


Artist: Mikro Orchestra Project (Jaroslaw Kujda (aka mikrokilla) - leader, Pawel Janicki - vj, producer, Mariusz Jura, Agnieszka Kujda, Malgorzata Kujda, Tomasz,Prockow - vj, programmer)
Work: Mikro Orchestra Project
web: http://mikroorchestra.com/
Short description: Mikro Orchestra Project is an experimental sound - visual project, basing on the use of game console as a music instrument. Main assumption of project's authors is to create new sound space on the base of tones generated live from console during the performance.
Group is active since 2001, currently with six players.
Mikro Orchestra Project (formerly known as Gameboyzz Orchestra Project) is an art collective that emerged in 2001 from the context of WRO Media Art Centre based in Poland. The project addresses the issue of the adaptation of popular consumer technology - Gameboy Console - for creative experimentation. It involves low tech hardware (gameboy console) and a custom written software to generate visual and sound performances in real time. Although this is an already established project it has been selected to the shortlist in recognition of its recent new developments. Firstly, for the development of a vj software (SQJ software written in 2005) implemented in a visual aspect of the performance. Secondly, for its participatory and collaborative aspect of production expressed through the idea of public workshop that results in a public performance involving audience along with the Mikro Orchestra players.

The jury is:
Gefried Stocker (director of Ars Electronica, Linz)
Alex Adriaansen (director v2 and DEAF, Rotterdam)
Joasia Krysa (senior lecturer at the Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth)
Carolyn Christov Bakargiev (chef curator Castello di Rivoli, Torino)
Vicente Matallana (director LaAgencia, Madrid)

The Share Prize 2007 winner will be awarded the "Globe" on Saturday, 26th January at 7 pm.
Where: Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, in Turin.
The "Globe" has been designed by the Industrial Design Degree Course at the Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino.



The Crew
Simona Lodi, artistic director: [email protected]
Chiara Garibaldi, director general: [email protected]
Manuela De Caro, general coordinator: [email protected]
Luca Barbeni, curator: [email protected]

Organisation:
The Sharing, via Rossini 3 -10124 -Turin
Tel. 011.81.70.974, 011.5883693 www.toshare.it
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