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2023 - Elaborator

Elaborator: The heart of the Artificial Intelligence

Location: Cavallerizza Reale di Torino, within Paratissima Event
Date: 31 October - 5 November 2023

The longstanding Share Festival, produced by The Sharing, in its 17th edition presents Elaborator, The heart of the Artificial Intelligence, a theme that explores AI and its boundaries in the art world. The event highlights six international works selected for the Share Prize and also welcomes the public work Cristallo di Luce by Diego Scroppo, the new project by Versificatore, a selection from Artmaker Gallery and the creations from Share Campus students.

Talk Program

Wednesday 1 November, 5-6 p.m.
Ceremony Award Share Prize XV with Authorities Greetings, Bruce Sterling, Chiara Garibaldi, Jasmina Tesanovic
Sala Talk

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Friday 3 November, 5-6 p.m.
Energy sustainability in contemporary art: the light revolution of Cristallo di Luce
with Authorities Greetings , Bruce Sterling, Chiara Garibaldi, Diego Scroppo, Angelo Comino, Stefano Beltramo

Sala Arena

Saturday 4 November, 11.30-12.30
Primo Levi and the Horizon of Artificial Intelligence: The Prophecy of the Versificatore
with Bruce Sterling, Piero Bianucci, Juan Carlos De Martin
Sala Arena

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Sunday 5 November, 11.30-12.30
Intelligence and emotionality: deconstructing polarisation in the age of Artificial Intelligencewith Jasmina Tesanovic, Elena Galleani d'Agliano, Nicoletta Ceraolo, Francesca Ventura
Sala Talk

Suono nella Luce

The Interactive sound performance around Cristallo di Luce by Diego Scroppo and Collettivo Sintetica

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Cavallerizza Reale, Cortile del Mosca
Friday 3rd November
20.00 - 21:30

Saturday 4th November
19.00 - 20.00

Thematic

Long ago, in the era before globalization, computers had national names. In France, computers were "ordinateurs." In Spain, they were "ordenadores." These machines put the world in order.
In Germany they were "datenverarbeitungsanlage," equipment for working with data.
But in Italy, computers were "elaborati," or machines to make the world elaborate.

The elaborators have won.

Computers no longer merely "compute" to solve our mathematical problems. We live in the consequences of their technical solutions. They are becoming self-educated neural nets, the most elaborate machines ever made.

Elaborators don't pretend to rationality. They use probabilistic statistics. They can out-talk lawyers; they can automate painters. Given human commands of just a few words -- the simplest human initiatives -- they generate huge, gorgeous, baroque, and deeply untrustworthy constructions.

The elaborators have all the might of modern cloud computation. The elaborators have the biggest, and the dirtiest, Big Data databases in the world. The biggest tech companies in the world are fighting each other with them.
Yesterday, computers computed, but tomorrow, elaborators will elaborate. Generators will generate, degenerate, and regenerate. How do we judge their value? How do we feel about this? Where are the sorrows and joys in it? What does it mean that computers are more polyvalent, more civilized, more politically and socially complex, more steeped in scraped-off databases of art-history -- in summary, more Italian than they've ever been before?

It's too early to know the truth -- but we can make art works that can test the new situation. As we steadfastly declare at Share Festival, "Proviamo!" In Turin, we never passibly wait to be told what will happen: we will try it out, we will test it. In this world of elaborate uncertainty, let art lead the way to the heart of tomorrow.

Bruce Sterling, Artistic Director Share Festival
Jasmina Tešanovic, Curator Share Prize

Share Prize XV

The six selected works were exhibited during Share Festival XVII from 31 October to 5 November 2023.

︎︎ click here to find out more about Share Prize XV!