ALL-NATURAL

Location: Officine S, Corso Mortara 24, Torino, within Paratissima Venti 2024.

Date: 30th October - 3rd November 2024

Share Festival, produced by The Sharing, presents its 18th edition. The theme of this year is “ALL-Natural”, which focuses on the connections between nature, art, and technology.

The event showcases the six finalist works of the Share Prize, an international award that has encouraged over three hundred artists to explore new ways of dialogue between nature and technology. It also features the thematic selection of the Share Artmaker Gallery, the special project Il Versificatore by Bruce Sterling, and an interactive creation by young students from the Accademia Albertina developed for the Share Campus workshop.
Nearby, at Environment Park, the visit culminates with the permanent public art installation Cristallo di Luce, by Diego Scroppo.

Talk Program

Wednesday 30th November, 6.30 p.m.
Opening Share Festival XVIII and Ceremony Award Share Prize XVI
with Authorities Greetings, Bruce Sterling, Chiara Garibaldi, Jasmina Tesanovic
Stage S, entrance 4

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Friday 1st November, 7-8 p.m.
Artificial prophecies, new versifiers for new futures
with Bruce Sterling, Silvia Casolari, Fabrizio Gargarone

Casa Live

For the XVIII edition of Share Festival, we make this demand because we know it's impossible

Here in glamorous Torino -- a city known for its cordial support of "every form of art" -- we can't take one natural, untainted breath.  Not only is the planet's whole atmosphere polluted with Greenhouse gases -- here in Torino, thanks to our industrial heritage and our specific geographic climate, we're particularly badly off from an all-pervasive haze of PM2.5 micrometer pollution particles, including metals, combustion products and even agricultural dust.  As you read this, we breathe that.

And yet, at the very same time, our Italian province of Piedmont is world-famous for its devotion to hand-crafted, artisanal "Slow Foods" grown from the unique plant and animal varieties of the fruitful Italian soil.

In our forthcoming Festival, we plan to tackle this contradiction headlong -- through our favorite medium of technology art.   Can this become a dialectic instead of a contradiction?   Can we witness net.art that is all about birds, bugs, bees and natural local landscapes?   Can we interact with robots made of natural woods, sculptures digitally carved from marble, and interactive artworks composed of horn, reeds, seashells, bamboo, straw, bones, fossils, or better yet, severely imperiled natural materials entirely unique to the artist's own region in the world?

It's not enough to "defend the environment" -- how can natural materials infiltrate tomorrow's unnatural substance and take some terrible, weedy revenge?

Please do your best for us.  We need a breath of fresh air!

The six selected works will be exhibited during Share Festival XVIII from 30th October to 3rd November 2024.

︎︎︎ click here to find out more about Share Prize XVI