Share Prize XVII Jury
The future is not distant — it’s already shaping our present.
The jury of Share Prize XVII is attuned to its signals, reading, sensing, and selecting works that speak to transformation.
Their gaze moves through what is blurred, speculative, or emerging — curating visions of tomorrow through the lens of art, technology, and critical thought.
The Jury
Vanessa Vozzo
Vanessa Vozzo has been involved in media art for over twenty years, specialising in particular in interactive/open documentary and in the relationship between art, science and technology. In these fields, she is a professor in several courses at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin; she is also an adjunct professor at the Civica Scuola di Cinema ‘Luchino Visconti’ in Milan, the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, the Turin Polytechnic and the University of Turin (DAMS). The immateriality of the interface, the logic of interactivity, the aesthetics of immersiveness and research in the scientific field are the approaches with which he develops experimental projects involving people and communities. Her works have been exhibited in international contexts such as Ars Electronica, the Venice Biennale, the Musrara Mix Festival and the York Art Gallery. She is co-founder and co-director of Officine Sintetiche and recently won the S+T+Arts - For Social Good Award with the work Photosynthetic Me.
Antonio Grulli
Antonio Grulli (La Spezia, 1979), is an art critic and curator of the Luci d'Artista public art project in Turin (lucidartistatorino.org) and of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation's study programme in Venice. In 2024, he curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. For the MAMbo Museum in Bologna he conceived (with curator Davide Ferri) Sentimiento Nuevo, a research on the state of art criticism made up of meetings, lectures and performances. With the artist Keren Cytter she curated the festival in Bologna entitled The First Morning Fest of Unreasonable Acts, and together they published the book Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diaries for Humboldt Books (Milan). He is in charge of two non-profit exhibition spaces: Lucerna, in Milan, together with Federico Pepe, and the FBI space in the artist Jacopo Benassi's studio in La Spezia. Over the years he has curated exhibitions for public and institutional spaces such as: Ala Scaligera of the Rocca di Angera (Varese), Fondazione Carispezia (La Spezia), Fondazione del Monte (Bologna), Le Dictateur (Milan), Match Gallery (Ljubljana), MAMbo (Bologna), Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona); the non-profit C21 (Reggio Emilia), Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto), Hamlet (Zurich), Neon Campobase (Bologna), Viafarini (Milan); and at galleries such as: 3+1 (Lisbon), Artnoble (Milan), De Foscherari (Bologna), Francesca Minini (Milan), Francesco Pantaleone (Palermo), Giovanni Rizzuto (Palermo), MAI36 (Zurich), P420 (Bologna), Raffaella Cortese (Milan), Tiziana di Caro (Naples). He has collaborated with, among others, Arte e Critica, Arte Mondadori, Artribune, ATP Diary, Boite, Cura Magazine, Exibart, Flash Art, Le Dictateur, Mousse Magazine, Studio Magazine, and written for artists such as: Andreas Angelidakis, Paola Angelini, Francesco Balsamo, Jacopo Benassi, Anna-Sophie Berger, Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Pierpaolo Campanini, Giulia Cenci, Paolo Chiasera, Cuoghi Corsello, Francesco De Grandi, Flavio Favelli, Kinkaleri, Francesco Lauretta, Iva Lulashi, Luigi Ontani, Anna Ostoya, Katrin Plavcak, Alessandro Pessoli, Concetto Pozzati, Luigi Presicce, Sissi, Nico Vascellari, Italo Zuffi.
Antonio Grulli (La Spezia, 1979), is an art critic and curator of the Luci d'Artista public art project in Turin (lucidartistatorino.org) and of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation's study programme in Venice. In 2024, he curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. For the MAMbo Museum in Bologna he conceived (with curator Davide Ferri) Sentimiento Nuevo, a research on the state of art criticism made up of meetings, lectures and performances. With the artist Keren Cytter she curated the festival in Bologna entitled The First Morning Fest of Unreasonable Acts, and together they published the book Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diaries for Humboldt Books (Milan). He is in charge of two non-profit exhibition spaces: Lucerna, in Milan, together with Federico Pepe, and the FBI space in the artist Jacopo Benassi's studio in La Spezia. Over the years he has curated exhibitions for public and institutional spaces such as: Ala Scaligera of the Rocca di Angera (Varese), Fondazione Carispezia (La Spezia), Fondazione del Monte (Bologna), Le Dictateur (Milan), Match Gallery (Ljubljana), MAMbo (Bologna), Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona); the non-profit C21 (Reggio Emilia), Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto), Hamlet (Zurich), Neon Campobase (Bologna), Viafarini (Milan); and at galleries such as: 3+1 (Lisbon), Artnoble (Milan), De Foscherari (Bologna), Francesca Minini (Milan), Francesco Pantaleone (Palermo), Giovanni Rizzuto (Palermo), MAI36 (Zurich), P420 (Bologna), Raffaella Cortese (Milan), Tiziana di Caro (Naples). He has collaborated with, among others, Arte e Critica, Arte Mondadori, Artribune, ATP Diary, Boite, Cura Magazine, Exibart, Flash Art, Le Dictateur, Mousse Magazine, Studio Magazine, and written for artists such as: Andreas Angelidakis, Paola Angelini, Francesco Balsamo, Jacopo Benassi, Anna-Sophie Berger, Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Pierpaolo Campanini, Giulia Cenci, Paolo Chiasera, Cuoghi Corsello, Francesco De Grandi, Flavio Favelli, Kinkaleri, Francesco Lauretta, Iva Lulashi, Luigi Ontani, Anna Ostoya, Katrin Plavcak, Alessandro Pessoli, Concetto Pozzati, Luigi Presicce, Sissi, Nico Vascellari, Italo Zuffi.
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Ph.D (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, designer of experiences, and cultural activist. Her work has been showcased at major cultural institutions including MoMA, V&A, MET, National Museum of China, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Gaîté Lyrique, and she has collaborated with NASA, the UN, and underground communities worldwide. Her artwork has flown aboard the International Space Station, where she continues to develop decolonial cultural initiatives focusing on the demilitarisation of outer-space. She is the director of five acclaimed feature films (SXSW, BAFTA-nominated, LFF, etc.) examining diasporic and queer ecofeminist futures through an experimental lens, and one of 79 Berlinale Talents 2025 directors selected globally. Recent projects include Art of London’s takeover of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, culminating in Piccadilly Un:Plugged. The programme concluded with another global first: a 25-minute screening of Nelly’s film From The Void To The Full on the Piccadilly Lights—a surreal, collage-based journey from the ocean’s depths to the edges of space, exploring humanity’s quest for discovery through fire and electricity. An advocate for plurality and radical imagination, she documents and builds platforms that support freedom of thought, the creation of organised communities and public events, and expeditions with socio-political impact. They work from an artist collective—The Village Underground—based in a train carriage atop a nightclub in London. She has two doppelgängers who help her appear in multiple places simultaneously: a Barbie doll and a LEGO version of herself.
www.nellyben.com
Ph.D (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, designer of experiences, and cultural activist. Her work has been showcased at major cultural institutions including MoMA, V&A, MET, National Museum of China, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Gaîté Lyrique, and she has collaborated with NASA, the UN, and underground communities worldwide. Her artwork has flown aboard the International Space Station, where she continues to develop decolonial cultural initiatives focusing on the demilitarisation of outer-space. She is the director of five acclaimed feature films (SXSW, BAFTA-nominated, LFF, etc.) examining diasporic and queer ecofeminist futures through an experimental lens, and one of 79 Berlinale Talents 2025 directors selected globally. Recent projects include Art of London’s takeover of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, culminating in Piccadilly Un:Plugged. The programme concluded with another global first: a 25-minute screening of Nelly’s film From The Void To The Full on the Piccadilly Lights—a surreal, collage-based journey from the ocean’s depths to the edges of space, exploring humanity’s quest for discovery through fire and electricity. An advocate for plurality and radical imagination, she documents and builds platforms that support freedom of thought, the creation of organised communities and public events, and expeditions with socio-political impact. They work from an artist collective—The Village Underground—based in a train carriage atop a nightclub in London. She has two doppelgängers who help her appear in multiple places simultaneously: a Barbie doll and a LEGO version of herself.
www.nellyben.com
Bruce SterlingWriter, journalist, blogger, he is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. Famous for Mirrorshades, an anthology of science fiction stories from 1986 that helped define the cyberpunk trend.Bruce Sterling has published several science fiction novels, journalistic texts and some essays. He collaborated with the monthly Wired, had his own column in XL magazine from the first issue and wrote for the Turin newspaper La Stampa, where he edited the column “Globalisti a Torino” with his wife Jasmina Tešanović.
In 2003 he was appointed professor at the European Graduate School, where he taught in the intensive courses of “Media and Design”. Since October 2003 he has been blogging in “Beyond the Beyond” on Wired.it He has lived in Turin since 2007 and he writes for La Stampa and the Italian edition of Wired. Also in 2007, the collaboration with The Sharing Association began in Turin and the contents made for the production and realization of the Piemonte Share Festival will be significant, first as guest curator and since 2015 as artistic director. He is one of the founders and curator of the connected house project of the future Casa Jasmina in Turin.
In 2003 he was appointed professor at the European Graduate School, where he taught in the intensive courses of “Media and Design”. Since October 2003 he has been blogging in “Beyond the Beyond” on Wired.it He has lived in Turin since 2007 and he writes for La Stampa and the Italian edition of Wired. Also in 2007, the collaboration with The Sharing Association began in Turin and the contents made for the production and realization of the Piemonte Share Festival will be significant, first as guest curator and since 2015 as artistic director. He is one of the founders and curator of the connected house project of the future Casa Jasmina in Turin.
Jasmina Tešanović Serbian feminist, activist, writer, journalist, translator, musician and director. She is the author of Normality. Moral operetta of a political idiot, a diary written during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then she has published her works, diaries, short stories and documentaries on blogs and other media, always linked to the internet. She has translated Italian authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Sandro Veronesi, Andrea de Carlo and Aldo Busi and she has published an anthology of contemporary Italian literature within Yugoslavia. At the beginning of the Balkan wars, in 1990 she became a pacifist and an active opponent of Slobodan Miloševic’s regime: Women in Black, Women’s Studies, etc.
In 1994, together with Slavica Stojanovic, she founded the feminist publishing house “Feministlcka 94”. She writes for the Turin newspaper La Stampa, where she edited the “Globalisti a Torino” column with her husband Bruce Sterling.
Since 2007 she has been collaborating as curator with the The Sharing Association and her contributions to the creation and production of the Piemonte Share Festival will be significant. She is the creator and one of the founders of Casa Jasmina in Turin.
In 1994, together with Slavica Stojanovic, she founded the feminist publishing house “Feministlcka 94”. She writes for the Turin newspaper La Stampa, where she edited the “Globalisti a Torino” column with her husband Bruce Sterling.
Since 2007 she has been collaborating as curator with the The Sharing Association and her contributions to the creation and production of the Piemonte Share Festival will be significant. She is the creator and one of the founders of Casa Jasmina in Turin.