The Sharing Association announces Share Festival XIX and publishes the call for the 17th edition of Share Prize, a competition dedicated to contemporary art engaged with technology and science.

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Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary art focused on technological evolution and science, announces the theme of the seventeenth consecutive edition of the Share Prize.

All submitted works must follow the theme described below:

SHARE PRIZE XVII

Tomorrow Now: The Art of 2050

This edition of Share Festival takes place in  the year 2025 — a full quarter of the twenty-first century.

But at Share Festival, we are a veteran, traditional, avant-garde technology-art festival, so the passage of time can't bother us. We're a native festival of the city of Torino, the home of a National Cinema Museum full of long-dead "new" media-devices. Torino has Ancient Egyptian relics in a state-of-the-art, high-tech museum that’s been there for two hundred years.

That is why Share Festival has the unique power to show people art from a different time entirely. In this case, art from the year 2050 AD — not this quarter of the century, but the next quarter of the century. The art world of tomorrow, now.

One might imagine that it’s technically impossible to have technology art from the year 2050 AD — but we know that you, our artists, can provide this. We simply want to see the everyday, accessible art that's popular and fully-accepted by the people who happen to live 25 years in the future. It’s not our art from 2025, it's their own art from 2050. It's created for them, not for us. It is the art of their time.  

Is 2050 AD a happy year or a sad time? Prosperity or disaster, utopia or dystopia? In 2050, when artists hear a "Call for Art" like this one, do they still fret about modern buzzwords like virtual, artificial, national, gender, social, mechanical, robotic, or big-tech media platforms? That's up to you, the artist, to decide. Tomorrow's year 2050 — the chosen moment of our festival — is just as real, human and valid as this year. It’s the sister year of 2025, 2000, 1975, 1950 and 1925. Every one of those years had characteristic art-of-the-time, enjoyed by people aged 7-to-70. "This too shall pass," we know that. So please show us some art after this-too passes. 

At Share Festival, we often show kinetic art, interactive art, installations, and machine-art. These art-devices that we show our public actually work. However, in this particular case of this 2025/2050 festival, it's fine if the devices from the future merely APPEAR to work. They're from the future, after all.

Other art festivals will never get away with this radically speculative, intensely futuristic behavior, but here in Torino, we most certainly can. And so can you! While visiting Share Festival in 2050 AD, you can also visit Turin's flourishing MUFANT Science Fiction Museum, which is full of marvelous "futuristic" science-fictional artifacts that are already a hundred years old. Some are even older, while some are brand-new!

We look forward to the results of you looking forward!

The competition is open to artists who express the contemporaneity of technological society as a language of creative expression, in all forms and formats, including combinations with analog technologies and/or any other material.

The competition is open to both Italian and international artists.
Each artist or collective may submit a maximum of 3 works, either published or unpublished. The Sharing Association will take care of the transport and installation of the selected works. The production of the works is the responsibility of the artist or collective.

To participate in the competition, works must be registered using the official entry form. Entry forms and artwork descriptions will be accepted in either Italian or English, with a preference for English.

The competition jury will award a prize of €2,500.00 to the work (published or unpublished) that best represents experimentation between art and new technologies.

The six selected candidates will be announced in July 2025.
The shortlist of 6 finalists will be hosted at Share Festival XIX.
The jury will reveal the winning artist during the Opening of Share Festival.

The following are not eligible to participate in the competition:

• Members of the jury and members of the organizing committe
• Employees and collaborators of the jury members and the organizing bod
• Unrealized projects or works will not be accepted

Scadenza

Applications must be submitted by May 23rd, 2025 at 11:59 pm (CEST).

Late submissions will not be accepted for any reason.

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