Share Prize 18th Jury
Share Festival is Art + Science + Technology
Given the complexity of this year’s theme, artistic director Bruce Sterling and curator Jasmina Tešanović have invited a group with diverse backgrounds to join the jury for Share Prize XVIII. The three guest jurors are closely involved in contemporary debates on the intersections between art and technology across a range of fields, from curation to academic research.
Given the complexity of this year’s theme, artistic director Bruce Sterling and curator Jasmina Tešanović have invited a group with diverse backgrounds to join the jury for Share Prize XVIII. The three guest jurors are closely involved in contemporary debates on the intersections between art and technology across a range of fields, from curation to academic research.
Jury Members
Vladan Joler
Researcher and artist whose work combines critical design, data analysis, counter-mapping and investigative journalism. He explores and visualises various technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, invisible infrastructure and many other contemporary phenomena at the intersection of technology and society.
Elena Giulia Abbiatici
Art historian, researcher and curator of contemporary art. Her research explores the intersection between contemporary art, synthetic intelligence, posthuman theory and decolonial thought, with a particular focus on speculative curating and poetic technologies.
Luca Barbeni
Curator and gallery owner, a friend of Share and one of its founding partners. He is a curator who has always been forward-thinking in the field of tech art. He has hosted internationally renowned artists at his Berlin-based Nome Gallery, which is currently in the process of relocating back to its original home in Turin.
Curator and gallery owner, a friend of Share and one of its founding partners. He is a curator who has always been forward-thinking in the field of tech art. He has hosted internationally renowned artists at his Berlin-based Nome Gallery, which is currently in the process of relocating back to its original home in Turin.
Bruce Sterling
Writer, 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.
Writer, 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.
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.
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.