luca barbeni
Since 2004
Works in torino Italy

BIO
At the end of 1999, Luca Barbeni with the group 80/81 starts to work at Island.8081 (www.8081.com), a net.art project.
Thanx to Nora Barry, The bitscreen’s (a site dedicated to digital cinema) supervisor, Island.8081 partecipate at the exhibition FUTURE CINEMA from 16th november 2002 to 30th march 2003 inside the ZKM of Karlsruhe.
From 2004 to 2006 collaborates with Teknemedia (www.teknemedia.net) as journalist for the webmagazine of this contemporary art portal.
In 2006 he started to work with Chiara Garibaldi and Simona Lodi on the project Piemonte Share Festival, (www.toshare.it) at the beginning as external curator and then since 2007 as curator. In 2006 he pubblished the book “Webcinema, l'immagine cibernetica” and with the collaboration of Piemonte Share he curated many webcinema exhibitions, the last one, Until the End of Cinema (http://www.toshare.it/untiltheendofcinema ), has become another book, Until the End of Cinema, pubblished on december 2010.
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EVENT

Share Festival 2010 - Smart Mistakes - Conferences


Dates:
Mon Oct 25, 2010 00:00 - Mon Oct 25, 2010

Location:
Italy

Here's the programme of conferences featuring all the fabulous guests that are set to make this year’s festival on smart mistakes really special.

This year, the role of guest curator of the Piemonte Share Festival has been split three ways so as to triple the Festival’s scope of enquiry into the artistic and cultural import of error, focusing on three fields.

For each thematic cluster, a keynote speaker will shed insight on the value of error in creative enquiry. In this way technological and media mistakes will be looked at by Kim Cascone, musician and theorist of the aesthetics of failure, while the Australian artist and performer Stelarc, together with the curator and artistic director of the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Jurij Krpan will focus on biological mistakes. Celebrated writer Bruce Sterling will instead be focusing on the value of chance discovery.
The Share Festival Symposium will then continue with a series of lectures and dialogues between guests from diverse fields, speakers and the audience, called upon to exchange their views on cultural and social issues affecting the everyday lives of all people.

Here're the guests: Christian Ulrik Andersen, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Edoardo Bonaspetti, Edoardo Boncinelli, Cristophe Bruno, Roberta Buiani, Mario Calabresi, Antonio Caronia, Max Casacci, Geoff Cox, Chiara Figone, Valeria Gandus, Fulvio Gianaria, Salvatore Iaconesi, Les Liens Invisibles, Giorgio Maffei, Caden Manson, Anna Masera, David Orban, Oriana Persico, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Dario Salani, Jasmina Tesanovic, Samuel Tronçon, Wu-Ming 1 and Siegfried Zielinski.

Go to the programme: http://www.toshare.it/?page_id=2704〈=en


OPPORTUNITY

Action Sharing 2


Deadline:
Tue Nov 30, 2010 00:00

Location:
Italy

The Sharing, in partnership with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, is announcing the second Action Sharing competition.

Action Sharing is an ideas competition for artistic projects that make syncretic use of mechatronic elements.
Area of key interest for The Sharing include: art, music, drama, performance art and dance.
The Turin Chamber of Commerce has sponsored the competition with a view to promoting the creative capital to be found in the Piedmont region, where art and technology are two strategic sectors for the local economy, as part of its commitment to supporting initiatives that promote interdisciplinary co-operation.

Artists are invited to enter projects that make use of the devices required by the competition (electric motor/linear voice coil actuator) in the areas of key interest stated above.
The aim of the competition is to identify and select artistic projects that can be developed in partnership with leading companies in the mechatronics sector, the Polytechnic University of Turin, and Regione Piemonte institutions.

The idea judged the best will win a prize of €1500*.
*one thousand, five hundred euros, including tax and social security contributions.

The deadline for entries is midnight, 30th November 2010.

Download the Competition Terms and Conditions:
www.toshare.it/actionsharing2/call_AS2.pdf

Fill the form:
www.toshare.it/actionsharing2


EVENT

Share Festival Smart Mistakes - Programme


Dates:
Mon Oct 11, 2010 00:00 - Mon Oct 11, 2010

Location:
Italy

Dear Share Festival friends,
the Smart Mistakes programme is now on-line. From project failure to the aesthetics of error, the 6th Piemonte Share Festival will be exploring the artistic and cultural import of error and chance discovery, through installations, exhibitions, performances, debates and, of course, the highly anticipated awarding of this year’s Share Prize.

The 6th Piemonte Share Festival, directed by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi is just around the corner. Within the programme of events for Your Time, Torino 2010 European Youth Capital, Share Festival together with ClubToClub, Musica90 and Prospettiva will be presenting Youth Museum, hosted from 15th October to 7th November by the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin.

And in the lead up to the festival, two special events will be showcasing just what it means to create art in the digital age.

WARM UP - PIEMONTE SHARE FESTIVAL
waiting for the 6th edition (2nd-7th November, 2010)

YOUTH MUSEUM - Regional Museum of Natural Science, via Giolitti 36, Turin
Friday, 15th October, 7 PM, second floor. Admission is free
performance by ENIAC, INTO THE WOOD

Into the Wood is an environment-themed electro-acoustic performance that uses wood as its main source of sound for the creation of sound textures, rhythms and melodies. The performance is made complete thanks to the creative input of set designer Catherine Chanoux and videomaker Silvia Poeta Paccati. Produced by Piemonte Share in partnership with SMIR, Multimedia Spaces for Innovation and Research.

WEDNESDAY, 20th October, 6 PM, conference hall. Admission is free
conference by NICOLAS NOVA, Accidents and failures as creative material for the near future

Error - as artistic director Simona Lodi explains - has truly unique creative power, as it represents the emergence of a problem, a pointer highlighting the need for attention that ultimately leads to new solutions and innovation. The central theme of the sixth Piemonte Share Festival will be looked at through an engaging conference entitled Accidents and failures as creative material for the near future, chaired by the prominent researcher Nicolas Nova.

THURSDAY, 28th OCTOBER
9 PM Screening of selected videos from the 13th Japan Media Art Festival

To mark its partnership with the Japan Media Art Festival, Share Festival is presenting on the big screen a glimpse of creative trends in video in contemporary Japan. The three-part screening will cover different aspects of video: entertainment, art and animation.

PRESS CONFERENCE
Tuesday, 20th October 2010, 6 PM

Regional Museum of Natural Science

Go to the programme http://www.toshare.it/?page\_id=2704〈=en


EVENT

Share Festival Smart Mistakes


Dates:
Mon Oct 04, 2010 00:00 - Mon Oct 04, 2010

Location:
Italy

Dear Share Festival friends, in just less than a month, this year’s 6th festival, Smart Mistakes, is due to begin.

From 2nd - 7th November 2010, the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin will come alive with conferences, performances, screenings, the works of the six finalists in the running for the Share Prize, this year’s special thematic exhibition, and the special project Reality Is Out There by Les Liens Invisibles.

The artistic directors Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi, together with the organising team, have dedicated this 6th Piemonte Share Festival to the artistic and cultural import of error and chance discovery. Smart Mistakes is the oxymoron wrapping up the theme this year, focused on the history of error and the watershed moments in human history that error, in the form of chance discovery, has brought.

This year, the role of guest curator of the Piemonte Share Festival has been split three ways so as to triple the festival’s scope of enquiry into the artistic and cultural import of error - from technological and media mistakes concerning the relationships between humans and machines, dysfunction, and transmission errors, to biological mistakes such as mutations, biodiversity and living art, and finally to chance discovery in the form of serendipity, random discovery, accidents and unexpected variance.

For each thematic cluster, a keynote speaker will shed insight on the value of error in creative enquiry. In this way technological and media mistakes will be looked at by the californian Kim Cascone, musician and theorist of the aesthetics of failure, while the Australian artist and performer Stelarc, together the curator and artistic director of the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Jurij Krpan will focus on biological mistakes. Celebrated writer Bruce Sterling will instead be lecturing on the value of chance discovery.

Confirmation of their participation has so far been received from Nicolas Nova, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Geoff Cox, Cristophe Bruno, Mario Calabresi, Anna Masera, David Orban, Max Casacci, Wu-Ming 1, Edoardo Boncinelli, Caden Mason, Antonio Caronia, Siegfried Zielinski, Marco Aime, Alex Giordano.

This year’s 6th Share Festival has broadened its cultural horizon to include the progressive pervasiveness of the digital in mainstream society, while keeping its critical eye on technology as sharp as ever. When we set off on this cultural and artistic odyssey, the digital arts were considered entirely experimental, and not integrated into the business side of the art world. Today, media art is an important and accepted artistic language, attracting an audience of growing proportions. Until not so long ago, digital art was just beginning to be taken into consideration. Today we talk about art in the digital age.

Within the programme of events for Your Time, Torino 2010 European Youth Capital, Share Festival together with ClubToClub, Musica90 and Prospettiva will be presenting Youth Museum, which from 15th October to 7th November will provide the backdrop at the magnificent exhibition spaces of the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin.

More info on Warm-Up events and the final Share Festival programme will be coming soon. Stay tuned!

http://www.toshare.it/?lang=en


EVENT

Smart Mistakes and the Short List for Share Prize 2010


Dates:
Tue Nov 02, 2010 00:00 - Tue Sep 07, 2010

Location:
Italy

Every year, the Share Festival chooses a special topic to focus on, to help broaden our minds, sharpen our skills, and inspire creative expression. So don’t miss this year’s festival from 2nd-7th November, 2010 in Turin!

Smart Mistakes - Share Festival 2010

ERROR, mistake, mutation, failure, dysfunction, discrepancy, accident, unexpected change, chance discovery, the aesthetics of error, mass waste, project failure, abandon project, disaster, flaw, inconvenience, misappropriation, side-effect, slip-up, flop.

This year, the VI Piemonte Share Festival will be focusing on the artistic and cultural significance of mistake, in all its broader senses. The creative potential of analysing and looking into what lies behind an error is truly great, as it represents the uncovering of an issue. Which is of particular interest in this year of global emergencies. The issue uncovered then demands attention, which in turn elicits controversy, while it is controversy that generates solutions and innovation.
In the art and culture of our digital age, does mistake still play the role of instigating change and activating value?

Share Prize 2010
Now are you ready to discover the group of artists called to Turin to take part in a Share Festival?

Some 270 projects from 20 countries were submitted for consideration for the Share Prize 2010. The aim of the Share Prize is to discover, promote and support the digital arts. The competition is open to artists that use digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all shapes and formats.
The cultural aim of the Share Prize is to make participation in the Share Festival open and accessible to all artists.

An international panel of judges consisting of Jurij Krpan (Ljubljana), Andy Cameron (London), Fulvio Gianaria (Turin), and Bruce Sterling (Austin/Turin) assessed the submissions. After a very interesting meeting and a professional, in-depth analysis of all the works, it is with great pleasure that we announce the six incredible artists who have been short-listed for the Share Prize 2010.

Read the judges’ statement here: http://www.toshare.it/?page\_id=2090〈=en

The prize winners will be announced at the Share Prize award ceremony on 7th November, 2010 at the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin.

Kuai Auson (EC), 0h!m1gas (2008)
0h!m1gas is a biomimetic stridulation environment, based on the activity of an ant colony under video and audio surveillance, transforming the ants into DJs and creating a sound-reactive space which reveals the connection between scratching, as an aesthetical expression created by human culture, and the stridulation phenomena produced by ants as a communication mechanism.
http://kuaishen.tv/0hm1gas

Perry Bard (CDN), Man with a Movie Camera (2007)
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net, where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film.
http://dziga.perrybard.net

Sonia Cillari (IT), As an artist, I need to rest (2009)
The artist is lying still on the floor of the exhibition space, exhaling through a very long cable, which departs from inside her left nostril and ends at the centre of the main screen, suspended from the floor. A digital creature which she calls 'feather' is entirely generated by her exhaling into the suspended screen. During the performance, Sonia Cillari exhales 14,000 digital elements and brings the digital feather into more than 6 different states of beings, from 'addition' to 'resistance' patterns of life.
http://www.soniacillari.net/AaA-IntR\_dedicated.htm

Ernesto Klar (IT/VE/USA), Luzes relacionais (2009-10)
Luzes relacionais" (Relational Lights) is an interactive audiovisual installation that explores our relationship with the expressional-organic character of space. The installation uses light, sound, haze, and a custom-software system to create a morphing, three-dimensional light-space in which spectators actively participate, manipulating it with their presence and movements. "Luzes relacionais" is pays homage to the work and aesthetic inquiry of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.
http://www.klaresque.org/luzes\_video.mov

Knowbotic Research (GER), Macghillie\_ just a void (2009-10)
In the public performance project MacGhillie, urban sites are visited by a figure, clad in a camouflage suit, who shows neither the traits of an individual, or even of a person. The so-called Ghillie Suit was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting and was later also used during the First World War (bis heute). Its camouflage anonymizes and neutralises of the person who wears it in public. The figure oscillates between the hyperpresence of a mask and visual redundancy.
http://krcf.org/krcf.org/?p=249

Teatrino Elettrico (IT), DC12V (2009)
DC12V is a board-game version of elektrolivecircus. Sounds are generated using analogue instruments only, recordings of movements, percussion, friction and the electromagnetic fields of various everyday machines. Small in converted into big, futile into necessary, objects into personages, the board into a location. A desktop tragedy in one act for self-propelled machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idaVeVj7ZMc