Hasta La Ideas

Market Forces is the theme of the fifth edition of Piemonte Share Festival, guest curated by Andy Cameron: which the relation between contemporary culture and market, how new media integrate the artistic languages and the economy, which the convergences between interactive art and advertising?

Piemonte Share Festival will be in Turin, Italy from the 3rd till the 8th of November 2009. Below is an overview of the exhibitions. Information on lectures, conferences and events, as well as a series of interviews, can be found online.

Share Prize Exhibition
Launched in 2007, the Share Prize is the pride and joy of the Festival. Designed to discover, promote and support the digital arts, artists from all around the world take part in the contest every year.
This year, the six finalists short-listed by the international panel of judges are: Ernesto Klar Convergenze parallele | Lia Proximity of needs | Andreas Muxel Connect | Francesco Meneghini-William Bottin Sciame 1 | Ralf Baecker Calculating Space | Random International / Chris O’Shea Audience
4th-8th November, 10 AM-7 PM, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Giolitti 36, Turin

Squatting Supermarkets
Artist Salvatore Iaconesi aka xDxD.vs.xDxD looks at how our everyday lives have evolved through shopping, piercing into the pulsating heart of Market Forces. Browsing products on shelves, choosing, paying, running up debt, being convinced and seduced, relating to places, messages and other people: shopping is an experience that fills our days, an experience constructed through images, suggestions and strategies that are all so complex that we, as final users, systematically fail to perceive them.
4th-8th November, 10 AM-7 PM, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Giolitti 36, Turin

Market Forces Exhibition
Taking as its starting point Salvatore Iaconesi’s special project for Share Festival 2009, Squatting Supermarkets, which narrates how our everyday lives have evolved through “augmented” shopping, the statement made by the exhibition, curated by Simona Lodi, explores the issue of whether artists can be an alternative source of information on the economy.
4th-8th November, 10 AM-7 PM, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Giolitti 36, Turin

Until the End of Cinema
Curated by Luca Barbeni, this exhibition screens a series of audio-visual works that begin where the cinema ceases to exist, taking us from the linear to the interactive, from the collective to an individual perspective. The works can no longer be said to be cinema, but nor are they something else.
4th-8th November, 10 AM-7 PM, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Giolitti 36, Turin

Form Follows Nature – Erik Natzke Exhibition
Erik Natzke, artist, designer and programmer, creates and gives material substance to his ideas through immaterial computer code. His sensibility, combined with his stubborn resolve, has enabled him to push back the limits of his medium, beyond known methods and approaches. Natzke’s work focuses on aesthetics and methodology, in which code and numbers generate beauty. When Natzke wants to draw something, he doesn’t pick up a pencil. He opens his Flash software editor and starts programming.
7th-14th November – Allegretti Contemporanea Gallery, via San Francesco D’Assisi 14, Turin
Inauguration Saturday 7th November, 7 PM

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This year’s Prague Design Days are mainly happening at the Superstudios in the Holesovice area. The Classic7 is one of the main buildings that might seem to be abandoned from the outside but is actually full of young designers.

Among the four floors of design presentations we spotted torpedoes as toys, speakers that seem to be dogs, trash which is not trash, leather made from fish, and vases that remind us of Marilyn Monroe. Nothing here is what it seems to be – watch for yourself!

Jerry and Anicka from Symbio Design made the first Torpedo car as a toy for their own child. At this year’s Designersblok they designed a limited edition of 20 unique Torpedo cars, one of the most favorite attractions for this year’s youngest visitors. We noticed only one problem with these cars – children directly start crying as soon as the parents wanted them to stop the ride.

Watch more photos after the jump!

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On Saturday, Oct. 17, the NY Chapter of the IxDA will present a workshop on integrated design for hardware and software. Although aimed primarily at UX and IX professionals, the session will be of value to the ID audience as well. One sentence in the description stood out:

…we’ll discuss how a hardware/software interaction design perspective will help you navigate the new world of product ecosystems and service design.

This intersection is increasingly important as product, service and interaction design come together in a wider range of products every day. Take this opportunity to spend a few hours of your Saturday learning how to design the next Wii, rather than playing it!

IxDA Workshop: Designing Hardware-Software Experiences
Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM (ET)
LBi IconNicholson
The Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012

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Hey, Vancouver! Head on over to the One of a Kind Show this weekend. UPPERCASE has a booth and we’re selling handmade Eclecto notebooks, pocket mirrors, books and issue three of UPPERCASE magazine with a special show price and subscription offer. Say “hi” to Deidre and Jenny and tell them Janine and her blog post sent you and we’ll give you a special gift.

Can’t make it to the show? Email Janine by Sunday morning and she’ll mail back a Thanksgiving weekend coupon for 10% off purchases of $50 or more in the online shop, including magazine subscriptions! info (at) uppercasegallery (dot) ca. (You can always purchase a subscription as a gift – just fill in your recipient’s name for the shipping address and your name and info for the billing address.)

Here are some of the other talented craftspeople you’ll find at the show: Kari Woo (our neighbour here in Art Central, her jewellery pictured above).

Julie Sinden, handmade hats: perfect for the cold weather.

Ella Pederson, Little Red Caboose, stitched Matryoshka dolls.

Tressa Brotsky, Dress Me Up, organic soft toys

To all our Canadian readers, have a happy Thanksgiving weekend. And THANK YOU ALL for your tremendous support of the magazine and all that we do here.

Chronicle Books has just published Core-fave Alissa Walker’s City Walks: Architecture: New York, with maps by John Spelman. To celebrate, Alissa is hosting a week of walks from October 18-24, highlighting some of her selections for the book.

Core77 is proud to be sponsoring the first in this series, entitled “A World of Tomorrow in Queens: Space-Age Adventures for Pint-Size Walkers/Pre-Walkers.”

Bring the kids (and strollers) for this walk that starts at the new Shea Stadium and wanders through the fantastic structures left behind by the 1964 World’s Fair, ending at the New York Hall of Science for a round of Rocket Park Mini Golf and astronaut ice cream.

To participate, meet at 1pm on Sunday, October 18th at Willets Point Blvd at the Shea Stadium Station on the 7 in Queens.

The rest of the walks, sponsored by the likes of Worldstudio, the School of Visual Arts, ForYourArt , Chronicle Books, the Architect’s Newspaper and GOOD magazine, include tours of the High Line, a survey of Broadway skyscrapers, a dawn walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and more. Find out all details here.

Not to be missed!

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