The city of Turin will host the fourth edition of the Piemonte Share Festival from 11 to 16 March 2008 . The festival promises to be at the cutting edge of the vast cultural programme of events lined up for the city currently brandishing the title 2008 World Design Capital.

Steering us round this wonderful artistic adventure is Bruce Sterling , guest curator and chairman of the jury that has selected the work on show. Better known for his science fiction writing and inventor of the cyberpunk genre, he is currently a guest in Turin for six months, actively involved in raising the temperature in this ferment. He will also supply the public with regular personal rundowns on goings-on at the Piemonte Share Festival, which is set to become a year to remember.

The theme for the 2008 edition, which will dominate the contents of the conferences, round tables, workshops and performances, is the new materiality of digital arts . In the 90s the net art phenomenon addressed a need to reach beyond its own limits, drawing immateriality into the equation and threatening the real. Nowadays, society relates to technologies in a natural way by allowing the immaterial to become real. By exploring new, intelligent interaction between man and machine, this relationship has been completely integrated into everyday life. In the new millennium man and machine interact on the same level, shaping and changing the surrounding environment as they see fit. The Piemonte Share Festival is an international cultural event that probes the vast panorama of new technologies and investigates their applications in art and design.

Keynote Slides: A Manifesto for Networked Objects