Science fiction Abruzzi arrives in Turin at METROPOLIS: Torino Futura , An event scheduled for Sunday, October 24 to Mu.Fant space, museum-lab of Fantasy and Science Fiction via Luini 195.
will Bosica Vincent, a young writer of Pescara, during the event for his cyberpunk novel titled IRREGULAR .
METROPOLIS: Torino Futura is an exhibition on "Cities in Science Fiction" which is part of a collective of young artists struggling with the issue of Turin Turin : city of the future. The project is part of the initiatives Turin European Youth Capital 2010 , funded by the Ministry of Youth.
Met the author of IRREGULAR , Vincenzo Bosica that says "Metropolis is more than a simple event for the fans, is a glimpse of the future that awaits us, is a look at our prospects. As Oscar Wilde says: The past does not matter. This does not matter. This is the future we face. Because the past is what man should not have been. This is what man should not be. The future is what are the artists. Let us go then to face our future, to live as a protagonist and not merely extras! "
Megalopolis high tech, oppressive city-machine and dehumanized, post-atomic cities emptied of all life, or vice versa havens urban utopia based on "good" and the "right" and then alien city, underground cities, city-insect-city travel in spaceships in the universe, and world city City-atom ... city of the future. These are hypothetical scenarios, urban fiction, past and present, has come to represent one of his favorite themes: the social space, the city-civilization. Futuristic perspective or critique the contemporary world, its problems, its deficiencies? This
the leitmotif of the exhibition Metropolis: Torino Futura will tell, with new eyes - those of some young artists and those of the new Turin Mu.Fant - both the 'object Town "as the fundamental reason science fiction literature and cinema, both" possible futures "of our city - Torino - so imagine how the "subjects-artists" through their creations.
The exhibition is spread among the works of young artists from Turin who, using different mediums (photography, film, installations, literature), Torino, which will tell in a near or distant future, from this and historical memory of the town. The group is part of an exhibition dedicated to the metropolis in the history of science fiction, futuristic cities imagined by the most famous writers and directors of the fantastic.
Program
Opening Hours 15.30 Hours 16.00
the editors of Mu.Fant, Silvia Casolari and David Monopoli, present the project
Turin: A Memoir of the Future
sponsored by Cities in
Torino 2010 European Youth Capital
16.30
Opening Hours and guided tour of Metropolis : Torino Futura
with presentation of large model inspired by the visionary city
created by Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas
created by Stefanie Groener and Andrea Salimbeti
17.00 Meeting with the artists
Micol Mei, Aleks13, James Festa, Deborah Faith, Christian Bruno, Angelo Spatola, Daniele Duo, Jair Martinez, Stephanie Viscomi, Robert Vernaglia, CatRouge.
Out of competition: Andrew and Jacob Turner, Paul Gay
17.30 pm Presentation of IRREGULAR , cyberpunk science fiction novel (Solfanelli Editions, 2010), by the young author Vincenzo Bosica. An example of dystopian sci-fi noir, recreates the legendary locations to Blade Runner in a thriller / detective story set in a not too distant future and not too far-fetched.
Also on display boards issues made by the author.
Hours
18.30 Guided tour of the permanent collection and temporary Mu.Fant
scrap Space: The Art of German Impac
with the presence of the artist
Opening Hours 15.30 Hours 16.00
the editors of Mu.Fant, Silvia Casolari and David Monopoli, present the project
Turin: A Memoir of the Future
sponsored by Cities in
Torino 2010 European Youth Capital
16.30
Opening Hours and guided tour of Metropolis : Torino Futura
with presentation of large model inspired by the visionary city
created by Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas
created by Stefanie Groener and Andrea Salimbeti
17.00 Meeting with the artists
Micol Mei, Aleks13, James Festa, Deborah Faith, Christian Bruno, Angelo Spatola, Daniele Duo, Jair Martinez, Stephanie Viscomi, Robert Vernaglia, CatRouge.
Out of competition: Andrew and Jacob Turner, Paul Gay
17.30 pm Presentation of IRREGULAR , cyberpunk science fiction novel (Solfanelli Editions, 2010), by the young author Vincenzo Bosica. An example of dystopian sci-fi noir, recreates the legendary locations to Blade Runner in a thriller / detective story set in a not too distant future and not too far-fetched.
Also on display boards issues made by the author.
Hours
18.30 Guided tour of the permanent collection and temporary Mu.Fant
scrap Space: The Art of German Impac
with the presence of the artist
visitors and a panel of experts, during the day and throughout the period of the collective (October-December 2010), will be invited to assess the works on display in order to reward the three most representative.
Among the members of the jury: Bertetti Paul, a lecturer on "Semiotics of the audiovisual text" (University of Siena), Vincent Simone, director of the Heritage Education Cultural City of Turin, Paolo Ceretto, director Turin author of the documentary "Space Hackers" Anthony Fazio, the author (Elara Publishing House), and Germany Impac, currently a guest artist with the Mu.Fant personal scrap space.
Metropolis: Torino Futura , is part of the project Turin: A Memoir of the future - sponsored by the City under Torino 2010 European Youth Capital and funded by the Ministry of Youth - curated by the imagination and Mu . Fant in collaboration with the Urban Eco-museum of Turin, ITER, District 5.
Another important section of the project is a competition Fantastik subject that will reward the best science fiction film which combines the theme "Seattle City of the Future" with the "historical memory of the city" and who are engaged girls and 400 boys from public high schools.
Turin: A Memoir of the future - whose title is inspired by the work of the noted psychoanalyst WR Bion - is a "fiction" excuse to see what he has to say about our city - for better or for worse - the young population and seeks to involve citizens in a path of knowledge of our urban space through a form of expression which is the original Sci. It 'an event created to tell and to speculate on the future that will be on the border between the dark and dystopian advances "to Simak", where the city / civilization, if not going to disappear, rests on the edge of the abyss, and the old and idealistic utopias of Thomas More.
info:
Visiting hours:
from 24 October to 20 December.
Morning: school visits.
Afternoon: from the sea. to Ven. from 14.00 alle18, 30
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