At FakePress we have just started teaching 3 courses on Interaction Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome's University "La Sapienza". We will use these courses as an opportunity
Il 5 marzo 2010 a Roma a partire dalle 18.30 presso i locali del FLEXI libreria-caffè, Via Clementina 9 (rione Monti) Art is Open Source, FHF Italia e ass. The
Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence. Its main desires are o explore the frontiers of freedom of expression, of the possibilities to create and disseminate knowledge, and of the opportunities offered
An emotional social network. The visualization shown on FakePress's homepage represents the beginning phase of a design process. It uses Plutchik's classification and uses realtime search engines to collect emotional information
"Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia." Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito
getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan
REFF, RomaEuropaFakeFactory, has been interviewed in Rome during Joy Ito's lectio magistralis held at the italian parlament, in an event rganized by Capitale Digitale, a program on digital cultures, economics,
xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes
Art is Open Source interviews Dino Borri from Eataly Turin about the possible uses of Augmented Reality and other technologies to inform consumers and enact critical practices.
Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It ws born from a digitally sexual accident when the Biodoll seduced prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
Just published: “Angel_F. Diario di una intelligenza artificiale“, telling the story of the first year of life of Angel_F. The book features theorical contributions by Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci,
Squatting Supermarkets again in Mondovì with ToShare. We will be in Mondovì from Wednesday, 9th December to Sunday, 13th December, together with ToShare, tha Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo and the Town of
Conference Biofeedback is a USB gadget that allows conference lecturers to receive physical stimulations and feedback coming from the audience.
Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009. Here are the slides (they're mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) and some videos
AOS participated to AHAcktitude 2009 in Milan, and it was a great experience. We presented Bluetooth Wars, a workshop in which the people were able to build their very own
Art is Open Source and FakePress just released Zones, a simple harmonic granular synthesizer for the iPhone. Create relaxing soundscapes and ephemeral melodies by creating grains with your fingers. Grains
This year's Consciousness Reframed conference has just finished, and we just returned home for a little while. A sunny Munich hosted the tenth edition of the Planetary Collegium's annual conference themed
AHAcktitude sarà una tre giorni di attività e di attivismo, di allegria e di condivisione, di studio e di divertimento. Tecnologia, musica, internet, letteratura, telecomunicazioni, marketing, social network: tutto sarà
Art is Open Source is going at Consciousness Reframed X conference organized by the Planetary Collegium in November 2009 at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich. We'll be
Just recovering from the enormous effort put in setting up, performing and taking down the Squatting Supermarkets. Several thousands visitors, hundreds of customized food cans, hundreds of QRCodes printed to link
Squatting Supermarkets is all installed and it is about to start. There will be a continuous interaction with the people at the Share Festival, both friends and visitors, and all the
Squatting Supermarkets occupies and reinterprets the spaces and times of commerce, to enact critical practices and poetical reflections, superimposing a free and accessible digital space on ordinary reality. Here below
Squatting supermarkets occupa e reinterpreta gli spazi e i tempi del commercio, per attuare pratiche critiche e riflessioni poetiche, sovrapponendo alla realtà ordinaria uno spazio digitale libero ed accessibile. Qui di
AOS wil be at the AHACKTITUDE meeting in Milan, on November 27-28-29 in Milan. We will present a really simple, but effective, project, called Bluetooth Wars
Angel_F, Autonomous Non Generative, E-volitive Life_Form, Angel_F is the son of the Biodoll and of Derrick de Kerckhove. It is an Artificial Intelligence, learning how to speak through the texts
we just joined in with Frontiere Digitali supporting a coordinated action in favor of Net Neutrality. Lots of things are going on and many of them are just plain ugly.
REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory was featured in an article on Wired Italia, October 2009 issue
RomaEuropa WebFactory 2009/2010 edition is actually indistinguishable from last year's RomaEuropa FakeFactory! :)
We will be at the DULP 2009 meeting at the Tor Vergata University on September 14th and 15th, 2009, to present FakePress and, specifically Ubiquitous Anthropology (presented by Luca Simeone)
The new ToShare website is up! You can check it out here on http://www.toshare.it The Piemonte Share Festival is starting up as well, and we'll join in the party, dealing with
The new issue of Disegno Industriale is out, focused on Interaction Design. You can check it out here. There's also an article I wrote about John Maeda and the great influence
Thanks to Rolf van Gelder of CAGE we have a new improved version of the Processing library to handle QRCodes we released a while ago
A big event has been organized today in Rome's Piazza Navona where hudreds of bloggers, journalists, politicians, intellectuals and other people of any shape and sizes gathered to protest. Among
delicious poetry grabs internet's faourite links in realtime and uses their contents to visually build a chaotic poem. An everchanging complex composition built on people's wishes, desires, tastes and
Art is Open Source will be at the Feedback Festival from 25th to 28th of June 2009, in San Casciano, near Florence. We will present our Voyeur Software Automas. More info on
The world is not built out of a single point of view, or out of a single voice. It is the result of a continuous interaction among different people, places,
Ubiquitous publishing and Ubiquitous Anthropology. The next-step in publishing practices and platforms, united with a research on the possibilities offered by location based technologies and by novel approaches to knowledge
Frontiers of Interaction is probably one of the most interesting events about interaction design in Italy. We've been there to present FakePress, our next-step publishing house, with two "ubiquitous" projects:
We're just back from the intense 4 days of the Live Performers Meeting 2009 where REFF (RomaEuropaFAKEFactory) held its new showcase.
REFF is back again! REFF @ LPM 2009 on May 28th 2009 (Digital Freedoms Day) and on 28th-31st May 2009 (exhibitions, showcase, workshops)
REFF.erence Mar. 20th, Italian Senate – Senato REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory, was presented at the Italian senate through an intense series of panels dealing with art/culture/creativity in the contemporary era, with the issues
The international competition RomaEuropaFAKEFactory re-lauches in Rome on March 20th and 21st with two dense days dedicated to the theme "Freedom to Remix": at the Italian Senate, at the Libreria
"I am Orson Welles. I never really wanted to join Roma Europa Web Factory. I understand the beauty and significance of a fake. As for my style, for my vision of the cinema,
Andy Warhol – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfm-ATAsPug —– http://www.romaeuropa.org “I am Andy Warhol. I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory. A fake, a fake, what is a fake, anyway? Nothing is real, the only real things
http://www.romaeuropa.org “I am William Burroughs. I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory. Damn those bloody suckers couldn’t tell art if it hit them in the forehead. Deep shadows, close down over culture when culture is
Just back from Turin where we joined our friends of the Share Festival in a wonderful s.valentine party. We presented “Loving the Crisis” an nstallation in which the characters of “Les
And yet another update on the Interviewing the Crisis project. This time it’s the turn for Andreas Jacobs of Nictoglobe. He is turning out to be quite an interesting person to
Here we go with another update from the Interviewing the Crisis project. This time it’s Carlo Infante (Performing Media) talking about the scenarios of the possible futures from his point of
Just back from Turin, I just had the chance to keep up with the Interviewing the Crisis project We already started publishing the second round of interviews, starting with Carlo Infante,
While keeping busy with the launch and communication of the RomaEuropaFAKEFactory and keeping the interviews on the international crisis going with Interviewing the Crisis we will get relaxed a bit
Yesterday we attended the conference “Cultura digitale e le politiche dell’innovazione” (Digital Culture and innovation policies) organized by our friend lawyer Guido Scorza in his role of president of the
We finally managed to get the next two interviews of the series “Interviewing the Crisis” ready in both English and Italian. The next two on the lineup are Marc Garrett and
The new issue (#13) of Hertz Journal is out and you can find the evolution of the “We are not alone” article which we published on Digicult a while back. We
A series of articles hosted on artsblog.it in which we analyze some of the issues of the rising financial crisis through a sequence of reports and interviews. The focus is on
O is a bluetooth gadget with an emotional design approach. squeeze this soft gadget and make your friends O vibrate and flash with lights anywhere in the world
Hello there! an update on our little artificial kid, Angel_F. Our young AI is continuing its life among people, shifting its digital attention from the research on innovative business models to
the Life of Things lets you peek into the secret lives of products and objects by transforming their barcodes into generative digital lifeforms. done with Processing there also is a small library
just a quick update, ad the wonderful organizers of the Milano in Digitale event just sent me the official pictures. Which, of course, are way better than mine, as I’m
We took OneAvatar at Milano in Digitale. The third edition of the Milano in Digitale competition was held at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, an industrial complex restored by Milan’s
while in Mexico we did quite a few things. possibly the most difficult one was the creation of an architectural installation called rel:attiva presenza. the installation constituted a practical example of the
just back from Mexico where me and penelope.di.pixel performed quite a few activities: a congress on the revitalization of the historical centers, a panel on virtual, participative and interactive architectures
My dear friend Arturo di Corinto has decided to make me completely blush by making an article about some of the things I do. :) You can read about it here among
a visual reportage from the “Freedom not Fear” event in Rome. here is a report on ArtsBlog here is the story on NeRVi NoemaLabs published some info here are the pictures:
Angel_F and SuperAvatar are scared. The lives of the young artificial intelligence and of the avatar who escaped from virtual worlds have been endangered more than once by the control, that
We are just back from the AHACamping, the first meeting of the AHA mailing list. The event was took place at the SALE Docks and it featured talks and performances on
Here below you can find the text that we presented at (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 explaining the theories and concept of the installation and of DegradArte. ABSTRACT Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi (DpSdC)
Just back from Liverpool where we attended the (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 events presenting Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi. check out how it went with full video coverage here: > report from Liverpool connect
mash-up cinema , a live tool for online non linear video narratives. an interface that can be used to create live mesh-ups of YouTube videos, to create non linear narratives. become an
Art is Open Source has been featured at the Sydney Biennale 2008 Online venue, as a public entry. check out AOS at Sydney’s Biennale at > BOS2008
OneAvatar connects your body to your Avatar in virtual worlds. You and your Avatar will be finally one, sharing the same experiences even at physical level. You get hurt, you Avatar gets
A computer is interpreted as a body according to eastern theories and philosophies. The Chakras represent the components of the PC. When the computer reaches Chakra balance, it goes in Kundalini
An exprimental web interface to create generative music. Clicking around opens up devices whose sliders can be used to alter the parameters regulating the life of their software souls. Music is generated
Urban landscapes become one with music in a generative dance. learn how to dance with buildings at > website also seen at > intervenciones’08
The Planetary Collegium presented this conference titled “Being Syncretic”. Researchers and artists from all over the world converged in Vienna to present the state of the art of research on
my little hacks and pranks page has been featured in JODI’s wonderful webcra.sh parade across the streets of Holland. JODI’s webcra.sh in which websites become street banners for a joyful(?) parade
I have been appointed “Cultore della Materia” at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. I will be holding lessons on Digital Arts and Cultures at the faculty of Communication
Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi [DpSC] is an installation in which simple DIY technologies are used to create an interactive floor on which visitors use a broom to sweep their
2 part article on DigiCult Magazine, written together with my beloved mademoiselle penelope.di.pixel We speak about identity, body, artificial intelligence, avatars, cyborgs, and digital ecosystems. It’s the first article in which we spoke
Holy Fire was an exhibition held at the IMAL, in Brussels, exposing a series of artworks coming from the net art pioneers of the net.art and of the digital arts
Software autmas come to life on your screens. In Voyeur yu get to spy the life of software automas while they live on the screen interacting in a digital ecosystem ruled
Art is Open Source and NeRVi present Angel_F project in Mexico City at the Computer Art Congress 2. The international meeting researches on the evolution of digital practices as they affect
We gave out a presentation at the conference organized by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Co.Pi.Da. We presented some alternative business models based on a freepress publication created for
Centro di Osservazione sulla Produzione Immateriale e il Diritto d’Autore at the Communication Sciences faculty of the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” information here: > website > presentation by Arturo di
A new narrative, sitting across the borders running between materiality and immateriality, organic and inorganic, architecture and body. These borders have been deleted by digital technologies in the contemporary era, perpetrating
The collective Io/Cose produced an hoax during italian elections, spamming thousands of people with obnoxious mail messages by political parties. Reactions were quite cruel and disillusoned. “Yes We Spam! Remixed” remixes all
Famous people come back to life in the Online Virtual World of Second life, in the form of autonomous avatars conducted by artificial intelligence. A research on identity and on how
In 2008 the italian government released an incredible law stating the necessity to degrade images and videos to be able to use them freely on the web, for educational an
In 2007 the Biodoll had a child with Derrick de Kerckhove. The kid was born as a cute Artificial Intelligence feeding on web content. Born as a virus in its mother’s
an interview i held with Kanonmedia see it here: > the interview > kanonmedia
A series of interventions in Second Life (and some in other virtual worlds). The performances explore the aesthetics of code, systems overload and crash, lag. Places get invaded, filled with art –
an interview on “Le Courrier” swiss magazine on virtual worlds and art > the Interview
What are the challenges artworld is facing in the time of globalization and increasing technologization? At the conference I presented the Biodoll project and Angel_F. In collaboration with CIANT (International Centre for
IULM, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione: opportunities and proposals towards the Lisbon Agenda of 2010. I presented an Ipotesi per Assurdo together with penelope.di.pixel. ceck it out here > IULM > the
i have had the profile added to the AND [Artist Network Database]. here: > the AND database
Graphic visualization created searching on GoogleCode pages for software sources containing the word “Poetry”. experience poetry made from software at > website also seen at: > hatena
women i met online on dating and social networks. the perspective from webcam chats fade into memory as absence becomes the medium for a possible presence
A toy for a happy new year! Just choose what you would like to receive for your new year, and let the web give it to you! make your wishes come true
A latex cyborg suit is created to connect a dancer’s body to the interaction of the live and internet audience. All of the dancer’s senses are replaced by user-generated ones, and
I am pretty happy about this one. :) When you access del.icio.us Poetry a software uses del.icio.us most recent bookmarks page to gather all the links that have been saved in the
The Whitehouse’s website is captured in real time. The texts are processed, inverting meanings of the things said. A research on the reliability of information and on the current trends in
a research on movement. a cutup of videos from the 50s are used to experiment on movement and inversion . boleroMadness from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo. > also on DigiChannel
The Internet as a universe. Dispersion harvests web links around the web, analyzes them and places them as planets in a digital universe. In this universe physical laws exist, based on similarity
Software Automas can get stressed, too. When these automas change emotions, they play music. A digitally emotional Concerto. view it at: > website also seen at: > ArTechMedia2007 > You Own Me now > processing.org
Abondanza is part of the iconology cycle done with Bruno Menei. an iconic view of Aboundance. Abondanza from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo.
Mina’s song “Brava” is used with film footage from mental asylums. Seen at: >> music Invades
Guerra is part of the Iconology cycle done with Bruno Antonio Menei Hurtado. Seen at: >> Urban Psychology Untitled from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo.
RoboPorn is a pornographic website for robots. Not with robots. What turns a robot on? What is fetish for it? What robots does it find attractive? A research on robots that is
A digital ritual. A Software God feeds on the energy of the performance. more info at: > website
Talker is a linguistic artificial intelligence. Two processes animate it. One, automatic, harvests each day some content from random webites. The other one uses the texts provided by web users, who can
A beach party is progressively invaded by digital art installations more info at: > website > the software
In the installations images of the visitors are captured in real time and processed by software automas feeding on color variations, producing an organic representation of the computer vision. more info: >
The GoM is a software god ruling a universe of singing automas. A mystical installation :) more info: > website also seen at: > processing.org
Time and persistence of vision. The digital painter impersonated by the installation paints the changing of vision through time. more info: > website
Michelang_IO_lo looks at the installation visitor and produces a digital portrait that is interpreted in 3D and transformed into a musical instrument that the visitor can play using a physical
Magritte’s painting comes to life with a software drama about love and understanding each other. more info at: > website
A critical view on search engines. “Google, why bother?” offers you full Google functionality, but when you search the results are made completely useless. How do search engines work? Are we
Empty HTML tables are used to create psychedelic animations. A colourful protest against information overload. more information > website also seen at > Best On the Web > rhizome.org artBase Chico art Net NewMediaFix DB
Little socially addicted software automas chit-chat in a colourful space. Their lives are rueld by color and population. A research on stress and closeness, in an algorithmic way. more info on: >
A cut-up narrative created by using footage from a video in the 50’s used by General Electric to suggest that local administrations should by street illumination, otherwise their children would
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