[IT] IAQOS è il progetto e l’omonima opera d’arte finanziati da “periferiA Intelligente”, concorso promosso dalla Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura contemporanee e Periferie urbane (DGAAP) (ora DGCC, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea), che...
A recap of what took place A call for a Data Meditation on Climate at the MAXXI Museum in Rome: https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/opencall-datameditation-una-meditazione-per-lambiente/ 200 people apply, 80 are selected. Each day, they use a web app (built using...
This.Astro will be featured in a talk at Castelnuovo Fotografia, and it will be featured in a workshop to be added to ARNA, the Archivio dei Rituali del Nuovo Abitare.
Data Meditations will be at MAXXI Museum. Here is a video of the presentation: And here is the link to participate @ MAXXI Museum (experience, workshop, exhibit): https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/opencall-datameditation-una-meditazione-per-lambiente/ Data Meditations...
AOS will be at Festival delle Baite Filosofiche in Lecco, from July 29th to August 1st, for an intensive – yet relaxed – discussion starting from many of the concepts of our beloved (and, sadly, recently disappeared) Bernard Stiegler Here is some info in the...
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We have just publishes the Principles of Nuovo Abitare / I Principi del Nuovo Abitare Let’s discuss them. You can find them in english here: https://xdxd-vs-xdxd.medium.com/the-principles-of-nuovo-abitare-c766cb6e1b88You can find them in italian here:...
AOS’ Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico will be among the Keynote Speakers at Cumulus international design gathering in Rome, on June 8th 2021. Among the other keynote speakers will be Roberto Marchesini, Pier Luigi Capucci and Chiara Luzzana. Due to the...
AOS will be premiering a new format on May 25th, from 19:00 to 20:00 in Madrid at MMMAD, Madrid’s Digital Arts Festival, with the fundamental support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Madrid, who made it possible. Know more info about the event at IIC Madrid...
Foro I+D+C at Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is to become a central meeting point for the international research in which Arts, Humanities and social and economic values, with the objective of generating innovation and social impact. More info can be found in the...
On Apri 28th to 30th, the U-Datinos project, winner of the Creative Living Lab II Edition award, will bring you to a journey into data, art and urban regeneration: the opening event of the project will unveil the first “datapoietic” work that can be used to meditate...
Our project Di Protoni e Dati will first be shown during an online event created by the partners on March 27, 2021. Program Facilitation:Barbara CarfagnaPresentations:Alberto Abruzzese, MediologistAlessandro Dalla Torre, Fondazione Bruno KesslerNadio Delai,...
Neo. Rural. Futures. The publication is out: Neorural Futures, the book is out! SpeculativeEdu is one of the EU projects which we are participating to, together with Universities and research centers. Just a few days ago, we had an interview featured on the...
We’re in turin at the Opera Barolo: http://www.operabarolo.it/it/nn-386-44/news/mai-come-oggi-abbiamo-avuto-bisogno-d-rsquo-arte From Opera Barolo’s website: Now more than ever, we need ArtOriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi, couple in life and art,...
Datapoiesis and Obiettivo will be in Berlin for State Studio’s HYPERTOPIA exhbit, Opening on 23 October, and with the Exhibition & Program running from 23 October – 6 December. “Now that we’re here, where are we? Still on the same planet, for...
During the spring and summer of 2020, the members of Diogene and the founder of Oggetti Specifici have been engaging in a series of dialogues at a distance with the artists invited for the new edition of the project The Unseen: an open discussion among colleagues,...
Fondazione Baruchello Presents PROVE DI R(I)ESISTENZA Laura Cionci, Danilo Correale, Salvatore Iaconesi e Oriana Persico, takecare Curated by Ilaria Conti 1 ottobre – 19 dicembre 2020 Opening: wednesday septenber 30 2020 16.00 – 21.00 The pandemic disruptions of 2020...
Starting on August 21 2020 in Trieste, AOS will be at the “ARTSITIC TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS” collective exhibit at the Museo d’Arte Moderna U. Carà, in Muggia, organized and promoted by Gruppo78. Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico will show Data...
Third Infoscape Definition The Third Infoscape is the Third Landscape of the infosphere. It is composed of the vast network of content and relations through which the communication ecosystem manifests itself. The Third Infoscape is composed by myriads of...
Another cancer, at the time of a global pandemic, means you have to rethink everything, once more. A series of artcles: Open articles on OperaViva...
We will be in Rome for the FLxER audio visual performing arts project, where we will hold the meeting for the neighbourhood school which we’re launching with Human Ecosytems Relazioni. THIS is the Facebook event of the initiative. The events will take place at...
Artificial Intelligence has always been a focal point of our research here at AOS. Ever since our little AI kid, Angel_F, or through the Talker Performance, or with GhostWriter, or with Stakhanov, Artificial Intelligence has represented an important, extreme...
BodyQuake was featured at the Pordenone Design Week in an exhibit called Infoscapes curated by Pier Luigi Capucci, in the foyer of the Verdi Theater in Pordenone. Some info from Pier Luigi Capucci’s website: I have been invited, as in 2016, to Pordenone Design...
The HUMAN+ exhibit was conceived and first exhibited at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. This new iteration of HUMAN+ is a coproduction of the exhibition by Science Gallery and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and will be exhibited at Palazzo...
What is the self? What happens when this complex cultural apparatus is mediated through algorithms and technologies? How this transformations affect our public, private and intimate space? RemixID is a 3 day hands-on workshop to explore the boundary of the self and of...
We’ve ben working at creating a peer-to-peer economic and service infrastructure for the Digital Cultures starting from the city of Rome, using blockchains and cryptocurrencies. We will start talking about it at Fotonica Festival in Rome. How can we design a...
Stakhanov, the Big Data Oracle launched in 2015 at Transmediale, will be hosted at the Wrong Biennale in the Homeostase Pavilion in Brazil: capturing BigData from the city of Sao Paulo to understand the implications of predictive analysis on our daily lives....
A Castle becomes an artist to establish relations with people: Arts, Sciences and Technologies collaborate to achieve better energy behaviour. Over the years, hundreds of artists premiered at the contemporary art week of Turin. This 2017 edition offers something...
The European Commission (DG Research and Innovation) tasked the UK based NGO PlusValue to identify solutions and make recommendations for a revived social innovation agenda of the Union. The study Vision and Trends of Social Innovation for Europe is the outcome of...
For the first time a castle participates to an art week as resident artist: the artificial intelligence inside Castello del Valentino establishes relationships with its inhabitants to self-reflect on energy consumption. Interactive installation, Opening 3rd Nov, 2017,...
BodyQuake, the research project born in collaboration with Fondazione Neuromed, Human Ecosystems Relazioni, Live Performers Meeting, La Cura, AOS and AVNode, will be featured in Aosta during the T*Danse Festival 2017. The project is part of UltraCorpi, experimental...
On June 28 and 29, the city of Brussels will host NetFutures 2017, the biggest conference co-organized by the European Commission to explore the future of Internet, economy and society. Art is Open Source and HER will be part of the STARTS – Science Technologies...
From the 3rd to the 6th of July, the city of Bologna, with art*science will become a center for the international discussion on the opportunities and scenarios for collaboration between arts, sciences and technologies. It will also be one of the locations of the 50th...
What happens when filter bubbles manifest themselves in the physical space of the city? Constrained Cities is an exploration of data-driven separation and segregation in the city of data. What happens when Filter Bubbles start producing effects in the physical...
What happens when Filter Bubbles start producing effects in the physical space of the city? Separation. This is the concept of the Constrained Cities. Launched for the first time at the Post Internet Cities conference in Lisbon. For the Post Internet Cities conference...
The new literary genre, the Algorithmic Autobiography invented with the GhostWriter project has been featured in a paper which was published on Digimag Journal #75. You can read the paper here: Algorithmic Autobiography: paper (PDF) Iaconesi, S., Persico, P....
On May 3, 2017 UniFestival, the National University Students Festival in Macerata hosts a preview of “BodyQuake. Concert for Bodies + Data”. BodyQuake is a radical contamination between Arts and the Sciences. Who The project is the result of the...
Take 43 faces. Divide each face in 4 sections: forehead, eyes, nose, mouth. Recombine them. The permutations are 43^4, that is 3.418.80 faces, that is 3.418.80 different identities. We took pictures of our faces. We used facial recognition algorithms, the technologies...
Europe is launching a campaign to understand what people think about the future of Internet. << REIsearch started on April 18th. >> Three weeks, three different wide surveys, and for the first time in the history of the initiative big data, social...
Data and information in multiple forms for Art is Open Source during the next few days! On March 11th we will be at BASE in Milan for the Visualized event, bringing people from all over the world to discuss the latest trends and challenges for Information...
At Laboral, in Gijón, Asturias, La Cura meets the Monsters in the Machine, the exhibit and program which explores the updates of the “monster” and of the “machine” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s anniversary. La Cura participates...
You can consider these to be the notes to the workshop which we will hold this week in Cyprus. During the workshop we will create a manifestation of the ubiquitous body: the idea according to which our essence cannot be meaningfully constrained into our physical,...
A workshop and exhibit at NeMe in Cyprus where we will create a manifestation of the ubiquitous body: a research on the implications of ubiquitous technologies and the perception of our bodies, their location in time and space, and the opportunities and risks which...
La Cura, together with Art is Open Source, Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 and many other partners, have celebrated the 500th anniversary of Utopia by sir T. More, turning the city of Matera into a public laboratory to reinvent contemporary utopias. “Utopia is a...
Every once in a while we will add some visual and sound effects to our homepage. We will share the full source code for them on this page, so that you can use them, too. Here they go (click on the images to download source the code built for...
After La Triennale in Milan, BAOTAZ, the interconnected brain and its augmented sense created during La Cura Summer School, arrived in Pozzili for the European Researchers’ Night organized by Neuromed Foundation. FromSeptember 28th toSeptember the 30th, 1.200...
This September 3rd and 4th we will present Baotaz, a collaborative project through which we merged arts, sciences and technologies to formulate an hypothesis to create new models of interconnection among people and places, globally: a new augmented sense, a new...
This post originates from the lecture about Transgression and Innovation held at the Alta Scuola Politecnica a few weeks ago. In this article we will explore again a topic which is very close to the practices here at Art is Open Source, which is the interconnection...
La Cura, with the collaboration of Nefula, ISIA Design Florence, La Triennale di Milano, Condividi la Conoscenza, Artribune, FabLab Toscana, Scuola Open Source, Human Ecosystems, Parcodiyellowstone and VideOfficine, will hold an international summer school on the...
The work of Franco Basaglia has been one of the great inspirations of La Cura. On May 11th 2016 we will be at “Il Posto delle Fragole”, where once was Basaglia’s asylum, to establish a bridge between La Cura and the actions of de-istitionalisation of...
We will be in Bucarest for the ICEEFest. ICEEfest stands for Interactive Central and Eastern Europe Festival and has been building itself into one of the largest Internet related festivals organized in the CEE and SE Europe region since 2012. There we will give a talk...
La Cura will be at the Festival della Creatività in Ariccia from 27 to 29 May 2016. More info here. We will be present there with a workshop titled “La Cura: Patient X and biopolitics in hospitals” ( “La Cura: il Paziente X e la biopolitica negli...
On this page you can browse some older projects or works which, for some reason, don’t fit into any wider category. Other projects on AOS Blockchains and CryptoCurrencies in Rome: first launch at Fotonica FestivalStakhanov: the BigData Oracle for a new...
Go to the Project Website. VersuS is a series of works about the possibility to listen in real-time to the emotions, expressions and information generated by users on social network and using ubiquitous technologies, and to publish them onto the cities which they are...
The Life of Things lets you peek into the secret lives of products and objects by transforming their barcodes into generative digital lifeforms. The Life of Things uses barcodes and QRCodes found on products’ labels to generate sounds and visuals. The project includes...
Go to the Project Website. The Electronic Man produces a connective global body in a realtime performance that takes place simultaneously all over the world. Presented in occasion of Marshal McLuhan’s official Centennial Celebrations, the performance realizes one of...
The Talkers Performance sees a dance performance become completely controlled by ubiquitous user interactions. The body of the performer is connected through electrodes to a series of web interfaces through which people can control in various ways the...
Squatting Supermarkets uses the logos and packaging graphics of products as Augmented Reality fiducial markers. A content management system allows attaching information and interactive experiences to logos, instantly transforming them into open, accessible, emergent...
Go to the Project Website. What happens when people create a fake cultural institution and they transform it into a meta-brand, something that anyone can use as long as they share a common ethical approach? This is what happened at REFF, the RomaEuropa FakeFactory....
The real time visualisation of the struggles in Cairo, Egypt, first in 2011, then in 2013. Each day we use social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare as public spaces in which we express ourselves, our feelings and emotions, our perception of the...
How do you transform a cultural organization into a BigData generator? How can you investigate the implications in terms of privacy, control, surveillance, but, at the same time, about the opportunities in terms of knowledge, understanding and comprehension, and for...
GhostWriter, our new literary genre, the Algorithmic Autobiography, will be exhibited at the MACRO Museum in Rome for the exhibit “Dall’Oggi al Domani. 24 Ore nell’arte contemporanea” (“From today to tomorrow. 24 hours in contemporary...
Updates from La Cura! Just back from the “Erbe Indisciplinate” workshop and we’re out with a report here: What happened at the “Erbe Indisciplinate” workshop. Take a look: many things emerged, as well as new directions for the near...
Three new events for La Cura: a workshop at RuralHub exploring the connections between nature and radical innovation; a workshop on transgression and innovation at the Federico II University in Naples; and a conversation with a philosopher and a cyborg at the same...
La Cura is out with a new book, published by Codice Edizioni, featuring the story of the global artistic performance which started when Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with a brain cancer and he decided to open it up to the entire society to confront with the...
La Cura, the collaborative biopolitical performance which has touched all continents when Salvatore Iaconesi opened up his cancer to the world has become a book. La Cura, il Libro Published in Italy for Codice Edizioni (soon to come in other countries) is a story, a...
On Wednesday March 16th 2016 we will be in Belgirate, near the Lake Maggiore, at the 11th cycle of Winter School (2016) of the Alta Scuola Politecnica for a lecture titled “Innovation/Transgression. What is the role of transgression in innovation processes? The...
Nuclear Anxiety instantly gathers the global discussions taking place on social networks about Nuclear energy. Available under the form of a web mashup and of an iPhone application, Nuclear Anxiety allows you to see in realtime the worries, fears and doubts of people...
This case study performed with FakePress Publishing shows a technique through which a system can be built to observe and represent the realtime emotional state in international social networks. NetEmotions on AOS Innovation Ecosystems @ Internet FestivalCities out of...
www.nefula.com Near Future Design: the perception of a “new possible” and a new role for Design. The Future does not exist. Future is a performance that sees us all engaged through the dimensions of desire and of the imaginary. In the interconnected contemporary era...
Go to the project’s website: www.la-cura.it La Cura, an Open Source Cure for Cancer When Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with cancer he left the hospital and started La Cura, a global performance to reclaim our bodies an identities by creating a participatory...
We searched for Porn. We found you. We captured more than 100,000 public comments on porn and sexually oriented websites in which users left their mobile phone number to male/female/transgender performers, where everyone could see it, and we turned them into a series...
Read the story of FakePress FakePress is an international “think-tank”, founded in Italy, that investigates, develops and creates new publishing models and editorial projects presented by new scenarios in technology, productivity and contemporary culture. Models of...
The book about REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory, the fake cultural institution which has uncovered the beginning of the corporate invasion of digital cultures in Italy. http://www.romaeuropa.org/ REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts,...
The book of Angel_F, the young Artificial Intelligence who has become the first “living” research on the evolution of identity. The book narrates Angel_F’s first year of life, from its conception as an intelligent spyware to its participation to the...
The Read/Write Reality book, volume 1. This book is one of the outcomes of the Read/Write Reality workshops. Read/Write Reality, a journey into the ways in which ubiquitous technologies can mutate the ways in which we perceive and live cities and urban spaces. This...
“TO DRAW A LINE YOU NEED A PEN, TO HOLD A PEN YOU NEED A HAND, BUT WHAT IS BEHIND THE HAND IS A DEBATABLE MATTER.” ITALO CALVINO What is an autobiography? Are we writing an autobiography by leaving our traces on social networks, every day? What about the large...
“Persona Non Data”: Art in the age of Big Data Full information at: http://artisopensource.net/persona-non-data/ An interactive installation shows how art can join research and technological innovation in the understanding of the cultural transformation in...
GhostWriter is a new project by Art is Open Source. A new literary genre to explore the mutation of the narration of self: the algorithmic autobiography. Launched for the Streaming Egos project with the Goethe Institut and with the curation of the Italian group by...
At AOS we have recently published an article titled “Parallasse: Trasgressione e Codice” (“Parallax: transgression and code”) on “Architetti Notizie”, published by the Order of the Architects in Padova. You can access the...
‘I think that more and more we all understand that innovation in the future will be on the intersection of arts and sciences.’ (video)– Commissioner Carlos Moedas ‘Artistic creativity and critical thinking are essential for innovation in...
Enlarge Your Consciousness in 4 Days 4 Free grabs emotions in real-time from social networks and uses them to gain better understanding of the way human beings have transformed by using digital technologies and networks. A real-time process has been designed to...
Join us in Capri from October 20th to November 1st for Hacking Melanoma! Hacking Melanoma will be a hackathon dedicated to the technological, social and relational aspects of e-health, and explicitly dedicated to the diagnosis and cure of Melanoma, skin cancer, one of...
The book “Patterns of Commoning” edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich is out. From the book’s website: In Patterns of Commoning, more than sixty frontline activists, academics and project leaders from twenty countries explain how commoning is...
ICT2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform is the largest event organized by the EU Commission in 2015 to foster research and innovation at European level, show the best results achieved through financed projects, inform about upcoming call, facilitate the...
After its very first launch in Rome in September 2013 with EC(m1), after the Festival dell’Innovazione in Bari, Human Ecosystems goes back to Italy with a new project sponsored by the City of Bologna, with the support of ANCI – National Association of...
Data as Commons. This will be the focus of our intervention at Smart City Exhibition 2015 in Bologna, on October 16th 2015, at 9:30. What happens when data becomes a commons? How can we build the high quality relational environment which is needed for citizens to...
Some times has passed after Ars Electronica 2015, and our participation to its exhibit and to education programme with the Myriads project, part of the Human Ecosystems and of the Ubiquitous Commons. In this post we wish to share some images from the exhibit, some...
While we wait for the upcoming book, La Cura, the Open Source Cure for Cancer will be in Milan for the Dreamers Day, on October 18th 2015, together with two of its great inspirations: an oncologist who is also a hacker, Pier Mario Biava, and an enlightening...
Ubiquitous Commons and Human Ecosystems will be at the “Hybrid City III: Data to the People” conference in Athens, on September 17-19, organised by the University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in collaboration with New Technologies...
This year, Art is Open Source, Human Ecosystems and Ubiquitous Commons will be featured at Ars Electronica, as part of the Post City Kit exhibition, with the Myriads project (part of the wider Ubiquitous Infoscapes project). From Ars Electronica’s website: Post...
http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/ubiquitous-commons-updated-and-the-societing-summer-school-at-ruralhub/ Just published on Ubiquitous Commons: … in the double transition which we are living (from scarcity to abundance; from the physical, situated, relational...
You can learn more about the Human Ecosystems project on its website: https://www.he-r.it/ The Human Ecosystems project is a city based project whose objective is to capture the myriads of micro-histories of citizens and city dwellers as they emerge, to describe the...
Human Ecosystems at Expo Aquae in Venice, August 1st 2015, at 11am. Full information about the event is on Human Ecosystems. How do we speak about water? How do we relate? What are our fears, concerns, important issues, joys and anxieties about water? We have captured...
La Cura, My Open Source Cure for Cancer, has been featured as La Cura as TED talk of the day. Go check it out! It is a wonderful chance to announce that the book about La Cura is coming out soon, with amazing features. The book, coming out soon after the summer, will...
DpSdC (Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi) has been presented at several international events including the Live Performers Meeting in Rome, and HCI2008 and Reactor festival in Liverpool. It allows for the construction of a DIY motion capture system and its use...
Dead on Second Life : Karl Marx, Coco Chanel and Franz Kafka are brought back to life using the virtual world of Second Life. All texts written by these three famous characters have been fed to artificial intelligences and digitally embodied onto autonomous...
Presented at the 2011 edition of the Transmediale Festival, CoS, Consciousness of Streams is an ubiquitous publication with more that 60000 authors (estimate on April 2011). CoS produces a realtime global emotional map of the world. Thousands of people currently use...
Interconnecting teachers and students, public speakers and audiences, talkers and listeners. What if presenters could feel people’s emotions on their bodies while they speak? Conference Biofeedback is an augmented sense, a way to publish the emotions of the...
How do you fill the media-scape of the city in autonomous ways? Bluetooth Wars is a series of experiments in independent urban media, in which artists, activists and designers provocatively created tools for contemporary urban media warfare. Bluetooth Wars is a Live...
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