Angel_F @ Libreria Flexi

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 Hub Roma presentano: “Angel_F. Diario di un Intelligenza Artificiale” di Salvatore Iaconesi (xDxD.vs.xDxD) e Oriana Persico (penelope.di.pixel) Ne discutono insieme agli autori: Arturo di Corinto, Monica Mazzitelli, Marco Scialdone, Valentina Tanni

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Angel_F, the diary of a young artificial intelligence

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 by the network to promote our own identities and autonomies.

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Squatting Supermarkets, cortocircuito [italiano]

“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito

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Squatting Supermarkets @ Scighera, Milan

getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan

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REFF interview at Joy Ito’s lectio magistralis organized by Capitale Digitale

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, creativity and innovation created by Telecom Italia.

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Squatting Supermarkets at Eataly

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.

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Angel_F at Generative Arts 2009

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 :)Angel_F and its book have been presented at Generative Arts Congress 2009, to a delighted audience. This is the presentation that was used in that occasion.

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Angel_F . the diary of an Artificial Intelligence

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, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti and Luigi Pagliarini,with extensive interviews in which each one of them expresses his personal point of view on the themes emerging with the existence of Angel_F, a little digital being.

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ToShare again: Squatting Supermarkets in Mondovì

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 Mondovì presenting Squatting Supermarkets at the – SMIR – Multimedia Spaces for Innovation and Research – as part of the European Territorial Co-operation programme Alcotra 2007-2013.

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Squatting Supermarkets presented at AHAcktitude 2009

Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009. Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) and some videos

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Bluetooth Wars @ AHAcktitude 2009

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 Bluetooth media server. This has many uses, ranging from proximity advertising to political uses in demonstrations or events. Here below the links to the presentation slides and to the video of the workshop.

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After Consciousness Reframed X, Conference Biofeedback and Ubiquitous Anthropology

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 “Experiencing Design, Behaving Media”.
We presented two FakePress projects: Conference Biofeedback and Ubiquitous Anthropology.

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Angel_F @ AHAcktitude, Nov. 27-29 2009, Milan

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 declinato all’insegna dell’open source e della messa in comune.

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Conference BioFeedback @ Consciousness Reframed X

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 there from November 19th to 21st.

We will present the Ubiquitous Anthropology project with FakePress. We will also present and use our little new project: Conference BioFeedback.

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Squatting Supermarkets – reports and next steps

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 products’ stories, dozens of hours of live Shoptivist TV, 3 workshops, a ShopDropping action in the city centre of Turin, an augmented reality tour at Eataly (a big shopping centre focused on organic foods), hundreds of questions and the relative answers.

These are the numbers. Read on for the details…

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Shoptivism

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 technical and curatorial crew.

It will be part documentary, part interviews, part performance, and it will take the shape of a web TV called Shoptivism

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Squatting Supermarkets

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 you will find the description of the conceptual elements of the project, and teh details for its participation to the Piemonte Share Festival. To turn prctices and technologies into an open framework to create augmented reality spaces, connecting bodies and information, implementing accessible, relational and natural interaction schemes.

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Squatting Supermarkets (italiano)

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 seguito una esposizione della parte teorica del progetto, e un appuntamento per il Piemonte Share Festival.
Mettere a sistema pratiche e tecnologie, per creare un framework aperto per creare spazi di realtà aumentata, collegando corpi e informazioni e per realizzare forme di interattività tecnologica accessibili e naturali.

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Bluetooth Wars @ AHACKTITUDE

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

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REFF on Wired

REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory was featured in an article on Wired Italia, October 2009 issue

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Success!

RomaEuropa WebFactory 2009/2010 edition is actually indistinguishable from last year’s RomaEuropa FakeFactory!

:)

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FakePress at Dulp 2009, presenting Ubiquitous Anthropology and Saperi p2p

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) and Saperi p2p (presented by Salvatore Iaconesi)

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ToShare website, Market Forces

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 Squatting Supermarkets.

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Angel_F in Piazza Navona, fighting for blogs

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 these was Derrick de Kerckhove, who met his little digital child, Angel_F.

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Feedback, Inter-acto ergo sum

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 festival below.

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Ubiquitous Publishing, FakePress @ Frontiers of Interaction V

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 dissemination. We presented our research at Frontiers of Interaction V in Rome (June 2009), together with the first two applications and an open call.

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Frontiers of Interaction V, June 2009

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: iSee, interstitial narratives for shopping centers, and Ubiquitous Anthropology, location based technologies for ethnographic research.

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report: RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM 2009

We’re just back from the intense 4 days of the Live Performers Meeting 2009 where REFF (RomaEuropaFAKEFactory) held its new showcase.

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RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM2009

REFF is back again!

REFF @ LPM 2009
on May 28th 2009 (Digital Freedoms Day)
and on 28th-31st May 2009 (exhibitions, showcase, workshops)

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RomaEuropaFAKEFactory – REFF.erence report

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 of cultural politics from the points of view of institutions and cultural operators, with the possibility for the enactment of innovative business and legal models [...]

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REFF.erence – RomaEuropa FAKEFactory conference and launch event

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 Flexi and at the Neo Club, with a triple event crossing the borders between different spaces and contexts of the metropolis, from institutional ones to the night clubbing scene of via Libetta.

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Andy Warhol – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize

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 are the ones
that you can reproduce, and make millions of them.
Take a thing everybody knows, change it a bit, and claim it as yours.
This is [...]

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William Burroughs – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize

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 not able to catch up with the world it lives in.
I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory.
I could not participate because I am an old man, [...]

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Les Amantes/Loving the Crisis. Reportage da LOVE SHARE – Villa Capriglio (Torino) 14/02/09

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 Amants” by Magritte interpret the global flows of the discussion of the international crisis with their desire to kiss each other.
a full report can be [...]

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Art & Love

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 at the Art & Love VI that will be held at Villa Capriglio on February 14th
more news soon…

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RomaEuropaFAKEFactory

We’re up to something:

RomaEuropaFAKEFactory

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Innovation, DegradArte and perspectives

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 Institute fo Innovation Policies (Istituto per le Politiche dell’Innovazione).
We were invited to discuss  DegradArte, the art movement we created when the S1861 law was approved [...]

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OneAvatar more pictures from Milano in Digitale

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 a lousy photographer.
You get to see more of the OneAvatar performance. If you want to read more about the OneAvatar project read here.
by the way, [...]

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OneAvatar @ Milano in Digitale

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 public administration to host artistic and cultural projects. Organized by the Fondazione D’Ars Oscar Signorini onlus, it is a competition created to investigate the evolution [...]

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rel:attiva presenza

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 theories we exposed at this congress and it was created in the beautiful cloister of the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City, in the colonia [...]

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architettura rel:attiva

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 and on innovation, and an installation performance called rel:attiva presenza.
The Seventh International Meeting on the Revitalization of the Historical Centers (27-28-29th of October 2008) was [...]

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Angel_F and SuperAvatar at Freedom Not Fear in Rome

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:

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Angel_F and SuperAvatar at “Freedom not Fear”

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 is constantly perpetrated on people’s information, habits and identities.
Forms of surveillance that are progressively and obsessively  expanding through continuous control of our lives (and not  [...]

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Art is Open Source and DegradArte at the AHACamping

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 art, hacking, activism and critical theories on technology and on the ways in which they are transforming our lives in the contemporary era.
Here are some [...]

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DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi – the theory

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) investigates on interaction mechanisms created using low cost DIY technologies, aiming at the creation of emotional environments that can be used to break the users’ [...]

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Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi back from Liverpool

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 to the events at
> (re)Actor3
> HCI2008

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2008 Biennale of Sydney Online venue

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

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Consciousness Reframed 9

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 technologies as they access reality in integrated ways.
We presented our research on identity and on the evolution of the body in a technologically ecosystemic perspective.
check [...]

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WebCrash

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 and we get to eat del.icio.us bookmarks.
A wonderful meal done by cooking del.icio.us bookmarks and e-books followed.

make your website banner and stroll along the streets [...]

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Computer Art Congress 2

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 arts and society.
I presented there the Angel_F project, together with penelope.di.pixel.
check out the informations about CAC2 at
> CAC2 website
> Laboratoire Paragraphe
> Tecnológico de Monterrey
> Europia
.

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Yes We Can

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 the Angel_F and biodoll projects, and the scenario for a research laboratory which we are trying to fund: reverse engineering consumer electronics, both conceptually and [...]

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DegradArte

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 research purposes.
A conception of “fair use” that seems quite strange, united to a surreal composition of technical and philosophical paradoxes. And an unbelievable “negative aesthetic” [...]

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Angel_F

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 website, digesting the interface as if it was a placenta, it evolved into an intelligent spyware, following people around the web, to find interesting content [...]

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Glocal & Outsiders

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 Art and New Technologies), Center for Global Studies (Academy of Sciences and Charles University), Prague Biennale 3.
check it out here
> website
> flickr

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Condividi la Conoscenza 3

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 Program
> our presentation
> the Ipotesi per Assurdo
.

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Talkers Performance

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 all of the sensations and movement of her body are used as sound and video feedback to the live environment and to the web interfaces.
A [...]

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