Archive for the ‘features’ Category
design / digital culture / features / texts
Tags: Aaron Sloman, Arnold, Carl Lange, Carroll Izard, classification, Clore, Collins, Dacher Keltner, Ekman, emotion, expression, fake press, fakepress, Frijda, Jaan Panksepp, Jeffrey Allan Gray, John B. Watson, Johnson-Laird, low information, O. H. Mowrer, Oatley, Ortony, Plutchik, representation, Roseman, Scherer, Silvan Tomkins, visualization, we feel fine, wearable device, William James, William McDougall
February 1, 2010
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 from social networks. It then represents it as an expressive visualization. We are going to turn it into a wearable device.
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design / digital culture / events / features / performance / video
Tags: cibo, cortocircuito, espressione, fakepress, fiducial markers, food, interaction design, multiautore, p2p, performance, realtà aumentata, scighera, squatting supermarkets, storie
January 26, 2010
“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito
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design / events / features / installation / performance
Tags: art is open source, augmented reality, buffet, fakepress, isee, milan, natural interfaces, penelope.di.pixel, scighera, squatting supermarkets, stories, xDxD.vs.xDxD
January 22, 2010
getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan
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digital culture / events / features / interviews / people / video
Tags: capitale digitale, creative commons, creativity, fakefactory, hybrid economy, innovation, joy ito, mashup, REFF, remix, romaeuropa
January 9, 2010
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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design / features / people / performance / video
Tags: carrots, crash, creative code, food, interaction, John Maeda, pause, penelope.di.pixel, potatoes, xDxD.vs.xDxD
January 9, 2010
xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes
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design / digital culture / events / features / interviews / people / video
Tags: augmented reality, Eataly, fakepress, installation, QRCode, share festival, shopdropping, shoptivism, Slowfood, smart tags, squatting supermarkets, workshops
January 6, 2010
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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design / digital culture / events / features / interviews / people
Tags: angelf, artificial intelligence, biodoll, Derrick de Kerckhove, digital identity, digital rights, franca formenti, intellectual property, new sexualities, oriana persico, salvatore iaconesi
December 18, 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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design / digital culture / events / features / interviews / people / performance / texts
Tags: angel_F, biodoll, book, Canevacci, castelvecchi, de kerckhove, diario di una intelligenza artificiale, essere digitale, formenti, Iaconesi, intelligenza artificiale, libro, pagliarini, persico
December 12, 2009
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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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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design / digital culture / features / performance
Tags: biofeedback, conference biofeedback, gadget, interaction design, natural interfaces, new sensorialities, physical computing, ubiquitous publishing, usb, wearable technologies
December 5, 2009
Conference Biofeedback is a USB gadget that allows conference lecturers to receive physical stimulations and feedback coming from the audience.
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design / digital culture / events / features / people / texts
Tags: AHACKTITUDE, augmented reality, fakepress, hacking, isee, logos, penelope.di.pixel, shopping, squatting supermarkets, xDxD.vs.xDxD
December 1, 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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digital culture / events / features / people / texts
Tags: activism, AHA, AHACKTITUDE, art, bluetooth, bluetooth wars, hacking, media server, open source, proximity publishing
December 1, 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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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 interact with each other establishing a musical force field. Best heard in headphones.
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design / digital culture / events / features / people
Tags: biofeedback, conference biofeedback, consciousness reframed, emergent, ethnography, fakepress, munich, Planetary Collegium, ubiquitous anthropology, wearable technologies
November 25, 2009
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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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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design / digital culture / events / features / people / performance
Tags: conference biofeedback, conferences, consciousness reframed, fakepress, munich, Planetary Collegium, ubiquitous anthropology, ubiquitous publishing, usb gadgets, wearable technologies
November 18, 2009
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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design / digital culture / events / features / installation / people / performance
Tags: Eataly, fakepress, installation, QRCode, share festival, shopdropping, shoptivism, Slowfood, smart tags, squatting supermarkets, workshops
November 13, 2009
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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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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digital culture / events / features / installation / texts
Tags: architettura relattiva, augmented reality, fake press, fakepress, neorealismo virtuale, salvatore iaconesi, share festival, spime, squat, squatting supermarkets, ubiquitous, ubiquitous publishing, xDxD.vs.xDxD
October 27, 2009
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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digital culture / events / features / installation / texts
Tags: architettura relattiva, augmented reality, fake press, fakepress, neorealismo virtuale, salvatore iaconesi, share festival, spime, squat, squatting supermarkets, ubiquitous, ubiquitous publishing, xDxD.vs.xDxD
October 25, 2009
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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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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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 of internet users.
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digital culture / events / features
Tags: art, article, fake factory, fakefactory, intellectual property, REFF, remix, romaeuropa, web factory, wired
September 24, 2009
REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory was featured in an article on Wired Italia, October 2009 issue
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digital culture / events / features / performance
Tags: event, fake, fake factory, fakefactory, fakepress, fondazione Romaeuropa, hacking, intellectual property, romaeuropa, web factory
September 17, 2009
RomaEuropa WebFactory 2009/2010 edition is actually indistinguishable from last year’s RomaEuropa FakeFactory!
:)
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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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design / digital culture / events / features / web based work
Tags: andy cameron, collaboration, complexity, festival, market forces, mashup, new website, piemonte share, reblogging, squatting supermarkets, toShare
September 12, 2009
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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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 he had on creativity through computing.
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digital culture / features / people / web based work
Tags: barcode, decoder, encoder, generator, life of products, life of things, processing, QRCode, Rolf van Gelder, spime, xDxD.vs.xDxD
August 1, 2009
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
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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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digital culture / features / performance / web based work
Tags: artisopensource, chaos, complexity, delicious, delicious poetry, mash-up, mashup, noise, poetry, salvatore iaconesi, web art, xDxD.vs.xDxD
July 12, 2009
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 emotions.
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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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design / digital culture / features
Tags: anthropology, augmented reality, design, happiness, location based, physical computing, relation, rfid, sensors, spime, stream of consciousness, tags, technology, wayfinding, wayshowing
June 18, 2009
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, objects, architectures, information.
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design / digital culture / events / features / people / texts
Tags: augmented reality, ecology, etnography, fake press, interaction design, location based media, open-ended, shopping narratives, social responsibility, ubiquitous anthropology, ubiquitous publishing, voices
June 10, 2009
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 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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digital culture / events / features / people
Tags: AHA, Brancaleone, cinema, innovation, installation, intellectual property, Live Performers Meeting, LPM, meeting, open source, perpetual art machine, REFF, romaeuropa fake factory, share, showcase, toShare
June 3, 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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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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Tram #8, before the earthquake
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digital culture / events / features / installation / interviews / people
Tags: copyleft, copyright, creative commons, creativity, europw, events, Factory, fake, fakefactory, hacking, innovation, intellectual property, netart, open source, REFF, romaeuropa, rome, senate
March 26, 2009
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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“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, editing is not simply one aspect; it’s the aspect.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make:
jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall.
All of these are expressions of man’s creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology.
But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before?
And finally, is the question itself important?
We must ask ourselves that.
The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.
I am Orson Welles.
I never really wanted to join Roma Europa Web Factory.”
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