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.
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 :)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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December 12, 2009 0Just 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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November 13, 2009 6Just 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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November 2, 2009 0Squatting 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
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.
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. Check out the press release below (sorry, it’s in Italian, but a quick Google translate will fix it nice enough) and feel free to join in the action HERE
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 these was Derrick de Kerckhove, who met his little digital child, Angel_F.
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.
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.
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 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 [...]
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.
“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.”
Say What? REFF RomaEuropaFAKEFactory at the Italian Senate?
Andy Warhol – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfm-ATAsPug
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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 [...]
Investigating ruptures in the art political grid
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, [...]
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 collaborate with. We just had the chance to get to know each other by collaborating on a series of things, and he is a marvelous [...]
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 view, deeply involved in innovation and a socially sensible view on technology. Arts and evolution, in a truly evolved perspective.
Read the interview
Interviewing the Crisis: Carlo [...]
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, Andreas Jacobs and Warbear.
As usual, the interviews are first published on ArtsBlog and then translated and collected on the project’s website.
The first one we are [...]
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…
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 [...]
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 Simona Lodi
Their points of view are quite interesting.
I got to know (digitally, up to now) Marc by reading and writing on the NetBehaviour mailing list. [...]
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 art: the crisis’ impact on art and, specifically, on new media art disciplines, organizations, artists.
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 experiments on contemporary forms of identity in this post-industrial world.
The performance is ongoing, and you all will have a couple of surprises coming up [...]
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 [...]
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 the works described in the article are the Whitehouse and del.icio.us poetry
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September 22, 2008 2Just 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
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
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 [...]
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 about NeoRealismo Virtuale [NeRVi]
feel a bit less alone by reading our article at DigiCult magazine:
> Part 1
> Part 2
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 [...]
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 a continuous shift from object to communication, from product to service, from the mass to a plurality of multi-viduals.
NeoRealismo Virtuale dives into this scenario, hybridizing [...]
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 people relate in the virtual environments that we find online and offline.
Karl Marx, Coco Chanel and Franz Kafka come back to life as autonomous avatars [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
an interview i held with Kanonmedia
see it here:
> the interview
> kanonmedia
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
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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I answered the 11 questions on the JavaMuseum
> the interview
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