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
John Maeda, carrots and potatoes
xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes
Angel_F . the diary of an Artificial Intelligence
design / digital culture / events / features / interviews / people / performance / texts
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.
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.
Conference Biofeedback
Conference Biofeedback is a USB gadget that allows conference lecturers to receive physical stimulations and feedback coming from the audience.
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.
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.
Squatting Supermarkets – reports and next steps
design / digital culture / events / features / installation / people / performance
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…
Shoptivism
digital culture / events / features / installation / interviews / people / performance
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
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.
Success!
RomaEuropa WebFactory 2009/2010 edition is actually indistinguishable from last year’s RomaEuropa FakeFactory!
:)
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.
delicious poetry, once again
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.
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.
Orson Welles – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize
“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.”
Andy Warhol – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize
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 [...]
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…
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi back from Liverpool
digital culture / events / installation / interviews / people / performance / texts / video
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
mashinema
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 instant movie-masher at:
> website
OneAvatar
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 hurt.
Your Avatar dies, you die.
Connect to your avatar and watch out for yourself at
> at NeRVi website
> videos on Youtube
also spotted at:
> Twitter
> Art Feed
> [...]
ChakraPuter
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 state, becoming connected to all the other ChakraPuters on the network.
Chakraputer can be experienced on the web and through an installation/performance featuring a Yoga master [...]
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 [...]
Holy Fire remixed
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 from the times running from the 90s to now.
A main focus was put on the collectability of such artworks, as the organizers were conducting their [...]
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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Dead on Second Life
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 [...]
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 [...]
Did you really want a Second Life?
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 – or enclosed in art – sounds and virtually physical objects that change the characteristics of the space.
Issues such as copyright, the role of art in [...]
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 [...]
the Whitehouse
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 meaning-shifting perpetraed by ovnments and authorities.
view it at
> website
also seen at
> NO Television
> Flickr
> a Virtual Memorial
Sabba
A digital ritual.
A Software God feeds on the energy of the performance.
more info at:
> website
Fagocitosi
A beach party is progressively invaded by digital art installations
more info at:
> website
> the software
GoM – the God of Music
The GoM is a software god ruling a universe of singing automas.
A mystical installation
:)
more info:
> website
also seen at:
> processing.org
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