[ AOS ] Art is Open Source reinventing the world using ubiquitous technologies
Academics
Here you will find the updates of our academic activities, including new publications, conferences, journals, workshops and teaching updates.
Cross Media design scenarios: smartphones and tablets, a workshop @ ISIA Florence
a workshop for designers explaining how to imagine, design, build and market smartphone and tablet based cross media applications, including a full exampe and ideas on how to use these technologies in critical, sustainable ways
REFF on Tour. Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
next step in the education program of REFF: workshops and presentations on the systematic reinvention of reality
Workshop at Queen Mary University with self-org
a presentation of the REFF project at Queen Mary University in London, from the perspective of self organization and group dynamics
Workshop at the Courtauld Institute
On March 2nd 2011 REFF held a workshop at the Courtauld Institute about the methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF – workshop at Writtle College, Feb. 21th 2011
on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.
REFF – workshop at Westminster College, Feb. 22th 2011 (
on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.
REFF – workshop at Westminster College, Feb. 22th 2011
on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.
REFF @ Southbank University in London
the video of the presentation we held in Southbank University in London:
REFF in London @ Goldsmiths University with Furtherfield
Today we have been at Goldsmiths University to perform a workshop on the REFF project and to present the free tools that FakePress has been distributing during the last few months:
New scenarios for education and action: back from Milan
after the Always Already New conference in Milan, we present our project for a knowledge sharing, networked expression framework that is usable to create collaborative projects and innovative education paths
FLUXUS boxes, augmented reality and innovative publishing
AOS and FakePress will present a FLUXUS box created using augmented reality and cross-medial approaches. At the NABA in Milan, for 50 years of FLUXUS, December 15th, 2010. Here is an intro on the methodologies and technologies that will be used.
ESA Conference 2010 @ Bocconi University
FakePress at the ESA Conference at Bocconi University, presenting FakePress, Ubiquitous Anthropology, NeRVi NeoRealismo Virtuale, REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, and Holophnics
Wearing Emotions by FakePress, presented at the IV10 conference in London, July 2010
Wearing Emotions: Physical representation and visualization of human emotions using wearable technologies” presented at the IV10: video and presentation
Toys++ at ICALT in Tunisia
Art is Open Source, together with FakePress have recently participated at the ICALT conference, International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. We presented Toys++, an augmented reality system allowing you to apply digital contents to the toys people (and especially children) play with, and to visualize them while you assemble them.
Living CrossMedia @ Università La Sapienza in Rome
Living CrossMedia
AOS & FakePress insieme a Università di Roma La Sapienza, Facoltà di Architettura, Dipartimento di Disegno Industriale e con la presenza di Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Comunicazione del Comune di Roma presentano: “Living CrossMedia: le opportunità dei nuovi media nei Centri Commerciali e nei nuovi spazi della cultura e dell’aggregazione”
Holophony @ La Sapienza University in Rome
a picture report of the lecture we held at La Sapienza University in Rome about Holophony
Squatting Supermarkets / iSee at La Sapienza University in Rome
FakePress, Art is Open Source and the Hub Roma, together with Università La Sapienza, Rome, and Università Tor Vergata, Rome, present Squatting Supermarkets / iSee, a mobile action/performance/technology creating emergent social networks for critical consumism and urban narratives. Research and project works presented.
Holophonics & Design
April 30th, from 9am to 2pm, at the Interaction Design laboratory held at the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” – La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design by FakePress, will explore the territories of holophonic listening with Marco Fagotti, guest Lecturer for the event. Salvatore Iaconesi, visiting professor at the course, will illustrate the fundamental technologies and methodologies that can be used to design digital sound spatial positioning with the techniques of holophony.
teaching, education, interaction and real politics
At FakePress we have just started teaching 3 courses on Interaction Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome’s University “La Sapienza”. We will use these courses as an opportunity to enact what I can only refer to as “the most contemporary form of political action I can think of”.
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.
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.
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.
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)
A research on identity published on Herts Journal
The new issue (#13) of Hertz Journal is out and you can find the evolution of the “We are not alone” article which we published on Digicult a while back.
We added some new evolution on Angel_F‘s …
