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Activism
Here you will find the updates about our activities which are connected to activism.
Squatting Supermarkets and REFF featured on Memefest
Squatting Supermarkets and REFF have been featured at the Memefest
the Network: a symphony on freedoms
together with Agora Digitale and AVAAZ, AOS and FakePress publishing promote a global discourse on freedoms
Squatting Supermarkets back in SMIR
the first phase of the SMIR project exhibited back in Mondovì, Italy. Squatting Supermarkets brings ubiquitous technologies crossing arts with local development and innovation.
Holiday! a relaxed augmented reality workshop
Art is Open Source goes to AHAcktitude 2011 with a really relaxed Augmented Reality workshop
An Augmented Reality Drug
more info about the event held at Furtherfield Gallery, to present REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory and the Augmented Reality Drug.
The Black Horse
On Feb. 27th 2011, REFF held a workshop at The Black Horse, an occupation by ReallyFreeSchools, about the systematic reinvention of reality.
REFF Augmented Reality Drug
REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory, the fake cultural institution internationally enacting real policies for culture, creativity and freedoms of expression, has created the next step of its strategic program: an augmented reality drug!
Aumentiamo! REFF @ CS Cantiere in Milan
REFF will be at the CS Cantiere in Milan on January 21st 2011 for a workshop on the cross media platforms that we will be using for our next actions and an AR installation
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
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.
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.
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
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
Net Neutrality
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
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.
Angel_F and SuperAvatar at Freedom Not Fear in Rome
a visual reportage from the “Freedom not Fear” event in Rome.
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.…
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 …
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 …
