Here you will find the updates regarding our research projects, including the release of new results, publications or prototypes.

human emotions and their change in contemporary times. we designed a project in which the real-time emotions of human beings are represented in multiple ways. A reflection on the mutation of our lives. And human beings on sale.

Urban planning strategies con now benefit from new sources of realtime information coming from social networks allowing to sense the emotions, visions, desires and tensions of citizens. Open data, online conversations and ubiquitous publishing as a strategic scenario: we will speak about this subject on Dec. 14th 2011 in Turin

a report from Turin on the presentation of the VersuS project: ubiquitous anthropology and the observation of the realtime lives of cities, across data harvesting, natural language analysis, information visualization, expert systems and infoaesthetics

un saggio su ConnectiCity, VersuS e FakePress Publishing, sugli orizzonti della pubblicazione ubiqua e realtime, su Rivista di Scienze Sociali

VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities, realtime information visualizations and digital fabrication fostering new scenarios for the lives of cities: AOS and FakePress Publishing at Piemonte Share Festival together with Fablab Italia

AOS and MediaDuemila in Pompei together with Derrick de Kerckhove for an event engaging the new forms of writing enabled by ubiquitous technologies and augmented reality

A video showing an infovisualization of the riots that took place in Rome on October 15th during the local instance of the planetary protest started by the Occupy Wall Street movement, as seen from Social Networks. Info and scenarios.

An article published on the “Rivista degli Infortuni e delle Malattie Professionali”, one of the most ancient italian scientific journals, about the opportunities and scenarios of Augmented Reality

a video of the making of the Leaf++ augmented reality concert for leaves

Leaf++ has been published on Parsons Journal for Information Mapping

the first phase of the SMIR project exhibited back in Mondovì, Italy. Squatting Supermarkets brings ubiquitous technologies crossing arts with local development and innovation.

a workshop on ubiquitous publishing, augmented reality and cross media, in September, on the beautiful Amalfi coast, in the South of Italy

the Electronic Man mobile application for iPhone/iPad is available for download on the app store. you can join in the performance from wherever you are

AOS experiments a novel crash course to teach multimedia designers how to prototype and develop their cross-medial applications, at the ISIA institute in Florence

after the McLuhan’s centennial in Rome and the evolution of the Electronic Man project

An Article by Marco Stancati eccellere.com: Augmented Reality and Art is Open Source

AOS has been featured on Visualizing.org with an interview to Salvatore Iaconesi

The Birth of the Electronic Man, in Rome, on May 31st 2011, at the celebrations for McLuhan’s Centennial

An article about the possibilities for technological enhancements of the body, published on Rivista delle Scienze Sociali

this tutorial explains how to make a simple interactive sound toy for the iphone, based on the Sonoria iPhone application

AOS published an article on Media2000 dealing with the extreme forms of connectivity that are being experimented to connect far regions of the planet

FakePress and Art is Open Source contributed a chapter to the book Museums at Play, about playful augmented reality solutions for museums