VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo. How do people express their emotions on social networks? Information has become ubiquitously accessible, thus transforming our perception of cities and of the ways we...
McLuhan meets Pompei. On October 20th 2011 we will be in Pompei for an event in which we will engage the new forms of writing enabled by ubiquitous technologies and augmented reality. Organized by MediaDuemila as an event for the centennial celebrations of the birth...
This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the planetary process started by the Occupy Wall...
An article by Art is Open Source has recently been published on the scientific journal “Rivista degli Infortuni e delle Malattie Professionali” (the Scientific Journal on injuries and diseases connected to professional activities) and published by the...
This video shows the setup of the Leaf++ augmented reality performance. This is the second component of the Leaf++ project, a collaborative environment which uses computer vision and augmented reality to recognize and identify leaves, allowing to use them to share...
Leaf++, the Augmented Reality system for leaves created together with FakePress Publishing has been recently published on Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Volume 3, Issue 3. The project will be officially be released during our presence at ISEA 2011, in...
On July 10th, 2011, the SMIR project was back in Mondovì. This outstanding initiative joined forces across the italian/french border, between the cities of Mondovì and Embrun, to restore two ancient churches that were left to decay and dedicate their renewed spaces to...
RWR – READ/WRITE REALITY WHAT: 3+1 days of intensive workshop on the possibilities offered by Ubiquitous Publishing techniques and technologies WHEN: from 13th to 16th September 2011 WHERE: Cava de’ Tirreni (Amalfi Coast, Italy) ...
Just back from the Visualizing Europe event organized by Seed Media group in Bruxelles. The event was an incredibly interesting gathering of people interested in the possibilites represented by Information Visualization. It was a very insightful event and we are just...
The Electronic Man mobile application for iPhone/iPad is now available for download. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE APP This application will let you join in the global performance from wherever you are, and will allow you to experience people’s participation to the...
Just back from Florence where we held a wonderful workshop/seminar at the ISIA Design Institute The workshop was really interesting for us, as we were able to experiment an innovative education format. Starting from the students’ ideas for the project works...
We will be in Bruxelles on June 14th for this incredible conference organized by Visualizing.org, Information Aesthetics and Open Knowledge Foundation to discuss the potential and scenarios currently represented by Information Visualization for policy makers and civil...
Just out of the event “Tracce di Futuro” where an incredible set of contributions participated in creating a wonderful day during which the figure of Marshall Mcluhan became the liet-motif used to trigger some truly interesting discussions on the visions...
Our dear friend Marco Stancati has written this wonderful article on the opportunities offered by Augmented Reality You can read the Article HERE Among the most interesting scenarios described in the article: the progressive elimination of the distance between people...
Just a quick update: AOS has been featured on Visualizing.org with an interview to Salvatore Iaconesi. You can read the interview here Apart some background about Salvatore, some very interesting issues have been touches, such as the opportunity that information...
Something wonderful is about to happen. 100 years after McLuhan’s birth we all have the chance of becoming part of the body and mind of the Electronic Man. The happy event will take place in Rome, on May 31st, 2011, during the celebration of McLuhan’s...
Just published: the article “Oltre il corpo tecnologico” (Beyond the technologic body) on the journal “Rivista di Scienze Sociali”. Check Out the Article Here (in Italian) “new body forms are defined, new paths and movements in...
A few days ago we released the Sonoria sound toy for iPhone. Here is the information page for Sonoria. The toy is on sale on the App store and we decided to distribute the code and this little tutorial so that anyone could be able to make his/her own sound toy for the...
Just published on Media2000 an article dealing with the extreme forms of connectivity that are being experimented to connect the far regions of the planet. From telco operators on horses and motorcycles of Cambodia, to the village-phones in Africa, to the mountain-top...
FakePress and Art is Open Source contributed a chapter to the book Museums at Play, about playful augmented reality solutions for museums. The chapter is called “Toys++”, and it is written by Salvatore Iaconesi and Luca Simeone. The Toys++ project...
Join us at Il Cantiere in Milan on April 9th 2011 for a workshop on invasive uses of ubiquitous technologies such as QRCodes, Augmented Reality and Bluetooth radio communications. After the previous meetings in which we showed how to use the Bluetooth Wars and...
We just published an article on Media Duemila describing the Leaf++ system we will publish with FakePress at IESA 2011 in Istanbul. Leaf++ is an augmented reality application that lets you get information about the natural environment around you. It uses...
On March 21st 2011, Art is Open Source held a lesson at ISIA Florence on the theme: “Cross Media design scenarios: smartphones and tablets” The workshop engaged the problems, approaches, methodologies and processes that designers can use in imagining,...
Collecting all the documentation from our recent visit to London, here are some considerations on our presentation at Queen Mary University for the self-org series of meetings. The meeting was specifically focused on the interesting intervention by David Vercauteren...
the MACME plugin is now available as a standard WordPress plugin. Click HERE to go to the WordPress site and download MACME. This means that you can now go to your WordPress blog and search for “MACME” directly in the plugin search box, and install...
back from London, here are some more info about the event held at Furtherfield Gallery, to present REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory and the Augmented Reality Drug. our wonderful friends at Shoot4Change came to see the exhibit and took these wonderful pictures about the...
REFF’s augmented reality doctor presents: REFF A/R Drug REFF A/R Drug is a powerful compund, mixing technologies, practices and neurostimulating ecosystems, and it allows you to reinvent your reality. learn more by visiting: http://reff.romaeuropa.org...
Here you will find all the information materials, software and a short tutorial on the themes of the workshops we have been performing in London’s universities while preparing the REFF exhibition. First: click here to download the information and software kit...
CoS, Consciousness of Streams is about to start! We’ll be at transmediale in just a few hours, setting up all the components of CoS, which will be a performance, a series of workshops, an invasive into our streamed lives, and an evolving emotional map of the...
In just a few days we will be at transmediale in Berlin, to create CoS: Consciousness of Streams! CoS will be something that we’re calling a cognitive virus on the festival, as it will be a cross-medial, emergent, performative, multi-author publication created...
Just back from the Always Already New conference in Milan. (here the abstracts of the contributions to the conference) The conference subtitle “Thinking Media, Subversing Feeling, Scaffolding Knowledge: Art and Education in the Praxis of Transformation”...
the Knowners WordPress plugin allows you to transform link collections and your WordPress blogs into interactive visualizations of knowledge networks. A new version of the plugin has just been released by FakePress and Art is Open Source. The main enhancement of the...
FLUXUS was a variable group of artists working in what has vastly been called Neo-Dada and visual arts, but really worked intermedially across visual arts, design, video, music, performance and architecture. Vastly inspired by the work of John Cage and, in a way,...
[PRESS RELEASE – ENGLISH ] Almost two years after its creation il 2009, the REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory is back with the publication of its book, published in Italy by DeriveApprodi & FakePress: REFF The reinvention of the real through critical...
We have recently been at the ESA Conference 2010 “Culture and the Making of Worlds” held at the Bocconi University in Milan during October 2010. The conference is one of the main events in the global research scenario of sociology. It is held by the...
A new interface for the squatting supermarkets installation was featured recently at the SMIR project. Traditional products were added to the system, documenting their history, sustainable production processes and ecologic impacts. by FakePress, Art is Open Source...
Here is a picture report of the lecture we held at La Sapienza University in Rome about Holophony more info here: AOS, FakePress and Ossigeno present Holophony at La Sapienza University in Rome
On Friday May 5th 2010 Art is Open Source , FakePress and The Hub Roma will be in Mondovì together with the Piemonte Share Festival and associazione Marcovaldo to present the next steps of the Squatting Supermarkets / iSee project. Squatting Supermarkets is one of the...
FakePress and Ossigeno in collaboration with the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” – La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design...
Art is Open Source and FakePress just released Knowners a link sharing plugin for WordPress. Knowners is a WordPress plugin developed by FakePress and Art is Open Source to setup an effective link publishing website. The plugin is still in beta, but it already offers...
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...
Angel_F http://www.angel-f.it Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence. Its main desires are o explore the frontiers of freedom of expression, of the possibilities to create and disseminate knowledge, and of the opportunities offered by the network to promote our...
I was always facinated by We feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. The possibility to design using emotions has always intrigued me and, yet, it seemed like an unachievable task. The notion of being able to identify emotions in an automatic (or assisted) way is...
Conference Biofeedback is a USB gadget that allows conference lecturers to receive physical stimulations and feedback coming from the audience. Are people interested in what you’re saying? Are they bored? Now you can know. Lecturers can connect to their audience...
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”....
Just recovering from the enormous effort put in setting up, performing and taking down the Squatting Supermarkets at the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, “Market Forces”. Several thousands visitors, hundreds of customized food cans, hundreds of QRCodes...
We’re set! 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...
Squatting Supermarkets I Buying, wearing, eating, using. Our lives are full of objects of which we know very little about. Shop’s and supermrket’s shelves only tell partial stories made from companies, efficient productions, happy farmworkers laying down...
Squatting Supermarkets I Comprare, indossare, mangiare, usare. Le nostre vite sono piene di oggetti di cui sappiamo realmente poco. Gli scaffali di negozi e supermercati raccontano storie parziali, fatte di aziende, di produzioni efficienti, di contadini felici che...
The world is not built out of a single point of view, or out of a single voice. It is the result of a continuous interaction among different people, places, objects, architectures, information. A continuous flow of perspectives, voices, desires and emotions creates a...
We’re up to something: RomaEuropaFAKEFactory
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...
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...
Here below you can find the text that we presented at (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 explaining the theories and concept of the installation and of DegradArte. ABSTRACT Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi (DpSdC) investigates on interaction mechanisms created using low...
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...
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....
Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi [DpSC] is an installation in which simple DIY technologies are used to create an interactive floor on which visitors use a broom to sweep their way through 300 years of Art History, creating beautiful cut-up paintings. Created...
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...
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...
Centro di Osservazione sulla Produzione Immateriale e il Diritto d’Autore at the Communication Sciences faculty of the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” information here: > website > presentation by Arturo di Corinto...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Talker is a linguistic artificial intelligence. Two processes animate it. One, automatic, harvests each day some content from random webites. The other one uses the texts provided by web users, who can upload it through the interface. All the collected text is used to...
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