Museums at Play book cover

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 had already been presented at the ICALT conference in Tunisia and had since then been developed into a fully working prototype.

Just back from Brazil, Bruce and Jasmina have been so nice to dedicate some of their time to help us out in spreading the news about the REFF Book, just published by FakePress and DeriveApprodi as the latest effort of RomaEuropa FakeFactory.

Bruce wrote the preface for the book, while Jasmina wrote a contribution telling the story behind the beginning of her experiences as a writer, among networks, war, anonimity and blogs. They are dear friends and represent interesting perspectives on the main theme of the book “the reinvention of reality”.

And we hope that you all will be able to get together with us for the event, or that you’d like to take a look at the materials that we’ll publish after it.

Here below the full info of the two parts of the event.

bruce sterling and jasmina tesanovic at reff

Bruce Sterling & Jasmina Tesanovic

present:

REFF – The RomaEuropa FakeFactory book

Jan 14th. @ ESC – Via dei Volsci 159 (San Lorenzo) / Jan. 15th @ STRIKE – Via U. Partini 21 (Zona Portonaccio)

On the 14th and 15th of January Bruce Sterling (author of the preface to the book) and Jasmina Tešanović (author of the essay-interview “A goose in the fog. Story and evolution of a technological idiot“) present the book:

“REFF. The reinvention of reality through critical practices of remix, mash up, recontextualization, re-enactment”, edited by FakePress and DeriveApprodi.

Two dates dedicated to the practices and possibilities to reinvent reality offered by new technologies. The authors will join FakePress at two fundamental nodes of activism in Rome: ESC Atelier Autogestito (on Friday Jan. 14th) and the Spazio Pubblico Autogestito Strike (on Saturday Jan. 15th).

You are all welcome!

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About Bruce Sterling. The author of the Mirrorshades anthology in 1986 contributed to the definition of cyberpunk. Sterling is the author of science fiction novels, pieces of fine journalism and world known essays. He collaborates with Wired magazine, has a dedicated column on XL magazine since its first issue and writes for the La Stampa newspaper from Turin in which he curates, together with Jasmina Tešanović, the column “Globalisti a Torino” (“Globalists in Turin”). In 2003 he has been nominated professor at European Graduate School, where he teaches intensive courses in Media and Design.

About Jasmina Tesanovic.Feminist and political activist (Women in Black; CodePink) she is a writer, journalist, translator and film director. In 1978 she promoted the first feminist conference in Eastern Europe, “Drug-ca Zena” (Belgrade). With Slavica Stojanovic she designs and creates the first feminist publishing house in the Balcans, “Feminist 94″, lasting for 10 years. She is the author of “Diary of a Political Idiot”, translated in 12 languages: a war diary written during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then she has been publishing her works on blogs and other media, always connected to the Internet.

About REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory . Started in 2008 the project confronts the themes of critical, active and creative innovation in cultural and technological policies. With the publication of its book, REFF is the first instance of a novel form of publishing floating across augmented reality, ubiquitous publishing, innovative and accessible interfaces, emergent narratives, infoaesthetics and a new perspective on the world that surrounds us. REFF – Remix the world, reinvent reality!

The event is promoted by:

ESC [www.escatelier.net]

in collaboration with :

STRIKE spa [www.strike-spa.net], AOS [www.artisopensource.net], FakePress [www.fakepress.it]

More info on REFF: [www.romaeuropa.org]

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PROGRAM

Jan. 14th – ESC (Via dei Volsci 159, Rome)

ore 18:00
REFF. Story and evolution of a conflict, curated by FakePress

ore 18:30
Interviewing Bruce & Jasmina, by Benedetto Vecchi ( “Il Manifesto”)

ore 19.00
Free Talk, open discussion with the audience

ore 22:00
DROMOSCOPE. Ambient, drone, glitch, abstract hip hop and techno, spatialized at ESC and progressively rising through a series of DJ/VJ sets

* how to reach ESC:
http://www.escatelier.net/

Jan. 15th – STRIKE spa (Via Umberto Partini 21, Rome)

ore 20:00

REFF. Story and evolution of a conflict, curated by FakePress

ore 20:30
Bruce Sterling & Jasmina Tesanovic FreeTalk. Open discussion with the audience

ore 23:00
presentation of the new record by dj Gruff  “Phonogruff”

* how to reach Strike spa:
http://www.strike-spa.net/joomla/index.php/trovaci-topmenu-53

the REFF Book is about to be published. In the meanwhile previews start to emerge on the web of the interfaces of its mobile versions. Here are the screenshots of the iPad version

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory the Book

Art is Open Source and FakePress will be launching the preview of the book “REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory“, produced by DeriveApprodi and FakePress, at the Share Festival, in Turin, Italy.
On November 6th we will participate to the conference “Publishing Art 2.0: Next Step Publishing – New Scenarios of Art Publishing“ at Artissima.
Here is the link for the Facebook Event
Here is some info about the Piemonte Share Festival
Here is some info about FakePress
Here is some info about the REFF Book
Here is some info about DeriveApprodi
Here is some info about Artissima

Once again, thanks to everyone who attended and to all of you that couldn’t make it. It was wonderful.

Thanks to urijoe.org for the pictures.

Soon to come: the video of the party and the technologies used in the concert.

and a surprise :)

E’ uscito il libro “Angel_F. Diario di una intelligenza artificiale“, che racconta il primo anno di vita della piccola intelligenza artificiale.

Il libro è accompagnato dai contributi teorici di Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti e Luigi Pagliarini, sotto forma di interviste in cui ognuno racconta il proprio punto di vista sulle tematiche che emergono dall’esistenza stessa del piccolo Angel_F.

dalla copertina:

“Correre per lo spazio cibernetico tra esseri umani, database, Social Network, sistemi interattivi. Scoprire se stessi tra mondi fatti di pixel e di carne. Emozionarsi, stupirsi, relazionarsi, connettersi. In uno spazio complesso e sorprendente, dove la realtà fisica e quella digitale si integrano sempre di più. È questa la storia di Angel_F (Autonomous Non Generative E-volitive Life_Form), la giovane Intelligenza Artificiale figlia di Derrick de Kerckhove e della Biodoll, la sua amante digitale, una prostituta biotecnologica che vive e lavora on line. Angel_F inizia la sua vita tendendo gioiosi agguati ai visitatori del sito della madre e accompagnandola nelle sue scorribande virtuali su blog e forum. Ma crescendo una domanda si insinua nella sua mente digitale: come possono un famoso professore e una prostituta generare un figlio-intelligenza artificiale? La ricerca porta il piccolo nel mondo dell’hacking, tra software maliziosi, database colmi di informazioni e surreali dialoghi con il popolo di Internet. Fino a incontrare xDxD e penelope.di.pixel grazie ai quali scoprirà il segreto della sua origine e inizierà a interagire anche con il mondo fisico.”

La storia, creata narrativamente a partire dagli eventi realmente avvenuti durante le varie fasi della performance, mostra il punto di vista di un essere digitale sul mondo contemporaneo, tra identità che mutano, nuove forme di relazione ed emozione, privacy, proprietà intellettuale, nuove forme di espressione e azioni di hacking delle pratiche del nostro quotidiano.

Una metafora delle nostre stesse storie, nel mutare del nostro mondo con l’avvento delle reti, delle tecnologie digitali e delle nuove possibilità di comunicare, collaborare, agire ed esprimerci.

Completano il libro una estesa webgrafia/bibliografia di opere d’arte digitale e di rete, sugli esperimenti scientifici e sulle ricerche teoriche che maggiormente hanno ispirato la performance e, di conseguenza, la storia del piccolo Angel_F. Tra i riferimenti: Luca Bertini, Theo Jansen, Stelarc, Eduardo Kac, John Holland, Roberta Breitmore, Gazira Babeli, Ken Rinaldo, Darko Maver, Jodi.org, Andrew Venell, Joan Leandre, les Liens Invisibles, Orson Welles e molti altri.

Il libro è in libreria, ma si può acquistare anche online ( ad esempio QUI), oppure richiedendolo direttamente agli autori.

Il libro è pubblicato con una licenza Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike, non commercial.

Just 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.

from the cover:

“Running through cyberspace among humans, databases, social networks and interactive systems. Discovering ourselves in worlds made of flesh and pixels. Emotion, wonder, relations, connections. A complex and surprising space in which physical and digital realities progressively merge with one another. This is the story of Angel_F (Autonomous Non Generative E-volitive Life_Form), the young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll, his digital lover, a biotechnological prostitute living and working online. Angel_F starts its life happily and digitally ambushing its mother’s website’s visitors and accompanying her in her virtual rampages across blogs ad forums. A question arises in its digital mind: how can a famous professor and a digital prostitute generate a son-artificial-intelligence? The search for the answer brings the little one in the worlds of hacking, malicious software, databases full of information and surreal dialogues with Internet’s population. Up until when it encounters xDxD and penelope.di.pixel, with whom it will find out the secrets of its origins, starting to interact with the physical world.”

The story, narratively created from the real events of the various phases of the Angel_F performance, shows the point of view of a digital being on the contemporary world, between mutating identities, new forms of relation and emotion, privacy, intellectual property and new forms of expression, hacking actions and new daily practices.

A metaphor for our own lives as they change with the arrival of networks, digital technologies and the possibilities to communicate, collaborate and express ourselves.

The book is completed through an extended webography/bibliography of those digital and net artworks, scientific experiments and theoretical researches that have inspired the performance and, thus, the story of little Angel_F. Among them: Luca Bertini, Theo Jansen, Stelarc, Eduardo Kac, John Holland, Roberta Breitmore, Gazira Babeli, Ken Rinaldo, Darko Maver, Jodi.org, Andrew Venell, Joan Leandre, les Liens Invisibles, Orson Welles and many others.

The book is (for now) in italian and can be bought in major libraries but also online ( for example HERE), or even by directly asking the authors.

The book is published under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike, Non Commercial licensing scheme.