Ubiquitous Publishing in Pompei

Together with the project “McLuhan Meets Pompei“, promoted by the Associazione Amici di Media Duemila ONLUS in collaboration with the City Council for Communication and Technological Innovation of the City of Pompei, the FakePress and Art is Open Source teams have started their education program on augmented reality in two high schools in the city of Pompei (Liceo Scientifico Pascal and Istituto Bartolo Longo).

On November 11th and 12th 2011 two workshops engaged around 100 students on the theme of Ubiquitous Publishing: the possibility to tell new stories and invent new narratives using technologies which allow us to transform any body, architecture, objects and entire cities into spaces for publication.

The workshops were based on the experience of novel practices.

The MACME and NeoReality platforms produced by FakePress have been used to create cross media content, QRCodes and Augmented Reality content, together with students: every one of them will benefit from the availability of a dedicated platform, Ubiquitous Pompei, which will remain at their disposal to enact collaborative processes between students, professors and the city administration.

The workshops ended with a call for action: students were invited to imagine their own version of the “augmented city“.

In a public ceremony on December 14th the institutions will evaluate the proposals and give students a certificate documenting their participation to the project.

Will students be the authors of the digital strategy for the city of Pompei?

Images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xdxd_vs_xdxd/sets/72157628127445670/

Presentation slides:
www.slideshare.net/xdxd/slides-10135971

MACME
www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=1617

NeoReality
neoreality.artisopensource.net/

The Electronic Man

The Electronic Man will be featured at the 3rd edition of the Giovannini Prize on November 28th 2011.

The Giovannini Prize is an initiative created by Associazione Amici di Media Duemila to support people, companies and organizations and their projects in communication and sustainable innovation. The Prize has been created in the memory of Giovanni Giovannini and through the action of the Media Duemila magazine he created 28 years ago.

Here is a PDF describing the finalities of the prize (italian).

In its 3rd edition the Giovannini Prize will be dedicated to sustainability.

The event will be held at the headquarters of the FIEG (Federazione Italiana Editori Giornali, the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers) in via Piemonte 64, Rome, Italy.

Here is an article on Media Duemila magazine describing the program of the day.

MediaDuemila magazine and the Associazione Amici di Media Duemila ONLUS will continue their support for the Electronic Man project, as an innovative research on the possibilities for the near future of communication, by hosting the installation version of the global performance at the event.

Public Camp 2010 – spot #1 from FF3300 on Vimeo.

We will discuss the scenarios for communication and publishing with FakePress and we will bring with us little Angel_F , as an example of a new vision on identity, privacy, public spaces and innovation.

The program of the PubliCamp 2010 is impressive.

You can download it here if you want

here is some info about who will be there

be there if you can!

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

We will analyze Bluetooth, a technology that is mostly used to connect devices to our mobile phones, but that can be transformed into a powerful tool for local, pervasive and independent communications.

We will create an open source bluetooth media server and do some experimentations in media distributions, experimenting the aesthetics of mobile media and the practices of pervasive communication.

As a side issue, we will also use our media server to research on the possibilities offered by mobile technologies to observe people, their habits, their movements. We will try to wear the clothes of the Big Brother for once, to investigate just how observed we can be while using our mobile phones and other electronic devices.

architettura rel:attiva in Mexico City

The Seventh International Meeting on the Revitalization of the Historical Centers (27-28-29th of October 2008) was organized by the INAH in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico, with the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico and with the Italian and Spanish embassies.

This year’s edition of the congress focused on the theme “today’s  architecture as mediator of the historical and contemporary city“.

Many illustrous and international participants attended the meeting: Guillermo Vázquez de Consuegra (Spain), Teodoro González de León (Mexico), Felipe Leal (Mexico), Mario Coyula (Cuba), Maria Elisa Costa (Brasil), Augusto Quijano (Mexico), and an incredibly significative Carlo Aymonino, a central figure of Italy’s and international’s architectonic neorealism, providing for an incredible set of professional competences and personal histories.

We were infiltrates, just as usual, and were the only not-architects making a presentation. :)

The congress took place at the beautiful Franz Mayer Museum, with its incredible cloister, showing the evident signs of 1985′s earthquake.

What emerged from these intense 3 days of discussion was a really live debate on the conception of the city.

While most architects had no problems in conceptualizing a definition of architecture that includes the concepts of form and function, the impact of a our “little” semantic shift proved out to be quite a surprise, provoking deep interest and deep oppositions. It sure didn’t leave people unresponsive.

Our architettura rel:attiva discussed the point of view of the hybridization of practices and of disciplines, of the integration of the immaterial domains of reality brought on by the digital technologies and cultures, on collaborative practices applied to urban design and intervention, and on a general conception of a live metropolis, built from concrete and steel just as it is built on people, relationships, emotion and an active, collaborative way of life.

What we proposed, thus, was the idea of an architecture that was not only about the shapes of buildings and about their historical values, but also about the possibility for them to become tools, mediators and enablers of new social, anthropological, economic, relational, sensorial and emotional practices enabled in the contemporary era by digital technologies.

We talked about an anthropological, communicational, interactive, relational architecture. Which, for most of the classically architects was a shock.

In most cases the immaterial and virtual domains of reality enabled by technology are perceived just as tools to reconstruct and re-enact historical artifacts, to virtually rebuild, for example, the Roman Forum of the Templo Mayor in Mexico city so that people can walk through them and see/hear the “things of the past”.

Which is, by the way, a perfectly honest and interesting thing to do :)  but it leaves out all of the other possibilities in terms of social, business and relational models that could be enabled by the metropolis itself if spaces integrated technologies to create a truly ecosystemic environment in which interaction possibilities could turn into instruments for politics, culture, inspiration and expression.

architettura_rel_attiva_definitiva

THIS is the PDF of the architettura rel:attiva theories. It is only in italian for now: we will translate it into English, Spanish and French in a bit, stay tuned.

check out the rewiew on artsblog.

the review on Networked Performance ( turbulence.org)

here below are some pictures from the event. Stay tuned for the report of the installation of the rel:attiva presenza, coming up next.