The new issue of Disegno Industriale is out, focused on Interaction Design.
You can check it out here. There’s also an article I wrote about John Maeda and the great influence he had on creativity through computing.
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design / digital culture / features
Tags: anthropology, augmented reality, design, happiness, location based, physical computing, relation, rfid, sensors, spime, stream of consciousness, tags, technology, wayfinding, wayshowing
June 18, 2009
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.
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design / digital culture
Tags: bluetooth, design, emotional approach, emotional design, family, friends, gadget, gesture, led gadgets, mobile phone, O, salvatore iaconesi, soft, Squeeze, vibrate, xDxD.vs.xDxD
December 19, 2008
O is a bluetooth gadget with an emotional design approach. squeeze this soft gadget and make your friends O vibrate and flash with lights anywhere in the world
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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 cost DIY technologies, aiming at the creation of emotional environments that can be used to break the users’ [...]
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digital culture / events / installation / interviews / people / performance / texts / video
Tags: conference, copyright, design, emotion, event, exhibition, experience, interaction, liverpool, relation
September 22, 2008
Just back from Liverpool where we attended the (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 events presenting Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi.
check out how it went with full video coverage here:
> report from Liverpool
connect to the events at
> (re)Actor3
> HCI2008
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digital culture / installation
Tags: art, broom, copyright, creative, design, emtional, gestures, history, household, interaction, interface, paintings, technology
May 29, 2008
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 for the DegradArte event held at LPM2008 in Rome.
more info here:
>> DsPdC website
>> DegradArte
>> [...]
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digital culture / events / performance / texts
Tags: angel_F, art, conference, design, ecosystem, emotion, event, identity, Mexico, relation, research
March 30, 2008
Art is Open Source and NeRVi present Angel_F project in Mexico City at the Computer Art Congress 2.
The international meeting researches on the evolution of digital practices as they affect arts and society.
I presented there the Angel_F project, together with penelope.di.pixel.
check out the informations about CAC2 at
> CAC2 website
> Laboratoire Paragraphe
> Tecnológico de Monterrey
> Europia
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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 research laboratory which we are trying to fund: reverse engineering consumer electronics, both conceptually and [...]
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digital culture / events / performance
Tags: artificial, body, collaborative, control, dance, design, devices, fetish, generative, intelligence, interaction, interface, language, new media, performance, physical, sensors, synthesis, technology, user
December 21, 2006
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 feedback to the live environment and to the web interfaces.
A [...]
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