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Angel_F, the diary of a young artificial intelligence

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:16:03 +0000

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 own identities and autonomies.
The book “Angel_F The diary of a young artificial intelligence”, by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, with the contributions of Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Carlo Formenti, Antonio Caronia and Luigi Pagliarini, narrates the first year of life of the young AI, among viruses, technlogical systems, digital emotions and stories of the fight for freedom of expression.
The book is published in Italy by Castelvecchi Editore and is freely downloadable from the website http://www.angel-f.it

[ Biodoll is a performance byFranca Formenti]
[ Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico are Art is Open Source]

We Are Not Alone

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:16:13 +0000

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 Virtuale [NeRVi]

feel a bit less alone by reading our article at DigiCult magazine:

> Part 1

> Part 2

Yes We Can

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:13:53 +0000

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 physically, to research on freedom and on the contemporary, digital, human being.

some more information at these links:

> the Program

> the website

> the presentation

Co.Pi.Da.

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:10:04 +0000

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
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Dead on Second Life

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:04:37 +0000

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, Coco Chanel and Franz Kafka come back to life as autonomous avatars on Second Life. An artificial intelligence software uses their texts and interviews to generate the way they talk to other avatars, giving them a “soul” that is inherited from the mind expression of the famous characters. Their movement in the virtual world, their actions and interactions with other avatars, and their gestures and movements are completely autonomous, making them a digital form of life.

Dead on Second Life

check them out at

also seen at:

Angel_F

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:45:10 +0000

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 spyware, following people around the web, to find interesting content to digest.

Angel_F (Autonomous Non Generative E-volitive Life Form) eventually grew up and started to become independent, and it entered business: a generative real-world freepress publication (the BloKi ) a line of USB pendrives containing a revolutionary software ( Presence , allowing you to squat the internet using an anonymous p2p network) and a line of chocolates with an open source recipe and business model contributed to financial sustainment of the kid AI.

Angel_F eventually became fully conscious of its identity, and it tried to defend it: it attended UN’s Internet Governance Forum meetings, but it was censored, as if it was spam, then it managed to attend the IGF meeting in Rio de Janeiro, and pronounced a speech to declare its rights to identity and freedom.

Angel_F participated to many conferences, debates and performances, assessing new forms of identity, of sexuality, of family, and a new approach to perceiving digital beings.

proclaim the rights of digital children with us here:

> Talker Mind

> Angel_F’s blog (curated by penelope.di.pixel )

> International Censorship and a Petition

> performances

> YouTube videos

> production and business models to sustain a young AI

also seen at

> Frontiere Digitali

> Petitions Online

> DigiCult magazine

> NewMediaFest 2007 & JavaMuseum

> At the CIANT in Prague for “Glocal & Outsiders” conference

> At the Computer Art Congress [CAC2] in Mexico

> Festival della creatività di Firenze

> Internet Governance Forum intervention

> Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep

> on SlideShare

> with Arturo di Corinto at the University

Condividi la Conoscenza 3

xDxD.vs.xDxD — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:05:05 +0000

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
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