An emotional social network.
The visualization shown on FakePress’s homepage represents the beginning phase of a design process. It uses Plutchik’s classification and uses realtime search engines to collect emotional information from social networks. It then represents it as an expressive visualization. We are going to turn it into a wearable device.
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 the beautiful cloister of the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City, in the colonia [...]
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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September 22, 2008 2Just 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
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 yourself at
> at NeRVi website
> videos on Youtube
also spotted at:
> Twitter
> Art Feed
> [...]
The Planetary Collegium presented this conference titled “Being Syncretic”. Researchers and artists from all over the world converged in Vienna to present the state of the art of research on technologies as they access reality in integrated ways.
We presented our research on identity and on the evolution of the body in a technologically ecosystemic perspective.
check [...]
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
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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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 communication, from product to service, from the mass to a plurality of multi-viduals.
NeoRealismo Virtuale dives into this scenario, hybridizing [...]
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 [...]
What are the challenges artworld is facing in the time of globalization and increasing technologization?
At the conference I presented the Biodoll project and Angel_F.
In collaboration with CIANT (International Centre for Art and New Technologies), Center for Global Studies (Academy of Sciences and Charles University), Prague Biennale 3.
check it out here
> website
> flickr
![[ByB] Be Your Browser](http://www.beyourbrowser.com/images/index.gif "new forms of life, a new idea of design, and business models")
![[NeRVi] Neo Realismo Virtuale](http://www.neorealismovirtuale.com/OALogoSmall.png "art, philosophy architecture in a performative attitude")
