Posts Tagged ‘identity’

Interviewing the Crisis: Francesco “Warbear” Macarone Palmieri

Just back from Turin, I just had the chance to keep up with the Interviewing the Crisis project
We already started publishing the second round of interviews, starting with Carlo Infante, Andreas Jacobs and Warbear.
As usual, the interviews are first published on ArtsBlog and then translated and collected on the project’s website.
The first one we are [...]

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Angel_F and SuperAvatar at “Freedom not Fear”

Angel_F and SuperAvatar are scared.
The lives of the young artificial intelligence and of the  avatar who escaped from virtual worlds have been endangered  more than once by the control, that is constantly perpetrated on people’s information, habits and identities.
Forms of surveillance that are progressively and obsessively  expanding through continuous control of our lives (and not  [...]

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Art is Open Source and DegradArte at the AHACamping

We are just back from the AHACamping, the first meeting of the AHA mailing list.
The event was took place at the SALE Docks and it featured talks and performances on art, hacking, activism and critical theories on technology and on the ways in which they are transforming our lives in the contemporary era.
Here are some [...]

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Consciousness Reframed 9

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 [...]

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We Are Not Alone

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

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Computer Art Congress 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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Dead on Second Life

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 [...]

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Angel_F

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 [...]

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Glocal & Outsiders

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

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women i loved online

women i met online on dating and social networks. the perspective from webcam chats fade into memory as absence becomes the medium for a possible presence

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