digital culture / interviews / people
Tags: bear, crisis, economy, francesco macarone palmieri, identity, innovative life models, interviewing the crisis, queer, turbocapitalism, warbear
February 18, 2009
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 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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digital culture / events
Tags: activism, AHA, art, ecosystem, event, hacking, identity, infrastructural squatting, Netsukuku, networks, p2p, paper, peer to peer, relation, S1/S2
October 8, 2008
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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digital culture / events / texts
Tags: conference, ecosystem, emotion, event, identity, Planetary Collegium, relation, research, technology, Wien
July 3, 2008
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.
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digital culture / people / texts
Tags: angel_F, article, artificial, avatar, body, cyborg, digital, ecosystem, emotion, identity, life, perception
May 2, 2008
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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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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digital culture / people / performance / texts / virtual worlds
Tags: artificial, automas, autonomous, avatar, digital, emotion, identity, intelligence, interactions, language, life, relational, social
January 15, 2008
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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digital culture / events / people / performance / virtual worlds
Tags: angel_F, artificial, autonomy, body, digital, identity, intelligence, language, life, performance, rights
December 10, 2007
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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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 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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