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AOS and FakePress Publishing: a showcase at The Others, Turin, with Prinp.com

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AOS and FakePress Publishing have been invited by Prinp.com to perform a showcase of our projects in which the idea of “publishing” mutates through the use of technologies such as augmented reality and ubiquitous devices and networks, in a process of reconsideration of the ways in which human beings perceive their cities and spaces, and the ways in which they live, work, entertain themselves, relate to each other and perceive their bodies and identities.

We will present some of the most recent and interesting projects by FakePress Publishing, featuring disseminated books, global publications, ubiquitous conversations and literary works in which thousands of authors contribute in real time from all over the planet.

The presentation will take place at “The Others” art fair, during Turin’s art week, on February 4th at 10pm (but please check on the Fair’s website for updated information on location and times)

Prinp.com is an innovative service dedicated to the innovation of the possibilities for artists, galleries, institutions and other organizations to produce high quality art books.

Microcucina with the Fooders at Streamfest 2011

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are you hungry?

Food is at the center of our lives and it is a very powerful thing: when we talk about food we talk about ecology, nature, environment, global economies, pollution, energy, health, love, family, sex, tradition, innovation. Many people also talk about art when they talk about food, and often they use the power of food – the possibility to talk about so many fundamental topics in such an accessible (and yummy and desirable) way – to create rich experiences with both aesthetics and a critical view on the world.

MicroCucina

MicroCucina

We joined our friends the Fooders with the desire to use together the power of food and to create a contemporary narrative with it.

Last year the fooders produced the first Microcucina (Micro kitchen), a minimal, 1×1 meter kitchen that was also a microfestival dealing with artists who work with food.

Each element of the kitchen was a story or an artwork, and you had plenty of objects to play around with, creating a rich beautiful experience, hosted in the kitchen, a typical spot of the house where stories emerge while chatting about.

This year we joined the Fooders to go one step further.

At the Stream Fest 2011 we will produce together the second version of Microcucina, using augmented reality and cross media publishing techniques to create an augmented space in which digital experiences will form out of thin air, narrating stories of food, art, design and planetary awareness.

This is a next-step publishing project by FakePress Publishing, and it will use the MACME and NeoReality software tools, which you can find at the following links:

MACME

NeoReality

also: check back often here on AOS, as both tools will be upgraded in wonderful ways, leveraging the additions we made to create this augmented publication together with the Fooders.

the Next step of publishing at the Salone del Libro in Turin

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logo salone del libro

logo salone del libro

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory and FakePress will be at the Salone del Libro in Turin on May 13th, at 6pm to discuss the next step of publishing, at the crossroad of augmented reality, ubiquitous media and innovative cross media.

here are the complete details of the conference:

“Ebook StartUp! Next step publishing. Dal REFF a Fakepress, teoria e pratica per un’editoria 3.0: tra realtà aumentata, libri crossmediali e contenuti ubiqui – Invasioni mediatiche “

(Ebook StartUp! Next step publishing. From REFF to FakePress, theories and practices for 3.0 publishing: augmented reality, cross media books and ubiquitous content – media invasions ”

Conference

Friday 13.05.2011 18.00 h
Room to the Future

FakePress, Publishing & REFF – RomaEuropa Fakefactory

Speakers: Simone Arcagni, Salvatore Iaconesi, Simona Lodi, Oriana Persico

link and information: the conference at the Salone del Libro website

 

during the conference we will present the scenarios that we are currently investigating in the reinvention of publishing: new ways to experience cities, locations, emotions, relationships and information, in which we go well beyond the classical idea of “book” and we describe the ways in which it is possible to create new narratives that involve people, places, objects, memories in totally new ways.

We will be very happy to participate to this conference with

Simone Arcagni, researcher and journalist, he is deeply involved with the the concept Post Cinema: a possibilistic view on the reinvention of narratives, which go beyond vision and embrace the spaces of the city, of information, of bodies and relationships. You can read some of his writings HERE and get info about his book “Oltre il cinema. Metropoli e Media”.

Simona Lodi, artistic director at the Piemonte Share Festival, curator and art critic. She is very sensible to the continuous shifting and blurring of frontiers defined for humanity by all the things that are happening in our contemporary era. First with netart, then onto the new practices enabled over the years by technologies and networks, now into the world of the reinvention of reality, markets, laws and social practices: from the Market Forces edition of the Share Festival, in which we were happy to participate with Squatting Supermarkets, our augmented reality intervention in supermarkets, up to the Cease and Desist art, ending (for now) with more possibilities to redefine reality through ubiquitous technologies.

 

Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico will introduce the theme of the conference, by presenting the practices of performative, global, emergent and ubiquitous publishing enacted by FakePress Publishing and REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2008. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality.
Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.

FakePress is an international “think-tank”, founded in Italy, that investigates, develops and creates new publishing models and editorial projects presented by new scenarios in technology, productivity and contemporary culture.

Models of freely disseminated knowledge, multi-author, ethnographic approaches, the availability of ubiquitous technologies and the possibilities to add layers of information to ordinary reality and create new forms of experience and relationships with places, in a continually opening process of reinvention of the present are the principal elements which inspire action and creation at FakePress.

Observing the contemporary situation of current publishing models, FakePress has outlined realistic and practical/feasible scenarios for the present and near future of publishing.

more info at:

the conference info page

Salone Internazionale del Libro, Turin

FakePress Publishing

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory

AOS, Art is Open Source

AOS and FakePress at Design+, Rome: special FX and next step publishing

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Roma Design+ logo

AOS and FakePress will be in Rome at Design+, possibly the most interesting design event in Italy’s capital.

With a rich program featuring experts, designers, architects and artists from the international worlds of cinema, design and technology, Roma Design+ will host a series of interesting installations, exhibitions and conferences on the world of special effects.

Here is the complete program for Roma Design+

AOS and FakePress will participate with two projects:

Connecticity

Connecticity is the design for an urban screen that enacts communication practices in the textures of the metropolis. Realtime communication across social networks, instant messaging and cross media systems featuring mobile applications, sensor networks and masses of data about the city analyzed in real time tell the story of the city itself, of its inhabitants, of their lives and activities, of its environment: en emergent, disseminated, ubiquitous story that evolves with the city and its life.

Created for the Festa dell’Architettura in Rome, the software and hardware platforms at the base of Connecticity have evolved over time becoming a true immaterial architecture, creating fluid interstitial dimensions of architectural space in which hybrid, realtime communications take place between citizens and the city itself, transforming its surfaces into a new, communicative, skin.

De_Face

De_Face is a simple game: pass in front of it and a face recognition identifies your face and replaces it with the face of a famous actor. A fun game of mixed identities, and a critical observation of our hyper-controlled society.

Students!

We are also very proud to be in the event, as two groups of our best students will be joining in the exhibit!

And so, welcome Federica Lastrucci, Paola Meloni and Anrea Ettorre, with their Cinex Project: a holophonic, immersive cinema in which people are actually able to move and experience full immersivity.

And welcome to Alessandro Suraci and Marta Passarelli with their virtual mannenquins, using projection mapping to create exciting effects including special FX and the reenactment of famous costumes from science fiction and other movies, and with their animated video environments and scenography.

be there!

ESA Conference 2010 @ Bocconi University

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ESAConference

ESAConference

We have recently been at the ESA Conference 2010 “Culture and the Making of Worlds” held at the Bocconi University in Milan during October 2010.

The conference is one of the main events in the global research scenario of sociology. It is held by the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the conference was organized by the ASK group at the Bocconi University.

With FakePress we presented a series of projects.

First we made a general presentation of the FakePress project

Then we presented the Squatting Supermarkets project:

then we presented our anthropologi writing project Ubiquitous Anthropology / Ubiquitous Bororo:

and the second part

and then we presented the REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory project / action

and, by the way, check out often on the REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory page, as a wonderful book is coming out using augmented reality and wide tagging techniques published by DeriveApprodi and FakePress.

All our contributions have been published here on the SSRN (Social Science Research Network).

In the next few days we will publish all the presenttions and PDFs of the presentations.