xdxd.vs.xdxd and penelope.di.pixel on Wired Italy

We ended up on the italian edition of Wired Magazine, speaking about augmented reality, love, digital revolutions and jail.

Here’s a PDF for your (and our) reference. Hope the guys at Wired don’t get too mad about me putting it up.

http://www.wired.it

Here is the PDF of the article: xDxD.vs.xDxD and penelope.di.pixel on Wired Italy

Angel_F
http://www.angel-f.it

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]

http://www.lascighera.org/e-ancora-magnaven-e-semper-beveven-barbera-squatting-supermarkets

http://www.artisopensource.net

http://www.fakepress.net

Sunday, January 24th 2010 – 21:00 – 23:30

While engaged in the deepest trance of coding, all one needs to wish for is any kind of numerical or symbolic resource, and in a flash of lightning it is suddenly there, at your disposal. The question is, Where is “there”? “There” is not inside your mind but inside the computer, a blurry space of symbols and numbers that focus in an ever-migrant pattern of sense and nonsense. Perhaps the only moment of clarity in the computer’s mind occurs when it crashes: All processing comes to a halt and any “there” that might have existed completely vanishes. If I were a computer, I would be happy to crash once in a while, because if it were not for the occasional crash, the computer’s human user would waste all of his or her life huddled over a pile f metal and plastic. If the computer truly loved its human, it would want the human to take a break once in a while. To crash is a noble act of sacrifice by the computer.

John Maeda, Creative Code

Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance)

for more info:

http://www.fakepress.net

Angel and Derrick

In Italy, a new law imposes strict conditions for bloggers, such as defining incredibly high fines for people not correcting stuff on their online publications, and enormous amounts of bureaucracy. Thus practically making free speech on the web too risky, to costly, too hard, cumbersome… a bureaucrat’s dream come true: censorship through fines and forms

A big event has been organized today in Rome’s Piazza Navona where hudreds of bloggers, journalists, politicians, intellectuals and other people of any shape and sizes gathered to protest.

Among these was Derrick de Kerckhove, who met his little digital child, Angel_F, to discuss problems, scenarios and possibilities for the future of the network and for people’s rights and freedom.

As you might know, Angel_F is an ongoing art performance in which a young Artificial Intelligence, son of prof. de Kerchove, takes action, first online and, then, in the physical world, on issues ranging from digital rights, to new economy business models, new sexualities, contemporary approaches to identity.

Angel_F has been the first digital being to officially speak at the Internet Governance Forum, the United Nations’ organization for the definition of a bill of rights and to promote global network freedom and accessibility.