
he DEberlusconiZER is proud to announce DE_ZER Vol. 4, the fourth of a series of exhibitions in which some contemporary artists are invited to give a new meaning to the informational space “liberated” from the unwieldy presence of the Italian Prime Minister.

a feature on the italian newspaper il Sole 24 Ore describes Nuclear Anxiety, a global performance on the energetic future of the planet

Nuclear Anxiety will be at the Live Performers meeting in Rome. Participate to the global performance by using the nuclearanxiety hashtag on twitter.

Art is Open Source at the Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum will present the augmented reality drug and will introduce the fake cultural institution REFF, and introduce its next steps towards the reinvention of reality

CoS, Consciousness of Streams, is about to begin. Join in this weird social network, creating a cognitive virus first at transmediale and then in the world

FakePress and Art is Open Source will be at transmediale in a few days presenting CoS, Consciousness of Streams, a cognitive virus on the event and a cross-medial, emergent, publication.

REFF’s first incursion in the cities of the world was a complete success. Presentation of the book and disseminated performance with REFF artists, Massimo Canevacci, Shoot 4 Change and the Hub Roma

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, a book in augmented reality, a performance about critical innovation on cultural policies and forms of expression, an open source system to produce cross-medial publications

Wearing Emotions: Physical representation and visualization of human emotions using wearable technologies” presented at the IV10: video and presentation

FakePress, Art is Open Source and the Hub Roma, together with Università La Sapienza, Rome, and Università Tor Vergata, Rome, present Squatting Supermarkets / iSee, a mobile action/performance/technology creating emergent social networks for critical consumism and urban narratives. Research and project works presented.
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.
“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito

Angel_F, Autonomous Non Generative, E-volitive Life_Form, Angel_F is the son of the Biodoll and of Derrick de Kerckhove. It is an Artificial Intelligence, learning how to speak through the texts of internet users.

The international competition RomaEuropaFAKEFactory re-lauches in Rome on March 20th and 21st with two dense days dedicated to the theme “Freedom to Remix”: at the Italian Senate, at the Libreria Flexi and at the Neo Club, with a triple event crossing the borders between different spaces and contexts of the metropolis, from institutional ones to the night clubbing scene of via Libetta.

just a quick update, ad the wonderful organizers of the Milano in Digitale event just sent me the official pictures. Which, of course, are way better than mine, as I’m a lousy photographer.
You get to see more of the …

We took OneAvatar at Milano in Digitale.
The third edition of the Milano in Digitale competition was held at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, an industrial complex restored by Milan’s public administration to host artistic and cultural projects. …

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.…
A computer is interpreted as a body according to eastern theories and philosophies.
The Chakras represent the components of the PC. When the computer reaches Chakra balance, it goes in Kundalini state, becoming connected to all the other ChakraPuters on …
my little hacks and pranks page has been featured in JODI’s wonderful webcra.sh parade across the streets of Holland.
JODI’s webcra.sh in which websites become street banners for a joyful(?) parade and we get to eat del.icio.us bookmarks.
A wonderful …
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 series of interventions in Second Life (and some in other virtual worlds).
The performances explore the aesthetics of code, systems overload and crash, lag.
Places get invaded, filled with art – or enclosed in art – sounds and virtually …
A latex cyborg suit is created to connect a dancer’s body to the interaction of the live and internet audience.
All of the dancer’s senses are replaced by user-generated ones, and all of the sensations and movement of her body …