Posts Tagged ‘performance’

Angel_F, the diary of a young artificial intelligence

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.

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Squatting Supermarkets, cortocircuito [italiano]

“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito

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Angel_F

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.

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REFF.erence – RomaEuropa FAKEFactory conference and launch event

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.

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OneAvatar more pictures from Milano in Digitale

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 OneAvatar performance. If you want to read more about the OneAvatar project read here.
by the way, [...]

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OneAvatar @ Milano in Digitale

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. Organized by the Fondazione D’Ars Oscar Signorini onlus, it is a competition created to investigate the evolution [...]

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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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ChakraPuter

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 the network.
Chakraputer can be experienced on the web and through an installation/performance featuring a Yoga master [...]

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WebCrash

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 meal done by cooking del.icio.us bookmarks and e-books followed.

make your website banner and stroll along the streets [...]

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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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Did you really want a Second Life?

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 physical objects that change the characteristics of the space.
Issues such as copyright, the role of art in [...]

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Talkers Performance

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 are used as sound and video feedback to the live environment and to the web interfaces.
A [...]

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Sabba

A digital ritual.
A Software God feeds on the energy of the performance.
more info at:
> website

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Fagocitosi

A beach party is progressively invaded by digital art installations
more info at:
> website
> the software

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