REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata

REFF on tour

30-31 marzo 2011

Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)

Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.

Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.

REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!

Program of activities

30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona

Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli

30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)

31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia

More info on:
www.romaeuropa.org
www.fakepress.it
www.artisopensource.net
www.ossigenazioni.com

ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM

REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.

REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.

Learn mere here:

ABOUT REFF AR Drugs

From the information sheet:

“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.

REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”

Learn more here:

http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=1640

ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory

REFF 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 2009. 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.

Official site:

http://www.romaeuropa.org

REFF in the world:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org

on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.
The theme of the workshop was the reinvention of reality through critical practices and ubiquitous technologies.
During the workshop a short history of the REFF project was narrtes, quickly followed by a hands-on session in which the cross-media publishing tools released by FakePress under a GPL3 license have been installed and tested out:

MACME: a cross media publishing plugin for the WordPress platform allowing to transform any blog into an ubiquitous tool for publishing creating PDFs, ePub ebooks, QRCodes, location based media and augmented reality content.

KNOWNERS: a knowledge sharing ecosystem built on the wordpress platform

CoS, CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAMS: a ubiquitous narrative first shown at the transmediale festival on 2011, through which FakePress created a global publication in which more than 35000 authors have created a realtime emotional map of the world

REFF at Writtle College

more info on REFF and the specific projects on:

http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.fakepress.it
http://furtherfield.org

the global vision of REFF project can be seen here:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org

during these days:

on the 25th of February 2011 REFF will be opening up an exhibit at Furtherfield gallery in London

more info here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitio…

on Feb. 22th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in London at Westminster College
The theme of the workshop was the reinvention of reality through critical practices and ubiquitous technologies.
During the workshop a short history of the REFF project was narrtes, quickly followed by a hands-on session in which the cross-media publishing tools released by FakePress under a GPL3 license have been installed and tested out:

MACME: a cross media publishing plugin for the WordPress platform allowing to transform any blog into an ubiquitous tool for publishing creating PDFs, ePub ebooks, QRCodes, location based media and augmented reality content.

KNOWNERS: a knowledge sharing ecosystem built on the wordpress platform

CoS, CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAMS: a ubiquitous narrative first shown at the transmediale festival on 2011, through which FakePress created a global publication in which more than 35000 authors have created a realtime emotional map of the world

REFF at Westminster College

more info on REFF and the specific projects on:

http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.fakepress.it
http://furtherfield.org

the global vision of REFF project can be seen here:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org

during these days:

on the 25th of February 2011 REFF will be opening up an exhibit at Furtherfield gallery in London

more info here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitio…

on Feb. 22th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in London at Westminster College
The theme of the workshop was the reinvention of reality through critical practices and ubiquitous technologies.
During the workshop a short history of the REFF project was narrtes, quickly followed by a hands-on session in which the cross-media publishing tools released by FakePress under a GPL3 license have been installed and tested out:

MACME: a cross media publishing plugin for the WordPress platform allowing to transform any blog into an ubiquitous tool for publishing creating PDFs, ePub ebooks, QRCodes, location based media and augmented reality content.

KNOWNERS: a knowledge sharing ecosystem built on the wordpress platform

CoS, CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAMS: a ubiquitous narrative first shown at the transmediale festival on 2011, through which FakePress created a global publication in which more than 35000 authors have created a realtime emotional map of the world

REFF at Westminster College

more info on REFF and the specific projects on:

http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.fakepress.it
http://furtherfield.org

the global vision of REFF project can be seen here:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org

during these days:

on the 25th of February 2011 REFF will be opening up an exhibit at Furtherfield gallery in London

more info here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitio…

REFF A/R Drug is a powerful compund, mixing technologies, practices and neurostimulating ecosystems, and it allows you to reinvent your reality.

learn more by visiting:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org
http://www.romaeuropa.org
http://fakepress.it
http://www.artisopensource.net

opening and unveiling of the augmented reality drug takes place in London, at Furtherfield Gallery. More info here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitio…

Augmented Reality Doctor

on Feb. 16th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) was guest of the radio show at Resonance FM

we had a chance to describe our current project in London and all over the world, to present and invite all the audience for the opening on Feb. 25th at Furtherfield Gallery and, most important of all, to invite everyone to take massive doses of our Augmented Reality Drug!

more info on REFF and the specific projects on:

http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.fakepress.it
http://furtherfield.org

the global vision of REFF project can be seen here:

http://reff.romaeuropa.org

during these days:

on the 25th of February 2011 REFF will be opening up an exhibit at Furtherfield gallery in London

more info here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality

REFF with Furtherfield at Resonance FM

Today we have been at Goldsmiths University to perform a workshop on the REFF project and to present the free tools that FakePress has been distributing during the last few months:

MACME: a cross-media publishing system that enables WordPress blogs to publish content using location based media, QRCodes and Augmented Reality, generating not only the markers needed to disseminate multimedia content on spaces, objects and bodies, but also PDFs and ePub formatted ebooks.

KNOWNERS: a WordPress plugin that transforms a blog into a knowledge visualization and sharing system

BLUETOOTH WARS: a live Linux distro that turns a laptop into a mobile multimedia broadcasting station that can be used to invade entire cities with contents and information

All these projects will be released in just a few days: stay tuned for updates.

And also watch out for the opening of the REFF exhibit in London at Furtherfield Gallery, on Feb. 25th 2011.

Stay tuned!

We at AOS are working hard for the future of REFF. The Creatives for Net Neutrality campaign will soon have fantastic news, as will the whole project connected to innovation and contemporary creativity that is represented by REFF.

Stay tuned…

http://www.romaeuropa.org

“I am William Burroughs.
I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory.
Damn those bloody suckers couldn’t tell art if it hit them in the forehead.
Deep shadows, close down over culture when culture is not able to catch up with the world it lives in.
I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory.
I could not participate because I am an old man, cutting up pieces of paper, lookig for hidden poetry, forgotten literatures in things that have been thrown away, forgotten, put away, stashed in the trash.
I am William Burroughs.
I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory.”

William Burroughs, famous for his cut-up technique, allowing for the creation of beautiful literature compositions by remixing pieces of existing works, was rejected from the literature section of the RomaEuropa Web Factory.

“This is not original work!” was the scream of the Jury.

William Burroughs now joined RomaEuropaFAKEFactory, here:

http://www.romaeuropa.org