
Squatting Supermarkets and REFF have been featured at the Memefest

Squatting Supermarkets will be presented at the UAMO festival in Munich, Oct. 27-30 2011

the first phase of the SMIR project exhibited back in Mondovì, Italy. Squatting Supermarkets brings ubiquitous technologies crossing arts with local development and innovation.

FakePress at the ESA Conference at Bocconi University, presenting FakePress, Ubiquitous Anthropology, NeRVi NeoRealismo Virtuale, REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, and Holophnics

Art is Open Source and FakePress will be at Robot Festival 2010, in Bologna, Italy, presenting a workshop on Squatting Supermarkets, on September 15th to September 18th, 2010

A new interface for the squatting supermarkets installation was featured recently at the SMIR project.
Traditional products were added to the system, documenting their history, sustainable production processes and ecologic impacts.
Just a quick note: AOS and FakePress will be in Mondovì from the 15th to the 19th of july for another edition of SMIR project.
We will present a new version of the Squatting Supermarkets installation using augmented reality and …

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.

A photo report of the presentation and lecture we held in Mondovì to present Squatting Supermarkets, in joining the SMIR european project. The art performance, technological platform and research process have all been presented to the local audience and to a few invited guests.

On Friday May 5th 2010 Art is Open Source, FakePress and the Hub Roma will be in Mondovì together with the Piemonte Share Festival and associazione Marcovaldo to present the next steps of the Squatting Supermarkets / iSee project.

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.
“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Squatting Supermarkets: cortocircuito
getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan
Art is Open Source interviews Dino Borri from Eataly Turin about the possible uses of Augmented Reality and other technologies to inform consumers and enact critical practices.
Squatting Supermarkets again in Mondovì with ToShare.
We will be in Mondovì from Wednesday, 9th December to Sunday, 13th December, together with ToShare, tha Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo and the Town of Mondovì presenting Squatting Supermarkets at the – SMIR – Multimedia Spaces for Innovation and Research – as part of the European Territorial Co-operation programme Alcotra 2007-2013.
Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009. Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) and some videos

Just recovering from the enormous effort put in setting up, performing and taking down the Squatting Supermarkets.
Several thousands visitors, hundreds of customized food cans, hundreds of QRCodes printed to link products’ stories, dozens of hours of live Shoptivist TV, 3 workshops, a ShopDropping action in the city centre of Turin, an augmented reality tour at Eataly (a big shopping centre focused on organic foods), hundreds of questions and the relative answers.
These are the numbers. Read on for the details…

Squatting Supermarkets is all installed and it is about to start.
There will be a continuous interaction with the people at the Share Festival, both friends and visitors, and all the technical and curatorial crew.
It will be part documentary, part interviews, part performance, and it will take the shape of a web TV called Shoptivism
Squatting Supermarkets occupies and reinterprets the spaces and times of commerce, to enact critical practices and poetical reflections, superimposing a free and accessible digital space on ordinary reality. Here below you will find the description of the conceptual elements of the project, and teh details for its participation to the Piemonte Share Festival. To turn prctices and technologies into an open framework to create augmented reality spaces, connecting bodies and information, implementing accessible, relational and natural interaction schemes.

Squatting supermarkets occupa e reinterpreta gli spazi e i tempi del commercio, per attuare pratiche critiche e riflessioni poetiche, sovrapponendo alla realtà ordinaria uno spazio digitale libero ed accessibile.
Qui di seguito una esposizione della parte teorica del progetto, e un appuntamento per il Piemonte Share Festival.
Mettere a sistema pratiche e tecnologie, per creare un framework aperto per creare spazi di realtà aumentata, collegando corpi e informazioni e per realizzare forme di interattività tecnologica accessibili e naturali.

The new ToShare website is up! You can check it out here on http://www.toshare.it
The Piemonte Share Festival is starting up as well, and we’ll join in the party, dealing with Squatting Supermarkets.