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Museums at Play
Museums at Play

FakePress and Art is Open Source contributed a chapter to the book Museums at Play, about playful augmented reality solutions for museums

REFF – workshop at Writtle College, Feb. 21th 2011
REFF - workshop at Writtle College, Feb. 21th 2011

on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.

REFF – workshop at Westminster College, Feb. 22th 2011 (

on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.

REFF – workshop at Westminster College, Feb. 22th 2011
REFF - workshop at Westminster College, Feb. 22th 2011

on Feb. 21th 2011 REFF (with AOS, Art is Open Source, and FakePress) held a workshop in Essex at Writtle College.

REFF – radio show at Resonance FM, Feb. 16th 2011
REFF - radio show at Resonance FM, Feb. 16th 2011

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

REFF in London @ Goldsmiths University with Furtherfield
REFF in London @ Goldsmiths University with Furtherfield

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:

Holophonics & Design
Holophonics & Design

April 30th, from 9am to 2pm, at the Interaction Design laboratory held at the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” – La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design by FakePress, will explore the territories of holophonic listening with Marco Fagotti, guest Lecturer for the event. Salvatore Iaconesi, visiting professor at the course, will illustrate the fundamental technologies and methodologies that can be used to design digital sound spatial positioning with the techniques of holophony.

technologies for multiple voices
technologies for multiple voices

The world is not built out of a single point of view, or out of a single voice. It is the result of a continuous interaction among different people, places, objects, architectures, information.

Frontiers of Interaction V, June 2009

Frontiers of Interaction is probably one of the most interesting events about interaction design in Italy. We’ve been there to present FakePress, our next-step publishing house, with two “ubiquitous” projects: iSee, interstitial narratives for shopping centers, and Ubiquitous Anthropology, location based technologies for ethnographic research.

architettura rel:attiva
architettura rel:attiva

just back from Mexico where me and penelope.di.pixel performed quite a few activities: a congress on the revitalization of the historical centers, a panel on virtual, participative and interactive architectures and on innovation, and an installation performance called rel:attiva presenza

Consciousness Reframed 9

The Planetary Collegium presented this conference titled “Being Syncretic”. Researchers and artists from all over the world converged in Vienna to present the state of the art of research on technologies as they access reality in integrated ways.

We presented …

DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi
DpSdC - Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi [DpSC] is an installation in which simple DIY technologies are used to create an interactive floor on which visitors use a broom to sweep their way through 300 years of Art History, creating beautiful cut-up …

Talkers Performance
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 …

Art is Open Source

AOS, Art is Open Source, is the diary of the activities of xDxD.vs.xDxD / Salvatore Iaconesi and penelope.di.pixel / Oriana Persico.
We use technology, communication, performance, art and design to instantiate emotional actions and processes that are able to expose the dynamics of our contemporary world.
We do this in academic, artistic, business and activist domains and, actually, we are focused on moving fluidly among each of these spaces.

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