
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.
getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan
xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes
Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009. Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) and some videos
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.

Thanks to Rolf van Gelder of CAGE we have a new improved version of the Processing library to handle QRCodes we released a while ago

A big event has been organized today in Rome’s Piazza Navona where hudreds of bloggers, journalists, politicians, intellectuals and other people of any shape and sizes gathered to protest. Among these was Derrick de Kerckhove, who met his little digital child, Angel_F.

delicious poetry grabs internet’s faourite links in realtime and uses their contents to visually build a chaotic poem. An everchanging complex composition built on people’s wishes, desires, tastes and emotions.

Art is Open Source will be at the Feedback Festival from 25th to 28th of June 2009, in San Casciano, near Florence.
We will present our Voyeur Software Automas.
More info on the festival below.
O is a bluetooth gadget with an emotional design approach. squeeze this soft gadget and make your friends O vibrate and flash with lights anywhere in the world

the Life of Things lets you peek into the secret lives of products and objects by transforming their barcodes into generative digital lifeforms.
done with Processing
there also is a small library i wrote to integrate in processing sketches the …

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 …

while in Mexico we did quite a few things.
possibly the most difficult one was the creation of an architectural installation called rel:attiva presenza.
the installation constituted a practical example of the theories we exposed at this congress and …
My dear friend Arturo di Corinto has decided to make me completely blush by making an article about some of the things I do. :)
You can read about it here
among the works described in the article are the …
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 …
Abondanza is part of the iconology cycle done with Bruno Menei.
an iconic view of Aboundance.
Abondanza from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo.…