xDxD.vs.xDxD and penelope.di.pixel on Wired Italy

xDxD.vs.xDxD and penelope.di.pixel on Wired Italy

and here we are: 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. Hope the guys at Wired don’t get too mad about me putting it up....

Squatting Supermarkets @ Scighera, Milan

getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera, in Milan http://www.lascighera.org/e-ancora-magnaven-e-semper-beveven-barbera-squatting-supermarkets http://www.fakepress.net Sunday, January 24th 2010 – 21:00 –...

John Maeda, carrots and potatoes

xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes While engaged in the deepest trance of coding, all one needs to wish for is any kind of numerical or symbolic resource, and in a flash of lightning it is suddenly there, at your disposal....

Squatting Supermarkets presented at AHAcktitude 2009

Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009 Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) Squatting Supermarkets View more presentations from xdxd. And here are some videos from the event: for more info:...

Squatting Supermarkets

Squatting Supermarkets I Buying, wearing, eating, using. Our lives are full of objects of which we know very little about. Shop’s and supermrket’s shelves only tell partial stories made from companies, efficient productions, happy farmworkers laying down...

Squatting Supermarkets (italiano)

Squatting Supermarkets I Comprare, indossare, mangiare, usare. Le nostre vite sono piene di oggetti di cui sappiamo realmente poco. Gli scaffali di negozi e supermercati raccontano storie parziali, fatte di aziende, di produzioni efficienti, di contadini felici che...
The Life of Things: QRCode library for Processing, new version

The Life of Things: QRCode library for Processing, new version

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 Rolf implemented a couple of really useful new features: the function PImage generateQRCode(String content, int width, int height)...

Angel_F in Piazza Navona, fighting for blogs

In Italy, a new law imposes strict conditions for bloggers, such as defining incredibly high fines for people not correcting stuff on their online publications, and enormous amounts of bureaucracy. Thus practically making free speech on the web too risky, to costly,...

delicious poetry, once again

I once again reactivated the delicious poetry piece. It hasn’t been working in a while because delicious.com’s website had changed its web page structure, but now it’s back up. You can see it by clicking this [ LINK ] (WARNING: it may hang your...

Feedback, Inter-acto ergo sum

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. Here below the official pres release: Press Release L’associazione...

“O” an emotional bluetooth gadget

“O” is finally ready. A bluetooth gadget with an emotional approach. It can be used to communicate with your friends, lovers and relatives with a gesture of your hand. Squeeze it. Watch it vibrate and light up. Know that they love you :) Check it out...
the life of things

the life of things

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 ZXING barcode decoding...

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...

rel:attiva presenza

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 it was created in...

interview! :)

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 Whitehouse and del.icio.us poetry
Did you really want a Second Life?

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...

Abondanza

Abondanza is part of the iconology cycle done with Bruno Menei.an iconic view of...