At AOS we have recently published an article titled “Parallasse: Trasgressione e Codice” (“Parallax: transgression and code”) on “Architetti Notizie”, published by the Order of the Architects in Padova. You can access the...
This article is the translation of our contribution to the book: ” I Media Digitali e l’Interazione Uomo-Macchina” edited by Simone Arcagni, and published by Aracne Editore. You can download it here on Art is Open Source: The Third Infoscape The Third...
Just out from Aracne Editore in Italy: I Media Digitali e l’Interazione Uomo-Macchina edited and coordinated by Simone Arcagni. In the book you can find the article “Il Terzo Infoscape. Dati, informazioni e saperi nella città e nuovi paradigmi di...
from Ubiquitous Commons at the STARTS Symposium in Brussels, June 2015 Ubiquitous Commons will be at the STARTS Symposium in Brussels, on June 22-23 2015. Promoted by ICT Art Connect, STARTS begins to explore opportunities for piloting cross-sectorial collaboration to...
As appeared here in Human Ecosystems: here are some images of the Real Time Museum of the city in Sao Paulo, and of the first workshop which we held there. More information...
The future of information in cities: ubiquitous information, social networks and the emergence of new business models and opportunities, beyond traditional media. This video was presented at the Eisenhower Fellowship Day 2013 in...
Why would we need an Emotional Compass? And, first of all, what is an Emotional Compass? [vimeo http://vimeo.com/74043002] “The map is not the territory.” – A. Korzybski “The map is not the thing mapped.” – E.T. Bell “The tale is the map that...
What is the Human Ecosystem of the city? How does it transform with the wide and accessible availability of ubiquitous and nomadic technologies? How can we capture and visualize the Human Ecosystem of a city? How can we transform this possibility to represent the...
Next steps for the Human Ecosystems project in Rome. Together with the Council for Culture of the First Municipality of the City of Rome, on November 9th 2013, in Rome at Porta Futuro, from 10am to 5pm, we will be at Cultur+, the second meeting for the Cultural...
An article about the Human Ecosystems project appeared today on the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, discussing the installation we presented at the Internet Festival 2013: the Innovation Ecosystem (here are the slides from the workshop we held, in case you missed them) Here...
These are the slides from our workshop on real-time innovation ecosystems at the Internet Festival 2013: [slideshare id=27130226&doc=presentazioneslideshare-131012130000-phpapp01] For more info: Innovation Ecosystems at Internet Festival 2013 Part of the Human...
What is the topography of the Innovation Ecosystem in Italy? Who are its main influencers? Who are the hubs? How does information circulate inside it? What are its influences from abroad? How can we map the Innovation Ecosystem in real-time, using social networks? AOS...
AOS will be in Ann Arbor (Detroit) on October 17, 2013, for the Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series at the Michigan Theater with “The Mirror and the Source”, a talk/performance exploring the transformation of human beings, and the new rituals, emotions,...
EC(m1), the Culturl Ecosystem of the City of Rome has been featured on italian newspaper Il Manifesto. More information here: Take active part in the ecosystem by joining the Facebook Group where the discussion is...
The Real-time Cultural Ecosystem of the City of Rome is a visualisation which captures all the interactions on social networks through which internet users discuss about the cultural life of their city. (it is the first part of the Human Ecosystems project) Built with...
Real Time Cairo: the real-time digital life of the city of Cairo, Egypt Launch the project by clicking HERE To harvest all the data generated through social networks in a city. Each day we use social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare as public...
Our article about an Anthropological view on Innovation appeared today on Nòva24, the inset of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s most influential financial newspaper. Our impressions after the 7 weeks on the Eisenhower Fellowship. Here it is, below, translated in English...
The new issue of Krisis Magazine “Orientation” is out! You can get it HERE Among the contributions you will find our “Cities Out of Control”. Here we wanted to share our point of view on the possibility to define a crisis (a breakdown, to be...
Our text about ConnectiCity has been just published on Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19, Issue 1. Connecticity, Augmented Perception of the City + Interview, Statement, Artwork by Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico “We constantly re-interpret and...
Just out from press: Advancing Research Methods with New Technologies: Advancing digital technologies continue to shape all aspects of our society, with particular impact on the professional research community. These new and exciting developments offer considerable...
AOS will be at REAL CORP 2013, the 18th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society GeoMultimedia 2013. 20-23 May 2013, Rome, Italy House of Architecture Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47, 00185 Roma Our contribution:...
We will be at The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events 23-25 May 2013 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with our contributions: Real-time dissent in the city: tools and tactics for contemporary...
Just published: S. Iaconesi, O. Persico (2012). “Trieste Cloud City: la Città della Coda Lunga” in “Rivista degli Infortuni e delle Malattie Profossionali”, Vol. 2/2012, pp. 643–654. ISSN: 0035–5836. Trieste, Cloud City: new frontiers of urban communication...
Art is Open Source will be featured at “Audiovisioni Digitali”, curated by Lino Strangis and Veronica D’Auria, with this video above about the realtime digital lives of cities. The video has been selected by Giovanni Viceconte from the...
VivaCosenza Performance Lab is an international event about art and performance that will be held on December 8th and 9th, 2012 in the city of Cosenza, an ancient and beautiful site of the south of Italy. The event will feature multiple international artists, a...
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. ELMCIP involves seven European academic research...
Emergenza was presented at the Internet Festival 2012 in Pisa, as an installation and a performance dealing with the future scenarios of our cities, as enabled by the wide and ubiquitous accessibility of digital technologies and networks. Human polyphonies for...
VersuS, by Art is Open Source, at BIO23, Ljubljana Design Biennial. BIO23, Design Relations http://www.bio.si/ VersuS is a series of works about the possibility to listen in real-time to the emotions, expressions and information generated by users on social network...
Just back from Trieste, where we held an intense workshop about the re-design of the city’s urban communication. The workshop has spread out over a whole week. The first day we met the city and regional institutions (with many thanks to the counselors Fabio...
We will be in Trieste from July 27th to August 2nd for “Insegna Trieste” a workshop to imagine and design the future of urban information and communication for the city. Organized by the City Administration of the City of Trieste and by ISIA Design...
In Montpellier for Information Visualization 2012. Here we will present the updates for our research projects dedicated to the real-time observation of cities: ConnectiCity and VersuS. With these two projects we have tried understand the current transformation of...
A while ago we participated to the Human Cities Symposium in Bruxelles. The proceedings for the conference have just been published. You can also click here below to download them. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PROCEEDINGS
Back in the city of Pompei for the next step for the future of our cities. We will be in Pompei on June 3rd and 4th for iPompei, an event organized by the Public Administration of the City of Pompei together with the MIBAC (Italy’s Ministry for Cultural and...
This June 5th, 2012, we will be at ISIA Florence for Less is Next, in its 2012 edition, held at the Caffè Letterario “Le Murate” (Piazza delle Murate, Florence). Less is Next is an incredible gathering, focused on the vision of the opportunities offered by...
Lately we’ve teamed up with an impressive series of partners to investigate on the future of our cities. On May 2nd – 4th we will be in Berlin for re:publica to gather up and summarize our efforts so far. Re:publica represents an enormous convergence of...
Is it possible to imagine ways to use ubiquitous technologies and the emergent narratives which take place on social networks to design cities using co-creation practices? On May 7th – 9th we will be in Florence at the ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information...
We just presented our Maps of Babel project at the Human Cities Symposium in Bruxelles. The Maps of Babel project is an effort we embraced after our experience with the VersuS and ConnectiCity projects. Our original projects focused on very wide-angled objectives,...
VersuS and ConnectiCity have been featured as best practices for city innovation at the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. Here is the link where you can see the shortlisted best practices on Social Cities of Tomorrow’s website. Check it out: there are some...
We designed a new version of the VersuS performance, part of the ConnectiCity project. You can find it here: https://www.artisopensource.net/versus-cities/ We will officially present it as part of a novel form of radio show, in which a musical voyage through the...
For all you realtime data lovers, a short update on the VersuS project. Valentina Tanni has just prepared an article about artworks using the possibility to listen to emotional expressions on social networks (in the specifics, love), mentioning VersuS among the...
Latest updates on the VersuS project, observing and analyzing the realtime lives of cities, as seen through social networks and ubiquitous devices. A video has just been published of the VersuS conference held for the Piemonte Share Festival 2011 at the Officine...
ConnectiCity has a new website! http://www.connecticity.net This above is the main interface of the website, and as you can see it allows you to navigate the contents in an interesting way (read more about the technology enabling this kind of interface here). The...
Urban planning strategies con now benefit from new sources of realtime information coming from social networks allowing to sense the emotions, visions, desires and tensions of citizens. Open data, online conversations and ubiquitous publishing as a strategic...
Back from Turin where we presented the VersuS project at the Piemonte Share Festival, at Fablab Italia and at The Others art fair. Here are the slides we used in the presentations at various venues: VersuS: loveVSturin and romeVSriots, the presentation held at...
An article titled “NeoReality, ubiquitous publishing and new perceptions of space/time/identity” has ben published on the Rivista di Scienze Sociali. This article starts from the analysis of our recent project VersuS/ConnectiCity, in its declinations for...
VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo. How do people express their emotions on social networks? Information has become ubiquitously accessible, thus transforming our perception of cities and of the ways we...
This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the planetary process started by the Occupy Wall...
Just back from the event held yesterday at the Circolo degli Artisti in Rome, called “Love and Kill Your Own Town”. The event was created by the guys and girls at CityVision Mag in the Wi-Fi Art series of events. The event featured an incredible set of...
our friend and magician filmmaker Gianmarco Bonavolontà produced this video of the Atlas we produced for the Festa dell’Architettura a few days ago, a large scale interactive installation for public spaces. Atlante di Roma / Atlas of Rome from gimbo on Vimeo....
[ ITALIAN ] l’Atlante è un sistema aperto che raccoglie visioni sulla città. Progetti, azioni, pubblicazioni, siti web, teorie. Tutto ciò può essere incluso nell’atlante per creare uno spazio di informazione condivisa. L’Atlante vive a cavallo dello...
Art is Open Source and Fake Press will be presenting an enormous interactive infoaesthetic environment at the Festa dell’Architettura of Rome, from the 9th to 12th of June 2010. The interactive environment is named “Atlante di Roma” (Atlas of Rome)...
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...
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...
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