Understand is a new simple smartphone application in which we publish a magazine entirely made of abstracts of great articles on the web. It is also an easy way to create a magazine on smartphones using a WordPress Blog, with full source code available. Here you can...
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...
On Friday May 18th we will be in Milan, at Meltingpot for the Come in Cielo Così in Terra Workshop. Come in Cielo Così in Terra (translates to: “on earth as it is in Heaven”, reminding of the christian prayer “Our father”), is an Astro...
We will be at Ualuba, in Brescia, Italy, on May 19th-20th for LAYERS, an intensive workshop on Ubiquitous Publishing. LAYERS SALVATORE IACONESI & ORIANA PERSICO May 19+20 2012 16 hours / 2 days / 1 week from 9am to 6pm intensive workshop...
Last year we attended the Designs on E-Learning 2011 Conference in Aalto University, Helsinki. It was a brilliant conference, for both content and process, and was really focused on creating the best possible environment to allow free, open emergence of the...
We have recently been involved in a research project based at the University of Edinburgh and led by Smita Kheria and Penny Travlou dealing with the investigation of models of emergent multi-authored publications employing open source and co-creative practices. The...
From November 11th to November 26th 2011 FakePress Publishing and REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory will be in Maribor, Slovenija, for the 17th edition of the MFRU festival (Mednarodni Festival Racunalniskih Umetnosti). Here is the website for MFRU2011. At the festival we...
AOS and FakePress Publishing have been invited by Prinp.com to perform a showcase of our projects in which the idea of “publishing” mutates through the use of technologies such as augmented reality and ubiquitous devices and networks, in a process of...
Art is Open Source and FakePress Publishing have been invited to perform a series of lessons at the Master in Public and Institutional Communication (Publi.Com) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Our lessons will revolve around the concepts of...
Leaf++, the Augmented Reality system for leaves created together with FakePress Publishing has been recently published on Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Volume 3, Issue 3. The project will be officially be released during our presence at ISEA 2011, in...
This is a really hard time for Italy, and economic downfall and repressive strategies are only two of the symptoms. In the continuous debate on culture and freedoms, the most powerful italian agencies for the preservation of the current, repressive regulations on...
On July 10th, 2011, the SMIR project was back in Mondovì. This outstanding initiative joined forces across the italian/french border, between the cities of Mondovì and Embrun, to restore two ancient churches that were left to decay and dedicate their renewed spaces to...
RWR – READ/WRITE REALITY WHAT: 3+1 days of intensive workshop on the possibilities offered by Ubiquitous Publishing techniques and technologies WHEN: from 13th to 16th September 2011 WHERE: Cava de’ Tirreni (Amalfi Coast, Italy) ...
REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory and FakePress will be at the Salone del Libro in Turin on May 13th, at 6pm to discuss the next step of publishing, at the crossroad of augmented reality, ubiquitous media and innovative cross media. here are the complete details of the...
FakePress will be at the Future of Education Conference in Florence on June 16th and 17th, presenting a research paper titled: “Training Future Anthropologists by Innovative Means: Professional Vision from Augmented Reality NKISI Representations” Here is a...
FakePress and Art is Open Source contributed a chapter to the book Museums at Play, about playful augmented reality solutions for museums. The chapter is called “Toys++”, and it is written by Salvatore Iaconesi and Luca Simeone. The Toys++ project...
This year, again, FakePress will be holding courses in Interaction Design at La Sapienza University of Rome, at the Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design. The courses are: “Experiments in Multimedia Technologies and Communications” held...
AOS and FakePress will be in Rome at Design+, possibly the most interesting design event in Italy’s capital. With a rich program featuring experts, designers, architects and artists from the international worlds of cinema, design and technology, Roma Design+...
here are another two videos about FakePress in which xDxD and penelope.di.pixel describe visions on publishing http://www.youtube.com/user/MediaHaka
thanks to Linkredulo for this wonderful video, created in occasion of the Publica Camp in Puglia.
Just back from Public Camp 2010 in Bari, a short interview:
we will be at the third edition of the PubliCamp in Bari, Italy on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd December 2010. Public Camp 2010 – spot #1 from FF3300 on Vimeo. We will discuss the scenarios for communication and publishing with FakePress and we will bring with us little...
FakePress and Art is Open Source will present a workshop titled “Next-step publishing: ubiquitous, disseminated, emergent, multi author narratives” [program and info at the bottom of the article] We can transform any space or surface into a display using...
FakePress: the next step of publishing. The book explodes, and in this explosion its pieces disseminate, creating a new form of expression, a new way of writing onto the world. Not books anymore, at least not in the classical ordinary way. Books become disseminated...
Wearing Emotions by FakePress, presented at the IV10 conference in London, July 2010 from salvatore iaconesi on Vimeo. The video shows the presentation of the paper titled “Wearing Emotions: Physical representation and visualization of human emotions using...
Art is Open Source and FakePress participated to IAR2010, the first italian event totally dedicated to the themes of Augmented Reality, organized by the folks at JoinPad at the Milan headquarters of the Hub. The event was truly interesting as it covered a wide range...
I was always facinated by We feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. The possibility to design using emotions has always intrigued me and, yet, it seemed like an unachievable task. The notion of being able to identify emotions in an automatic (or assisted) way is...
This year’s Consciousness Reframed conference has just finished, and we just returned home for a little while. A sunny Munich hosted the tenth edition of the Planetary Collegium’s annual conference themed “Experiencing Design, Behaving Media”....
We will be at the DULP 2009 meeting at the Tor Vergata University on September 14th and 15th, 2009, to present FakePress and, specifically Ubiquitous Anthropology (presented by Luca Simeone) and Saperi p2p (presented by Salvatore Iaconesi). The DULP is an...
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. A continuous flow of perspectives, voices, desires and emotions creates a...
Back again. After the overview on Frontiers of Interaction V in the previous article we’ll present our contribution to the event. Fake Press. Ubiquitous Publishing. Ubiquitous publishing and Ubiquitous Anthropology. The next-step in publishing practices and...
today we’ve been at Frontiers of Interaction V probabily the most interesting interaction design event in Italy. It’s the most interesting (and only one :) ) in Rome, for sure. We’ve been there to present FakePress, our next-step publishing house,...