We’ve ben working at creating a peer-to-peer economic and service infrastructure for the Digital Cultures starting from the city of Rome, using blockchains and cryptocurrencies. We will start talking about it at Fotonica Festival in Rome. How can we design a...
From Wikipedia: “In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to interface wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre “to speak” and...
Fluffy Chaos is the first book of the Generativity series. It explores the spaces of generative visuals. Spaces in which the laws of nature become entangled with programming code to describe possible scenarios. The books of the series showcase the images and...
AOS will be at NextFest in Milan on Saturday June 1st 2013 to speak about La Cura, the Open Source Cure for Cancer, Hacking culture and the opportunities to reclaim our rights and human perspectives in our contemporary times. Here’s the title and abstract of the...
Sometime ago we submitted our Accelerator project to Collide@CERN This is the presentation video: This is the project description: “Accelerator” establishes a poetic, emergent parallel between the particle accelerator and the transformation of human communities around...
are you hungry? Food is at the center of our lives and it is a very powerful thing: when we talk about food we talk about ecology, nature, environment, global economies, pollution, energy, health, love, family, sex, tradition, innovation. Many people also talk about...
AOS, Art is Open Source is proud to be part of the DE_ZER project by Elisa Giardina Papa, Fabrizio Giardina Papa, Giovanni Salerno and Floriano Lapolla. Curator Domenico Quaranta. (italian below) DE_ZER Vol. 4 [English Version Below] Il DEberlusconiZER è lieto...
Osama Bin Laden is Dead FIND THE DIFFERENCES
Vacanza! (Holiday!) please join us at AHAktitude 2011 in Carrara, in April 01-02-03, 2011 AOS will present: Vacanza! a really relaxed Augmented Reality workshop at AOS (and in the other initiatives such as REFF and FakePress) we’ve been proclaiming the...
Digital Rules & Regs with VIDEOCLUB 14 March – 13 May 2011 Participating Artists: Marianne Holm Hansen Salvatore Iaconesi & Orianna Persico The Rules: Love thy neighbour. Honour the original. Obey the market. Throughout the programme, links to any...
Here you will find all the information materials, software and a short tutorial on the themes of the workshops we have been performing in London’s universities while preparing the REFF exhibition. First: click here to download the information and software kit...
Art is Open Source will be at the 2011 edition of LPM, the Live Performers Meeting, an international event focused on visual cultures and live performance. LPM started as a VJ meeting , but it soon evolved into something more. The fast evolution of the technologies...
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....
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...
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...
Tram #8, before the earthquake
Just back from Turin where we joined our friends of the Share Festival in a wonderful s.valentine party. We presented “Loving the Crisis” an nstallation in which the characters of “Les Amants” by Magritte interpret the global flows of the...
And yet another update on the Interviewing the Crisis project. This time it’s the turn for Andreas Jacobs of Nictoglobe. He is turning out to be quite an interesting person to collaborate with. We just had the chance to get to know each other by collaborating...
Here we go with another update from the Interviewing the Crisis project. This time it’s Carlo Infante (Performing Media) talking about the scenarios of the possible futures from his point of view, deeply involved in innovation and a socially sensible view on...
Just back from Turin, I just had the chance to keep up with the Interviewing the Crisis project We already started publishing the second round of interviews, starting with Carlo Infante, Andreas Jacobs and Warbear. As usual, the interviews are first published on...
Yesterday we attended the conference “Cultura digitale e le politiche dell’innovazione” (Digital Culture and innovation policies) organized by our friend lawyer Guido Scorza in his role of president of the Institute fo Innovation Policies (Istituto...
We finally managed to get the next two interviews of the series “Interviewing the Crisis” ready in both English and Italian. The next two on the lineup are Marc Garrett and Simona Lodi Their points of view are quite interesting. I got to know (digitally,...
together with my beloved penelope.di.pixel we are doing a project called “Interviewing the crisis”. A series of articles hosted on artsblog.it in which we analyze some of the issues of the rising financial crisis through a sequence of reports and...
“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...
We are just back from the AHACamping, the first meeting of the AHA mailing list. The event was took place at the SALE Docks and it featured talks and performances on art, hacking, activism and critical theories on technology and on the ways in which they are...
mash-up cinema , a live tool for online non linear video narratives. an interface that can be used to create live mesh-ups of YouTube videos, to create non linear narratives. become an instant movie-masher at: > website
An exprimental web interface to create generative music. Clicking around opens up devices whose sliders can be used to alter the parameters regulating the life of their software souls. Music is generated through algoritmical synthesis. Created using Processing....
Urban landscapes become one with music in a generative dance. learn how to dance with buildings at > website also seen at > intervenciones’08
my little hacks and pranks page has been featured in JODI’s wonderful webcra.sh parade across the streets of Holland. JODI’s webcra.sh in which websites become street banners for a joyful(?) parade and we get to eat del.icio.us bookmarks. A wonderful meal...
Holy Fire was an exhibition held at the IMAL, in Brussels, exposing a series of artworks coming from the net art pioneers of the net.art and of the digital arts from the times running from the 90s to now. A main focus was put on the collectability of such artworks, as...
Software autmas come to life on your screens. In Voyeur yu get to spy the life of software automas while they live on the screen interacting in a digital ecosystem ruled by the algorithms describing their vital functions. The complex interactions become beautiful...
We gave out a presentation at the conference organized by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Co.Pi.Da. We presented some alternative business models based on a freepress publication created for the Angel_F and biodoll projects, and the scenario for a...
The collective Io/Cose produced an hoax during italian elections, spamming thousands of people with obnoxious mail messages by political parties. Reactions were quite cruel and disillusoned. “Yes We Spam! Remixed” remixes all that, together with the texts...
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...
Graphic visualization created searching on GoogleCode pages for software sources containing the word “Poetry”. experience poetry made from software at > website also seen at: > hatena
women i met online on dating and social networks. the perspective from webcam chats fade into memory as absence becomes the medium for a possible presence
A toy for a happy new year! Just choose what you would like to receive for your new year, and let the web give it to you! make your wishes come true at: > website also seen at: > Flickr > Ork.be > UNDX.net > Phuket...
I am pretty happy about this one. :) When you access del.icio.us Poetry a software uses del.icio.us most recent bookmarks page to gather all the links that have been saved in the last few minutes, and opens them up. All together. On the page you are looking at....
The Whitehouse’s website is captured in real time. The texts are processed, inverting meanings of the things said. A research on the reliability of information and on the current trends in meaning-shifting perpetraed by ovnments and authorities. also seen at...
a research on movement. a cutup of videos from the 50s are used to experiment on movement and inversion . > also on...
The Internet as a universe. Dispersion harvests web links around the web, analyzes them and places them as planets in a digital universe. In this universe physical laws exist, based on similarity and content structure. Galaxies form, arranging similar web content...
Software Automas can get stressed, too. When these automas change emotions, they play music. A digitally emotional Concerto. also seen at: > ArTechMedia2007 > You Own Me now > processing.org
Abondanza is part of the iconology cycle done with Bruno Menei.an iconic view of...
Mina’s song “Brava” is used with film footage from mental asylums. Seen at: >> music Invades
Guerra is part of the Iconology cycle done with Bruno Antonio Menei Hurtado. Seen at: >> Urban...
RoboPorn is a pornographic website for robots. Not with robots. What turns a robot on? What is fetish for it? What robots does it find attractive? A research on robots that is used to research umans.
A digital ritual. A Software God feeds on the energy of the performance. -_ sabba _- Part of the iconology cycle. We live a social context in which esotherism and mysticism have lost their esence of catalyzers of the fenomenology of the iniziatic Knowledge. Reclaiming...
Talker is a linguistic artificial intelligence. Two processes animate it. One, automatic, harvests each day some content from random webites. The other one uses the texts provided by web users, who can upload it through the interface. All the collected text is used to...
A beach party is progressively invaded by digital art installations The software automas living inside Fagocitosi feed on shapes.The frames captured through the camera constitute the living environment for the automas. They walk through the imagery accordingto a set...
In the installations images of the visitors are captured in real time and processed by software automas feeding on color variations, producing an organic representation of the computer vision. A virtual being with a reticular structure moves along thecomponents of the...
The GoM is a software god ruling a universe of singing automas.A mystical installation:) also seen at: > processing.org GoM is the god. Its reality is contained inside a personal computer. It rules multiple universes populated by software automas (the Automatas)....
Time and persistence of vision. The digital painter impersonated by the installation paints the changing of vision through time. more info: > website timePainter observes the evolution of time. The shapes contained in the field of view get identified, and their...
Michelang_IO_lo looks at the installation visitor and produces a digital portrait that is interpreted in 3D and transformed into a musical instrument that the visitor can play using a physical interface. also seen on: > rhizome.org artBase Michelang_IO_lo...
Magritte’s painting comes to life with a software drama about love and understanding each other. LesAmants is an installation/performance based on “les Amants” painting by René Magritte. The two lovers, blinded by the sheet on their head, clearly...
A critical view on search engines. “Google, why bother?” offers you full Google functionality, but when you search the results are made completely useless. How do search engines work? Are we satisfied on how the web works? All this information lets us deal...
Empty HTML tables are used to create psychedelic animations. A colourful protest against information overload. more information > website also seen at > Best On the Web > rhizome.org artBase Chico art Net NewMediaFix...
Little socially addicted software automas chit-chat in a colourful space. Their lives are rueld by color and population. A research on stress and closeness, in an algorithmic way.
A cut-up narrative created by using footage from a video in the 50’s used by General Electric to suggest that local administrations should by street illumination, otherwise their children would become crooks..
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