Remixing Rome with REFF and Shoot4Change

Remixing Rome with REFF and Shoot4Change

REFF’s first incursion in the cities of the world was a complete success! meeting on a rainy but beautiful evening, we gathered at the Libreria Flexi in the heart of the city of Rome. After a short discussion making sure that everyone knew what we were doing, we...
FLUXUS boxes, augmented reality and innovative publishing

FLUXUS boxes, augmented reality and innovative publishing

FLUXUS was a variable group of artists working in what has vastly been called Neo-Dada and visual arts, but really worked intermedially across visual arts, design, video, music, performance and architecture. Vastly inspired by the work of John Cage and, in a way,...
Angel_F and Derrick de Kerckhove  @ Più Libri Più Liberi in Rome

Angel_F and Derrick de Kerckhove @ Più Libri Più Liberi in Rome

Thanks to Marina Bellini (info about what Marina does are  here and here) we have been invited to bring our little Angel_F to an interesting dialogue with Derrick de Kerckhove, about the new scenarios offered by networks, technologies and new forms of publishing, and...
REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: next step

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: next step

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory is back. A book is coming out in Italy (and an international version is following soon, before the end of the year) together with the next step in our action in favor of better innovation policies andpractices for arts and culture. During...
REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, iPad version

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, iPad version

the REFF Book is about to be published. In the meanwhile previews start to emerge on the web of the interfaces of its mobile versions. Here are the screenshots of the iPad version
Squatting Supermarkets @ Robot Festival, Bologna

Squatting Supermarkets @ Robot Festival, Bologna

Augmented Reality can create opportunities for critical reinvention of the world. Squatting Supermarkets uses augmented reality to break open the codes of commercial communication on the products we use every day. By taking a picture with your mobile phone to the logo...

Squatting supermarkets back in Mondovì

Just a quick note: AOS and FakePress will be in Mondovì from the 15th to the 19th of july for another edition of SMIR project. We will present a new version of the Squatting Supermarkets installation using augmented reality and computer vision technologies to...
Squatting Supermarkets in Mondovì – lecture and presentation

Squatting Supermarkets in Mondovì – lecture and presentation

A photo report of the presentation and lecture we held in Mondovì to present Squatting Supermarkets, in joining the SMIR european project. The art performance, technological platform and research process have all been presented to the local audience and to a few...
Squatting Supermarkets @ Mondovì

Squatting Supermarkets @ Mondovì

On Friday May 5th 2010 Art is Open Source , FakePress and The Hub Roma will be in Mondovì together with the Piemonte Share Festival and associazione Marcovaldo to present the next steps of the Squatting Supermarkets / iSee project. Squatting Supermarkets is one of the...

Angel_F @ NodeFest

Angel_F was featured at the Node Fest @ Forte Prenestino, in Rome on April 16th – 17th A book presentation and the interactive installation “my Ubiquitous Body” were shown Angel_F is a digital being whose body is built from the language formed by the...

Angel_F a photo report

Just published a set of photos from the party we held in Rome for Angel_F’s book Once again, thanks to everyone who attended and to all of you that couldn’t make it. It was wonderful. Thanks to urijoe.org for the pictures. Soon to come: the video of the...

Listen: relationship data sculptures

click here to open installation At Angel_F’s party we presented “Listen” an interactive installation featuring generative data sculptures visualizing the AI’s relationships on social networks. Social graph data was inferred through Facebook and...

Angel_F @ Libreria Flexi

Il 5 marzo 2010 a Roma a partire dalle 18.30 presso i locali del FLEXI libreria-caffè, Via Clementina 9 (rione Monti) AOS (Art is Open Source) in collaborazione con FHF Italia e ass. The Hub Roma Presentano “Angel_F. Diario di un Intelligenza Artificiale”...

Angel_F, the diary of a young artificial intelligence

Angel_F http://www.angel-f.it Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence. Its main desires are o explore the frontiers of freedom of expression, of the possibilities to create and disseminate knowledge, and of the opportunities offered by the network to promote our...

Publishing emotions

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...

Squatting Supermarkets, cortocircuito [italiano]

“Vuoi mangiare? Dimmi una storia.” Il cibo è la sede di innumerevoli storie: di persone, luoghi, tempi, relazioni. C’è, nel presente, una sostanziale distanza tra noi e le storie del cibo. Una distanza percettiva, estetica, di visibilità. Il cibo...

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 –...

Squatting Supermarkets at Eataly

Art is Open Source interviews Dino Borri from Eataly Turin about the possible uses of Augmented Reality and other technologies to inform consumers and enact critical practices. more info on Squatting Supermarkets here: Squatting Supermarkets Squatting Supermarkets...

Angel_F at Generative Arts 2009

Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It ws born from a digitally sexual accident when the Biodoll seduced prof. Derrick de Kerckhove :) Angel_F presentation at Generative Arts 2009View more presentations from xdxd....

Angel_F . the diary of an Artificial Intelligence

[ITALIAN] E’ uscito il libro “Angel_F. Diario di una intelligenza artificiale“, che racconta il primo anno di vita della piccola intelligenza artificiale. Il libro è accompagnato dai contributi teorici di Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo...

ToShare again: Squatting Supermarkets in Mondovì

Squatting Supermarkets again in Mondovì with ToShare. We will be in Mondovì from Wednesday, 9th December to Sunday, 13th December, together with ToShare, tha Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo and the Town of Mondovì presenting Squatting Supermarkets at the  – SMIR –...

Conference Biofeedback

Conference Biofeedback is a USB gadget that allows conference lecturers to receive physical stimulations and feedback coming from the audience. Are people interested in what you’re saying? Are they bored? Now you can know. Lecturers can connect to their audience...

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:...
Bluetooth Wars @ AHAcktitude 2009

Bluetooth Wars @ AHAcktitude 2009

home sweet home, we’re back again. AOS participated to AHAcktitude 2009 in Milan, and it was a great experience. We presented Bluetooth Wars, a workshop in which the people were able to build their very own Bluetooth media server. This has many uses, ranging...

Zones, iPhone granular synthesis at your fingertips

Art is Open Source and FakePress just released Zones, a simple harmonic granular synthesizer for the iPhone. Create relaxing soundscapes and ephemeral melodies by creating grains with your fingers. Grains interact with each other establishing a musical force field....

Angel_F @ AHAcktitude, Nov. 27-29 2009, Milan

Artisti-attivisti, hacker artistici, attivisti socio-artistici, chiamateli come volete. I 600 iscritti alla lista AHA sono solo una parte di tutte quelle persone che, in Italia e nel mondo, sanno che il mezzo non è solo il messaggio, ma anche il massaggio e il...

Conference BioFeedback @ Consciousness Reframed X

Art is Open Source is going at Consciousness Reframed X conference organized by the Planetary Collegium in November 2009 at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich. We’ll be there from November 19th to 21st. We will present the Ubiquitous...

Squatting Supermarkets – reports and next steps

Just recovering from the enormous effort put in setting up, performing and taking down the Squatting Supermarkets at the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, “Market Forces”. Several thousands visitors, hundreds of customized food cans, hundreds of QRCodes...

Shoptivism

We’re set! Squatting Supermarkets is all installed and it is about to start. There will be a continuous interaction with the people at the Share Festival, both friends and visitors, and all the technical and curatorial crew. It will be part documentary, part...

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...

Bluetooth Wars @ AHACKTITUDE

AOS wil be at the AHACKTITUDE meeting in Milan, on November 27-28-29 in Milan. We will present a really simple, but effective, project, called Bluetooth Wars We will analyze Bluetooth, a technology that is mostly used to connect devices to our mobile phones, but that...

REFF on Wired

REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory was featured in an article on Wired Italia, October 2009 issue
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...

report: RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM 2009

We’re just back from the intense 4 days of the Live Performers Meeting 2009 where REFF (RomaEuropaFAKEFactory) held its new showcase. LPM2009 really has been full of surprises, and we were more than happy to share the spaces of the Brancaleone with over 300...

RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM2009

REFF is back again! REFF @ LPM 2009 on May 28th 2009 (Digital Freedoms Day) and on 28th-31st May 2009 (exhibitions, showcase, workshops) http://www.romaeuropa.org http://liveperformersmeeting.net/ http://www.brancaleone.eu http://myrmx.lowermars.com/...

RomaEuropaFAKEFactory – REFF.erence report

REFF.erence Mar. 20th, Italian Senate – Senato REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory, was presented at the Italian senate through an intense series of panels dealing with art/culture/creativity in the contemporary era, with the issues of cultural politics from the points...

REFF.erence – RomaEuropa FAKEFactory conference and launch event

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAM [ ENGLISH ] RomaeuropaFAKEFactory [REFF] presents [ REFF.erence ] Friday 20th and Saturday 21st, March 2009 @ Rome The international competition RomaEuropaFAKEFactory re-lauches in Rome on March 20th and 21st with two dense days dedicated to...

Innovation, DegradArte and perspectives

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...
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...

OneAvatar @ Milano in Digitale

We took OneAvatar at Milano in Digitale. The third edition of the Milano in Digitale competition was held at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, an industrial complex restored by Milan’s public administration to host artistic and cultural projects. Organized by...

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...

architettura rel:attiva

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...

Angel_F and SuperAvatar at “Freedom not Fear”

Angel_F and SuperAvatar are scared. The lives of the young artificial intelligence and of the  avatar who escaped from virtual worlds have been endangered  more than once by the control, that is constantly perpetrated on people’s information, habits and...
Art is Open Source and DegradArte at the AHACamping

Art is Open Source and DegradArte at the AHACamping

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...

DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi – the theory

Here below you can find the text that we presented at (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 explaining the theories and concept of the installation and of DegradArte. ABSTRACT Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi (DpSdC) investigates on interaction mechanisms created using low...

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi back from Liverpool

Just back from Liverpool where we attended the (re)Actor3 and HCI2008 events presenting Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi. check out how it went with full video coverage here: > report from Liverpool connect to the events at > (re)Actor3 >...

mashinema

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

OneAvatar

OneAvatar connects your body to your Avatar in virtual worlds. You and your Avatar will be finally one, sharing the same experiences even at physical level. You get hurt, you Avatar gets hurt. Your Avatar dies, you die. Connect to your avatar and watch out for...

ChakraPuter

A computer is interpreted as a body according to eastern theories and philosophies. The Chakras represent the components of the PC. When the computer reaches Chakra balance, it goes in Kundalini state, becoming connected to all the other ChakraPuters on the network....

moduMusicians

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....

Urbana polifonica

Urban landscapes become one with music in a generative dance. learn how to dance with buildings at > website also seen at > intervenciones’08
WebCrash

WebCrash

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...

DpSdC – Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi [DpSC] is an installation in which simple DIY technologies are used to create an interactive floor on which visitors use a broom to sweep their way through 300 years of Art History, creating beautiful cut-up paintings. Created...

We Are Not Alone

2 part article on DigiCult Magazine, written together with my beloved mademoiselle penelope.di.pixel We speak about identity, body, artificial intelligence, avatars, cyborgs, and digital ecosystems. It’s the first article in which we spoke about NeoRealismo...
Holy Fire remixed

Holy Fire remixed

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...
Voyeur

Voyeur

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...

Computer Art Congress 2

Art is Open Source and NeRVi present Angel_F project in Mexico City at the Computer Art Congress 2. The international meeting researches on the evolution of digital practices as they affect arts and society. I presented there the Angel_F project, together with...

NeRVi – Neo Realismo Virtuale

A new narrative, sitting across the borders running between materiality and immateriality, organic and inorganic, architecture and body. These borders have been deleted by digital technologies in the contemporary era, perpetrating a continuous shift from object to...

Yes We Spam! remixed

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...
Dead on Second Life

Dead on Second Life

Famous people come back to life in the Online Virtual World of Second life, in the form of autonomous avatars conducted by artificial intelligence. A research on identity and on how people relate in the virtual environments that we find online and offline. Karl Marx,...

DegradArte

In 2008 the italian government released an incredible law stating the necessity to degrade images and videos to be able to use them freely on the web, for educational an research purposes. A conception of “fair use” that seems quite strange, united to a...

Angel_F

In 2007 the Biodoll had a child with Derrick de Kerckhove. The kid was born as a cute Artificial Intelligence feeding on web content. Born as a virus in its mother’s website, digesting the interface as if it was a placenta, it evolved into an intelligent...
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...

Glocal & Outsiders

What are the challenges artworld is facing in the time of globalization and increasing technologization? At the conference I presented the Biodoll project and Angel_F. In collaboration with CIANT (International Centre for Art and New Technologies), Center for Global...
Code Poetry

Code Poetry

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 loved online

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

Parametric Year

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...
Talkers Performance

Talkers Performance

A latex cyborg suit is created to connect a dancer’s body to the interaction of the live and internet audience. All of the dancer’s senses are replaced by user-generated ones, and all of the sensations and movement of her body are used as sound and video...
del.icio.us poetry

del.icio.us poetry

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

the Whitehouse

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...

boleroMadness

a research on movement. a cutup of videos from the 50s are used to experiment on movement and inversion . > also on...
Dispersion

Dispersion

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...
Concerto per 16 Automi

Concerto per 16 Automi

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

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

Brava

Mina’s song “Brava” is used with film footage from mental asylums. Seen at: >> music Invades

Guerra

Guerra is part of the Iconology cycle done with Bruno Antonio Menei Hurtado. Seen at: >> Urban...
roboporn

roboporn

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.
Sabba

Sabba

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...
TalkerS

TalkerS

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...
Fagocitosi

Fagocitosi

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...
Reticula

Reticula

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...
GoM – the God of Music

GoM – the God of Music

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 Painter

Time Painter

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_I/O_lo

Michelang_I/O_lo

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...
“Les amants”

“Les amants”

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...
Google, why bother?

Google, why bother?

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...