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...
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...
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...
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...
A new interface for the squatting supermarkets installation was featured recently at the SMIR project. Traditional products were added to the system, documenting their history, sustainable production processes and ecologic impacts. by FakePress, Art is Open Source...
Art is Open Source, together with FakePress have recently participated at the ICALT conference, International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. We presented Toys++, an augmented reality system allowing you to apply digital contents to the toys people (and...
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...
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....
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...
[ 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)...
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....
[ITALIANO] AOS & FakePress insieme a Università di Roma La Sapienza, Facoltà di Architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Dipartimento di Disegno Industriale e con la presenza di Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Comunicazione del Comune di Roma presentano: Living CrossMedia...
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...
Here is a picture report of the lecture we held at La Sapienza University in Rome about Holophony more info here: AOS, FakePress and Ossigeno present Holophony at La Sapienza University in Rome
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...
FakePress, Art is Open Source and The Hub Roma in collaboration with the “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” course at the “Ludovico Quaroni” Faculty of Architecture at Rome’s University “La...
FakePress and Ossigeno in collaboration with the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” – La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design...
We just released a new website for our little Angel_F, so that you’ll all be able to check out the updates as well as the little AI kid’s stream of thoughts. The website uses a minimal WordPress theme which we created. It is released under a GPL2 license,...
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...
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...
Art is Open Source and FakePress just released Knowners a link sharing plugin for WordPress. Knowners is a WordPress plugin developed by FakePress and Art is Open Source to setup an effective link publishing website. The plugin is still in beta, but it already offers...
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...
At FakePress we have just started teaching 3 courses on Interaction Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome’s University “La Sapienza”. We will use these courses as an opportunity to enact what I can only refer to as “the most...
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 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...
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...
“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...
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 –...
REFF, RomaEuropaFakeFactory, has been interviewed in Rome during Joy Ito’s lectio magistralis held at the italian parlament, in an event organized by Capitale Digitale, a program on digital cultures, economics, creativity and innovation created by Telecom...
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....
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 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....
[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...
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 –...
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:...
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...
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”....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hello there! we just joined in with Frontiere Digitali supporting a coordinated action in favor of Net Neutrality. Lots of things are going on and many of them are just plain ugly. Check out the press release below (sorry, it’s in Italian, but a quick Google...
REFF, RomaEuropaFAKEFactory was featured in an article on Wired Italia, October 2009 issue
Great News for REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory! RomaEuropa Web Factory’s second edition is about to start up. REFF attended the press conference held at the Opificio Telecom in Rome, on Wednsday September 16h 2009, to check out the informations that were being...
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 new ToShare website is up! You can check it out here on http://www.toshare.it We’re particularly happy both because it was a joint effort between Art is Open Source and because it is yet another beautiful collaboration that we’re bringing up with them....
The new issue of Disegno Industriale is out, , focused on Interaction Design. You can check it out here. There’s also an article I wrote about John Maeda and the great influence he had on creativity through computing. Hope you enjoy it. Here is a short summary...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
“I am Orson Welles. I never really wanted to join Roma Europa Web Factory. I understand the beauty and significance of a fake. As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it’s the aspect. Fake is as old as the Eden tree....
Say what?! RomaEuropaFAKEFactory at the Italian Senate?!? www.romaeuropa.org
Andy Warhol – rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize —– http://www.romaeuropa.org “I am Andy Warhol. I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory. A fake, a fake, what is a fake, anyway? Nothing is real, the only real things are the...
new issue of Nictoglobe is out. Friction Research — Friction Research – Investigating ruptures in the art-political grid europe: americas: china: uk & israel & turkey 28/2/2009 http://www.nictoglobe.com Below our call as sent on...
http://www.romaeuropa.org “I am William Burroughs. I could not participate to RomaEuropaWebFactory. Damn those bloody suckers couldn’t tell art if it hit them in the forehead. Deep shadows, close down over culture when culture is not able to catch up with the world it...
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...
While keeping busy with the launch and communication of the RomaEuropaFAKEFactory and keeping the interviews on the international crisis going with Interviewing the Crisis we will get relaxed a bit at the Art & Love VI that will be held at Villa Capriglio on...
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,...
The new issue (#13) of Hertz Journal is out and you can find the evolution of the “We are not alone” article which we published on Digicult a while back. We added some new evolution on Angel_F’s performances and a deeper analisys on the research path...
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...
Hello there! an update on our little artificial kid, Angel_F. Our young AI is continuing its life among people, shifting its digital attention from the research on innovative business models to the experiments on contemporary forms of identity in this post-industrial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
a visual reportage from the “Freedom not Fear” event in Rome. here is a report on ArtsBlog here is the story on NeRVi NoemaLabs published some info here are the...
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...
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 >...
Art is Open Source has been featured at the Sydney Biennale 2008 Online venue, as a public entry. check out AOS at Sydney’s Biennale at > BOS2008
The Planetary Collegium presented this conference titled “Being Syncretic”. Researchers and artists from all over the world converged in Vienna to present the state of the art of research on technologies as they access reality in integrated ways. We...
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...
I have been appointed “Cultore della Materia” at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. I will be holding lessons on Digital Arts and Cultures at the faculty of Communication Sciences. > website
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 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...
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...
Centro di Osservazione sulla Produzione Immateriale e il Diritto d’Autore at the Communication Sciences faculty of the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” information here: > website > presentation by Arturo di Corinto...
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...
an interview i held with Kanonmedia see it here: > the interview > kanonmedia
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...
an interview on “Le Courrier” swiss magazine on virtual worlds and art > the Interview
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...
IULM, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione: opportunities and proposals towards the Lisbon Agenda of 2010. I presented an Ipotesi per Assurdo together with penelope.di.pixel. ceck it out here > IULM > the Program > our presentation > the Ipotesi per Assurdo...
i have had the profile added to the AND [Artist Network Database]. here: > the AND database
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
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...
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...
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...
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