BodyQuake at Infoscapes exhibit, at Pordenone Design Week

BodyQuake at Infoscapes exhibit, at Pordenone Design Week

BodyQuake was featured at the Pordenone Design Week  in an exhibit called Infoscapes curated by Pier Luigi Capucci, in the foyer of the Verdi Theater in Pordenone. Some info from Pier Luigi Capucci’s website: I have been invited, as in 2016, to Pordenone Design...
Ubiquitous Infoscapes at UNIDEE

Ubiquitous Infoscapes at UNIDEE

Last days to join in for Ubiquitous Infoscape, our immersive workshop at UNIDEE, from  May 4th to May 8th 2015, at Città dell’Arte, in Biella, Italy. During the workshop we will confront with the Ubiquitous Infoscape, the immersive and pervasive information...
Accelerator, proposal for COLLIDE@CERN

Accelerator, proposal for COLLIDE@CERN

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...
VersuS at BIO23, Ljubljana Design Biennial

VersuS at BIO23, Ljubljana Design Biennial

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...
ConnectiCity: Living Cities in Berlin for re:publica

ConnectiCity: Living Cities in Berlin for re:publica

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...
Are You At Risk? Nuclear campaigning with Greenpeace

Are You At Risk? Nuclear campaigning with Greenpeace

Do you remember Nuclear Anxiety? After one year from the Fukushima disaster we’ve teamed up with Greenpeace International to create an awareness and action campaign on the risks coming from nuclear energy. Click HERE to start “Are You at Risk?” The...
Updates on Enlarge Your Consciousness In 4 Days 4 Free

Updates on Enlarge Your Consciousness In 4 Days 4 Free

Here are some updates to the project Enlarge Your Consciousness in 4 Days 4 Free Here is the event on the website of BTF Gallery Here on Artribune Here is the official announcement on ArteFiera OFF Here is a wonderful article on D’Ars Magazine And on this issue...
Enlarge Your Consciousness in 4 Days 4 Free

Enlarge Your Consciousness in 4 Days 4 Free

“the most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol Introduction In this essay, we describe the ideas which led us to participate to the “Enlarge Your Consciousness in 4 Days 4 Free” project, together with...
Nuclear Anxiety featured on Visualizing 2011

Nuclear Anxiety featured on Visualizing 2011

Visualizing.org featured NuclearAnxiety in their video and end of year project, looking at the year’s major events through data visualization. Click here to see Visualizing 2011 and click here to see NuclearAnxiety on Visualizing.org
Updates on VersuS, the realtime lives of cities

Updates on VersuS, the realtime lives of cities

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...
VersuS, a conference about the realtime lives of cities, a video

VersuS, a conference about the realtime lives of cities, a video

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...
VersuS, the realtime lives of cities

VersuS, the realtime lives of cities

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...
VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities

VersuS: love vs turin, visualizing the realtime lives of cities

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...
VersuS – Rome, October 15th, the riots on social networks

VersuS – Rome, October 15th, the riots on social networks

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...
Leaf++  at ISEA 2011, Istanbul

Leaf++ at ISEA 2011, Istanbul

Together with FakePress Publishing we will be at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul to officially present for the first time Leaf++ A paper will be presented in the panel “Digitization of Biological Data”: “Microscopic transformations: scientific visualization,...
the Network: a symphony on freedoms

the Network: a symphony on freedoms

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...
After Visualizing Europe

After Visualizing Europe

Just back from the Visualizing Europe event organized by Seed Media group in Bruxelles. The event was an incredibly interesting gathering of people interested in the possibilites represented by Information Visualization. It was a very insightful event and we are just...
Visualizing Europe

Visualizing Europe

We will be in Bruxelles on June 14th for this incredible conference organized by Visualizing.org, Information Aesthetics and Open Knowledge Foundation to discuss the potential and scenarios currently represented by Information Visualization for policy makers and civil...
AOS on Visualizing.org

AOS on Visualizing.org

Just a quick update: AOS has been featured on Visualizing.org with an interview to Salvatore Iaconesi. You can read the interview here Apart some background about Salvatore, some very interesting issues have been touches, such as the opportunity that information...
Nuclear Anxiety

Nuclear Anxiety

These are really complex days. The earth itself seems to be revolting. Together with its people: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria. Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still in our minds and in the continuous stream of information coming from the media that anyone who lived...
Sensible Data @ Live Performers Meeting 2011, Rome and Minsk

Sensible Data @ Live Performers Meeting 2011, Rome and Minsk

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...
Knowners WordPress Plugin: new Version

Knowners WordPress Plugin: new Version

the Knowners WordPress plugin allows you to transform link collections and your WordPress blogs into interactive visualizations of knowledge networks. A new version of the plugin has just been released by FakePress and Art is Open Source. The main enhancement of the...
Atlas of Rome @ Festa dell’Architettura, Index Urbis, Rome

Atlas of Rome @ Festa dell’Architettura, Index Urbis, Rome

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)...

Feedback, Inter-acto ergo sum

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...