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...
Data and information in multiple forms for Art is Open Source during the next few days! On March 11th we will be at BASE in Milan for the Visualized event, bringing people from all over the world to discuss the latest trends and challenges for Information...
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...
Join us for #visualize, more than one week of data, in Lecce (Italy) from May 8th to June 18th 2014, in the Palazzo Turrisi-Palumbo (via Marco Basseo 1), for an incredible series of workshops and lectures about visual journalism and data, in which we will create one...
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, 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...
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...
Is it possible to imagine ways to use ubiquitous technologies and the emergent narratives which take place on social networks to design cities using co-creation practices? On May 7th – 9th we will be in Florence at the ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
We designed a new version of the VersuS performance, part of the ConnectiCity project. You can find it here: https://www.artisopensource.net/versus-cities/ We will officially present it as part of a novel form of radio show, in which a musical voyage through the...
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
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...
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...
Urban planning strategies con now benefit from new sources of realtime information coming from social networks allowing to sense the emotions, visions, desires and tensions of citizens. Open data, online conversations and ubiquitous publishing as a strategic...
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...
An article titled “NeoReality, ubiquitous publishing and new perceptions of space/time/identity” has ben published on the Rivista di Scienze Sociali. This article starts from the analysis of our recent project VersuS/ConnectiCity, in its declinations for...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...