BodyQuake at T*Danse Festival in Aosta

BodyQuake at T*Danse Festival in Aosta

BodyQuake, the research project born in collaboration with Fondazione Neuromed, Human Ecosystems Relazioni, Live Performers Meeting, La Cura, AOS and AVNode, will be featured in Aosta during the T*Danse Festival 2017. The project is part of UltraCorpi, experimental...
BodyQuake at NetFutures 2017

BodyQuake at NetFutures 2017

On June 28 and 29, the city of Brussels will host NetFutures 2017, the biggest conference co-organized by the European Commission to explore the future of Internet, economy and society. Art is Open Source and HER will be part of the STARTS – Science Technologies...
BodyQuake. A Concert for Bodies + Data

BodyQuake. A Concert for Bodies + Data

On May 3, 2017 UniFestival, the National University Students Festival in Macerata hosts a preview of “BodyQuake. Concert for Bodies + Data”. BodyQuake is a radical contamination between Arts and the Sciences. Who The project is the result of the...
U-Topia. An Ubiquitous interconnetcive neo-ritual in Matera

U-Topia. An Ubiquitous interconnetcive neo-ritual in Matera

La Cura, together with Art is Open Source, Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 and many other partners, have celebrated the 500th anniversary of Utopia by sir T. More, turning the city of Matera into a public laboratory to reinvent contemporary utopias. “Utopia is a...
La Cura at Perugia’s International Journalism Festival

La Cura at Perugia’s International Journalism Festival

La Cura is out with a new book, published by Codice Edizioni, featuring the story of the global artistic performance which started when Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with a brain cancer and he decided to open it up to the entire society to confront with the...
An Open Source Cure for Cancer at King’s College in London

An Open Source Cure for Cancer at King’s College in London

Join us at King’s College Department for Social Science Health and Medicine with the Bioethics and Society programme for a conversation on: “The Cure”, an Open Source Cure for Cancer: a conversation with Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi The network “Citizen...
The Near Future of Education

The Near Future of Education

 Introduction With students, designing the future of the education system. A fundamental action towards a shift to a participatory, inclusive knowledge society. This post describes the structure and methodology of our action. Follow what is happening using the blog...
An Open Source Cure for Cancer at King’s College in London

La Cura at transmediale: Afterglow

La Cura will be featured at the 2014 edition of the transmediale festival in Berlin, in the panel “Under the Skin: Revealing Invisible Data”. The panel will be part of the Hashes to Ashes section of the Festival, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. It will be...
La Cura on Usbek & Rica

La Cura on Usbek & Rica

La Cura, the Open Source Cure for Cancer, has recently been featured on the Usbek & Rica Magazine. You can find the article here: Portraits – Salvatore Iaconesi “Mon Cancer en Open Source” and kudos go to Agata Marszałek for the beautiful...
La Cura on BigData

La Cura on BigData

La Cura was recently featured on the journal BigData Vol.1 Issue 3, with an in-depth article and on the journal’s cover (shown above). You can read the article about La Cura here in PDF (an HTML version of the article is available here). Here is the abstract of...
La Cura at GoodMedia in Genova, Italy

La Cura at GoodMedia in Genova, Italy

In Genova, on October 25th 2013, we will be hosted by GoodMedia, an international event focusing on the evolution of communication practices across healthcare, medicine and society. We will present and discuss the updates from La Cura, a global performance to reclaim...
AOS at NextFest in Milan

AOS at NextFest in Milan

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...
Emergenza at Internet Festival 2012

Emergenza at Internet Festival 2012

Emergenza was presented at the Internet Festival 2012 in Pisa, as an installation and a performance dealing with the future scenarios of our cities, as enabled by the wide and ubiquitous accessibility of digital technologies and networks.  Human polyphonies for...
DE_ZER vol.4 : Always on my mind

DE_ZER vol.4 : Always on my mind

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...
Nuclear Anxiety featured on the italian newspaper il Sole 24 Ore

Nuclear Anxiety featured on the italian newspaper il Sole 24 Ore

Nuclear Anxiety was featured today in an article by Simone Arcagni on the Nova technology insert of the italian newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”. Remember to participate to the global performance that will take place at the live performers meeting in Rome on May...
Nuclear Anxiety at the Live Performers Meeting

Nuclear Anxiety at the Live Performers Meeting

Nuclear Anxiety will be at the Live Performers meeting in Rome.   From May 19th to May 22nd in the Sensible Data section of the Live Performers meeting. Final performance on May 22nd at 9pm. NuclearAnxiety at the Live Performers Meeting Nuclear Anxiety is a...
a video of the Sonoria Sound Toy for iPhone

a video of the Sonoria Sound Toy for iPhone

Sonoria, a sound toy for iPhone SONORIA is a sound toy for iPhone and iPad. It is a part of an upcoming series of musical toys which can be used for fun or for artistic performances. SONORIA is particularly oriented towards noise, suggestive, deep musical soundscapes....
An augmented reality drug at the Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum

An augmented reality drug at the Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum

Art is Open Source at the Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum will present the augmented reality drug and will introduce the fake cultural institution REFF, and introduce its next steps towards the reinvention of reality here is the Press Release: CAMMOVIE Video Art...
CoS – Consciousness of Streams

CoS – Consciousness of Streams

CoS, Consciousness of Streams is about to start! We’ll be at transmediale in just a few hours, setting up all the components of CoS, which will be a performance, a series of workshops, an invasive into our streamed lives, and an evolving emotional map of the...
CoS, Consciousness of Streams

CoS, Consciousness of Streams

In just a few days we will be at transmediale in Berlin, to create CoS: Consciousness of Streams! CoS will be something that we’re calling a cognitive virus on the festival, as it will be a cross-medial, emergent, performative, multi-author publication created...
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...