What is the Human Ecosystem of the city? How does it transform with the wide and accessible availability of ubiquitous and nomadic technologies? How can we capture and visualize the Human Ecosystem of a city? How can we transform this possibility to represent the...
Next steps for the Human Ecosystems project in Rome. Together with the Council for Culture of the First Municipality of the City of Rome, on November 9th 2013, in Rome at Porta Futuro, from 10am to 5pm, we will be at Cultur+, the second meeting for the Cultural...
EC(m1), the Culturl Ecosystem of the City of Rome has been featured on italian newspaper Il Manifesto. More information here: Take active part in the ecosystem by joining the Facebook Group where the discussion is...
The Real-time Cultural Ecosystem of the City of Rome is a visualisation which captures all the interactions on social networks through which internet users discuss about the cultural life of their city. (it is the first part of the Human Ecosystems project) Built with...
Real Time Cairo: the real-time digital life of the city of Cairo, Egypt Launch the project by clicking HERE To harvest all the data generated through social networks in a city. Each day we use social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare as public...
The new issue of Krisis Magazine “Orientation” is out! You can get it HERE Among the contributions you will find our “Cities Out of Control”. Here we wanted to share our point of view on the possibility to define a crisis (a breakdown, to be...
Versus, Love VS Turin, will be presented at MAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Lissone. Selected by curator Cecilia Guida from the ArtHub archives for the exhibit “C’è una piccola radice che, se la masticate, vi spuntano le ali immediatamente”, the...
We will be at The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events 23-25 May 2013 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with our contributions: Real-time dissent in the city: tools and tactics for contemporary...
Art is Open Source will be featured at “Audiovisioni Digitali”, curated by Lino Strangis and Veronica D’Auria, with this video above about the realtime digital lives of cities. The video has been selected by Giovanni Viceconte from the...
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...
VivaCosenza Performance Lab is an international event about art and performance that will be held on December 8th and 9th, 2012 in the city of Cosenza, an ancient and beautiful site of the south of Italy. The event will feature multiple international artists, a...
In Montpellier for Information Visualization 2012. Here we will present the updates for our research projects dedicated to the real-time observation of cities: ConnectiCity and VersuS. With these two projects we have tried understand the current transformation of...
A while ago we participated to the Human Cities Symposium in Bruxelles. The proceedings for the conference have just been published. You can also click here below to download them. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PROCEEDINGS
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...
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...
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...
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 back from transmediale festival in Berlin we present you with the first results of the CoS, Consciousness of Streams project. CoS, Consciousness of Streams has been an incredible experience! CoS is a cross media publication by FakePress creating a realtime,...