codice

2012-01-05T13:16:00.001+01:00

at 11pm on raitunes with VersuS exploring the realtime emotions of cities UrbanSensing http://bit.ly/w1Jqzl

2011-11-10T11:39:00.001+01:00

The Electronic Man at Robots and Avatars http://wp.me/pnaKK-xR electronicman

2011-10-30T19:54:00.001+01:00

http://ping.fm/fAQIY smart cities scientific article and conference at Share Festival Nov.3 2011

2011-07-19T21:24:00.001+02:00

RWR Read/Write Reality a workshop on ubiquitous pubishing http://bit.ly/n9ZJ10

Read/Write Reality, An intensive workshop on Ubiquitous Publishing

2011-07-18T19:02:00.000+02:00

RWR, Read Write Reality logo

RWR – READ/WRITE REALITY

WHAT: 3+1 days of intensive workshop on the possibilities offered by Ubiquitous Publishing techniques and technologies

WHEN: from 13th to 16th September 2011

WHERE: Cava de’ Tirreni (Amalfi Coast, Italy)

http://rwr.artisopensource.net/

Do you want to learn about new business models, new forms of expression, new possibilities for culture and knowdledge?

Are you looking for new tools for freedom of communication, expression and for knowledge or content diffusion?

Would you like to discover what will be the next possibilities for e-books and digital publishing, starting from the opportunities offered by our present times?

Do you want to learn and acquire the “new ways of writing on the world” that are turning our bodies, architectures, spaces and objects into publishing surfaces?

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAM, DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

READ/WRITE REALITY (RWR) is an intensive and visionary workshop created to pragmatically explore the methodological, technical and technological possibilities offered by Ubiquitous Publishing.

A 3+1 days hands-on and minds-on program in which we will follow you through the creation of a full ubiquitous publishing project, starting from scratch and ending up at product release. Participants will learn the methodologies, the conceptual and technological frameworks which will enable individuals, organizations, companies or collectives to use ubiquitous technologies to enact new forms of communication and expression, new business models, new ways in which you can activate your strategies and observe their effects.

Out of the monitor, in the spaces of our cities, bodies, objects and products.

RWR will be held on September 13-14-15+16 in Cava de’ Tirreni, at the Ostello “Borgo Scacciaventi”, a beautiful setting in a 15th century building near to the famous Amalifi Coast. The workshop will fill 3+1 days of intense activities, visionary discussions, engaging hands-on practices, on-the-field explorations and content-production, an “ubiquitous movida” to be discovered, great food, wine and scenery, in contact with the rooted traditions of the beautiful South of Italy.

During the last day (Sept. 16th) a big party and a city-wide event will mark the achievement of your work: the result of the RWR workshop will be exposed in a prestigious building in the center of Cava de’ Tirreni, at the presence of internationally known academics and researchers.

http://rwr.artisopensource.net/

The workshop is addresed to:

designers (wishing to know,understand and use Ubiquitous Publishing technologies);
communicators (who want to understand and learnhow to bring digital information out of the monitor, into the city, in people’s pockets, on objects and in the places we traverse in our daily lives);
developers (who want to learn how to build engaging ubiquitous interactive experiences);
artists, journalists, scientists and researchers (wishing to add ubiquitous technologies to their toolset for expression, information, knowledge, education and research practices);
and strategists (with the desire to gain knowledge and insights to confront with the next step of digital communication).

Technologies you will use:

iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones and tablets
location based, GPS, digital compass
accelerometers for gesture-based interactions
augmented reality: location-based, marker-based, computer vision based
mobile tagging: QRCode, barcodes
HTML5, CSS3, WebGL
multimedia of all sorts, 3D, 2D, sound, immersive sounds and visuals
projection mapping for architecture-based content and interaction

Deadline for enrollment & Conditions

20th August 2011

Only a limited number of 35 people will be accepted:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAM, DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

ATTENTION! Students, artists, researchers, people working in educational or non-profit sector, young (less than 26 years old) and old (over 70), benefit from special conditions!

The Program for RWR

Contact:

info@artisopensource.net

Site:

http://rwr.artisopensource.net/

CREDITS

RWR is a project by

FakePress and Art is Opensource

in collaboration with:

Cantro Studi di Etnografia Digitale, Ninja Marketing, Ostello “Borgo Scacciaventi”

supported by:

LiberLiber, MELTINGPOT – Cantiere Creativo per la New Media Art, Piemonte Share Festival, StoriaContinua

More info at:

http://www.fakepress.it

http://www.etnografiadigitale.it

http://www.ninjamarketing.it

http://www.ostellocava.it

http://www.liberliber.it/

http://www.storiacontinua.com/

http://www.cantierecreativo.org/

http://www.toshare.it

2011-06-11T02:20:00.001+02:00

electronicman at MACRO addfestival http://wp.me/pnaKK-os join in the global performance

2011-06-09T13:29:00.001+02:00

electronicman download the iPhone/iPad app and join the global performance! http://wp.me/pnaKK-on

2011-06-02T13:43:00.001+02:00

after mcluhan centennial in rome http://wp.me/pnaKK-nW The electronicman lives on, all over the world

2011-05-30T12:17:00.001+02:00

last few hours before mcluhan centennial in Rome http://bit.ly/iuIFa0 contribute to the electronicman

2011-05-28T13:19:00.001+02:00

become one with the Electronic Man http://bit.ly/iuIFa0 mcluhan centennial

2011-05-25T21:56:00.001+02:00

The birth of the Electronic Man! mcluhan centennial http://wp.me/pnaKK-nD

The birth of the Electronic Man

2011-05-25T20:59:00.000+02:00

The birth of the Electronic Man

Something wonderful is about to happen.

100 years after McLuhan’s birth we all have the chance of becoming part of the body and mind of the Electronic Man.

The Electronic Man

The happy event will take place in Rome, on May 31st, 2011, during the celebration of McLuhan’s centennial, and it will engage everyone, everywhere.

Join us in the birth of the Electronic Man by giving it one of your emotions as a present!

It will only take you a couple of minutes:

download the PDF file at the address http://electronicman.artisopensource.net/electronic-man-qrcode-stickers-a4.pdf
print it out: it contains the stickers that allow people to become part of the electronic man
cut the stickers apart, and attach them somewhere in your city, in your office, in your favourite bar, in your school, wherever you want
take a picture of the sticker and send it to us at info@artisopensource.net If you want can include your name, a link to your website, and a short bio: we will include all images and info at the exhibit for the big event for McLuhan’s Centennial celebrations in Rome, and on the Electronic Man’s website
if you want you can scan the QRCode on the sticker with your smartphone: it will take you directly to the Electronic Man, and you will be able to join its ubiquitous body

Or, if you don’t know how to scan a QRCode, you can go to this address: http://electronicman.artisopensource.net/index.php?i=1

(both modes will ask you for your location: it is used to understand the distribution of the body of the Electronic Man, we won’t do anything bad with/to your info, and we will throw it away immediately)

Please spread this message!

The Electronic Man is an opportunity to feel connected to your fellow humans!

And please come to the event in Rome if you’re close by: you will experience the birth of the Electronic Man.

The Electronic Man

http://electronicman.artisopensource.net

Credits

Salvatore Iaconesi, concept | design | technology

Oriana Persico, communication | process | networks

FakePress Publishing, production

Art is Open Source, production

Maria Pia Rossignaud, curator | production

Media2000 & Associazione Amici di Media2000, production

Derrick de Kerckove, scientific direction | inspiration

Marshall McLuhan, this project could not have existed without him :)

More info at:

McLuhan Centennial in Rome

http://www.mediaduemila.it/?p=3612

Art is Open Source

http//www.artisopensource.net

FakePress

http://www.fakepress.it

Media2000

http://mediaduemila.it

McLuhan Galaxy

http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net/

2011-05-12T18:10:00.000+02:00

Next Step Publishing al Salone del Libro di Torino http://wp.me/pnaKK-n5 oltre gli ebook scenari di realtà aumentata e narrative ubique

2011-05-11T17:30:00.001+02:00

howto make a soundtoy for iPhone http://bit.ly/k6lXxW tutorials

2011-05-11T17:27:00.001+02:00

How to make a soundtoy for iPhone http://ping.fm/PVcwy tutorial

2011-04-21T17:06:00.001+02:00

AR augmented reality drug at Casoria Museum of Contemporary Arts, April 30th 2011 at 18:30 http://wp.me/pnaKK-lH

2011-04-06T11:18:00.001+02:00

Leaf+++ Augmented Reality and nature, on Media Duemila http://ping.fm/IFrfz AR augmentedreality

Nuclear Anxiety

2011-03-27T08:58:00.001+02:00

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 during those times remembers quite well: the contradicting information about nuclear energy, what was contaminated with radiation, what wasn’t, what you could eat and what you should have avoided.

And now, Fukushima.

And, in the background of both events, as a continuous barely hearable noise, the scenario of this enormous topic for discussion: the energetic future of the world, between oil, nuclear power and new, renewable forms of energy.

This is something that is often discussed in terms of “future”, but it is a future that has already arrived.

The other day we had been discussing about these issues with penelope.di.pixel, and we realized that we didn’t have any answer, and that in that moment all that prevailed was a sustained sense of anxiety. Something that movies, net mythologies, urban legends and all sorts of conspiracy theories have infiltrated in our minds as something believable even if we don’t believe in it.

And penelope wrote this article on ArtsBlog.it about this state of Nuclear Anxiety.

While doing other things, today we created this visualization, called “Nuclear Anxiety”

It is a simple twitter based visualization: while you look at it, it fetches the most recent tweets speaking about “nuclear” in several languages, adds them to a database and plots them on a map using icons.

Tags: alternative energies, chernobyl, fukushima, infoaesthetics, nuclear anxiety, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, realtime discussion, renewable energy sources, tweets, twitter, visualization

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Nuclear anxiety

2011-03-27T08:56:00.001+02:00

Nuclear Anxiety
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
during those times remembers quite well: the contradicting information
about nuclear energy, what was contaminated with radiation, what
wasn’t, what you could eat and what you should have avoided.

And now, Fukushima.

And, in the background of both events, as a continuous barely hearable
noise, the scenario of this enormous topic for discussion: the
energetic future of the world, between oil, nuclear power and new,
renewable forms of energy.

This is something that is often discussed in terms of “future”, but it
is a future that has already arrived.

The other day we had been discussing about these issues with
penelope.di.pixel, and we realized that we didn’t have any answer, and
that in that moment all that prevailed was a sustained sense of
anxiety. Something that movies, net mythologies, urban legends and all
sorts of conspiracy theories have infiltrated in our minds as
something believable even if we don’t believe in it.

And penelope wrote this article on ArtsBlog.it about this state of
Nuclear Anxiety.

While doing other things, today we created this visualization, called
“Nuclear Anxiety”

It is a simple twitter based visualization: while you look at it, it
fetches the most recent tweets speaking about “nuclear” in several
languages, adds them to a database and plots them on a map using
icons.
Tags: alternative energies, chernobyl, fukushima, infoaesthetics,
nuclear anxiety, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, realtime
discussion, renewable energy sources, tweets, twitter, visualization

Posted via email from xdxd.vs.xdxd

2011-03-25T19:33:00.001+01:00

Cross Media design scenarios: smartphones and tablets, a workshop @ ISIA Florence http://wp.me/pnaKK-kI (#slides, tutorial , download)

2011-03-24T21:04:00.001+01:00

nuclear anxiety is a realtime global discourse on nuclear energy http://ping.fm/xi4Tt

Holiday! a relaxed augmented reality workshop

2011-03-20T01:08:00.000+01:00

Holiday! a relaxed augmented reality workshop

Vacanza

Vacanza! (Holiday!)

please join us at AHAktitude 2011 in Carrara, in April 01-02-03, 2011

AOS will present:

Vacanza! a really relaxed Augmented Reality workshop

at AOS (and in the other initiatives such as REFF and FakePress) we’ve been proclaiming the rise of a new (or old?) idea of Augmented Reality, a philosophical approach screaming:

“Autonomy! You have the power and tools to shape your own world, creating additional spaces for your expression and free action!”

We’ve started some time ago, joyfully attacking supermarkets with our augmented reality invasion in Squatting Supermarkets.

Then we continued the Augmented reality experiments with FakePress, exploring the possibility to invent new languages and usage grammars for the world that had impacts on education, knowledge, society, cities and relationships.

And, lately, with our recently released Augmented Reality Drug, with REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory.

All these actions used technologies and practices to reinvent the world, our roles and the things we can do each days, promoting a multilayered, polyphonic, multicultural, free, autonomous version of reality, and suggesting that new imaginaries, languages, strategies, politics and poetics can be created, reinventing art, business, activism and communication.

This is why we’re truly happy to present:

Vacanza!

(holiday)

http://ahacktitude.org/event/2011/doku.php?id=vacanza

a series of micro-workshops, micro-lectures, micro-forums and micro-interstitial meetings executed using crumpled-up Augmented Reality and other technologies.

When: April 1-2-3 2011, at AHAcktitude
Where: Carrara, Italy

AHAcktitude Program: http://ahacktitude.org/event/2011/doku.php?id=program

What:
An intense program of micro-workshops, micro-seminars, micro-lectio-magistralis disseminated in the spaces and times of the AHAcktitude meeting.

The micro courses will define an interstitial narrative that will traverse the whole event:

Workshops on Augmented Reality executed by throwing crumpled-up micro-sldies to other people during other workshops
Lectures on the Reinvention of Reality made for 1 people at the time while we invent new ways of remixing beer, vodka and tomato juice
The tales of our latest actions with squats in London, student groups at universities, taking them “REFF’s education program on the methodologic reinvention of reality through critical practices of remix, mashup, recontextualization and re-enactment” and organizing the initiatives for the protest that will take place on March 24-25-26 2011: narrated wearing stupid glasses with fake mustache and plastic noses, hiding post-it notes, qrcodes, AR markers and distributing small softwares, micro slideshows, mini websites prepared there, live, in realtime.

Feedback and interaction

Workshops are open for everyone!
They are anytime, anywhere, always!
Being hit by one of the crumpled-up slides will mean that you are in one of them!
The objective of the workshops is to create emergent, spontaneous, effective, reproducible, appropriatable, remixable, re-enactable, disseminated, augmented discussions.
Throw me your micro crumpled slides with questions and ideas!
Throw them to other people, so that they can be in the workshop, too!
Copy, fake, reproduce, show and plagiarize the micro workshops! use the post-its and qrcodes!
Make “fake” ones yoruselves!
Place them all around AHAcktitude and in the whole city!
Copy the micro softwares and micro-lectures!
send them by mail to everyone! click “i like” and “share” on social networks!
Finally, reality is augmenting.

2011-03-15T23:39:00.001+01:00

download the MACME cross media plugin directly from Wordpress http://ping.fm/5cbnl

2011-03-13T09:05:00.001+01:00

REFF Augmented Reality Drug http://ping.fm/Behge

An Augmented Reality Drug

2011-03-13T09:01:00.001+01:00

An Augmented Reality Drug

back from London, here are some more info about the event held at Furtherfield Gallery, to present REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory and the Augmented Reality Drug.

AR Drug, by Marco Berardi/S4C

our wonderful friends at Shoot4Change came to see the exhibit and took these wonderful pictures about the performances and the presentation of the AR Drug. An enormous thanks to our newly found fried Marco Berardi for them!

An Augmented Reality Drug has been created and distributed to the visitors at the Furtherfield Gallery in London.
REFF, the fake institution created to enact innovative cultural policies all over the world used the opportunity offered by the exhibit on the “reinvention of reality” that was currently held at the Furtherfield Gallery in London to deliver their Augmented Reality Drug to the visitors.

REFF AR Drug photo by Marco Berardi/S4C

The people at the opening of the exhibit have had the chance to taste the drug and to experiment with their effects: the possibility to create new forms of expression, to fill the world with digital content and to realize new forms of free, independent communication that are able to mutate our perception of cities and the spaces we live in, just like a psychoactive drug.
This is the metaphor used by Art is Open Source: the Augmented Reality Drug is really an open source software platform that allows people to use the so-called ubiquitous technologies, thus enabling the owners of iPhone and Android smartphones to freely create videos, sounds and other contents directly in the spaces and places of our cities. Completely new forms of communication that really change the way in which people communicate and relate with the rest of the world.

REFF Augmented Reality Drug, photo by Marco Berardi/S4C

The drug has already been distributed in dozens of universities all over Europe, and hundreds of projects for the “methodological reinvention of reality” are popping up in the laboratories of these institutes.
Everyone is addicted!

To follow the evolution of the project:
http://www.romaeuropa.org

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CfET1YyyKs

Links:

Art is Open Source:
http://www.artisopensource.net

REFF:
http://www.romaeuropa.org

REFF in the world:
http://reff.romaeuropa.org

the exhibit at Furtherfield Gallery, London:
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality

images of the happening:
http://www.s4c.it/slides/refflondon/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/sets/72157626175020078/

You can buy the AR Drug here on eBay

2011-03-02T12:55:00.001+01:00

REFF Augmented Reality Drug http://bit.ly/enC5Wh launch in London at Furtherfield! come see the exhibit!

2011-02-23T13:06:00.001+01:00

globally REFF http://bit.ly/eaPm5M reinventing reality all over the world

2011-02-21T02:02:00.001+01:00

REFF: augmented reality drug http://bit.ly/e4tk1N

2011-02-19T23:29:00.001+01:00

REFF at Resonance FM: a radio show broadcasting our augmented reality drug http://bit.ly/hapiUC

2011-02-17T17:22:00.001+01:00

FakePress + REFF information, software and tutorials: cross media publishing, augmented reality, reinvention http://bit.ly/e5GCWV

2011-02-16T00:27:00.001+01:00

REFF: a workshop in cross media and ubiquitous technologies at Goldsmith university in London http://bit.ly/e9xb3v

2011-02-09T12:03:00.001+01:00

@transmediale tm11 after the festival http://bit.ly/hk6bhH CoS a book with 35000+ authors, and 230000+ emotions, done at tm11 by FakePress

2011-02-08T17:53:00.001+01:00

CoS, Consciousness of Streams, after transmediale tm11 in Berlin http://ping.fm/HpDRO the emotional map of the world

2011-01-28T22:57:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/h9xosB share your emotions on Consciousness of Streams

2011-01-25T14:49:00.001+01:00

Roma Design+ special FX and design: AOS and FakePress present Connecticity and De_Face http://bit.ly/es724i

2011-01-17T15:02:00.001+01:00

REFF, Bruce and Jasmina on Shoot4Change

Photogallery
http://bit.ly/fJQpoR
Articolo
http://bit.ly/gswMo7

2011-01-13T11:10:00.001+01:00

Fake Factory, la prefazione al REFF di Bruce Sterling
http://bit.ly/encUzG

2011-01-12T20:14:00.001+01:00

Zambardino su Sterling/Assange
http://ping.fm/eF4kJ

2011-01-12T11:25:00.001+01:00

Come un'oca nella nebbia. Storia ed evoluzione di un'idiota tecnologica. By J. Tesanovic for REFF book
http://bit.ly/fev8IR

2011-01-11T14:26:00.001+01:00

B. Sterling & J. Tesanovic present REFF book @ Rome - 14/15 january
http://bit.ly/fBE80J

2011-01-11T00:24:00.001+01:00

Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tešanović present REFF http://ping.fm/K3C9C

2011-01-10T21:53:00.001+01:00

Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic present REFF in Rome Jan 14-15, at ESC Atelier and Strike http://bit.ly/eLPsMC

2011-01-10T02:13:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/iaBI01 toylets: technological toy games for toilets. watch the images if you don't speak japanese

2011-01-10T02:11:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/gKsAFN TeslaTouch: the touch screen touches back

2011-01-09T21:30:00.001+01:00

http://nyti.ms/fVPKhr where is my mind? article, replies and feedbacks on the "location" of the brain.is part of our brain outside our body?

2011-01-09T20:44:00.001+01:00

REFF, an augmented reality drug, part 1 http://ping.fm/F4i7d

2011-01-08T12:39:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/gbJVu9 Utopia London: an interesting documentary on the story of London's Modernist architecture

2011-01-08T12:34:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/htaOA6 weaponized architecture

2011-01-08T12:25:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/gSy7ll Detroit in ruins: the decline

2011-01-08T12:20:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/eRlMip how to tell stories with data

2011-01-08T12:18:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/flLjqQ how to become a data visualization ninja, for non programmers. useful!

2011-01-08T12:13:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/fmZgvm the hollywood sign!

2011-01-02T20:41:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/fUVxBi square america: it's 1975 and this man is going to show you the future. beautiful slides by IBM

2011-01-02T20:37:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/gp4IZu ipad stickers: your life is a failure!

2010-12-30T17:39:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/hvJ2JV use the Kinetic to become invisible

2010-12-30T17:20:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/e7UCla a do it yourself cruise missle

2010-12-30T17:16:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/icJxNB teen builds basement nuclear reactor

2010-12-30T17:03:00.001+01:00

a do it yourself spaceship? http://bit.ly/gVh3PG for real: suborbital baloon you can build yourself to take pictures from way up high

2010-12-29T13:21:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/g1S8CA packet flight: what happens on your network when you interact with facebook

2010-12-29T13:11:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/f3PVZr a wonderful explanation of the economic bubble

2010-12-29T13:05:00.001+01:00

http://ping.fm/cVd8E millions of stolen passwords leaked, recently. here's the analisys. most common password? 123456 :)

2010-12-29T13:00:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/hQXw1P Santa Claus Brand book is wonderful: santaclaus brand marketing strategy. the "credibility" curve is pure genius

2010-12-29T12:52:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/igClTQ creative applications: Strange Rain for iPad, suggestive, interactive rain on your screen, and stories

2010-12-29T12:41:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/fefgM1 generative art book: each book is different as it includes images generated from software, then printed on demand

2010-12-29T01:33:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/gZDZHx thousands of stories hidden in data: why do people move in/out of New York? interactive infoaesthetics

2010-12-29T00:26:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/eGuq98 Michael Schrage's (MIT) top 6 innovation ideas for 2011

2010-12-29T00:22:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/fMzesH Gartner: 10 strategic technologies for 2011

2010-12-29T00:13:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/hyQydV from Open Knowledge Fundation: Exploring European Energy Data. infoaesthetics and research

2010-12-29T00:09:00.001+01:00

http://nyti.ms/hFqGzv mapping america: every city, every block

2010-12-29T00:07:00.001+01:00

http://bit.ly/h8XkmW the interconnectedness of science

FLUXUS boxes, augmented reality and innovative publishing

2010-12-08T14:38:00.000+01:00

Maciunas, Fluxus manifesto

FLUXUS was a variable group of artists working in what has vastly been called Neo-Dada and visual arts, but really worked intermedially across visual arts, design, video, music, performance and architecture.

Vastly inspired by the work of John Cage and, in a way, organized by George Maciunas, FLUXUS was a natively networked movement of artists that were already working and collaborating along the same lines, internationally.

The term “intermedia” was coined by fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe what, during the 60s, was a really innovative approach in which arts started moving across materials, practices, technologies and genres, defining entirely new ones or even incredibly significative hybrids.

FLUXUS artists worked with found materials with a DIY (Do It Yourself) approach, often establishing profund collaboration practices or experimenting the ideas of randomness and the recombination of everyday objects and events into artistic expressions.

Various kinds of materials and technologies were used to enact this approach, including the first video experiments by Nam June Paik and John Cage’s musical creations built using appliances, everyday objects, and things coming from offices or ordinary houses. The diffused tendency operated by fluxus artists was to both “open” the artistic process and to layer artistic visions onto the flow (fluxus) of ordinary life.

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The DIY approach is typical of the first objective. Here, artistic gestures and approaches were disclosed, and the methodologies and techniques were described as something that could be accessible to people, for comprehension and reenactment. Even on the strategies of price: while “ordinary” artists produced very limited numbers of highly expensive works, fluxus artists (for example Maciunas himself) produced their works as if they were to be mass produced and made available at very low costs. Art was open, interactive, accessible and collaborative, as the person experiencing the artwork was required to intervene and act, or even suggested to replicate and diffuse gestures in other contexts.

As for the second approach, FLUXUS’ assemblage and recombination of everyday objects and practices transformed the imaginaries connected to ordinary daily life, creating through aesthetics, experiences and interactions, additional dimensions in which any object or space could be perceived. Objects acquired the magical aura of art by simple recontextualizations or juxtapositions, as sounds, visions and other sensorial experiences aggregated through performance and interaction.

Art flowed with daily life as one single environment with multiple possibilities opening up for world codification and experience.

This disruptive approach to art and life was crystallized across a series for practices.

The production of the so called Fluxus Boxes was one of them.

Fluxus boxes were a peculiar form of expression in which the artist gathered a series of objects, cards, materials and components and assembled them in boxes, suitcases or other containers. The assemblage was created with multiple purposes in mind: creating suggestions and tangible poetics by juxtaposing things was something that the cinematographic montage had learned since the beginning of the century, and it was also explored by musicians such as Cage, where the sounds of known objects acted on levels that are simultaneously physical, symbolic and referring to memory and cultures.

Fluxus Boxes

Fluxus boxes were intended as non linear narratives to be handled, touched, performed, disseminated, destroyed, reassembled, counted and reconfigured.

Just as cinema montage and music had learned, the orchestration of symbols, visions and other sensorial components was able to create novel scenarios. Interactivity and tangibility created a state of continuous recombination, multiplying interpretation and cognitively activating people, who became part of the artwork while handling, imagining and communicating. The connection with the ordinary flow of life created new dimensions in the world: stratified, recombinant and engaging.

In occasion of the 50 years of FLUXUS we have decided to research on this wonderful form of expression, both for the innovation it has provided in the arts and for its connection with many of the mutation processes that are going on with contemporary humanity and their ability to experience media, communicate and interact.

At the event Mercoledì da NABA series of events, on December 15th 2010, we will hold a workshop/performance in which we will build a Fluxus Box using Augmented Reality and other cross-medial techniques and technologies.

The ojective will be to research on the Fluxus Box approach, and to appy it at a “meta” level. The objects contained in the box will be tools through which the experience of multiple Fluxus Boxes will be holdable, remixable, juxtaposable, recombinable, enacting a meta-performance encompassing possibly infinite remixed reenactments of Fluxus performances, experiences and events.

The box we will produced will be donated to the NABA, and the custom software that will be created for the occasion will be released under a GPL2 licensing scheme, so that it will be usable by artists, students and practitioners worldwide, in a further level of the performance.

more info at:

http://www.artisopensource.net

http://www.fakepress.it

http://www.mercoledinaba.info/

http://www.naba.it

2010-12-07T11:58:00.001+01:00

Going to the Publicamp http://ping.fm/GEqfN

2010-11-21T11:40:00.001+01:00

AOS and FakePress at the PubliCamp2010 in Bari http://bit.ly/cSoLfK

2010-11-21T03:10:00.001+01:00

http://on.fb.me/d32y2D REFF-You! REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory

2010-11-19T08:11:00.001+01:00

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: next step http://ping.fm/Rseng

2010-11-17T19:05:00.001+01:00

REFF a video of the enhanced book http://bit.ly/a8w1iJ RomaEuropa FakeFactory

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory on La Stampa

2010-11-17T18:59:00.000+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory on La Stampa

RomaEuropa FakeFactory featured on La Stampa

A video about REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory has been published on the website of La Stampa, an important italian newspaper.

watch the video here

RomaEuropa FakeFactory on La Stampa

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: next step

2010-11-17T16:33:00.000+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory is back.

A book is coming out in Italy (and an international version is following soon, before the end of the year) together with the next step in our action in favor of better innovation policies andpractices for arts and culture.

During these days Italy is living strange times, with a government that is something that could easily be called a "soft dictatorship"and an extensive crisis scenario across culture, imaginaries and perspectives.

This, in particular, is a peculiar day for Italy, as the governmental crisis began just a few hours ago. And it is indeed a very strange crisis, as the in-crisis government actually has loads of power (it managed to have the crisis postponed by 14 days, to be able to create a few more laws:) ), and the possible alternatives do not really offer any real difference to the currently running models.

This is a media dictatorship, as its power is based on 20+ years of television and on the social changes it induced in the population.

Current culture and art policies reflect that. Totally.

This difficult scenario is what induced us in the first place when we created REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory.

A quick-quick history: in 2008 a big italian culture/arts institution created an international competition that was really terrible in terms of the supported cultural policies, of artists' rights and of intellectual property issues. We, a group of artists and activists together with 80+ partners all over the world , created REFF, a fake institution and a competition just like the "original" one, only supporting open, innovative practices and policies.

The impact was so strong that REFF was invited at the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate.

The original institution (theFondazione RomaEuropa) was forced to change its policies and to transform its practices, becoming just like REFF :)

The action continued, as the original Fondazione became the focus of several large operators' assault on the digital imaginaries of people to create what they openly call the Digital Class.

This process saw the biggest italian telco operator (Telecom Italia) invading practically every space in digital arts, leading to a scenario in which even the absurd "Internet for Peace" campaign was possible: a telco operator was becoming a major political force in all the issues related to networks, digital innovation, intellectual property and publishing, obtaining the support of more that 70 representatives in both the Parlament and the Senate.

We leveraged REFF, our shadow institution, and uncovered many of these opaque processes. Last one of which is the assault on digital publishing industries: the market of ebooks and ebook readers is the latest area of assault on italy's digital cultures scenario and on the practices of free expression and self-determination.

This is why together with FakePress wecreated this book.Together with the book a software platform will be released (GPL2 license) allowing people to freely create ebooks, and enhanced books featuring augmented reality, wide tagging, and fruibility across several devices.

The platform has been recently presented at Artissima with the help of the Piemonte Share Festival as an opportunity for publishing and expression practices for the arts and culture.

Multiple events will follow in the next days and months.

Stay tuned, if you like.

cheers.

xDxD

2010-11-17T14:08:00.001+01:00

here we go! http://bit.ly/bgtH4t REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory

2010-11-16T23:48:00.001+01:00

today is the day! http://bit.ly/9f28U8 REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory

2010-11-15T12:35:00.001+01:00

-2 http://bit.ly/9f28U8 REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory

2010-11-04T18:59:00.001+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory stasera alle 21 su RaiNews24 per parlare del next-step dell'editoria http://bit.ly/9f28U8

2010-11-03T14:21:00.001+01:00

first ipad screenshots of the REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory book http://bit.ly/cBmhve iPhone and other versions following soon

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, iPad version

2010-11-03T14:18:00.001+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory, iPad version

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory, iPad version

Here are some screenshots

the REFF Book is about to be published. In the meanwhile previews start to emerge on the web of the interfaces of its mobile versions. Here are the screenshots of the iPad version

2010-11-03T13:52:00.001+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory at Artissima with Piemonte Share Festival http://bit.ly/cAak9o what can technologies do for art publishing?

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory: the Book. @ Share Festival / Artissima

2010-11-03T13:48:00.000+01:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory: the Book. @ Share Festival / Artissima

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory the Book

Art is Open Source and FakePress will be launching the preview of the book “REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory“, produced by DeriveApprodi and FakePress, at the Share Festival, in Turin, Italy.
On November 6th we will participate to the conference “Publishing Art 2.0: Next Step Publishing – New Scenarios of Art Publishing“ at Artissima.
Here is the link for the Facebook Event
Here is some info about the Piemonte Share Festival
Here is some info about FakePress
Here is some info about the REFF Book
Here is some info about DeriveApprodi
Here is some info about Artissima

2010-10-26T13:46:00.001+02:00

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: critique, arts, culture, publishing and augmented reality http://ping.fm/eYfEc

2010-10-24T14:36:00.001+02:00

FakePress indaga gli scenari post editoriali al festival della creativitÃ di Firenze http://bit.ly/aBLWNx

2010-10-24T14:35:00.001+02:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory al festival della creativitÃ a Firenze http://bit.ly/aBLWNx cosa viene dopo l'iPad?

2010-10-22T10:14:00.001+02:00

REFF is back: the book http://bit.ly/bav2aw on ArtsBlog. RomaEuropa FakeFactory

2010-10-21T14:46:00.001+02:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory http://bit.ly/9IfG8z reinvent the world? remix reality!

REFF, RomaEuropa FakeFactory: critique, arts, culture, publishing and augmented reality

2010-10-21T14:38:00.001+02:00

from REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory on AOS

info at REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory

[PRESS RELEASE - ENGLISH ]

Almost two years after its creation il 2009, the REFF - RomaEuropa FakeFactory is back with the publication of its book, published in Italy by DeriveApprodi & FakePress:

REFF
The reinvention of the real through critical practices
of remix, mash-up, re-contextualization, reenactment

Foreword by: Bruce Sterling

Over 30 contributions ranging from critical articles to interviews; a catalog of 30 works exploring the themes of remix in an extended way; the special mentions of the 2009-2010 contest; a new experience of reading integrating the digital and paper dimentions trough the use of Augmented Reality and tagging; an open source tool for creating ubiquitous, cross-media publications, by FakePress.

From the foreword, by Bruce Sterling:

"Right now, the behaviors and activities commemorated in this book are bizarre. Very. They are so peculiar that they are inherently difficult to describe, because they come from the outer reaches of an emergent network-culture.
I could write an entire book about these ideas and practices, a book that would be science fiction, architecture fiction, design fiction, a technical manual and also a manifesto for network economics. That book would be rather like this book, only less entertaining."

REFF. An example of an artistic, cultural and political act. A truly Augmented Reality, a multi-strata object that entices to be discovered, read and used with more “sense” up to the performative one. A new prototype of publication, beyond the e-book.

Copyright
RomaEuropaFakeFactory book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 Italy.

Site

http://www.romaeuropa.org
http://www.fakepress.it
http://www.deriveapprodi.org

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/REFF-RomaEuropa-FakeFactory/121217751261830?ref=ts&v=wall

Press & Contacts

Davide Sacco - Ufficio Stampa DeriveApprodi
ufficiostampa@deriveapprodi.org
+39 328 3921381
+39 392 3273987

Oriana Persico - Media & Communication FakePress
oriana@fakepress.net
+39 347 7126928

AUTHORS, ARTISTS & CURATORS
(in alphabetical order)

"VOICES"
Richard Barbrook, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Germana Berlantini, Mike Bonanno, Loretta Borrelli, Andy Cameron, Massimo Canevacci, Francesca Canu, Carlo Cappa, Antonio Caronia, Dario Carrera, Stefano Coletto, Fiorello Cortiana, Umberto Croppi, Marco Fagotti, Marc Garret, Alex Giordano, Maria Hellström Reimer e Milica Lapčević, Lorenzo Imbesi, Stephen Kovats, Simona Lodi, Francesco "Warbear" Macarone Palmieri, Federico Monaco, Movimento ScambioEtico, Andrea Natella, Eleonora Oreggia aka xname, Luigi Pagliarini, Federico Ruberti, Marco Scialdone, Guido Scorza, Valentina Tanni, Jasmina Tescnovic, Cristina Trivellin e Martina Coletti

"VISIONS"
0100101110101101.ORG, Antoni Abad, Alterazioni Video, Apparati Effimeri, David Benqué, Jens Brand, Alex Dragulescu, Amy Francescini (Future Farmers), Flyer Communication (FLxER), Derek Holzer, Carlo Infante, jodi.org, Steve Lambert, Les Liens Invisibles, Fosco Loiti Celant, Garrett Lynch, Guthrie Lonergan, Quayola, Rebar Group, Ben Rubin, Adam Somlai-Fischer (Architecture), Sosolimited, Eugenio Tisselli, Troika, Hannes Walter e Stephen Williams (Fluid Forms), Marianne Weems (The Builders Association), Clemens Weisshaar e Reed Kram, Jaka Železnikar

" REFF Special Mentions 2009/2010"
Daniele Mancini / Urban Fields, Agnese Trocchi, Mathilde Neri Poirier / Hotel Nuclear, Luther Blissett, Agatino Rizzo / Cityleft, Adriano Sanna / Image Hunters, Pasquale de Sensi, Paola Zampa, Michael Cipolla, Chiara Passa, Anna Olmo, Eva Pedroni Simoncelli, Francesco D'Isa, Marco Pignatti, Samo Pedersen, Anna Gramma, Ivan / Eri Nav, Nanette Wylde, Laura Spampinato, Alessandro Suizzo, Chiara Micheli, Andrea Paglia, Difesa Jubecca, Andreas Maria Jacobs, Leif Ahnland, Stefano Pala e Francesco Rosati, Alessio Ballerini, Gregor Rozanski, quwt, judsoN, Bernardina / Demo Architects, Jelena Jovic, Sara Basili, Juan Lopez, Jimenez Lai, mag.MA Architetture, moriyuki, Giorgia Borroni, Cortomobile, Cenk Dereli, Titusz Tarnai, Daniele Salvatori, Chiara Angioli, Luis Rolando Rojas, Yurij Alekhno, Jose Antonio De Jesus Corona Gonzalez, Snak3, Adriana e Morena, Sheriff Xenoph, Pier Giorgio De Pinto

Edited by:
Cary Hendrickson, Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico, Federico Ruberti, Luca Simeone (FakePress)

http://www.romaeuropa.org

Available in the best bookstores from November 2010

2010-10-21T13:58:00.001+02:00

REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory http://bit.ly/9MOgLf the next step of the project. November 2010

2010-10-21T10:39:00.001+02:00

ESA Conference 2010 Bocconi FakePress,Ubiquitous Anthropology,NeRVi NeoRealismo Virtuale,#REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory http://bit.ly/b4T3tv

ESA Conference 2010 @ Bocconi University

2010-10-21T10:30:00.000+02:00

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We have recently been at the ESA Conference 2010 "Culture and the Making of Worlds" held at the Bocconi University in Milan during October 2010.

The conference is one of the main events in the global research scenario of sociology. It is held by the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the conference was organized by the ASK group at the Bocconi University.

With FakePress we presented a series of projects.

First we made a general presentation of the FakePress project

Then we presented the Squatting Supermarkets project:

then we presented our anthropologi writing project Ubiquitous Anthropology / Ubiquitous Bororo:

and the second part

and then we presented the REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory project / action

and, by the way, check out often on the REFF RomaEuropa FakeFactory page, as a wonderful book is coming out using augmented reality and wide tagging techniques published by DeriveApprodi and FakePress.

All our contributions have been published here on the SSRN (Social Science Research Network).

In the next few days we will publish all the presenttions and PDFs of the presentations.

2010-10-10T22:04:00.001+02:00

fakepress workshop di ieri: grazie a tutti! a breve sarÃ pubblicata documentazione completa. a novembre il rilascio del software definitivo

2010-10-06T16:00:00.001+02:00

workshop new media book: Call for action! http://on.fb.me/cPXvB9 diteci il vostro next-step publishing

2010-09-27T14:40:00.001+02:00

New Media Book: in Milan presenting the next step of cross media publishing http://bit.ly/a73XZq ebook augmented reality fakepress

New Media Book: a workshop on the next-steps of publishing

2010-09-27T14:31:00.000+02:00

New Media Book: a workshop on the next-steps of publishing

New Media Book

FakePress and Art is Open Source will present a workshop titled

“Next-step publishing: ubiquitous, disseminated, emergent, multi author narratives”

[program and info at the bottom of the article]

We can transform any space or surface into a display using electronic devices combined with location-based technologies, sensors, augmented reality and innovative visual surfaces. Furthermore, interactive surfaces are transforming the world, people and their activities.
It is progressively more possible – and accessible – to “write on the world“, layering contents, meanings, visuals and sensations that anyone can compose, diffuse and communicate.
The world transforms into a cross-medial polyphony built from ubiquitously accessible points of view: augmented reality, QRCodes, spime, fiducial markers, wearable technologies, portable electronic devices allow accessing content and information, and interacting with them directly from places, architectures, objects and bodies.
All this brings the word “publishing” into a totally new perspective, deeply mutating all of the roles involved: editors, authors, audiences, critics, curators. Roles that remix just as the visions and the contents, mutually interconnecting and overwriting each other, creating multiple and fluid visions of the world whose adoption can be a key element to the creation of new forms of expression, new sensibilities, new spaces.
The availability of ways to effectively stratify interpretations on the world in autonomous and incontrollable modalities gives rise to infinite possibilities for self-expression, self-determination and for the creation of sustainable opportunities which we have a chance to catch. Doing it effectively is a linguistic act and a cultural process which we can only activate through the emergence of imaginaries that allow for creation of these autonomous realities, their integration in the flow of our daily lives and the escape from those “walled gardens”, dead ends and mouse-traps that constantly sit around the corners of technological adoption.
During the workshop we will present these concepts throughout the disciplines and practices of art design and communication sciences, of digital and visual cultures, of hacking and activism.
Theory will go side by side with practice: we will introduce our newly developed Open Source platform that will be released by november under a GPL2 license, through which any WordPress blog can be transformed into a multichannel publishing system with cross-medial features (web, mobile, paper, augmented reality, location based, digital book…).
We will then show, in practice and getting people involved, how it is possible to use the platform to create a cross-medial publication that is accessible geographically, in proximity, architecturally, from objects “filled” with content and information, in augmented reality, from mobile phones, tablets and computers, and also from paper publications.
For anyone attending: please bring your laptop. The workshop will be useful even if you don’t bring your laptop with you, but you’ll have a chance to create your own example publication if you do bring it.

An event inside Innovation Festival 2010 – www.innovationfestival.it

Innovation Festival

NEW MEDIA BOOK
CONFERENCE + WORKSHOP

curated by
Milano in digitale
Cristina Trivellin e Martina Coletti

Fondazione D’Ars Oscar Signorini onlus, Milan

October 9th 2010 – 14:00 / 19:00
Palazzo Affari ai Giureconsulti, piazza Mercanti 2, Milano

14:00-16:30 workshop
“Next-step publishing: ubiquitous, disseminated, emergent, multi-author narratives”
Salvatore Iaconesi/xDxD.vs.xDxD e Oriana Persico/penelope.di.pixel
FakePress http://www.fakepress.it/

16:30 Conference with:

Antonio Caronia, scientific curator of the initiative
Mario Gerosa, curator, and Roberta Peveri coordinator of: Parla come navighi. Antologia della webletteratura italiana, Edizioni Il Foglio
Alessandro Bertante, writer, curator of the anthology Voi non ci sarete. Cronache dalla fine del mondo, X book
Marco Ghezzi, BookRepublic (http://blog.bookrepublic.it/)

Link to the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152666021423234

2010-09-26T12:27:00.001+02:00

Nadia, the camera that understands beauty http://bit.ly/aKGT6e camera does not show photos, but judges your shots