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

September 27, 2010 in article, design, events, social, technology
Tags: augmented reality, cross media, e-book, ebook, fake press, fakepress, innovation festival, milan, milano in digitale, new media book, next step publishing, open source, REFF, romaeuropa

FakePress and Art is Open Source will hold a workshop on next-step publishing during the New Media Book event at Innovation Festival in Milan, on Oct. 9th 2010. We will also present an open source system to create augmented reality cross media publications.

Publishing emotions

February 1, 2010 in article, design, social, technology
Tags: Aaron Sloman, Arnold, Carl Lange, Carroll Izard, classification, Clore, Collins, Dacher Keltner, Ekman, emotion, expression, fake press, fakepress, Frijda, Jaan Panksepp, Jeffrey Allan Gray, John B. Watson, Johnson-Laird, low information, O. H. Mowrer, Oatley, Ortony, Plutchik, representation, Roseman, Scherer, Silvan Tomkins, visualization, we feel fine, wearable device, William James, William McDougall

An emotional social network.
The visualization shown on FakePress’s homepage represents the beginning phase of a design process. It uses Plutchik’s classification and uses realtime search engines to collect emotional information from social networks. It then represents it as an expressive visualization. We are going to turn it into a wearable device.

Squatting Supermarkets (italiano)

October 25, 2009 in article, design, events, people, social, technology
Tags: architettura relattiva, augmented reality, fake press, fakepress, neorealismo virtuale, salvatore iaconesi, share festival, spime, squat, squatting supermarkets, ubiquitous, ubiquitous publishing, xdxd.vs.xdxd

Squatting supermarkets occupa e reinterpreta gli spazi e i tempi del commercio, per attuare pratiche critiche e riflessioni poetiche, sovrapponendo alla realtà ordinaria uno spazio digitale libero ed accessibile.
Qui di seguito una esposizione della parte teorica del progetto, e un appuntamento per il Piemonte Share Festival.
Mettere a sistema pratiche e tecnologie, per creare un framework aperto per creare spazi di realtà aumentata, collegando corpi e informazioni e per realizzare forme di interattività tecnologica accessibili e naturali.

Ubiquitous Publishing, FakePress @ Frontiers of Interaction V

June 10, 2009 in events, people, performance, social, technology
Tags: augmented reality, ecology, etnography, fake press, interaction design, location based media, open-ended, shopping narratives, social responsibility, ubiquitous anthropology, ubiquitous publishing, voices

Ubiquitous publishing and Ubiquitous Anthropology. The next-step in publishing practices and platforms, united with a research on the possibilities offered by location based technologies and by novel approaches to knowledge dissemination. We presented our research at Frontiers of Interaction V in Rome (June 2009), together with the first two applications and an open call.

Frontiers of Interaction V, June 2009

June 9, 2009 in events, people, social, technology
Tags: anthropology, creativity, ecology, fake press, idearium, innovation, interaction design, technology, ubiquitous

Frontiers of Interaction is probably one of the most interesting events about interaction design in Italy. We’ve been there to present FakePress, our next-step publishing house, with two “ubiquitous” projects: iSee, interstitial narratives for shopping centers, and Ubiquitous Anthropology, location based technologies for ethnographic research