Angel_F NodeFest

April 18, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tags: angel_F, artificial intelligence, event, forte prenestino, installation, node fest, technology

Robotic Crash Test Dummies as Art.

April 18, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tags: art, crash, installation

Behold the automotive sacrificial crash dummies! You might remember the deeply surreal novel by J.G. Ballard "Crash" (1973) and the similarly haunting movie by David Cronenberg – but David Karave of Crashing Art goes one step further… We know of no other modern artist that uses the crash test dummy as a symbol or device [...]

Squatting Supermarkets at Eataly

January 6, 2010 in article, design, events, people, performance, social, technology
Tags: augmented reality, Eataly, fakepress, installation, QRCode, share festival, shopdropping, shoptivism, Slowfood, smart tags, squatting supermarkets, workshops

Art is Open Source interviews Dino Borri from Eataly Turin about the possible uses of Augmented Reality and other technologies to inform consumers and enact critical practices.

Squatting Supermarkets – reports and next steps

November 13, 2009 in design, events, people, performance, social, technology
Tags: Eataly, fakepress, installation, QRCode, share festival, shopdropping, shoptivism, Slowfood, smart tags, squatting supermarkets, workshops

Just recovering from the enormous effort put in setting up, performing and taking down the Squatting Supermarkets at the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, “Market Forces”. Several thousands visitors, hundreds of customized food cans, hundreds of QRCodes printed to link products’ stories, dozens of hours of live Shoptivist TV, 3 workshops, a ShopDropping action in the [...]

report: RomaEuropaFAKEFactory @ LPM 2009

June 2, 2009 in events, people
Tags: AHA, Brancaleone, cinema, innovation, installation, intellectual property, Live Performers Meeting, LPM, meeting, open source, perpetual art machine, REFF, romaeuropa fake factory, share, showcase, toShare

We’re just back from the intense 4 days of the Live Performers Meeting 2009 where REFF (RomaEuropaFAKEFactory) held its new showcase.

REFF.erence – RomaEuropa FAKEFactory conference and launch event

March 16, 2009 in events, people, performance, social
Tags: conference, digital culture, event, fake factory, fakefactory, installation, live, performance, presentation, REFF, REFFerence, romaeuropa, senate, web factory

The international competition RomaEuropaFAKEFactory re-lauches in Rome on March 20th and 21st with two dense days dedicated to the theme “Freedom to Remix“: at the Italian Senate, at the Libreria Flexi and at the Neo Club, with a triple event crossing the borders between different spaces and contexts of the metropolis, from institutional ones to the night clubbing scene of via Libetta.

Art & Love VI

February 12, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: art and love, crisis, installation, interviewing the crisis, romaeuropa fake factory, share, villa capriglio

Art & Love VI at Villa Capriglio While keeping busy with the launch and communication of the RomaEuropaFAKEFactory and keeping the interviews on the international crisis going with Interviewing the Crisis we will get relaxed a bit at the Art & Love VI that will be held at Villa Capriglio on February 14th more news [...]

rel:attiva presenza in Mexico City

November 8, 2008 in events, performance, technology
Tags: architecture, emotion, installation, interaction design, openframeworks, rel:attiva, salvatore iaconesi, virtual reality, xdxd.vs.xdxd

rel:attiva presenza November 8th, 2008 while in Mexico we did quite a few things. possibly the most difficult one was the creation of an architectural installation called rel:attiva presenza. rel:attiva presenza in Mexico City the installation constituted a practical example of the theories we exposed at this congress and it was created in the beautiful [...]

Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi – the theory

September 26, 2008 in events
Tags: design, emotion, event, installation, interaction, performanc, research

from codice by xDxD.vs.xDxD an article explaining how emotional approaches to technology can access socio-political dialogue dimensions we just published the article presented at the (re)Actor3 / HCI2008 conference/event in Liverpool. you can find it here: http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/09/24/dpsdc-degradazione-per-sovrapposizione-di-corpi-the-theory/ Abstract: “Degradazione per Sovrapposizione di Corpi (DpSdC) investigates on interaction mechanisms created using low cost DIY technologies, aiming [...]