Squatting Supermarkets, Augmented reality for liberated spaces [ FakePress, Art is Open Source ]

January 22, 2010 in design, events, people, performance, social, technology
Tags: art is open source, augmented reality, fakepress, isee, natural interfaces, penelope.di.pixel, squatting supermarkets, stories, xdxd.vs.xdxd

quatting Supermarkets occupies and reinterprets the spaces and times of commerce, to enact critical practices and poetical reflections, superimposing a free and accessible digital space on ordinary reality.

Augmented Reality, natural interfaces, free knowledge and information to create complex shopping narratives and freedom for expression.

Squatting Supermarkets @ Scighera, Milan

January 21, 2010 in design, events, performance, technology
Tags: art is open source, augmented reality, buffet, fakepress, isee, milan, natural interfaces, penelope.di.pixel, reacTIVision, scighera, squatting supermarkets, stories, xdxd.vs.xdxd

getting ready for Squatting Supermarkets at la Scighera

John Maeda, carrots and potatoes

January 9, 2010 in diy, people, performance
Tags: carrots, crash, creative code, food, interaction, John Maeda, pause, penelope.di.pixel, potatoes, xdxd.vs.xdxd

xDxD reads Creative Code by John Maeda while penelope prepares baked potatoes

Squatting Supermarkets presented at AHAcktitude 2009

December 1, 2009 in article, design, diy, events, social, technology
Tags: AHACKTITUDE, augmented reality, fakepress, hacking, isee, logos, penelope.di.pixel, shopping, squatting supermarkets, xdxd.vs.xdxd

Squatting Supermarkets was presented at AHAcktitude 2009. Here are the slides (they’re mostly pictures of the installation/software/performance) and some videos

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.

delicious poetry, once again

July 12, 2009 in performance, websites
Tags: artisopensource, chaos, complexity, delicious, delicious poetry, mash-up, mashup, noise, poetry, salvatore iaconesi, web art, xdxd.vs.xdxd

delicious poetry grabs internet’s faourite links in realtime and uses their contents to visually build a chaotic poem. An everchanging complex composition built on people’s wishes, desires, tastes and emotions.

“O”, an emotional bluetooth gadget

December 19, 2008 in Uncategorized
Tags: bluetooth, design, emotional approach, emotional design, family, friends, gadget, gesture, led gadgets, mobile phone, O, salvatore iaconesi, soft, Squeeze, vibrate, xdxd.vs.xdxd

“O” an emotional bluetooth gadget December 19th, 2008 O, an emotional bluetooth gadget “O” is finally ready. A bluetooth gadget with an emotional approach. It can be used to communicate with your friends, lovers and relatives with a gesture of your hand. Squeeze it. Watch it vibrate and light up. Know that they love you [...]

The Life of Things – load pictures of barcodes and see them come to life [ AOS ] Art is Open Source

November 28, 2008 in diy, websites
Tags: barcode, decoder, diy, generative, life of things, low cost, processing, salvatore iaconesi, spime, the life of things, xdxd.vs.xdxd

barcodes come to life the Life of Things lets you peek into the secret lives of products and objects by transforming their barcodes into generative digital lifeforms. done with Processing there also is a small library i wrote to integrate in processing sketches the ZXING barcode decoding library. See the little gadget here: http://www.artisopensource.net/productslife/index.php download [...]

OneAvatar more pictures from Milano in Digitale

November 22, 2008 in events, performance, technology
Tags: avatar, body connection, cyborg, game devices, milano in digitale, OneAvatar, open source art, performance, salvatore iaconesi, virtual worlds, xdxd.vs.xdxd

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. OneAvatar installation You get to see more of the OneAvatar performance. If you want to read more about the OneAvatar project read [...]

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 [...]

architettura rel:attiva

November 7, 2008 in events
Tags: architecture, communication, hystory, innovation, open source, participation, salvatore iaconesi, technology, virtual reality, xdxd.vs.xdxd

architettura rel:attiva November 8th, 2008 just back from Mexico where me and penelope.di.pixel performed quite a few activities: a congress on the revitalization of the historical centers, a panel on virtual, participative and interactive architectures and on innovation, and an installation performance called rel:attiva presenza. architettura rel:attiva in Mexico City The Seventh International Meeting on [...]