Monday, September 27, 2010
New Media Book: a workshop on the next-steps of publishing
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
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Nadia, the camera that understands beauty http://bit.ly/aKGT6e camera does not show photos, but judges your shots
Saturday, September 25, 2010
html5 video demo by mozilla drumbeat http://bit.ly/ammp2R watch around the screen, as the video connects social networks, maps, data...
Friday, September 24, 2010
txt couture http://bit.ly/9qoVPd real models show your dresses. people control them using txt messages
urban remix http://bit.ly/akft4I mobile software to capture sounds of cities and recreate them into remixed localized soundscapes
Technological disobedience by Ernesto Oroza http://bit.ly/dAZoHN great book on Cuba as a case-study for creativity
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Massimo Canevacci: F for Fake http://bit.ly/c2oaSr new scenarios for cultures and innovation thenks to digital technologies reff romaeuropa
Monday, September 20, 2010
take 500thousand+ people on dating networks and try to understand what people like http://bit.ly/9f4GvC
http://bit.ly/cpHiLu beautiful infoaesthetic maps of where locals and tourists take pictures in various cities
wonderful! http://bit.ly/bHpH24 infoaesthetic maps show 40 cities with ethnic distributions. neighborhod self-definitions emerge
http://bit.ly/c0GMbd this post by frog interactive is almost a manual for software engineer/interaction designer collaboration
after TED http://bit.ly/a6W1rK the economist launches sereis of confereces. 1st: human potential. doubts on the phylosphical framework
Cities telling stories: Atlas, ConnectiCity, reality and a nice event
from http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/09/20/cities-telling-stories-atlas-connecticity-reality-and-a-nice-event/
Just back from the event held yesterday at the Circolo degli Artisti in Rome, called “Love and Kill Your Own Town”. The event was created by the guys and girls at CityVision Mag in the Wi-Fi Art series of events.
ConnectiCity, cities tell stories
The event featured an incredible set of international projects being showcased using the style called Pecha Kucha, with each presentation being shown using 20 slides automatically moving to the next one after 20 seconds. My personal favourites of the night were maO, featuring some interesting thoughts on interactivity and on letting people define the borders of spaces, Michael Caton, a young designer who presented a software/photography project showing the “backstage” of the colossal architectural building grounds in Dubai and the rough condition of their workers, Weekend in a Morning, who presented a beautifully surreal and poetic project in which the traffic situation in Rome was confronted by designing an air transportation system using hot-air balloons from the borders of the city, and 2A+P/A, with their wonderful project about the productive condos in which a housign system was integrated with facilities for urban gardening, energy production and all sorts of activities that implement a sustainable living scheme. But all the projects were really interesting in proposing views on the city that created alternative interpretations of given reality, discovering how architectures could describe new forms of life either by suggesting – through spaces, materials and what you can do with them – different ways of living – more sustainable, more sensible to people and the environment and, most of all, intriducing the possibility for people to decide what to do with their spaces – or by doing it first-hand, following processes in which human beings, their self determination and their expression, are the most valuable thing that is taken into account.
At the event we presented two things: a project featuring wide sensing techniques to publish the stories of cities, and what we called the Atlante di Roma.
The first: Cities tell stories
this are the presentation slides we used:
FakePress presents: Cities tell their stories and “a Fake Project”
View more presentations from salvatore iaconesi.
As you can see by following the slides we told the story of how we gave thousands of people electronic devices capable of generating info and bio feedback, and combining this information with other sources to generate visual narratives of the city.
We chose 3 persons among the thousands and we created a story. On each person’s callout you can see the red bar, showing heartbeat rate, the blue bar showing stress conditions as gathered from galvanic skin response feedback, and the green bar showing emotional arousal information as collected from the interface of a mobile application that was given to them together with the devices.
The story followed the life of the three characters, describing a little urban love story, in which the sensors, traffic conditions, CO2 production, and mobile traffic profile of the the characters effectively created a time-based infoaesthetic tale.
The project was fake.
Together with FakePress we did similar projects and many people all over the world are currently creating and researching on these themes, making them more and more actual and feasable every day. So the fact that we presented a fake project is not really a big deal :) (and, halfway through the presentation we actually told people, and justified using the argumentation that I will use in a coule of lines or so)
We presented a fake project because it was probabily more real than any project presentation that we could have made.
Project presentations can be done in several ways: be them poetic, minimalistic, corporate… But, mostly, they represent only a single point of view. A single, incomplete, point of view.
So they do not represent, in any way, reality (or, at least, some indefinable, absolute “thing” that some people may have the temptation to call “reality”) which is, by definition, an interactive cohexistence of multiple points of view.
So we decided that it would be more significative to tell a lie, to describe a fake project, but, while doing this, to describe our perspective on the world and to delegate the discussion of our peojects to the projects themselves, that can be experienced online, used on mobile phones and even worn, in the case of our wearable technologies.
The second thing that we did during the event was to present one of these projects, in total adherence to what we described in the fake project presented with the slideshows. So, after all, it was not a fake. or, better, the presentation was a fake that described a real thing, so that the real thing could be more understandable. And, actually, it was fantastic how people believed more in the fake than in my expanations of the real project presented, which I will give you all a few lines below.
the project was presented as Atlante di Roma, but, after the presentation, it should actually be called “ConnectiCity“.
Let’s see why.
Atlante di Roma was an extraordinary architectural installation that we have been invited to create by Paolo Valente, the curator, for the Index Urbis Festa dell’Architettura in Rome. The installation featured a large-scale urban screen (about 35 meters long) that enacted a series of generative interfaces through which the visions on the city produced by institutions, organizations, studios and single individuals could be navigated using multitouch technologies, across space, time and subjects. The installation was though as something that could remain persistent, with an information system feeding its information that in a first phase (the one for the event) would have been fed by the responsibles of the organizations involved, but that would have been opened to public access so that anyone could express their vision on the city by uploading text, multimedia and their own voices.
Apart from the ever-present technical problems and some adjustments and changes in the interactivity that, after seeing it in action, we all agreed, together with Paolo, were needed, the Atlas perfectly did its job. And the online version is still working (if quite unattended, while we gather our forces and funds to keep the project going), and ready to be reproduced here in Rome and in other parts of the world.
What we presented at the event was something different.
You can see a scaled down version of the software used for the installation here at ConnectiCity: the City tells its stories
The concept shows a prottype for an urban screen that collects in realtime all the information generated by citizens on social networks and discussing their city, radiating outward from its geographical position. Imagine the screen placed in a neighborhood: walking by, you would could read what the people there, in that instant are saying about their city.
It is a way to communicate the multiple perspectives that effectively build the city, creating an architecture on top of it made from emotion, imagination, desires, ambitions and fears, and to make them part of the architectural landscape.
We decided to call this new concept using another name: ConnectiCity.
Atlas and ConnectiCity are two different things, thay have different objectives: the Atlas is a system that allows to create an environment with a specific form that is used to represent the visions on the city in which it is placed (as the Atlas of Rome does for Rome); ConnectiCity is a stream of consciusness, a situated collective stream of ideas, projects, visions and emotions emerging in a specific area thanks to whoever decides to express. While the Atlas focuses on the creation of a form, ConnectiCity focuses on the creation of a process.
Both share a vision: to create architectural spaces in cities that are dedicated to expression, emotion, and self-determination, tolerance, multi-culturalism.
more on Ushahidi http://bit.ly/bDOVpY platform for sharing information in realtime for crisis response
http://bit.ly/cG2fv0 what is Ushahidi? global opensource social platform for people sharing realtime information during emergencies
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
on the Death of the Web
on the Death of the Web, Adam Richardson (frog design) keynote
http://ping.fm/e7Ls5
"Where this leads, Anderson and Wolff argue, is a recentralization of power back into the hands of large conglomerates - the ones who can aggregate the audiences, and create the large multi-screen, multi-device ecosystems to keep them engaged."
http://ping.fm/e7Ls5
"Where this leads, Anderson and Wolff argue, is a recentralization of power back into the hands of large conglomerates - the ones who can aggregate the audiences, and create the large multi-screen, multi-device ecosystems to keep them engaged."
Army Anthropologist?s Controversial Culture Clash
"Traditionally, the military has relied almost solely on so-called hard sciences, like nuclear physics and chemistry. But as a simple regime-change operation in Iraq descended into a baffling counterinsurgency, it became clear that you can have the most advanced sensors, the toughest armor, the most precise GPS-guided munitions, but without any insight into the civilian population — or at least some sense of how they’ll react to your moves — your war effort is sunk."
on Wired http://ping.fm/arWLQ
on Wired http://ping.fm/arWLQ
US military controversial social science program
http://ping.fm/Z5Fz4
turning social science into military intelligence
http://ping.fm/Z5Fz4
turning social science into military intelligence
FakePress @ Circolo degli Artisti: CITYVISION and Wi-Fi Art, Rome, September 19th 2010 http://ping.fm/psJ6J
Thursday, September 9, 2010
FakePress @ Circolo degli Artisti: CITYVISION and Wi-Fi Art, Rome, September 19th 2010
fakepress wit cityvision mag and wifi art, at circolo degli artisti
FakePress: the next step of publishing.
The book explodes, and in this explosion its pieces disseminate, creating a new form of expression, a new way of writing onto the world.
Not books anymore, at least not in the classical ordinary way. Books become disseminated narratives, ubiquitous contents, traversable, wearable, shareable, interactive, emergent, time-based, location-based, relation-based.
Wearable technologies, Ubiquitous publishing, Augmented Reality, multiple-author, open ended narratives.
FakePress will present new forms of urban interaction and of critical innovation at:
LOVE AND KILL YOUR OWN TOWN
Curated by
Francesco Lipari and Ottavio Cialone
September 19th 2010
CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI
VIA CASILINA VECCHIA 42, ROME
http://www.cityvision-mag.com/
Love and Kill your own town: Facebook event
Press Release
Flyer
Poster
Please link back to: http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/09/09/fakepress-circolo-degli-artisti-cityvision-and-wi-fi-art-rome-september-19th-2010/
FakePress @ Circolo degli Artisti: CITYVISION and Wi-Fi Art, Rome, September 19th 2010
fakepress wit cityvision mag and wifi art, at circolo degli artisti
FakePress: the next step of publishing.
The book explodes, and in this explosion its pieces disseminate, creating a new form of expression, a new way of writing onto the world.
Not books anymore, at least not in the classical ordinary way. Books become disseminated narratives, ubiquitous contents, traversable, wearable, shareable, interactive, emergent, time-based, location-based, relation-based.
Wearable technologies, Ubiquitous publishing, Augmented Reality, multiple-author, open ended narratives.
FakePress will present new forms of urban interaction and of critical innovation at:
LOVE AND KILL YOUR OWN TOWN
Curated by
Francesco Lipari and Ottavio Cialone
September 19th 2010
CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI
VIA CASILINA VECCHIA 42, ROME
http://www.cityvision-mag.com/
Love and Kill your own town: Facebook event
Press Release
Flyer
Poster
Please link back to: http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/09/09/fakepress-circolo-degli-artisti-cityvision-and-wi-fi-art-rome-september-19th-2010/
Squatting Supermarkets @ Robot Festival, Bologna
Robot Festival 2010, Bologna, Italy
Augmented Reality can create opportunities for critical reinvention of the world.
Squatting Supermarkets uses augmented reality to break open the codes of commercial communication on the products we use every day. By taking a picture with your mobile phone to the logo of a product, individuas can contribute to a global, disseminated relational discourse on ecology, sustainablity and social responsibility issues of the things we eat, wear and use every day.
The logo gets recognized with computer vision techniques and is used as a fiducial marker that can be used by the Squatting Supermarkets application to create a discussion space onto which people can write their thoughts and interact with other individuals and groups.
An interpretative layer on top of reality where we can express ourselves, bypassing communication control strategies enacted by corporations and governments. Augmented Reality as a new space for self-expression.
FakePress and Art is Open Source present:
Squatting Supermarkets @ RObot Festival 2010
from 15th to 18th September
Bologna, Italy
click here for more info about RobotFest 2010
click here for more info about Squatting Supermarkets
click here for even more info about Squatting Supermarkets
please link back to: http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/09/09/squatting-supermarkets-robot-festival-bologna/
Squatting Supermarkets @ Robot Festival, Bologna
Robot Festival 2010, Bologna, Italy
Augmented Reality can create opportunities for critical reinvention of the world.
Squatting Supermarkets uses augmented reality to break open the codes of commercial communication on the products we use every day. By taking a picture with your mobile phone to the logo of a product, individuas can contribute to a global, disseminated relational discourse on ecology, sustainablity and social responsibility issues of the things we eat, wear and use every day.
The logo gets recognized with computer vision techniques and is used as a fiducial marker that can be used by the Squatting Supermarkets application to create a discussion space onto which people can write their thoughts and interact with other individuals and groups.
An interpretative layer on top of reality where we can express ourselves, bypassing communication control strategies enacted by corporations and governments. Augmented Reality as a new space for self-expression.
FakePress and Art is Open Source present:
Squatting Supermarkets @ RObot Festival 2010
from 15th to 18th September
Bologna, Italy
click here for more info about RobotFest 2010
click here for more info about Squatting Supermarkets
click here for even more info about Squatting Supermarkets
please link back to: http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/09/09/squatting-supermarkets-robot-festival-bologna/
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