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

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

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

Read/Write Reality, An intensive workshop on Ubiquitous Publishing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The birth of the Electronic Man

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:

1. download the PDF file at the address http://electronicman.artisopensource.net/electronic-man-qrcode-stickers-a4.pdf
2. print it out: it contains the stickers that allow people to become part of the electronic man
3. cut the stickers apart, and attach them somewhere in your city, in your office, in your favourite bar, in your school, wherever you want
4. 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
5. 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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nuclear anxiety

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

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

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

Holiday! a relaxed augmented reality workshop

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.

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

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

An Augmented Reality Drug

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REFF, Bruce and Jasmina on Shoot4Change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

http://bit.ly/htaOA6 weaponized architecture

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

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

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

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

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

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