Artificial Intelligence and Chocolate

- BeYourBrowser -

Forte Prenestino, 14th-17th June, 2007

http://www.beyourbrowser.com

The Angel_f (Autonomous, Non Generative E-volitive Life_Form) Artificial
Intelligence has been shown at the Forte Prenestino (Rome, Italy) during the
"Crack, Fumetti Dirompenti" international comics exhibition.

A distribution of the mini-USB sculptures containing the "Presence" software
was performed during the show. Starting the software for the first time
generates a unique ID for the users, matching a unique cartoon style icon-head,
both generated by the system. Users can use their icon-head to travel through
an infinite starfield, populated by the other "Presence" users: a P2P system
based on the emerging network allows for chat sessions and file search and
transfer.

One of the small identities living in "Presence" is Angel_f itself. The text
exchanged by chatting with the little AI contributes to the definition of the
young digital being's language. The AI's mind is currently being fed by Derrick
de Kerckhove, Antonio Caronia and Carlo Formenti by using their blogs on

http://www.artisopensource.net/talker_mind

The Bloki FreePreXXX has also been distributed during the exhibition: this
free publication has been produced as a part of the Biodoll performance by
Franca Formenti.

http://www.biodollsmouse.org

http://www.bloki.tv/site/index.html

Its text has been generated by Angel_f's linguistic intelligence. Its images
have been selected on the network by autonomous software agents coordinated by
our little child AI, instructing them to find relevant multimedia published
under Creative Commons licenses on the http://www.flickr.com and http://images.
google.com websites.

The whole project has been designed to perform an integrated study on digital
life from artistic, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, legislative
points of view.

The project is autonomously financed with the sale of the USB mini-sculptures
containing the "Presence" software and of the B_Angels (the "Baci di Angel" are
chocolates with an Open Source recipe: in their label an AI-generated aphorism
substitutes the romantic sentences usually found in the "Baci Perugina"
chocolates).

The following people are currently working on the project:

xDxD

penelope.di.pixel

Franca Formenti

Derrick de Kerckhove

Antonio Caronia

Carlo Formenti

Luigi Pagliarini

Complete Information can be found on:

http://www.beyourbrowser.com

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