BIO
Salvatore Iaconesi (xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com) works with technology in several ways.
Starting out in the hacking and pirating scenes all over Europe at the beginning of the '90s, he used several digital identities to experiment in various areas: ANSI/ASCII art, software art, mxed-media.
Rave parties and engineering represent the two turning points of his evolution.
Through engineering he started creating projects on web and mobile technologies for both artistic and commercial purposes: games, mixed-media concepts for events and performances, location based systems, distributed systems, computer/human interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics.
Through raves and rave culture he focused on the performative aspects of art.
In 2004 he assembled in Rome a 3-months continuous festival of the digital arts, called Art is Open Source (AOS).
Since then he has been performing mainly on the network and on performances.
His recent work focuses on the theories of the virtual, extended and mixed realities, on software as art medium, on hacking and hacktivism.
Starting out in the hacking and pirating scenes all over Europe at the beginning of the '90s, he used several digital identities to experiment in various areas: ANSI/ASCII art, software art, mxed-media.
Rave parties and engineering represent the two turning points of his evolution.
Through engineering he started creating projects on web and mobile technologies for both artistic and commercial purposes: games, mixed-media concepts for events and performances, location based systems, distributed systems, computer/human interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics.
Through raves and rave culture he focused on the performative aspects of art.
In 2004 he assembled in Rome a 3-months continuous festival of the digital arts, called Art is Open Source (AOS).
Since then he has been performing mainly on the network and on performances.
His recent work focuses on the theories of the virtual, extended and mixed realities, on software as art medium, on hacking and hacktivism.
A Serenade in Rome
Dates:
Wed Apr 03, 2013 00:00 - Fri Sep 06, 2013
Location:
Rome,
Italy
music you can't buy: you have to go there, at a specific time/date
http://www.artisopensource.net/2013/01/03/radiohead-made-a-new-record-but-you-cant-buy-it-you-have-to-go-there/
"The musical tracks are disseminated through the locations of a city, created to integrate with the city’s texture, with its daily sounds, with its atmosphere. They connect to the things that happen everyday in those places, or with things which happened in the past, in its history, maybe revealing some interesting facts or stories, or building upon them to suggest narratives and possibilities."
To listen to A Serenade in Rome you have to download an App and come to the city of Rome anytime from April 3rd 2013 (Salvatore’s birthday) to Sept. 6th 2013. And walk through the locations pointed out on the map shown in the app.
Android version coming right up.
Source code will be released under GPL in a couple of weeks on
http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.artisopensource.net/2013/01/03/radiohead-made-a-new-record-but-you-cant-buy-it-you-have-to-go-there/
"The musical tracks are disseminated through the locations of a city, created to integrate with the city’s texture, with its daily sounds, with its atmosphere. They connect to the things that happen everyday in those places, or with things which happened in the past, in its history, maybe revealing some interesting facts or stories, or building upon them to suggest narratives and possibilities."
To listen to A Serenade in Rome you have to download an App and come to the city of Rome anytime from April 3rd 2013 (Salvatore’s birthday) to Sept. 6th 2013. And walk through the locations pointed out on the map shown in the app.
Android version coming right up.
Source code will be released under GPL in a couple of weeks on
http://www.artisopensource.net
Knowledge is Natural
Deadline:
Wed Aug 15, 2012 19:45
Location:
Salerno,
Italy
Knowledge is Natural
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/08/04/knowledge-is-natural-a-workshop-about-diy-energy-and-augmented-reality-in-natural-environments/
For Knowledge is Natural, we will be in the beautiful woods of the south of Italy to explore the possibility to re-appropriate sensibilities and knowledge about natural environments, using DIY, sustainable energy sources, Augmented Reality, Natural Interaction, Ubiquitous Technologies and the re-discovery of human relationships and emergent, peer-to-peer creativity.
Knowledge is Natural, August 19-25 2012, in Societing's 3rd Summer School titled "Transmutation, the Next Mediterranean Way.
The Summer School is created by the Mediterranean Societing Academy, Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, AOS – Art is Open Source.
The workshop will last 3 days.
We will work within nature. Our lab will be an innovative camp in which we will give life to novel forms of collaborative study and relation, throughout the day. The woods will be our classroom.
We will build a DIY sustainable energy source.
We will learn how to use it to power up laptops, smartphones and custom electronics.
We will create various forms of in-wood peer-to-peer networks in both technological and non-technological ways, allowing us to exchange information, publish it in natural environments and propagate it onto the Internet.
We will disseminate digital information in nature, harvest it, share it on the web and on social networks.
We will augment reality, in analog and digital ways, creating accessible, usable, inclusive and interconnective practices.
We will observe human and non-human activity in nature, using networks and custom electronics.
http://www.societing.org/summer-school-2012/
http://www.societing.org/2012/08/knowledge-is-natural-la-realta-aumentata-nel-bosco/
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/08/04/knowledge-is-natural-a-workshop-about-diy-energy-and-augmented-reality-in-natural-environments/
For Knowledge is Natural, we will be in the beautiful woods of the south of Italy to explore the possibility to re-appropriate sensibilities and knowledge about natural environments, using DIY, sustainable energy sources, Augmented Reality, Natural Interaction, Ubiquitous Technologies and the re-discovery of human relationships and emergent, peer-to-peer creativity.
Knowledge is Natural, August 19-25 2012, in Societing's 3rd Summer School titled "Transmutation, the Next Mediterranean Way.
The Summer School is created by the Mediterranean Societing Academy, Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, AOS – Art is Open Source.
The workshop will last 3 days.
We will work within nature. Our lab will be an innovative camp in which we will give life to novel forms of collaborative study and relation, throughout the day. The woods will be our classroom.
We will build a DIY sustainable energy source.
We will learn how to use it to power up laptops, smartphones and custom electronics.
We will create various forms of in-wood peer-to-peer networks in both technological and non-technological ways, allowing us to exchange information, publish it in natural environments and propagate it onto the Internet.
We will disseminate digital information in nature, harvest it, share it on the web and on social networks.
We will augment reality, in analog and digital ways, creating accessible, usable, inclusive and interconnective practices.
We will observe human and non-human activity in nature, using networks and custom electronics.
http://www.societing.org/summer-school-2012/
http://www.societing.org/2012/08/knowledge-is-natural-la-realta-aumentata-nel-bosco/
Ubiquitous Pompei
Dates:
Sun Jun 03, 2012 16:00 - Mon Jun 04, 2012
Location:
Pompei,
Italy
Ubiquitous Pompei becomes Ubiquitous Italy on June 3rd and 4th 2012
Hello everyone,
something wonderful has happened:
http://wp.me/pnaKK-CU
with the rise of Open Data and Smart Cities / Smart Communities in the international discussion on the (near) future of our cities, we have been granted the possibility to enhance the Ubiquitous Pompei project we developed a few months ago.
High school students of the city of Pompei were given a series of free/libre technological platforms to design their ideal digital city.
Wonderful ideas emerged in the process, aiming at a model of city in which citizens can adopt peer-to-peer methodologies and practices for city governance, coordination, and action on the fundamental issues of their daily lives, including the care for the environment, the creation of new opportunities for sustainable business, new forms of education and knowledge sharing.
Real-time systems, ubiquitous social networks, augmented-reality and location-based services, information visualization, and novel technological solutions dedicated to human relation were all put to good use in the design and implementation of the first prototypal services.
The project received wide support from the city administration, and has been recognized as a best practice from Italy's Digital Agenda.
On June 3rd and 4th, we will join all together in Pompei to start the next phase of the project.
Students will engage the rest of the population in their role of peer-to-peer city designers.
A series of technological tools and physical-space initiatives will enable citizens to take active part in the design, and to promote their vision, desires and wishes for the future of their city.
All contributions will be collected for the next phase of the project, starting in a date yet to be defined around September/October 2012, so that the next phase services will be implemented by the end of the year.
Everyone who is able to join us in Pompei is strongly encouraged to do so.
Hello everyone,
something wonderful has happened:
http://wp.me/pnaKK-CU
with the rise of Open Data and Smart Cities / Smart Communities in the international discussion on the (near) future of our cities, we have been granted the possibility to enhance the Ubiquitous Pompei project we developed a few months ago.
High school students of the city of Pompei were given a series of free/libre technological platforms to design their ideal digital city.
Wonderful ideas emerged in the process, aiming at a model of city in which citizens can adopt peer-to-peer methodologies and practices for city governance, coordination, and action on the fundamental issues of their daily lives, including the care for the environment, the creation of new opportunities for sustainable business, new forms of education and knowledge sharing.
Real-time systems, ubiquitous social networks, augmented-reality and location-based services, information visualization, and novel technological solutions dedicated to human relation were all put to good use in the design and implementation of the first prototypal services.
The project received wide support from the city administration, and has been recognized as a best practice from Italy's Digital Agenda.
On June 3rd and 4th, we will join all together in Pompei to start the next phase of the project.
Students will engage the rest of the population in their role of peer-to-peer city designers.
A series of technological tools and physical-space initiatives will enable citizens to take active part in the design, and to promote their vision, desires and wishes for the future of their city.
All contributions will be collected for the next phase of the project, starting in a date yet to be defined around September/October 2012, so that the next phase services will be implemented by the end of the year.
Everyone who is able to join us in Pompei is strongly encouraged to do so.
Mapping the Social
these kinds of projects are really interesting, but they need to be taken with special care: digital divide/inclusion and issues related to multiculturalism must be seriously taken into account.
in this project
http://www.artisopensource.net/category/projects/versus-projects/
we take 29 languages into account to observe the real-time lives of cities, and we had to use a massive tech infrastructure to be able to observe all this data
also, the idea of understanding what people say is far from a solved issue. We abandoned the idea of "tags" or "keywords" right away: unless you are looking for people speaking about Nike or Kellogs, there is no way in which observing keywords will produce a reliable results, and it will be ful of false positives.
We have started using Natural Language Processing for this, to much better results.
and, also, we suggest to deeply investigating on the ethics of these processes of observation.
We have discussed some here:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/03/20/maps-of-babel-at-human-cities-symposium/
anyhow: nice effort! keep it up!
in this project
http://www.artisopensource.net/category/projects/versus-projects/
we take 29 languages into account to observe the real-time lives of cities, and we had to use a massive tech infrastructure to be able to observe all this data
also, the idea of understanding what people say is far from a solved issue. We abandoned the idea of "tags" or "keywords" right away: unless you are looking for people speaking about Nike or Kellogs, there is no way in which observing keywords will produce a reliable results, and it will be ful of false positives.
We have started using Natural Language Processing for this, to much better results.
and, also, we suggest to deeply investigating on the ethics of these processes of observation.
We have discussed some here:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/03/20/maps-of-babel-at-human-cities-symposium/
anyhow: nice effort! keep it up!
this.astro and Come in Cielo Così in Terra
Dates:
Sat Apr 28, 2012 13:13 - Sat Apr 28, 2012
Location:
Rome,
Italy
invert the stars with the earth: Global Astronomy Month at MACRO Museum of rome
On April 28th, 2012, AOS will be at the MACRO museum in Rome with this.astro and Come in Cielo Così in Terra, an installation and a workshop created in occasion of the Global Astronomy Month.
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/04/26/this-astro-and-come-in-cielo-cosi-in-terra-at-macro-museum-in-rome-for-the-global-astronomy-month/
THIS.ASTRO generates a star-filled sky in real time: each star is an interaction on social networks; stars join together to form evolving constellations, according to the ways in which people take part in discussions online. A peculiar User-Generated Horoscope in which the destiny of human beings (e.g.: the shapes and positions of constellations) is determined by the ways in which people collaborate.
Come in Cielo Così in Terra is a workshop in which we will bring the sky into the streets of our cities. A free/libre application will be created/used during the workshop allowing people to form groups, select a constellation and draw it onto the streets of the city of Rome by walking through it, in a city-wide GPS-based drawing performed collaboratively with our bodies. An investigation oncollaboration, ubiquitous technologies, collaboration, and the new ways of experiencing cities and the relations with our fellow human beings.
April 28th 2012
Connect the Dots and See the Unseen
MACROeo (electronicOrphanage, a project by Miltos Manetas) presents, on Saturday April 28th 2012, staring at 13:13, Connect the Dots and See the Unseen, an event focused on the relationships between arts and sciences, in which artists and visitors will actively reflect onto the observation and explanation of celestial events, through workshops, projections, internet-connected artworks by Laurent Faulonand Delphine Reist, Stefano Canto, Daniela De Paulis and AOS – Art is Open Source.
more info at the MACRO Museum:
http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/eventi/connect_the_dots_and_see_the_unseen
and at the electronicOrphanage:
http://cargocollective.com/manetas/filter/electronicOrphanage
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art
Rome, via Nizza 138
On April 28th, 2012, AOS will be at the MACRO museum in Rome with this.astro and Come in Cielo Così in Terra, an installation and a workshop created in occasion of the Global Astronomy Month.
http://www.artisopensource.net/2012/04/26/this-astro-and-come-in-cielo-cosi-in-terra-at-macro-museum-in-rome-for-the-global-astronomy-month/
THIS.ASTRO generates a star-filled sky in real time: each star is an interaction on social networks; stars join together to form evolving constellations, according to the ways in which people take part in discussions online. A peculiar User-Generated Horoscope in which the destiny of human beings (e.g.: the shapes and positions of constellations) is determined by the ways in which people collaborate.
Come in Cielo Così in Terra is a workshop in which we will bring the sky into the streets of our cities. A free/libre application will be created/used during the workshop allowing people to form groups, select a constellation and draw it onto the streets of the city of Rome by walking through it, in a city-wide GPS-based drawing performed collaboratively with our bodies. An investigation oncollaboration, ubiquitous technologies, collaboration, and the new ways of experiencing cities and the relations with our fellow human beings.
April 28th 2012
Connect the Dots and See the Unseen
MACROeo (electronicOrphanage, a project by Miltos Manetas) presents, on Saturday April 28th 2012, staring at 13:13, Connect the Dots and See the Unseen, an event focused on the relationships between arts and sciences, in which artists and visitors will actively reflect onto the observation and explanation of celestial events, through workshops, projections, internet-connected artworks by Laurent Faulonand Delphine Reist, Stefano Canto, Daniela De Paulis and AOS – Art is Open Source.
more info at the MACRO Museum:
http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/eventi/connect_the_dots_and_see_the_unseen
and at the electronicOrphanage:
http://cargocollective.com/manetas/filter/electronicOrphanage
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art
Rome, via Nizza 138
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