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.
Cultural Anthropology
Italy's going through weird times.
Politics turning definitely to a media-controlling populist right wing, persuing the interests of the few. A center-left wing opposition that is totally non-existent, loosing touch with the people for absence of stamina, of effective programs and in the general mindset aimed at the preservation of small(to enormous) private domains.
Tendency to racism, to the unacceptance of the "other".
A surreal and heavy_as_stone diffused perception of reality as filtered by mass-media proposed concepts for success, health, beauty, family, sex, identity, future.
An ex showgirl as the minister for equal opportunities (not_a_joke).
The pope and the catholic church insinuating ever more in the definition of cultural, moral, political values.
And, in the background, continuous malpractices in public and private finance, inflation, debt, social policies....
And I could go on for hours, describing a picture of a nation that is falling apart in more than one way.
Some days ago Rome's University "La Sapienza" announced the new structures for the courses of the Communication Sciences faculty.
In the new setup, Cultural Anthropology was gone, replaced by minor subjects placed during the third year of the courses. Other changes were made, creating courses that further enact the current trend found in italian universities to loosen the critical aspects of knowledge and culture, in favor to those skills that are required to produce the "professionals" that will be the perfect chainworkers of tomorrow's journalism, enterpreneurship, politics....
It is a further small hint of what is going on over here.
I have been embracing practices aiming at the maximisation of my level of independence from the concepts of nation, governments, location, using temporarily autonomous zones, nomadism, globalized practices, socially/politically hacking whenever/whatever is in my power, and enacting DIY, open and gift based strategies.
I am just starting to feel the need to explicitly communicate what is happening in the country where i was born.
http://www.artisopensource.net/AC/
Politics turning definitely to a media-controlling populist right wing, persuing the interests of the few. A center-left wing opposition that is totally non-existent, loosing touch with the people for absence of stamina, of effective programs and in the general mindset aimed at the preservation of small(to enormous) private domains.
Tendency to racism, to the unacceptance of the "other".
A surreal and heavy_as_stone diffused perception of reality as filtered by mass-media proposed concepts for success, health, beauty, family, sex, identity, future.
An ex showgirl as the minister for equal opportunities (not_a_joke).
The pope and the catholic church insinuating ever more in the definition of cultural, moral, political values.
And, in the background, continuous malpractices in public and private finance, inflation, debt, social policies....
And I could go on for hours, describing a picture of a nation that is falling apart in more than one way.
Some days ago Rome's University "La Sapienza" announced the new structures for the courses of the Communication Sciences faculty.
In the new setup, Cultural Anthropology was gone, replaced by minor subjects placed during the third year of the courses. Other changes were made, creating courses that further enact the current trend found in italian universities to loosen the critical aspects of knowledge and culture, in favor to those skills that are required to produce the "professionals" that will be the perfect chainworkers of tomorrow's journalism, enterpreneurship, politics....
It is a further small hint of what is going on over here.
I have been embracing practices aiming at the maximisation of my level of independence from the concepts of nation, governments, location, using temporarily autonomous zones, nomadism, globalized practices, socially/politically hacking whenever/whatever is in my power, and enacting DIY, open and gift based strategies.
I am just starting to feel the need to explicitly communicate what is happening in the country where i was born.
http://www.artisopensource.net/AC/
Finite vs. Infinite Instantiation in Generative Art
a zen koan is a system crash or a system overload, in a way.
several eastern and central-south american religions use substance overdose to cause access to mystical dimensions.
sounds and repetition are used to reach sensorial saturation points where trance states arise.
vegas can be mystical
several eastern and central-south american religions use substance overdose to cause access to mystical dimensions.
sounds and repetition are used to reach sensorial saturation points where trance states arise.
vegas can be mystical
Finite vs. Infinite Instantiation in Generative Art
if you go here
http://www.artisopensource.net/hacks/4chan
a script will try to download all of the images in 4chan.org as reachable by recursively navigating the website.
your browser will probabily crash in a bit.
i often use system crash as a tool for expression. i used it on the web, on second life, in real life, in talking to people...
limiting the discussion to the web, the amount of information available - be it images, movies, news, pornography, pirated software, people - is a big part of any process.
trying to get all this information as input to a human or a not-human system is a greedy algorithm we constantly see: stumblers, googlers, wikipedians, diggers, youtubers...
while the possibility to access limitless amounts content is a great power (socially, politically, economically...) it has ripercussions on the way people/systems perceive information. we learn differently, value information differently, relate differently. stumbleupon is exemplary in his perspective: an economy built on 2-3 seconds of attention and focus.
merchandises have turned visual. products are nt physical objects anymore. marx is not up-to-date. the fetish is not in the merchandise, it's in the communication processes. and the metropolis is not an industrial metropolis anymore: it becomes a communicational metropolis, totally built on communication flows.
the mutation trends are visible in (visual) languages associated to the products. In these last few months of growing oil price, an example strikes me: at gas stations it is becoming common to find "gasolio ecologico" "eco-gasoline". Which is the usal gasoline, with 0.00001% less sulfur inside, and, probabily, with a monstruously polluting industrial refinig process behind it to take that 0.00001% out of the fuel. That specific gasline costs a lot more and the pumps are decorated with green flowery motifs. In the advertisments you find happy families going to picnics, on hills that are nowhere to be found in italy, and the like.
in that case you are obviously not buying fuel.
and mediatic overdose opens up the doors to all these processes. infinite content. no more criticism. 3-seconds attention. visual fetishes.
so we have great power vs great overdoses.
in this setting spiritual and mystical dimensions mutate as well.
many multinationals understood this process really fast. in the same trip to ikea when i enacted the sound performance, the vision of the flags, as if the mall was an embassy of some kind, was, truly, a mystical one.
if you go inside a shopping center i think you will have no trouble in recognizing that you are entering inside a virtual reality, made up from hundreds of material and immaterial components aimed at reshaping space, time and relationships running between people, products, the_world_outside_the_mall...
in a way malls have become cathedrals.
i find the lanes of the mega-stores, with the shelves filled ceiling-high with products in their psychedelic packaging, to be close to one of those infinite, control-center-of-the-universe visions often told by people who got high on dmt, ayhuasca, sanPedro.
so it looks like infinites have their mystic, spiritual dimensions: they're based on overdose and system crash.
http://www.artisopensource.net/hacks/4chan
a script will try to download all of the images in 4chan.org as reachable by recursively navigating the website.
your browser will probabily crash in a bit.
i often use system crash as a tool for expression. i used it on the web, on second life, in real life, in talking to people...
limiting the discussion to the web, the amount of information available - be it images, movies, news, pornography, pirated software, people - is a big part of any process.
trying to get all this information as input to a human or a not-human system is a greedy algorithm we constantly see: stumblers, googlers, wikipedians, diggers, youtubers...
while the possibility to access limitless amounts content is a great power (socially, politically, economically...) it has ripercussions on the way people/systems perceive information. we learn differently, value information differently, relate differently. stumbleupon is exemplary in his perspective: an economy built on 2-3 seconds of attention and focus.
merchandises have turned visual. products are nt physical objects anymore. marx is not up-to-date. the fetish is not in the merchandise, it's in the communication processes. and the metropolis is not an industrial metropolis anymore: it becomes a communicational metropolis, totally built on communication flows.
the mutation trends are visible in (visual) languages associated to the products. In these last few months of growing oil price, an example strikes me: at gas stations it is becoming common to find "gasolio ecologico" "eco-gasoline". Which is the usal gasoline, with 0.00001% less sulfur inside, and, probabily, with a monstruously polluting industrial refinig process behind it to take that 0.00001% out of the fuel. That specific gasline costs a lot more and the pumps are decorated with green flowery motifs. In the advertisments you find happy families going to picnics, on hills that are nowhere to be found in italy, and the like.
in that case you are obviously not buying fuel.
and mediatic overdose opens up the doors to all these processes. infinite content. no more criticism. 3-seconds attention. visual fetishes.
so we have great power vs great overdoses.
in this setting spiritual and mystical dimensions mutate as well.
many multinationals understood this process really fast. in the same trip to ikea when i enacted the sound performance, the vision of the flags, as if the mall was an embassy of some kind, was, truly, a mystical one.
if you go inside a shopping center i think you will have no trouble in recognizing that you are entering inside a virtual reality, made up from hundreds of material and immaterial components aimed at reshaping space, time and relationships running between people, products, the_world_outside_the_mall...
in a way malls have become cathedrals.
i find the lanes of the mega-stores, with the shelves filled ceiling-high with products in their psychedelic packaging, to be close to one of those infinite, control-center-of-the-universe visions often told by people who got high on dmt, ayhuasca, sanPedro.
so it looks like infinites have their mystic, spiritual dimensions: they're based on overdose and system crash.
Finite vs. Infinite Instantiation in Generative Art
if you look here:
http://www.artisopensource.net/hacks/deliciouspoetry.php
your browser will probabily crash after a bit, trying to open up all of the links in del.icio.us' most recent bookmarks page, in one screen.
if you search on the web about delicious poetry you will find it featured on several art festivals and exhibitions, as well as on several webmasters' forums, trying to figure out if it's a malware or a crazy website.
if you open it up and let it go, assemblages made by layer over layer of text, images and movies form on your screen, created by the things people like most in that moment on the web.
when i go to supermarkets i sometimes feel a deep sense of beauty when i look at the symmetries of the products on the shelves, under the neon light and the weird sounds of the crowd and of the voices and soft music coming from the speakers. more than in many galleries or museums.
a couple of days ago i went at ikea store in rome. there was a box filled with plush toys. if you pulled to extend them, they would play some sounds for a short while. i pulled them all at the same time, about a hundred of them, and placed them around an exhibition of furniture for babies. it was quite psychedelic, and i kept randomly pulling them to keep the sounds going. people really enjoyed it and a small crowd formed, their ikea pencils and graph paper stopping for a moment. the store clerks didn't bother me, but they kept an eye open, to see if something "dangerous" was going on.
then i went to the in-store cafeteria, and i looked outside: there were three enormous flags - italian, swedish and the one of the european community - as they usually exhibit flags outside embassies.
i am not sure that giving an "explicit" and/or "explained" art-context to something creates more art than naturally generates in ways that are only part human or, for that matter, partly material.
most of the beauty of the digital realms is that they tend to materialize immaterial domains. and not by creating objects, but by creating new senses.
no?
http://www.artisopensource.net/hacks/deliciouspoetry.php
your browser will probabily crash after a bit, trying to open up all of the links in del.icio.us' most recent bookmarks page, in one screen.
if you search on the web about delicious poetry you will find it featured on several art festivals and exhibitions, as well as on several webmasters' forums, trying to figure out if it's a malware or a crazy website.
if you open it up and let it go, assemblages made by layer over layer of text, images and movies form on your screen, created by the things people like most in that moment on the web.
when i go to supermarkets i sometimes feel a deep sense of beauty when i look at the symmetries of the products on the shelves, under the neon light and the weird sounds of the crowd and of the voices and soft music coming from the speakers. more than in many galleries or museums.
a couple of days ago i went at ikea store in rome. there was a box filled with plush toys. if you pulled to extend them, they would play some sounds for a short while. i pulled them all at the same time, about a hundred of them, and placed them around an exhibition of furniture for babies. it was quite psychedelic, and i kept randomly pulling them to keep the sounds going. people really enjoyed it and a small crowd formed, their ikea pencils and graph paper stopping for a moment. the store clerks didn't bother me, but they kept an eye open, to see if something "dangerous" was going on.
then i went to the in-store cafeteria, and i looked outside: there were three enormous flags - italian, swedish and the one of the european community - as they usually exhibit flags outside embassies.
i am not sure that giving an "explicit" and/or "explained" art-context to something creates more art than naturally generates in ways that are only part human or, for that matter, partly material.
most of the beauty of the digital realms is that they tend to materialize immaterial domains. and not by creating objects, but by creating new senses.
no?
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