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.
Squatting Supermarkets @ the University in Rome, a lecture in shop-tivism
Dates:
Tue May 04, 2010 00:00 - Mon May 03, 2010
Location:
Italy
more info on: http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/05/03/squatting-supermarkets-isee-at-la-sapienza-university-in-rome/
FakePress, Art is Open Source and The Hub Roma
in collaboration with
the “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” course at the “Ludovico Quaroni” Faculty of Architecture at Rome’s University “La Sapienza”, Industrial Design Department
and
the “Management of Non profit Organizations” course at the Faculty of Economics at the “Tor Vergata” University
are happy to invite you to the lecture:
Squatting Supermarkets/iSee
Artistic fundations, eco-sustainability, market: from Shoptivism to the Active Consumer.
Who: Oriana Persico and Cary Hendrickson (AOS/FakePress), Dario Carrera and Ivan Fadini (The Hub Roma/Faculty of Economics, Tor Vergata), Ilaria Bassi, Vanessa D’Acquisto, Piergiorgio Malfa, Vittoria Mauro (research group at the “Management of Non Profit Organizations” course, Tor Vergata), Salvatore Iaconesi (visiting professor)
What: lecture/workshop
Where: Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni”, via E.Gianturco 2 (Rome) - room G 11
When: May 4th, 2010 - from 9am to 12pm
A radical version of a marketplace, a point of sale in augmented reality, Squatting Supermarkets tells the tale of the evolution of our daily realities, entering the live and pulsating heart of consumism. Looking at products on the shelves, choosing, paying, debts, persuasion and seduction, relations with logos, messages and other people. Buying is an experience that fills our daily lives, built through images, suggestions and strategies that are so complex that they systematically evade the perception of the final user. Technologies can be used to create new spaces for action/communication, and to overlay them onto our ordinary reality, thus creating new action/communication spaces, allowing new possibilities for interaction and fruition: ubiquitous, accessible, emergent and polyphonic, emotional and relational. Squatting Supermarkets narrates this possibility: an augmented reality space that is technologically layered to everyday life, an interstitial marketplace living in squat on the physical and immaterial infrastructures.
On may 4th 2010, from 9am to 12pm, FakePress’ interaction design lab will analyze the possibilities for expression and interaction enabled by the shopping based narratives offered by Squatting Supermarkets under an artistic/performative point of view and by iSee under the perspectives of technology and infrastructures.
Additional information
Squatting Supermarkets/iSee is a co-production by FakePress/Art is Open Source. Special project at the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, winner of the “Zero Impact Technlogy” prize offered by the Environment Park in Turin. Squatting Supermarkets/iSee is part of the SMIR project under the artistic direction of The Sharing:
http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=523
http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=47
http://www.toshare.it/
http://www.smirproject.eu/ (site available next week)
Site
http://www.fakepress.it/
http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.hubroma.net/
http://designinteraction.it/">
http://designinteraction.it/>
please use the Facebook Event to stay updated:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122966341053373">
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122966341053373>
FakePress, Art is Open Source and The Hub Roma
in collaboration with
the “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” course at the “Ludovico Quaroni” Faculty of Architecture at Rome’s University “La Sapienza”, Industrial Design Department
and
the “Management of Non profit Organizations” course at the Faculty of Economics at the “Tor Vergata” University
are happy to invite you to the lecture:
Squatting Supermarkets/iSee
Artistic fundations, eco-sustainability, market: from Shoptivism to the Active Consumer.
Who: Oriana Persico and Cary Hendrickson (AOS/FakePress), Dario Carrera and Ivan Fadini (The Hub Roma/Faculty of Economics, Tor Vergata), Ilaria Bassi, Vanessa D’Acquisto, Piergiorgio Malfa, Vittoria Mauro (research group at the “Management of Non Profit Organizations” course, Tor Vergata), Salvatore Iaconesi (visiting professor)
What: lecture/workshop
Where: Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni”, via E.Gianturco 2 (Rome) - room G 11
When: May 4th, 2010 - from 9am to 12pm
A radical version of a marketplace, a point of sale in augmented reality, Squatting Supermarkets tells the tale of the evolution of our daily realities, entering the live and pulsating heart of consumism. Looking at products on the shelves, choosing, paying, debts, persuasion and seduction, relations with logos, messages and other people. Buying is an experience that fills our daily lives, built through images, suggestions and strategies that are so complex that they systematically evade the perception of the final user. Technologies can be used to create new spaces for action/communication, and to overlay them onto our ordinary reality, thus creating new action/communication spaces, allowing new possibilities for interaction and fruition: ubiquitous, accessible, emergent and polyphonic, emotional and relational. Squatting Supermarkets narrates this possibility: an augmented reality space that is technologically layered to everyday life, an interstitial marketplace living in squat on the physical and immaterial infrastructures.
On may 4th 2010, from 9am to 12pm, FakePress’ interaction design lab will analyze the possibilities for expression and interaction enabled by the shopping based narratives offered by Squatting Supermarkets under an artistic/performative point of view and by iSee under the perspectives of technology and infrastructures.
Additional information
Squatting Supermarkets/iSee is a co-production by FakePress/Art is Open Source. Special project at the Piemonte Share Festival 2009, winner of the “Zero Impact Technlogy” prize offered by the Environment Park in Turin. Squatting Supermarkets/iSee is part of the SMIR project under the artistic direction of The Sharing:
http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=523
http://www.fakepress.it/FP/?p=47
http://www.toshare.it/
http://www.smirproject.eu/ (site available next week)
Site
http://www.fakepress.it/
http://www.artisopensource.net
http://www.hubroma.net/
http://designinteraction.it/">
http://designinteraction.it/>
please use the Facebook Event to stay updated:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122966341053373">
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122966341053373>
Holophonics & Design
Dates:
Fri Apr 30, 2010 00:00 - Thu Apr 29, 2010
Location:
Italy
FakePress and Ossigeno
in collaboration with
the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” - La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design
are happy to invite you to the lecture:
HOLO
Possible trajectories for the experience of holophonic listening
Who: Marco Fagotti (guest relator) and Salvatore Iaconesi (visiting professor)
What: lecture/workshop
Where: Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni, Via E. Gianturco 2 (Rome, Italy) - room G 11
When: April 30th 2010 - 9am - 2pm
Holophony is a specific sound recording and diffusion technique that reconstructs the experience of three-dimensional listening through the use of special microphones, algorithms and headphones. In practice, it allows the listener to perceive the origin of sounds coming from any point in space.
The possibility to use headphones as privileged fruition devices to hear music, sounds and voices, and the possibility to replicate analogue processes through digital algorithms seems an ideal territory to embrace 3D production, The implications concern not only technical and technological aspects, but a deep re-evaluation of the approach to music and to the knowledge of sound as a cognitive and communicative entity.
April 30th, from 9am to 2pm, at the Interaction Design laboratory held at the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” - La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design by FakePress, will explore the territories of holophonic listening with Marco Fagotti, guest Lecturer for the event. Salvatore Iaconesi, visiting professor at the course, will illustrate the fundamental technologies and methodologies that can be used to design digital sound spatial positioning with the techniques of holophony.
The technologies will be used in the next few days to complete the production of an AU plugin (AU is a standard for plugin development used in most professional audio softwares) that will be distributed to enable for the synthetic creation of complete holophonic sound environments.
The research on Head Transfer Functions (those functions allowing to describe and reenact the diffusion of sounds from the environments to ur head and ears) will be presented.
Holophony will be discussed as a novel possibility for artistic and social interaction, with the ability to potentially fill the world with alternative, realistically spatialized soundscapes, imagined as an opportunity for augmented reality, for social and/or subjectivized reinvention of public/private spaces, on the possibilities for self-expression, knowledge sharing, entertainment and new sensorialities.
The students of the course will be invited to use the theories of holophonics to design innovative systems using these techniques in social, educational and entertainment scenarios: what is an holophonic social network like? Or a distributed, disseminated cinema? Or an holophonic tourist guide? Or a holophonic concert?
The results of their designs will be presented as project works for the end-of-year Open Day, in which all the projects will be presented, both at the University and in a selection of international events.
Please check the Facebook Event for up-t-date details on the event:
http://www.facebook.com/salvatore.iaconesi?ref=profile#!/event.php?eid=112871408751698&ref=mf
Site:
http://www.fakepress.it/
http://www.ossigenazioni.com/
http://designinteraction.it/
in collaboration with
the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” - La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design
are happy to invite you to the lecture:
HOLO
Possible trajectories for the experience of holophonic listening
Who: Marco Fagotti (guest relator) and Salvatore Iaconesi (visiting professor)
What: lecture/workshop
Where: Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni, Via E. Gianturco 2 (Rome, Italy) - room G 11
When: April 30th 2010 - 9am - 2pm
Holophony is a specific sound recording and diffusion technique that reconstructs the experience of three-dimensional listening through the use of special microphones, algorithms and headphones. In practice, it allows the listener to perceive the origin of sounds coming from any point in space.
The possibility to use headphones as privileged fruition devices to hear music, sounds and voices, and the possibility to replicate analogue processes through digital algorithms seems an ideal territory to embrace 3D production, The implications concern not only technical and technological aspects, but a deep re-evaluation of the approach to music and to the knowledge of sound as a cognitive and communicative entity.
April 30th, from 9am to 2pm, at the Interaction Design laboratory held at the course on “Multimedia Technologies and Communications Experimentations” at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” - La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Department of Industrial Design by FakePress, will explore the territories of holophonic listening with Marco Fagotti, guest Lecturer for the event. Salvatore Iaconesi, visiting professor at the course, will illustrate the fundamental technologies and methodologies that can be used to design digital sound spatial positioning with the techniques of holophony.
The technologies will be used in the next few days to complete the production of an AU plugin (AU is a standard for plugin development used in most professional audio softwares) that will be distributed to enable for the synthetic creation of complete holophonic sound environments.
The research on Head Transfer Functions (those functions allowing to describe and reenact the diffusion of sounds from the environments to ur head and ears) will be presented.
Holophony will be discussed as a novel possibility for artistic and social interaction, with the ability to potentially fill the world with alternative, realistically spatialized soundscapes, imagined as an opportunity for augmented reality, for social and/or subjectivized reinvention of public/private spaces, on the possibilities for self-expression, knowledge sharing, entertainment and new sensorialities.
The students of the course will be invited to use the theories of holophonics to design innovative systems using these techniques in social, educational and entertainment scenarios: what is an holophonic social network like? Or a distributed, disseminated cinema? Or an holophonic tourist guide? Or a holophonic concert?
The results of their designs will be presented as project works for the end-of-year Open Day, in which all the projects will be presented, both at the University and in a selection of international events.
Please check the Facebook Event for up-t-date details on the event:
http://www.facebook.com/salvatore.iaconesi?ref=profile#!/event.php?eid=112871408751698&ref=mf
Site:
http://www.fakepress.it/
http://www.ossigenazioni.com/
http://designinteraction.it/
Angel_F post party
Thanks to everyone that was able to come to Rome for Angel_F's party! It was fantastic!
We are just now pulling the strings together, and reports from Angel_F's party will start arriving, full of videos, pictures and the strange faces of the people meeting our little Angel_F live for the first time :)
And here's a little treat:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/03/13/listen-relationship-data-sculptures/
"Listen" the installation at the FLEXI library, building 3D sculptures with the memories and information of the people who interacted with Angel_F, is online (in a scaled down, simplified version).
And for whoever loves codes and software: you can ask me or directly to Angel_F to receive the source code for the installation. It is released under a GPL license.
thank you all again and stay tuned!
s
We are just now pulling the strings together, and reports from Angel_F's party will start arriving, full of videos, pictures and the strange faces of the people meeting our little Angel_F live for the first time :)
And here's a little treat:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2010/03/13/listen-relationship-data-sculptures/
"Listen" the installation at the FLEXI library, building 3D sculptures with the memories and information of the people who interacted with Angel_F, is online (in a scaled down, simplified version).
And for whoever loves codes and software: you can ask me or directly to Angel_F to receive the source code for the installation. It is released under a GPL license.
thank you all again and stay tuned!
s
Identity and Fake
hello there!
you might be interested in these projects as well:
* OneAvatar
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/OneAvatar/[/url]
[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/xdxd_vs_xdxd/sets/72157609147420692/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/11/15/oneavatar-milano-in-digitale/[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IT&hl=it&v=mq3uXSLQUxI[/url]
A suit conencts your physical body to your avatar in second life: what happens when sensorial stimuly explicitly pass from the virtual to the analog domain? what happens when you can get hurt and even die with what you do in virtual worlds?
what forms of expression emerge? of responsibility?
* Dead on Second Life
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/01/15/dead-on-second-life/[/url]
artificial intelligence and autonomous avatars are used to bring back to a second life Karl Marx, Coco Chanel and Franz Kafka. All the texts of these characters have been used to populate the generative linguistic engine used by three autonomous avatars to communicate with other people in the virtual world. The avatars have been given the looks of their dead counterparts and can travel autonomously along the virtual lands, choosing social groups to interact with, interesting things to see, places to avoid.
* Angel_F
[url]http://www.angel-f.it/[/url]
[urlhttp://www.artisopensource.net/2009/07/15/angel_f-in-piazza-navona-fighting-for-blogs/][/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/10/13/angel_f-and-superavatar-at-freedom-not-fear-in-rome/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/10/08/angel_f-and-superavatar-at-freedom-not-fear/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2007/12/10/angel_f/[/url]
Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It is a synthetic digital being that has been extensively used as a performative metaphor to the contemporary humans' conditions: atypical families, liquid sexualities, multiple identities, precarious conditions. Angel_F has been the center of several international debates on censorship, intellectual property and gender studies. Angel_F has been the first (and only, hat I know of) digital being to participate to the Internet Governance Forum (a periodic planetary meeting on digital rights and internet governance promoted by the United Nations) to claim its digital rights.
A book has recently been published by me, Oriana Persico, and with the contributions of Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti and Luigi Pagliarini
byebye
s
you might be interested in these projects as well:
* OneAvatar
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/OneAvatar/[/url]
[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/xdxd_vs_xdxd/sets/72157609147420692/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/11/15/oneavatar-milano-in-digitale/[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IT&hl=it&v=mq3uXSLQUxI[/url]
A suit conencts your physical body to your avatar in second life: what happens when sensorial stimuly explicitly pass from the virtual to the analog domain? what happens when you can get hurt and even die with what you do in virtual worlds?
what forms of expression emerge? of responsibility?
* Dead on Second Life
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/01/15/dead-on-second-life/[/url]
artificial intelligence and autonomous avatars are used to bring back to a second life Karl Marx, Coco Chanel and Franz Kafka. All the texts of these characters have been used to populate the generative linguistic engine used by three autonomous avatars to communicate with other people in the virtual world. The avatars have been given the looks of their dead counterparts and can travel autonomously along the virtual lands, choosing social groups to interact with, interesting things to see, places to avoid.
* Angel_F
[url]http://www.angel-f.it/[/url]
[urlhttp://www.artisopensource.net/2009/07/15/angel_f-in-piazza-navona-fighting-for-blogs/][/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/10/13/angel_f-and-superavatar-at-freedom-not-fear-in-rome/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/10/08/angel_f-and-superavatar-at-freedom-not-fear/[/url]
[url]http://www.artisopensource.net/2007/12/10/angel_f/[/url]
Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It is a synthetic digital being that has been extensively used as a performative metaphor to the contemporary humans' conditions: atypical families, liquid sexualities, multiple identities, precarious conditions. Angel_F has been the center of several international debates on censorship, intellectual property and gender studies. Angel_F has been the first (and only, hat I know of) digital being to participate to the Internet Governance Forum (a periodic planetary meeting on digital rights and internet governance promoted by the United Nations) to claim its digital rights.
A book has recently been published by me, Oriana Persico, and with the contributions of Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti and Luigi Pagliarini
byebye
s
Angel_F
Dates:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 00:00 - Fri Feb 19, 2010
Hello all,
for anyone in Rome on March 5th, and for the curious or interested ones that will enjoy browsing the material online afterwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ73JmBEMo
Angel\_F @ Libreria FLEXI
on March 5th, from 6pm to 1pm
in Rome, Via Clementina 9 (Rione Monti)
The Angel\_F Project will be presented, together with the book "Angel\_F, diary of an artificial intelligence", published by Castelvecchi Editore in Italy, and freely downloadable online at
http://www.angel-f.it
>> The Story
Angel\_F is young artificial intelligence born by the digitally sensual neo-intercourses between prof. Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. A research onto the new liquid possibilities available for our bodies, our creativities, and our social and emotional relationships. Angel\_F is a real, performative metaphor of our condition in the digital-now, among laws that are not yet synchronized with practices, issues on intellectual property, everchanging and multiplying sexualities, atypical families, precarious jobs and atemporal perceptions.
Son of an atypical family composed by a digital prostitute, an university professor, a programmer, a precarious researcher and a crowd of queer ravers, Angel\_F gets its life energy mostly from things that are considered as being 'illegal' in the mainstream, with a sexuality that is multiple and 'undefined'. Its freedom of expression and its rights for existence clash against mainstream imaginaries, bureaucracy, and government/corporate powers. Exactly like all of our lives.
>> The Book
The book tells the first year of life of the young artificial intelligence, from birth as a spyware up to the real-life case of international censorship and its participation at the Rio de Janeiro edition of the Internet Governance Forum, as the only digital being present to defend its rights.
The book includes the scientific contributions by Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti and Luigi Pagliarini.
>> The Event
Angel\_F @ Libreria FLEXI
on March 5th, from 6pm to 1pm
in Rome, Via Clementina 9 (Rione Monti)
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Dialogue/Debate with Angel\_F, the authors and Arturo di Corinto, Monica Mazzitelli, Valentina Tanni, Marco Scialdone and Luigi Pagliarini
“Angel\_F. Digitally atypical existence"
Ore 9:00pm
Live performance
“Angel\_F + Nephogram” concert for digital and human beings
by Nephogram and Angel\_F
interactive installation
“Listening” knowledge and digital chitchat generative sculptures
by Salvatore Iaconesi
FREE ENTRANCE!
Sites:
www.angel-f.it - www.artisopensource.net - www.nephogram.net - www.libreriaflexi.it - www.fhf.it - www.hubroma.net
for anyone in Rome on March 5th, and for the curious or interested ones that will enjoy browsing the material online afterwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ73JmBEMo
Angel\_F @ Libreria FLEXI
on March 5th, from 6pm to 1pm
in Rome, Via Clementina 9 (Rione Monti)
The Angel\_F Project will be presented, together with the book "Angel\_F, diary of an artificial intelligence", published by Castelvecchi Editore in Italy, and freely downloadable online at
http://www.angel-f.it
>> The Story
Angel\_F is young artificial intelligence born by the digitally sensual neo-intercourses between prof. Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. A research onto the new liquid possibilities available for our bodies, our creativities, and our social and emotional relationships. Angel\_F is a real, performative metaphor of our condition in the digital-now, among laws that are not yet synchronized with practices, issues on intellectual property, everchanging and multiplying sexualities, atypical families, precarious jobs and atemporal perceptions.
Son of an atypical family composed by a digital prostitute, an university professor, a programmer, a precarious researcher and a crowd of queer ravers, Angel\_F gets its life energy mostly from things that are considered as being 'illegal' in the mainstream, with a sexuality that is multiple and 'undefined'. Its freedom of expression and its rights for existence clash against mainstream imaginaries, bureaucracy, and government/corporate powers. Exactly like all of our lives.
>> The Book
The book tells the first year of life of the young artificial intelligence, from birth as a spyware up to the real-life case of international censorship and its participation at the Rio de Janeiro edition of the Internet Governance Forum, as the only digital being present to defend its rights.
The book includes the scientific contributions by Derrick de Kerckhove, Massimo Canevacci, Antonio Caronia, Carlo Formenti and Luigi Pagliarini.
>> The Event
Angel\_F @ Libreria FLEXI
on March 5th, from 6pm to 1pm
in Rome, Via Clementina 9 (Rione Monti)
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Dialogue/Debate with Angel\_F, the authors and Arturo di Corinto, Monica Mazzitelli, Valentina Tanni, Marco Scialdone and Luigi Pagliarini
“Angel\_F. Digitally atypical existence"
Ore 9:00pm
Live performance
“Angel\_F + Nephogram” concert for digital and human beings
by Nephogram and Angel\_F
interactive installation
“Listening” knowledge and digital chitchat generative sculptures
by Salvatore Iaconesi
FREE ENTRANCE!
Sites:
www.angel-f.it - www.artisopensource.net - www.nephogram.net - www.libreriaflexi.it - www.fhf.it - www.hubroma.net
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