transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible trailer from transmediale.

Intrecciare diverse espressioni artistiche per un’esperienza di tipo emozionale, polisensoriale, in cui a essere protagonista è l’opera, ma anche il pubblico. Fuoricentro è un progetto di arte espansa; installazioni multimediali interattive, suoni e immagini, architetture e persone che le attraversano. Concentrato in un’unica serata, Fuoricentro non è solo un evento, ma anche uno spazio-tempo dedicato allo scambio di conoscenze nel vasto settore dell’espressione audiovisuale: con Fuoricentro è la città che parla, attraverso la creatività e la curiosità che stimola in chi la vive, e la possibilità di concretizzare le proprie impressioni attraverso diverse forme d’espressione. Il tema centrale dell’evento proposto agli artisti chiamati a sviluppare il progetto dall’Ass.Cult. Teatro dell’Airone, in collaborazione con il gruppo Demans.. e con il patrocinio dell’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Roma e di Zètema, sarà quello del paradosso. Le riflessioni si spingeranno dunque verso un territorio scomodo, prestando particolare attenzione al rapporto tra le periferie e il centro, le architetture e le persone, le parole e le immagini. Fuoricentro si svolge in due location attigue: il Forte Fanfulla e il Clockwork, alcuni degli spazi protagonisti della scena culturale romana, in via Fanfulla da Lodi 5 e 5a, al Pigneto.
L’apertura delle porte del Forte Fanfulla è prevista alle h.18.00: un gruppo di creativi chiamati a intervenire su questi spazi e precisamente nell’area denominata Hangar lavora sui temi proposti dal progetto. Lo spazio verrà trasformato, reinventato ad hoc per Fuoricentro: prendendo spunto da un concetto di “evento” in cui lo spazio architettonico è considerato parte integrante dell’opera e non solamente “insieme di muri contenitori”, MP5 presenterà WE ARE ALL MADE OF MOPPETS _short version_ installazione/live set pensata per cambiare ogni volta forma a seconda dello spazio con il quale va a interagire. Un’installazione di disegni, di carta, di vernice di luci e animazioni che tocca varie città e vari ambienti, che rimette in discussione ogni volta la sua stessa rappresentazione. L’opera si agita con il live set realizzato in collaborazione con il musicista Abacom System e la videomaker Sabota. Sempre nell’Hangar Sabota e Dario.Sca in collaborazione con il dj e producer Giulio Maresca daranno vita a GREEN!: installazione multimediale interattiva basata sulla tecnica video del green screen, concepita appositamente per l’evento, sfrutta, nell’ottica di un lavoro sull’architettura, una preesistente parete verde. Il lavoro coinvolgerà il pubblico in un live set audiovisuale sullo
sfondo di visionarie immagini suburbane. Sempre al Forte Fanfulla, ma nello spazio Recording Studio ci sarà Skismos con Animismo Computazionale video screening; attraverso la continua somma e valutazione di codici binari, dà vita a frequenze audio e tramite l’analisi delle stesse, a linee di colori che segnano il confine tra l’anima (uomo) e la macchina, ma allo stesso tempo e attraverso lo stesso processo vitale, con l’incremento e l’elaborazione eccessiva dell’unità centrale, induce la morte del sistema. Nello spazio Book Corner, in mostra alcuni scatti della città di Roma realizzati da artisti selezionati dal concorso fotografico AnvediRoma – mostraci la tua Roma – svoltosi nel 2009 e promosso dal Municipio Roma Centro Storico – Politiche culturali. Foto di: Romina Lodeserto, Domenico Castaldi, Matteo Mignani, Dario Maglio, Paola Fortunato, Donato Passiatore, Emilio Lenzi, Marco Zeppetella, Elio Cremi, Valeria de Bernardinis, Chiara Soldatini, Marisa Gianfreda, Marcello Fauci e Mauro Cap. La serata sarà accompagnata dalle divagazioni musicali di SPAM.
Per le h.21.00 è prevista l’apertura delle porte per il Clockwork, che in concomitanza con il Forte Fanfulla ci accompagnerà fino a notte inoltrata. Al Clockwork, in apertura video live performance della durata di quindici minuti di Noidealab in collaborazione con il musicista Alessandro Librio: le note improvvisate di un violino, insieme al battito del cuore dell’artista e degli spettatori si trasformano in tempo reale in immagini, luci e colori. L’azione verrà ripetuta durante la serata. A seguire Control Duplicate in collaborazione con Gianluca Ferrante e Dario Luzzi in una sonorizzazione impro-live del film cult del 1979 di Ridley Scott, il primissimo Alien. La chiusura dell’evento, rigorosamente dance, è prevista per le h.2:00 e sarà affidata alle selezioni musicali di Lady Marù, con vjset a cura di Kiravision e Violady. L’entrata è gratis per i soci Arci, oppure a pagamento, per la quota di dieci euro, comprensiva di tesseramento, drink e aperitivo.
Info: www.fanfulla.org/fuoricentro

Legal update:
After sending us a “cease and desist letter” (which led to making the website Lovely-Faces.com unavailable), asking us to give them back the 1M publicly available data and terminating our Facebook personal accounts, Facebook lawyers are continuing to follow up with us. First they are insisting on asking us to remove all the content from the Face-to-Facebook.net domain, which is the website documenting the project. This request sounds quite surreal for us: this website merely contains a collection of texts, materials and links related to Face-to-Facebook project. Even more, we have received a threat from Facebook legal department about the claim that the face-to-facebook.net domain name is violating Facebook’s trademark.
So, why should such a big online corporation push a couple of artists to remove the documentation of their project? Our lawyers are investigating the legal basis of their request.

Global Mass Media Hack Performance:
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/press-coverage.php
Meanwhile, the news went through to more than 1000 media reports, reaching a wide audience spread all over the globe. Very different stages were involved like: tv, radio, newspapers, magazines, blogs, portals and plenty of personal blogs, not counting the thousands of tweets. The pattern of propagation would need time to be properly analyzed, but it definitively is “viral”, especially in some countries like Brazil, Pakistan, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine.
There are plenty of captivating scenes in this mass media performance, like for example the one where 93 per cent of the 7538 participants to the online poll opened by the Australian newspaper The Age answered “Yes” to the question “Should Lovely-faces.com require consent to use your photo?” Maybe that influenced also the blog “Ethics Alarms” to declare Lovely-Faces.com as “Unethical Website of the Month.” And the controversial aspect of the project has been clearly picked up even by some popular U.S. TV news (see links below) sometimes resulting as quite bizarre.

Some selected TV News videos:
* MyFox LA, Los Angeles Fox News Tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYRM9VAtsE
* WSBTV, Atlanta WSB-TV channel 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3Qyz-ojvI
* Newsy, Online video news analysis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDs3PdGKSA
* Apple daily HK, Taiwan, China, Hong-Kong-based newspaper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSNZqoqk24
* Tagesschau, German public TV ARD channel 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCh1XPWlMY

Some selected online Interviews:
* CNN, US – Art ‘hacktivists’ take on Facebook:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/11/artists.facebook.project
* 2010LAB (Video), Germany – Facebook and Transmediale – your face is ours:
http://www.2010lab.tv/en/video/facebook-and-transmediale-your-face-ours
* Artinfo.com, US – The Artist Who’s Out to Liberate Facebook:
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36912/the-artist-whos-out-to-liberate-facebook-a-qa-with-profile-thief-paolo-cirio
* Artline, Switzerland – Sculptors of data – Die Daten-Bildhauer
http://www.artline.org/?p=detail&id=10736&back=home&L=0
* Jetzt, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany – Feldzug gegen Facebook:
http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/519492/Feldzug-gegen-Facebook
* Politika, Serbia, newspaper
http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/spektar/zivot-i-stil/Uzeli-smo-desetine-hiljada-profila-iz-Srbije.sr.html
* Ha’aretz, Israel, newspaper
http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/spages/1217717.html

Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
A project by PAOLO CIRIO and ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO

Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face‐recognition software and then posting them on a custom‐made dating website, sorted by their facial expression characteristics.
http://www.lovely-faces.com

In an attempt to free personal data as Facebook’s exclusive property we spent a few months downloading public information from one million profiles (including pictures). Immersing ourselves in the resulting database was a hallucinatory experience as we dove into hundreds of thousands of profile pictures and found ourselves intoxicated by the endless smiles, gazes and often leering expressions.

After a few weeks we had to face the evidence. All that people wanted was to attract new people, have more relationships, to express and receive love through their digital traits. But they were trapped by Facebook owning their data and restricting their actions with primitive privacy rules. They wanted more than just their restricted circles of “friends” and they wanted it quickly and easily.

Our mission was to give all these virtual identities a new shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook’s constraints and boring social rules.

So we established a new website (lovely‐faces.com) giving them justice and granting them the possibility of soon being face to face with anybody who is attracted by their facial expression and related data. Now they are there, in full effect, free to keep in touch with a whole world of men and women and anything in between. And we accomplished our mission: the final piece of the free relationships interface is now running.

Mixed media installation of Face to Facebook:
Premiere of the installation with more than 2000 printed pictures of faces at the Transmediale festival in Berlin.
http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook.php

The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy:
Face to Facebook is the third work in a series that began with Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir. These works share a lot in terms of both methodologies and strategies. They all use custom programmed software in order to exploit (not without fun) three of the biggest online corporations (Google, Amazon and Facebook), exploiting conceptual hacks that generate unexpected holes in their well oiled marketing and economic system.

Authors’ biographies:

Paolo Cirio works as media artist in various fields: net‐art, street‐art, video‐art, software‐art and and experimental fiction. He has won prestigious art awards and his controversial works have been sustained by research grants, collaborations and residencies. He has exhibited in museums and art institutions worldwide. As public speaker he delivers lectures and workshops on media tactics.

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993. He’s one of the founders of the ‘Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He has ben guest researcher at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara.

Have fun and take care!
Paolo and Alessandro.

The friendly competition has three main divisions: Visual communication practice, Critical writing and Beyond. It is open to anyone who wants to participate. Any artist, activist, writer, designer, malcontent, educator or media manipulator can enter. There is no age restriction. The only limit is your creativity and imagination.

In order to get the best possible in-depth understanding of your work, we will categorize all submissions in two fields: Student/Academic and Non-academic.

You can register your works in one or more categories. However, a particular work can compete in one category only.

Check bellow for more info about the category that is most interesting for you.

Deadline for your submissions is January 20th 2011.

This project proposes an alternative economy based on Peer-to-Peer architecture for a more equal sharing of wealth in society. It offers an innovative participative system using counterfeit virtual money.

Promotional AD:
Go on http://P2PGiftCredit.com and get your P2P Gift Credit Card instantly, just by typing your email or cell phone number. When you activate the card you get your first £100 of gift credit! Other rewards come every time you introduce a new friend!

About the P2P Gift Credit Cards:
By issuing a visionary type of credit card, the project introduces the P2P Gift Finance system based on Peer-to-Peer free credit shared across digital networks. The P2P Gift Finance is a democratic creation of money directly regulated by ordinary people in order to redistribute wealth in society. Power to create virtual money with a multiplier effect should be restored to the people, and regulated by democratic participation. It is recognised that the perpetual creation of money is necessary, however, since there is a private monopoly on the monetary system, it is proven to be unfair and is unlikely to ever change without intervention. Indeed many theorists have pointed out that allowing banks to create money is fundamentally unjust, unethical and immoral.
Find out more about it:
http://P2PGiftCredit.com/about.php

More details:
The website P2PGiftCredit.com allows people to generate unique virtual card numbers to send to others via digital devices and platforms. In order to activate and use the P2P Gift Credit Cards users must generate new virtual credit card numbers for friends. Rules like this underline the idea of ‘Sharing’ a concept which defines the basis of P2P Gift Finance and enables a viral spread of free credit among people, generating a real alternative virtual credit that anyone can own. This approach also simulates the distribution of free credit by people as a form of “Basic Income”, which may help to stimulate the entire economy.
Find out more how it works:
http://P2PGiftCredit.com/how.php

A limited edition of physical plastic P2P Gift Credit Cards are available by request on the P2PGiftCredit.com, and they will also be distributed through public actions in London during the month of January 2011.
You can see a preview of the printed card and its holder in this picture:
http://P2PGiftCredit.com/press/P2PCC_carrier_HD.jpg

Purpose of the project:
- Researching alternative virtual currencies, peer-to-peer lending platforms and electronic payments as a positive step in reshaping the future of sustainable finance in the contemporary digital networked scenario.
- Underlining the consequences of private speculative lending institutions and explaining how they often determine economic crises due to the deregulated creation of credit.
- Calling people to sign petitions to shut down tax havens, and to investigate the bailout money that taxpayers recently paid to major banks by supporting ongoing campaigns on this issue.
- Bringing “Basic Income” (as a form of universal, guaranteed, minimum income) to public attention and the inequities of current patterns of the redistribution of wealth into question.
- Targeting social classes vulnerable to the deceptive marketing of the credit card industry (such as university students, artists, the unemployed and people with low incomes) in order to highlight the inherent dangers.
- Increasing awareness about global credit and debit owned by people and banks during the recent so-called global recession, as well as issues related to the creation of money.

If you would like to have more information about the recent so-called “economic recession”, the victims of global fraud, the artificial scarcity of money, or, if you would like to know more about the credit card industries, their criminal interest rates (which cause depression and suicides), and more besides, you should have a look at the Infoshop section which is a real treasure trove of information:
http://P2PGiftCredit.com/infoshop.php

A project by Paolo Cirio.
http://www.paolocirio.net
(This project is commissioned by an anonymous arts organisation in the UK)

www.Drowning-NYC.net
a Recombinant Fiction piece by Paolo Cirio.
Press material: http://www.drowning-nyc.net/press.php

This is an attempt to weave a fictional story into the daily reality of the residents of Lower East Side Waterfront in Manhattan. They found themselves surrounded by an over-layering of mediated narrative information. Drowning NYC is a cross-media story; an experimental pilot that is told by actors and through narrative devices that are staged over the Internet and in the public spaces of a few chosen New York City neighborhoods. The genre and the art type are theorized by the artist as being “Recombinant Fiction”, a political and pervasive form of cross-media fiction.

- This project proposes new pedagogical instruments, innovative activist strategies, elaborate media experiments, cutting-edge forms of theatre and cinema, questions about reality perception/construction and, above all, a new form of conceptual art. -

Synopsis:
The CEO of “Future Water Proof Corporation” plans to economically exploit the rising sea level around New York City. A young man, Jason Gompers, thinks that the people of his neighborhood will be forced to leave because of gentrification caused by the corporation’s new developments to adapt to rising sea levels. He starts to investigate the corporation and decides to form “Future Climate Change Fighters” cells that oppose the CEO’s plans.
The drama inquires into how adapting and/or stopping global warming effects may affect the future of the city, especially in the gentrified and poor neighborhoods. The end of the story is open and intentionally unfinished, allowing audiences to think through and tackle the drama themselves.
Future Water Proof Corporation:
http://www.futurewaterproofcorp.com
Future Climate Change Fighters:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Climate-Change-Fighters-NYC/116705608386337

How it has been developed:
The fiction brings into existence two fictional NYC characters. Characters speak directly to the audience in first person through media that fit their own personality. The fiction is staged in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Manhattan (Lower East Side Waterfront) and one of the most controversially gentrified (Stuyvesant Town). These areas of Manhattan will be some of the first to be flooded as sea levels rise. The fiction informs the audiences about potential sea level rising in NYC with factual data from official documents released by the city’s administration and scientific research (Section ‘What’ of the Future Water Proof Corp’s website). Most of the project has been developed in Europe where the artist could infiltrate the Infosphere of the concerned region of NYC by using his laptop to orchestrate all of the media and crew involved in this project.

Engagement:
The characters of the fiction encourage the people of the neighborhoods to react and participate in the story through public interventions, local media advertising and in the social network groups of the local population. In particular, students of a local high school have become integrated subjects in the fiction by communicating with the characters. Jason Gompers (the hero) entered the school’s network on Facebook as a fictional classmate asking their help to save the school from flooding and from Michael Meyer’s plans.
Jason’s plea to the students of the high school:
http://www.drowning-nyc.net/pdf/Drowning-NYC_msg_help_Jason.pdf
Manifesto of Future Climate Change Fighters with suggestions about stopping Global Warming:
http://www.drowning-nyc.net/pdf/Drowning-NYC-FCCF_flyers.pdf

Meanwhile, Future Water Proof Corp. engaged the relevant communities by interviewing people about their feelings concerning the sea level rise, informing them that the district will be the first to be submerged and the company is taking care of the situation. Furthermore, Michael Meyer’s company has been promoted through posters and postcards left all over the area and in advertisements in local newspapers such as Town & Village and The Villager.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/futurewaterproofcorp
News about redevelopment exploitations to adapt to rising sea levels:
http://twitter.com/fwpcorp

Shows:
The project’s official website and the keyword/tags on the Internet weld together the episodes and pieces of the fiction, presenting a whole that can be enjoyed by audiences all over the world.
The art installation in the exhibitions is the materialization of the narrative devices, which are displayed using printed pictures, texts, screenings and objects, bringing into the art show the paradigm of the nonlinear and actively unfolding story by the audience, who can enjoy the story, through physical stable mediums.
Mixed media installation of Drowning NYC at Laboral (Spain):
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/drowning_nyc/drowning-nyc.php

Il Freaknet Medialab ed il Poetry Hacklab, in collaborazione
con l’Ass. Cult. VERDEBINARIO di Cosenza
e la Fondazione Dyne.org di Amsterdam
sono lieti di invitarvi al

TROPPO CAFFE’ POCO CERVELLO 12

Patrocinato dall’UNESCO in adesione alla
Settimana dello Sviluppo Sostenibile
http://unescodess.it/

Il meeting sara’ dedicato alla MOBILITA’ SOSTENIBILE!!!

Idee:

- Ciclofficina e Gruppo di studio sulle biciclette
- Proiezioni di video sul ciclismo urbano!
- Ciclata extraurbana in zona, passeggiata con biciclette
- Visite e lavoretti al Deposito del Museo dell’Informatica
- Funzionante
- Catalogazione e classificazione hardware storico
- Esperimenti
- Scambi di idee sul recupero e la valorizzazione di hardware storico
- Riunioni e discussioni
- …e tanto altro ancora!

Per info:

http://poetry.freaknet.org/index.php/Troppocaffepococervello12

poetry @ freaknet.org

Machination 84 from Lia.

prof. bad trip exhibition trailer 21.05.10 Xlab-Berlin from impensabile on Vimeo.

XLAB Corrosive Art Farm, in collaboration with Jena Filaccio, is proud to present: GIANLUCA LERICI aka PROF BAD TRIP- a tribute to a psycho genius.
curated by Emanuele Sturlese
opening: 21.05.2010 from 6pm
exhibition running until 30.06.2010

XLAB will introduce to Berlin public the complex and huge graphic production of Prof Bad Trip, a very creative and significative artists of the italian underground movement, who died prematurely in 2006.
Screenprintings in very limited edition will capture the observer into his lisergic vortex of freaks and graphic labirynths, provocatorial iconography and cyberpunk voyages
A big party, to celebrate his birthday, will take place on 21st may 2010 at XLAB.