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

confermo la necessità di questo passaparola, aggiungendo che si tratta
di informazione per ri-affermare i diritti costituzionalmente
garantiti . Il dramma è che sembra la maggior parte della popolazione
non sia consapevole di quanto sta avvenendo.

Quello che Vi porto è solo un piccolo esempio. Sono una ricercatrice,
mi occupo di diritto ambientale e di risorse idriche. Ieri mattina
dovevo intervenire ad un programma RADIO RAI (programmato ormai da due
settimane) per parlare del referendum sulla privatizzazione dell’acqua
e chiarirne meglio le implicazioni giuridiche.

‘E arrivata una circolare interna RAI alle 8 di ieri mattina che ha
vietato con effetti immediati a qualunque programma della RAI di
toccare l’argomento fino a giugno (12-13 giugno quando si terrà il
referendum), quindi il programma è saltato e il mio intervento pure.

Questo è un piccolo esempio delle modalità con cui “il servizio
pubblico” viene messo a tacere e di come si boicotti pesantemente la
possibilità dei cittadini di essere informati e di intervenire
(secondo gli strumenti garantiti dalla Costituzione) nella gestione
della res publica. Di fronte a questa ennesima manifestazione di un
potere esecutivo assoluto che calpesta non solo quotidianamente le
altre istituzioni, ma anche il popolo italiano di cui invece si fregia
di esser voce ed espressione, occorre riappropriarci della nostra
voce prima di perderla definitivamente.

Il referendum è evidentemente anche questo!

Mariachiara Alberton

RICORDATEVI CHE DOVETE PUBBLICIZZARLO VOI IL REFERENDUM… perchè il
Governo non farà passare gli spot ne’ in Rai ne’ a Mediaset.
Sapete perché ? Perché nel caso in cui riuscissimo a raggiungere il quorum
lo scenario sarebbe drammatico per i governanti ma stupendo per tutti i
cittadini italiani:
Vi ricordo che il referendum passa se viene raggiunto il quorum. E’
necessario che vadano a votare almeno 25 milioni di persone

Il referendum non sarà pubblicizzato in TV.

I cittadini, non sapranno nemmeno che ci sarà un referendum da votare
il 12 giugno. QUINDI : I cittadini, non andranno a votare il
referendum.

Vuoi che le cose non vadano a finire cosi ? Copia-incolla e
pubblicizza il referendum a parenti, amici, conoscenti e non
conoscenti. Passaparola!

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.

SHARE FESTIVAL 2010 – SMART MISTAKES
FRIDAY, 5th NOVEMBER
Regional Museum of Natural Science, Torino
>>>6 PM Lecture by Edoardo Boncinelli – Creative Mistakes
A leading geneticist talks about genetic mutations, that is DNA errors that today are almost always harmful. Today, all species have reached an equilibrium point in their evolution. If mutations had never occurred though, life would still be where it was at its beginnings, almost four billion years ago.

Storytelling Part 1: Change of Storytelling from ith storytelling on Vimeo.

Thoughts about the presence and future of storytelling. With:
Ian Condry, MIT Cambridge web.mit.edu/condry/www/;
Joshua Green, UCSB Santa Barbara cftnm.ucsb.edu/mip/?author=1;
Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation New York participatoryculture.org/;
Henry Jenkins, USC Los Angeles henryjenkins.org/;
Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling Berkeley storycenter.org/;
Nick Montfort, MIT Cambridge nickm.com/
Clay Shirky, New York University shirky.com/;
Interview and Editing: Kurt Reinhard
Camera: Copi Remund
Institut für Theorie, Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts ith-z.ch/programm/contemporary+storytelling/