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		<title>transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/35473105">transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/transmediale">transmediale</a>.</p>
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		<title>Stop the Internet Censorship Bills (SOPA/PIPA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<title>FUORICENTRO: Viaggio nel paradosso dei sensi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FUORICENTRO: Viaggio nel paradosso dei sensi – Roma – Pigneto –
Domenica 13 novembre 2011
Intrecciare diverse espressioni artistiche per un&#8217;esperienza di tipo emozionale, polisensoriale, in cui a essere protagonista è l&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<em>FUORICENTRO: Viaggio nel paradosso dei sensi</em> – Roma – Pigneto –<br />
Domenica 13 novembre 2011</p>
<p>Intrecciare diverse espressioni artistiche per un&#8217;esperienza di tipo emozionale, polisensoriale, in cui a essere protagonista è l&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;espressione. Il tema centrale dell&#8217;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.<br />
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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;opera si agita con il live set realizzato in collaborazione con il musicista Abacom System e la videomaker Sabota. Sempre nell&#8217;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&#8217;evento, sfrutta, nell&#8217;ottica di un lavoro sull&#8217;architettura, una preesistente parete verde. Il lavoro coinvolgerà il pubblico in un live set audiovisuale sullo<br />
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&#8217;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&#8217;incremento e l&#8217;elaborazione eccessiva dell&#8217;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 &#8211; 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.<br />
Per le h.21.00 è prevista l&#8217;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&#8217;artista e degli spettatori si trasformano in tempo reale in immagini, luci e colori. L&#8217;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&#8217;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.<br />
Info: <a href="http://www.fanfulla.org/fuoricentro">www.fanfulla.org/fuoricentro</a></p>
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		<title>Referendum!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ciao a tutti,
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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ciao a tutti,</p>
<p>confermo la necessità di questo passaparola, aggiungendo che si tratta<br />
di informazione per ri-affermare i diritti costituzionalmente<br />
garantiti . Il dramma è che sembra la maggior parte della popolazione<br />
non sia consapevole di quanto sta avvenendo.</p>
<p>Quello che Vi porto è solo un piccolo esempio. Sono una ricercatrice,<br />
mi occupo di diritto ambientale e di risorse idriche. Ieri mattina<br />
dovevo intervenire ad un programma RADIO RAI (programmato ormai da due<br />
settimane) per parlare del referendum sulla privatizzazione dell&#8217;acqua<br />
e chiarirne meglio le implicazioni giuridiche.</p>
<p>&#8216;E arrivata una circolare interna RAI alle 8 di ieri mattina che ha<br />
vietato con effetti immediati a qualunque programma della RAI di<br />
toccare l&#8217;argomento fino a giugno (12-13 giugno quando si terrà il<br />
referendum), quindi il programma è saltato e il mio intervento pure.</p>
<p>Questo è un piccolo esempio delle modalità con cui &#8220;il servizio<br />
pubblico&#8221; viene messo a tacere e di come si boicotti pesantemente la<br />
possibilità dei cittadini di essere informati e di intervenire<br />
(secondo gli strumenti garantiti dalla Costituzione) nella gestione<br />
della res publica. Di fronte a questa ennesima manifestazione di un<br />
potere esecutivo assoluto che calpesta non solo quotidianamente le<br />
altre istituzioni, ma anche il popolo italiano di cui invece si fregia<br />
di esser voce ed espressione, occorre  riappropriarci della nostra<br />
voce prima di perderla definitivamente.</p>
<p> Il referendum è evidentemente anche questo!</p>
<p>Mariachiara Alberton</p>
<p>RICORDATEVI CHE DOVETE PUBBLICIZZARLO VOI IL REFERENDUM&#8230; perchè il<br />
Governo non farà passare gli spot ne&#8217; in Rai ne&#8217; a Mediaset.<br />
Sapete perché ? Perché nel caso in cui riuscissimo a raggiungere il quorum<br />
lo scenario sarebbe drammatico per i governanti ma stupendo per tutti i<br />
cittadini italiani:<br />
Vi ricordo che il referendum passa se viene raggiunto il quorum. E&#8217;<br />
necessario che vadano a votare almeno 25 milioni di persone</p>
<p>Il referendum non sarà  pubblicizzato in TV.</p>
<p>I cittadini, non sapranno nemmeno che ci sarà un referendum da votare<br />
il 12 giugno.      QUINDI : I cittadini, non andranno a votare il<br />
referendum.</p>
<p>Vuoi che le cose non vadano a finire cosi ? Copia-incolla e<br />
pubblicizza il referendum a parenti, amici, conoscenti e non<br />
conoscenti. Passaparola!</p>
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		<title>SCEPSI  &#8211; European School of Social Imagination</title>
		<link>http://www.ecopolis.org/scepsi-european-school-of-social-imagination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecopolis.org/scepsi-european-school-of-social-imagination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCEPSI  &#8211; European School of Social Imagination
Conference 20-22 May 2011, Republic of San Marino
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: http://scepsi.eu/en/program
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: http://scepsi.eu/en/info
Reinventing the autonomy of knowledge is the task of our time. It’s not
only a political task. The epistemic foundation of research and learning
as autonomous activities is at stake, when dogmas of profit, growth,
competition take the lead in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>SCEPSI  &#8211; European School of Social Imagination</strong></em><br />
<strong>Conference 20-22 May 2011, Republic of San Marino</strong></p>
<p>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: <a href="http://scepsi.eu/en/program">http://scepsi.eu/en/program</a><br />
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: <a href="http://scepsi.eu/en/info">http://scepsi.eu/en/info</a></p>
<p>Reinventing the autonomy of knowledge is the task of our time. It’s not<br />
only a political task. The epistemic foundation of research and learning<br />
as autonomous activities is at stake, when dogmas of profit, growth,<br />
competition take the lead in the old institutions of production and<br />
transmission of knowledge. This is why we are calling students and<br />
researchers, artists and scientists and social activists to gather in the<br />
first conference of SCEPSI that will take place in San Marino, on  20-22<br />
May 2011.</p>
<p>Protests against the financial aggression and the destruction of the<br />
public school in the European continent are spreading, but we have to<br />
create new institutions, aimed to self organization of cognitive workers<br />
and to the reactivation of social sensibility and imagination. The<br />
conference will be the first act of the activity of the European School of<br />
Social Imagination, that in the next year will organize seminars in San<br />
Marino, and in European cities like Helsinki, London, and Oslo.</p>
<p>The activity of the School starts from four question: 1. How can we think<br />
the consequences to every day life in the face of a possible economic<br />
failure of the European Union? 2. How can art and poetry arouse new<br />
energies and revitalize the social field weakened by precarization and the<br />
alienation of (digital) labour? 3.How can emergent scientific imagination<br />
reconstitute the social body? 4. How can we open up spaces for the<br />
autonomy of knowledge within the process of the marketisation and<br />
capitalisation of the education system?</p>
<p>These questions will be foundational for the emergent curriculum of the<br />
first year of seminars and engagements of the European School of Social<br />
Imagination. The following is the program of the conference, that may<br />
change slightly during the next weeks.</p>
<p>- &#8211; - -</p>
<p>[versione italiana]</p>
<p><strong><em>SCEPSI  &#8211; Scuola Europea di Immaginazione Sociale</em><br />
Conferenza 20-22 maggio 2011, Repubblica di San Marino</strong></p>
<p>PROGRAMMA PRELIMINARE: <a href="http://scepsi.eu/it/program">http://scepsi.eu/it/program</a><br />
INFORMAZIONI PRATICHE: <a href="http://scepsi.eu/it/info">http://scepsi.eu/it/info</a></p>
<p>Reinventare l’autonomia della conoscenza è il compito del nostro tempo.<br />
Non è solo un compito politico. E’ in gioco quando i dogmi del profitto<br />
della crescita e della competizione prendono il posto di comando nelle<br />
vecchie istituzioni della produzione e trasmissione della conoscenza, lo<br />
stesso fondamento epistemico della ricerca e dell’apprendimento come<br />
attività autonoma è in gioco. Questa è la ragione per cui chiamiamo<br />
studenti e ricercatori, artisti e scienziati e attivisti sociali a<br />
riunirsi nella prima conferenza di SCEPSI che si svolgerà a San Marino nei<br />
giorni 20, 21 e 22 Maggio 2011.</p>
<p>Si diffondono le proteste contro l’aggressione finanziaria e la<br />
distruzione della scuola pubblica nel continente europeo, ma dobbiamo<br />
creare nuove istituzioni, che abbiano come scopo la autor-organizzazione<br />
dei lavoratori cognitivi e la riattivazione della sensibilità e<br />
dell’immaginazione collettive. La conferenza sarà il primo atto della<br />
attività della Scuola Europea per l’immaginazione sociale, che nel<br />
prossimo anno organizzerà seminari a San Marino, e nelle città di<br />
Helsinki, Londra, Oslo.</p>
<p>L’attività della Scuola parte da quattro questioni: 1. Come possiamo<br />
pensare le conseguenze di un fallimento dell’Unione europea nella vita<br />
quotidiana? 2. Come possono l’arte e la poesia far emergere nuove energie<br />
e rivitalizzare il campo sociale fragilizzato dalla precarietà e dalle<br />
patologie della psicosfera? 3. Come possono le immaginazioni scientifiche<br />
emergenti ricostituire il corpo sociale? 4. Come possiamo aprire spazi per<br />
l’autonomia della conoscenza di fronte al processo di mercantilizzazione<br />
del sistema educativo e alla sua sottomissione al dogma capitalista?</p>
<p>Queste domande saranno fondative per il curriculum del primo anno di<br />
seminari e attività della Scuola Europea di Immaginazione sociale. Quello<br />
che segue è il programma della conferenza che potrà cambiare leggermente<br />
nelle prossime settimane.</p>
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		<title>digital detox week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<title>Face to Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.ecopolis.org/face-to-facebook-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecopolis.org/face-to-facebook-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release, April 7th, 2011. Belgrade.
Face to Facebook
http://www.face-to-facebook.net
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
Legal update:
After sending us a &#8220;cease and desist letter&#8221; (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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Press Release, April 7th, 2011. Belgrade.<br />
Face to Facebook<br />
<a href="http://www.face-to-facebook.net">http://www.face-to-facebook.net</a><br />
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.</p>
<p>Legal update:<br />
After sending us a &#8220;cease and desist letter&#8221; (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&#8217;s trademark.<br />
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.</p>
<p>Global Mass Media Hack Performance:<br />
<a href="http://www.face-to-facebook.net/press-coverage.php">http://www.face-to-facebook.net/press-coverage.php</a><br />
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 &#8220;viral&#8221;, especially in some countries like Brazil, Pakistan, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine.<br />
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 &#8220;Yes&#8221; to the question &#8220;Should Lovely-faces.com require consent to use your photo?&#8221; Maybe that influenced also the blog &#8220;Ethics Alarms&#8221; to declare Lovely-Faces.com as &#8220;Unethical Website of the Month.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Some selected TV News videos:<br />
* MyFox LA, Los Angeles Fox News Tv<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYRM9VAtsE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYRM9VAtsE</a><br />
* WSBTV, Atlanta WSB-TV channel 2<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3Qyz-ojvI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3Qyz-ojvI</a><br />
* Newsy, Online video news analysis<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDs3PdGKSA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDs3PdGKSA</a><br />
* Apple daily HK, Taiwan, China, Hong-Kong-based newspaper<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSNZqoqk24">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSNZqoqk24</a><br />
* Tagesschau, German public TV ARD channel 1<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCh1XPWlMY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCh1XPWlMY</a></p>
<p>Some selected online Interviews:<br />
* CNN, US &#8211; Art &#8216;hacktivists&#8217; take on Facebook:<br />
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/11/artists.facebook.project">http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/11/artists.facebook.project</a><br />
* 2010LAB (Video), Germany &#8211; Facebook and Transmediale &#8211; your face is ours:<br />
<a href="http://www.2010lab.tv/en/video/facebook-and-transmediale-your-face-ours">http://www.2010lab.tv/en/video/facebook-and-transmediale-your-face-ours</a><br />
* Artinfo.com, US &#8211; The Artist Who&#8217;s Out to Liberate Facebook:<br />
<a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36912/the-artist-whos-out-to-liberate-facebook-a-qa-with-profile-thief-paolo-cirio">http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36912/the-artist-whos-out-to-liberate-facebook-a-qa-with-profile-thief-paolo-cirio</a><br />
* Artline, Switzerland &#8211; Sculptors of data  &#8211; Die Daten-Bildhauer<br />
<a href="http://www.artline.org/?p=detail&#038;id=10736&#038;back=home&#038;L=0">http://www.artline.org/?p=detail&#038;id=10736&#038;back=home&#038;L=0</a><br />
* Jetzt, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany &#8211; Feldzug gegen Facebook:<br />
<a href="http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/519492/Feldzug-gegen-Facebook">http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/519492/Feldzug-gegen-Facebook</a><br />
* Politika, Serbia, newspaper<br />
<a href="http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/spektar/zivot-i-stil/Uzeli-smo-desetine-hiljada-profila-iz-Srbije.sr.html">http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/spektar/zivot-i-stil/Uzeli-smo-desetine-hiljada-profila-iz-Srbije.sr.html</a><br />
* Ha&#8217;aretz, Israel, newspaper<br />
<a href="http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/spages/1217717.html">http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/spages/1217717.html</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release, 2 February 2011. Berlin.
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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Press Release, 2 February 2011. Berlin.</p>
<p>Face to Facebook<br />
<a href="http://www.face-to-facebook.net">http://www.face-to-facebook.net</a><br />
A project by PAOLO CIRIO and ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO</p>
<p>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.<br />
<a href="http://www.lovely-faces.com">http://www.lovely-faces.com</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;friends&#8221; and they wanted it quickly and easily.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Mixed media installation of Face to Facebook:<br />
Premiere of the installation with more than 2000 printed pictures of faces at the Transmediale festival in Berlin.<br />
<a href="http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook.php">http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook.php</a></p>
<p>The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy:<br />
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.</p>
<p>Authors&#8217; biographies:</p>
<p><strong>Paolo Cirio </strong>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.<br />
<strong><br />
Alessandro Ludovico</strong> is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993. He&#8217;s one of the founders of the &#8216;Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Have fun and take care!<br />
Paolo and Alessandro.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Open Web can aspire to continue the peer-to-peer legacy of the classic internet applications.
Decentralized platforms such as Usenet, email and IRC were not controlled by any one organization, and do not directly capture profit. The web has been the focus of the commercialization of the internet due to it&#8217;s client-server architecture that gives full [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Open Web can aspire to continue the peer-to-peer legacy of the classic internet applications.</p>
<p>Decentralized platforms such as Usenet, email and IRC were not controlled by any one organization, and do not directly capture profit. The web has been the focus of the commercialization of the internet due to it&#8217;s client-server architecture that gives full control to the website operator. This control is required by the logic of Capitalist finance in order to capture value. Without such control profit-seeking investors do not provide funds.</p>
<p>However, this control comes at a cost. Centralized systems are far less efficient at managing online communications than decentralized systems. The corporate, web-based communication-platforms that emerged under the Web 2.0 monicker are hungry for more than just Capital. The huge datacenters required to run them also consume massive natural resources and energy, and cause massive amounts of pollution. Yet, desipite all, these platforms still commonly experience scaling issues and frequent outages, straining under the profit-imposed need to centralize control. And this in a world where the majority of the global population does in practical terms not have access to the internet. Of course, environmental concerns are not the only issue with overly centralized systems. Perhaps even of greater concern are the implications for privacy and freedom of speech and association when control of our social technology is held by only a few private corporations.</p>
<p>Lost in the hype of the Social Web is the fact that the Internet has always been about sharing: Usenet, email and IRC have for a long time enabled social connections, including citizen journalism, photo sharing, and other features of recent web-based systems.</p>
<p>Thimbl demonstrates the potential for integrating classic internet technologies into the Open Web. On the surface, Thimbl appears to be yet another microblogging service, similar to Twitter or identi.ca. However, Thimbl is a specialized web-based client for a User Information protocol called Finger. The Finger Protocol was orginally developed in the 1970s, and as such, is already supported by all existing server platforms.</p>
<p>Thimbl offers no way to sign up. It is up to your own webhost, internet service-provider or system administrator to provide accounts. Virtually every server on the intenret already has Finger server software available in its software repository. All that is required for any organisation to provide Thimbl accounts is to simply turn their Finger service on. In most cases, this would take the server administator no more than a few minutes, after which all of their users could log in to thimbl.net and participate. So Thimbl is a call to arms for users to demand this option.</p>
<p>Most importantly, Thimbl has embedded within it a vision for the Open Web that goes beyond the web. For the web to be truly open it must integrate pervasivaly in to the internet as a whole. The internet has always has been much more than the web. </p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html">Thimbl </a></p>
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		<title>MEMEFEST &#8211; DON&#8217;T MISS IT!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>antonio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, Memefest singles out a text and/or image that serves as a focal point for a critical take on the current media and communication environment. In order to enable a creative approach based on interdisciplinary, practical and theoretical perspective, you are able to participate in different categories.
The friendly competition has three main divisions: Visual [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each year, Memefest singles out a text and/or image that serves as a focal point for a critical take on the current media and communication environment. In order to enable a creative approach based on interdisciplinary, practical and theoretical perspective, you are able to participate in different categories.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can register your works in one or more categories. However, a particular work can compete in one category only.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.memefest.org/en/competition/intro/">Check bellow for more info about the category that is most interesting for you.</p>
<p>Participation is free of charge!</p>
<p>Deadline for your submissions is January 20th 2011.</a></p>
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