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The Connecticity by Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico

May 16, 2013 11:02 am

LEA Volume 19 Issue 1
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart
Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir

Connecticity, Augmented Perception of the City
+ Interview, Statement, Artwork
by Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico

We constantly re-interpret and transform the spaces around us.

The ways in which we constantly personalize the spaces which we traverse
and in which we perform our daily routines communicate information about
emotions, knowledge, skills, methodologies, cultures and desires.

This process takes place in digital realms as well, which start to ubiquitously
merge with cities.

Mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, digital tags, near field communication
devices, location based services and mixed/augmented reality have turned
the world into an essentially read/write, ubiquitous publishing surface.

The usage of mobile devices and ubiquitous technologies alters the understanding
of place.

In our research, we investigated the possibilities to conceptualize, design
and implement a series of usage scenarios, moving fluidly across arts, sciences
and the practices of city governance and community design.

The objective we set forth sees the creation of multiple, stratified narratives
onto the city, set in place by citizens, organizations and administrations.
These real-time stories and conversations can be captured and observed, to gain
insights on fundamental issues such as ecology, sustainability, mobility, energy,
politics, culture, creativity and participatory innovation processes.

These methodologies for real-time observation of cities help us take part
in a networked structure, shaped as a diffused expert system, capturing disseminated
intelligence to coagulate it into a framework for the real-time processing of
urban information.

Full article is available for download as a pdf here.

Volume 19 Issue 1 of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is published online as a free PDF but will also be rolled out as Amazon Print on Demand and will be available on iTunes, iPad, Kindle and other e-publishing outlets.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac talks about Cymatics

April 10, 2013 4:26 pm

Leonardo Electronic Almanac dedicated an article to the sculpture Cymatics by Suguru Goto.

Cymatics is the second production of the project Action Sharing, sponsored by the Torino Chamber of commerce.
Cymatics is a kinetic sculpture and sound installation that expresses the artist’s vision of nature through a series of symbolic elements that are used harmoniously in a technological context.
LEA Volume 18 Issue 3?Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou?Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden ?ahin
ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5?ISSN: 1071-4391
Reference: Simona Lodi and Luca Barbeni, “Suguru Goto, Cymatics, 2011 – An Action Sharing Production,” eds. Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Touch and Go) 18, no. 3 (2012): 10-25.?&?Reference: Paul Squires, “Suguru Goto in conversation with Paul Squires,” eds. Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Touch and Go) 18, no. 3 (2012): 28-29.

More information and the pdf of the article can be found here.

OPEN YOUR CITY – Thanks for Coming

November 27, 2012 1:47 pm

Dear Share Festival friends,
thanks for coming this year in such strong numbers! Over 11,000 of you came in person to take part in events.
The Share Festival continues to be a one and only event in Italy that is enjoying growing popularity with an ever wider public attracted by art in the digital age.
The 8th Share Festival—OPEN YOUR CITY—engaged and captured audiences’ interest, featuring this year 20 artists, 25 panellists, 2 exhibitions, 1 special project, 3 performances, and 25 events in 12 consecutive festival days.
This year we collaborated closely with Paratissima and the Architects’ Association, as well as with the host museum, building on and proving the value of joint planning and networking with all the different people who joined forces to create a very special fortnight in Turin. Through their works, the artists explored a number of possible worlds to open our cities. At the conferences, panellists presented their points of view from different perspectives, converging on the fundamental need to empower people and culture to play a leading role in the innovative transformation of the society, communities and territories we live in.
Key words shaping the topics and debates addressed by our international guests included the commons, knowledge, tactical media, new media art, interaction design, mobility, connectivity, the green economy, awareness, interfaces, responsibility, the open city, ubiquity, community, data flows, citizenship, sustainability, and urban screens.
The festival was an inspiration for all—for guests, artists, panellists and the public. A project was officially opened to draw up a Smart City Manifesto, which over the course of the Share Festival was transformed into the Open City Manifesto.
The aim of the Open City Manifesto is to shed critical light on the dynamics that emerge in the intersection of social practices, urban architecture, open technologies and approaches to contemporary art. The idea is show how the growing importance of information systems situated in cities needs to be focused on enhancing not only production capacity but above all our social and environmental capital.
Is this the city that we want, imagine and hope for?
We hope that YOU will be inspired too!
Here we would also like to thank all the guests and artists who participated, but what we would like most is to hear from them and from you, the Share Festival friends, what inspired you all most at this year’s festival, by posting your comments on the Share Festival website.
The leading role of the Piemonte Share Festival in terms of content and the cutting edge focus of its perspectives were also applauded by the local and national media, which dedicated significant space and flattering words in their coverage of the festival.

We invite you to download the OPEN YOUR CITY catalogue here in PDF.

See the pics on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/sharefestival

Our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PiemonteShareFestival

Updates on Twitter at: twitter.com/ShareFestival of follow us on #share2012

Videos at: www.youtube.com/SHAREFESTIVAL

Art and Innovation for the Sustainable City

November 26, 2012 5:17 pm

At Restructura 2012, at Lingotto Fiere from 29th November to 2nd December, Polight—the sustainable building and hydrogen industry cluster managed by the Environment Park—will be showcasing Piedmont’s sustainable building industry, in an exhibition space designed specially by Action Sharing, produced by VASS Technologies, and featuring Cymatics, by Suguru Goto.

For the occasion, Action Sharing has chosen to promote “Art and Innovation” by presenting Polight’s companies and sustainable building materials alongside Cymatics, by Suguru Goto, in what has become an increasingly synergistic partnership transforming artistic and business excellence into astounding works of art.

The combination of nature and innovation is proudly sponsored by the Torino Chamber of Commerce, with the support of the Regional Museum of Natural Science, the Environment Park and Vass Technologies.

 

Download the press release:
http://www.toshare.it/cymatics/press/Restructura2012.pdf

For more information:
www.toshare.it/cymatics
www.envipark.com