"Questi sono i miei Fiumi", Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
"These are my Rivers", Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919)
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Written account of a small meeting of hackers informally held in Jakarta on February 2008: a roundup on initiatives, ideas and criticism on hacker spaces in Indonesia and elsewhere.
a net-art project employing internet's privileges to unveil a beauty usually hidden by war. All the materials consist in photos audio and texts I collected during a trip thru Jerusalem, Gaza, Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah in war times. Despite the context, I never depict the war itself in any material.
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of Autonomy. Cars are immobile like stupid slumbering tortoises in the city traffic. Only slowness is fast.
This document is an open (in fieri) Magna Carta Libertatum: a programmatic, visionary and inclusive document to reclaim the space for the GNU generations, proposing a plan to be shared and that is already shared by many.
This lecture focuses on the progressive intrusion of anti-piracy campaigns into the privacy of citizens worldwide, the threat to civil rights represented by IPRED2 and an appeal to enforce cryptographic encryption in commonly used operating systems. It was held in 2007 at the Ars Electronica Symposium "GOODBYE PRIVACY".
This software is about Resistance inna babylon world which tries to control more and more the way we communicate and we share informations and knowledge.
Questo documento e' una Magna Carta Libertatum ancora aperta (in fieri): un documento programmatico, visionario ed inclusivo che intende reclama il legittimo spazio della nuova generazione GNU, proponendo un piano da condividere e gia' condiviso da molto.
An exploration of the phenomenon of software viruses: combination of rebellious poetic gestures, symptoms of politics or structure, attempts to get into the cracks of the net and artificial intelligences which have always populated the digital universe. Translated in english, german, italian.
A grassroot network of hackers developing software since year 2000, lowering hardware requirements for media publishing to raise freedom of expression.
dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production, being easy to employ without installation and supporting old computers. This project is running since December 2001.
This workshop includes an hands-on experience employing GNU/Linux for digital radio making and a short theoretical overview on the significance of this media.
I was involved in the i4d festival, at the GK3 conference, to lend expertise for the video workshop, facilitated by Rana Ghose, which was held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Staged and discussed on 31 January 2009 for a Salon discussion in Transmediale.de, with the participation of Brian Holmes, Claire Pentecost, Jan Engelmann, Dominique Malaquais and "Tantalum Memorial" co-author Graham Harwood.
Staged on 4 January 2009 in a 20min. speech for the Premio Fava (anti-mafia journalism) in Palazzolo Acreide (Sicily), later discussed with Riccardo Orioles and other guests.
Staged in October 2008 for the launch of the "Internet of Things" book (ed. Institute of Network Cultures) held in the Teatrum Anatomicum of the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam.
Staged in October 2008 in a 20min. speech for the Kudeta evening (Coup d'Etat and Reconciliation in Indonesia) hosted by Killer.tv in the Teatrum Anatomicum of the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam, among other guests present: Saskia Wieringa, Heri Latief, Max Lane, Yanti.