Kinetica Art Fair: The Evolution Of Body, Brain, Mind And Consciousness

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Kinetica Art Fair: The Evolution Of Body, Brain, Mind And Consciousness.

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Face to Facebook project

from the Press Release, February 10th, 2010. Somewhere in Europe.

* Face to Facebook.
http://face-to-facebook.net
Face to Facebook is a project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, who wrote special software to steal 1 million public profiles from Facebook, filtering them through face-recognition software and posting the resulting 250,000 profiles (categorized by facial expression) on a dating website called Lovely-Faces.com.
The project was launched at Transmediale, the annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, on February 2nd, in the form of installation displaying a selection of 1,716 pictures of unaware Facebook users, an explanatory video and a diagram detailing the whole process. The Lovely-Faces.com website went online on the same day.

At the end of the day Cirio’s and Ludovico’s Facebook accounts were disabled and a “cease and desist” letter from Perkins Coie LLP (Facebook lawyers) landed in their inboxes, including a request to give back to Facebook “their data”.
We can properly define it as a performance since it happened in a short time span, involved the audience in a trasformation, and evolved into a thrilling story. The frenzied pace of these digital events was almost bearable.

* The Social Experiment.
In the subsequent days the media performance continued at a very fast pace and what we still define as a “social experiment” was actually quite successful. Starting on February 4th the news went spontaneously viral: thousands of tweets and retweets pointed to the Lovely-Faces.com website or to articles and blog posts, often urging people to check if they (and their loved ones) were on the website or not. In a few days Lovely-faces.com received 964.477 page views from 195 different countries. Reactions varied from asking to be removed (which we diligently did) to asking to be included, from anonymous death threats to proposals of commercial partnerships.

* Back to Facebook.
We approached the Electronic Frontier Foundation about legal counsel, but after a second warning by Perkins Coie, we temporarily put up a notice that Lovely-Faces.com is under maintenance. But they are not ok with that.
They want Lovely-Faces.com not to be reachable. And they even want the same for Face-to-Facebook.net, the website where we explain the project. So basically their current aim is to completely remove the web presence of this artistic project and social experiment.
They missed out on Face-to-Facebook also being meant as a homage to FaceMash, the system Mark Zuckerberg established by scraping the names and photos of fellow classmates off school servers, which was the very first Facebook.
Furthermore, it’s a bit funny hearing Facebook complain about the scraping of personal data that are quasi-public and doubtfully owned exclusively by Facebook (as a Stanford Law School Scholar wondered analyzing Lovely-Faces.com). We obtained them through a script that never even logged in their servers, but only very rapidly “viewed” (and recorded) the profiles. Finally, and paradoxically enough, Facebook has blocked us from accessing our Facebook profiles, but all the data we posted in the last years is still there. This proves once more that they care much more about the data you post than your online identity.

We’re going to reclaim the access to our Facebook accounts, and the right to express and document our work on our own websites.
And even if we are forced to go offline, Lovely-Faces.com will never go offline in the minds of involved people.

Face to Facebook data:

People who asked to be removed from the database: 56
People who asked to be included in the database: 14

Commercial dating website partnership proposals: 4
Other partnership proposals: 9

Cease and desist letters by Perkins Coie LLP (Facebook lawyers): 1
Other threatened lawsuits or class actions: 11

Anonymous email death threat: 5

TV reports: 3
Online news about Lovely-Faces.com (source: Google News): 427

Number of times “lovely faces” introductory video has been viewed on you tube: 31,089
Unique users on Lovely-Faces.com: 211.714

2010 workshop movie

3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Media Art and Culture – enrollment open

Art, Technology, Cultural Heritage

Rieti, July 11-25 2011

come to study and experiment how to merge innovative interactive technology with history and culture.

full description and past editions here

It is a 2-week full-time course on visual arts, media theory and technology in their relation to the place. The workshop is designed for students, scholars and artists from architecture, design, media arts and science fields. Classes are in English with a high quality tutoring, they are thought for the students to produce at the end of the training, an interactive multimedia art work that will be exhibited in the medieval town. Moreover, this experience abroad has already established an ongoing and growing dialogue between international artists.

This workshop is organized by the non-profit association MEDIARS (Centro Sperimentale di Media Interattivi per l’Arte e lo Spettacolo www.mediars.eu ) in collaboration with the local municipality and invites international faculties and scholars from the University of Southern California, University of Florence, University of California Los Angeles, University of Sabine (Rieti) and University of Rome. With regard to the final work the students will use the technology owned by the Center, and they are free to bring theirs as well. The teachers would support and work as facilitators for the students to get the collective projects done.

more photos from Anne’s La Bella Luna

Anne Herlihy installation at Santa Monica Glow 2010

URBAN LIMITS

opening today, URBAN LIMITS

XIX Esposizione Internazionale Ligne et Couleur
AAA – Associazione Architetti Artisti

Sala Birolli, via Macello 17 – VeronaOspiti d’onore: Arch. Libero Cecchini e Gruppo MGR (Marcello Orlandini, Giacomo Gatto e Roberto Sega)

26-31 Ottobre 2010
Sabato 30 incontro con gli architetti e artisti ore 18,30

Orario di apertura:
da Martedì 26 a Venerdì 29 dalle ore 17 alle 19
Sabato 30 dalle 10:30 alle 12:30 e dalle 16:00 alle 20:00
Domenica 31 dalle 11 alle 12:30

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Anne Herlihy @ Glow Santa Monica

Anne Herlihy, who participated in the second edition of the International Workshop on interactive media in Italy, is one of the ten artists, selected to show their work of art during the white night in Los Angeles. The event, called , Glow 2010 Dust&Beyond will take place in Santa Monica, Saturday September 25th.

Anne will exhibit La Bella Luna, the title let us deduce that her stay in Italy with Mediars has given her inspiration :)

Workshop wrap up

The art show Shadows in the Cave
wrapped up the second edition of the international workshop on Interactive Media.

Here is the link to some pictures taking during the exhibit flickr

Waiting for the enrollment to the 2001 edition to open, Mediars is establishing new collaborations with universities, both in Italy and abroad, with a stronger involvement of US Campus.

A special thanks goes to the people, the institutions and companies that supported the second edition of the workshop and made it possible.

Alessandro Cerroni, Light&Sound
Istituto Comprensivo Malfatti of Contigliano
Viviana and Roberto della Locanda Bellarmino
Contigliano City Hall
The Centro Giovanile of Contigliano
Agrodolce Restaurant, Contigliano
Rita Giovannelli and her cultural association Rieti da Scoprire
Il Carro Restaurant

Also, Mediars wants to thank:

Herity International
Sabina Universitas
InGlobe Technology

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