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ARLEN SCHUMER
May 9, 2012
Arlen Schumer
Once again, for all the comic book fans who still don't "get" Roy Lichtenstein--thanx as always to the Lord of Lichtenstein, David Barsalou: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/ma...
Henry Martinez Sorry Arlen, I don't get Lichtenstein, and the article didn't help. I will just attribute it to my not seeing his vision.
Mark Lerer Roy Lichtenstein Forever! Thanks for posting!
Arlen Schumer Delmo, that sounds totally contradictory to me; you say you "like" Roy, which i take to mean you "like" his work--then out of the other corner of your mouth you dismiss it completely, using the same tired, old canards that miss the entire point of his work, that I would've thought by now had been considered passe...
Delmo Walters Jr. I'm allowed to be contradictory. You're free to remove my comment if it displeases you.
Arlen Schumer geez, are you that sensitive? whatever happened to casual debate\, delmo? why do you think I posted this image & story in the first place? which, by the way, i doubt you've even read, did you? maybe if you read it, your opinion on RL might change...
Delmo Walters Jr. Probably not.
Arlen Schumer and also, delmo, am I not "allowed to be contradictory" when I post a response to a comment like yours? Geez, people on FB are so touchy the moment some "contradiction" rears its "ugly" head!
Delmo Walters Jr. Sure, you're allowed.
Arlen Schumer wouldn't it be nice if people actually debated their positions in a good-natured fashion? Or at least that's my goal...
Mike Hall Lichtenstein's work is derivative (in the legal sense of the word, not the critical), and that makes it original in its own right. Look at those two images: there are actually quite a few differences. Lichtenstein's doesn't serve the needs of a story; it stands alone as an image that is itself a narrative statement of the power of comic book imagery. I don't think I'd call myself a Lichtenstein fan (I'm familiar with only a few of his pieces), but I get what he was doing, and will continue to defend it as legitimate art.
Fred Schiller I wonder how folks would feel about his work if he worked in a bakery by day and painted at night for fun. Maybe he gave away his originals to friends who liked them and he did it for the joy and not the money.
Bhob Stewart With "Brushstroke" he out-popped everyone. www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/hirshorn07.htm
Rick Stromoski Lichtenstein was a plagiaristic twat
Matt Tauber I "get" that he had an interesting idea that he overused. I "get" that he couldn't draw sh*t on his own. I really don't get "Sleeping Girl," though, as Lichtenstein once said his goal was to capture a moment of emotional intensity as a static, technical drawing.
Mike Wedmer Roy would recreate the technical process of printing, more than he was ripping off a comic artist. His work looked like giant blown up versions of a panel. All the way down to the telltale dots of early coloring.
Maybe it has more to do with his work, which is comic oriented, being considered legitimate art, when other more skilled Comicers work, is not.
Bojan M. Đukić As expected, the imitated comic book art proves to be far superior in every instance compared to the 'artistic treatment' that remains inferior.
Arlen Schumer I have one word for all those who still don't get RL: "Context." If you don't know what that means in relation to RL, then you won't get RL. Period. The comments against RL on this thread prove it...sigh!
Rick Stromoski So either accept RL as an artistic genius or be a luddite.
Arlen Schumer Gee, rick, must you be that extreme? There's no middle ground with you?
Arlen Schumer And a "luddite" is anti-technology; what the heck does that have to do with art? Unless you mean a "philistine," which would be more apt.
Rick Stromoski I get it Arlen...i just don't happen to agree with your assessment of RL's contribution to art. He's an accidental success. He fell itno this success by accident after failing with conventional attempts. he did this as lark and it took off...to me he's as relevent as Julian Schnabel or Robbie Conal...meaning not very
Rick Stromoski meant to say phillistine but wrote luddite in haste...
Arlen Schumer Rick, what exactly do you "get"? You can't "get" RL and then totally dismiss his career--that NO art critic in the mid-'60s thought would last btw--with the, by now, tired ol' canards that attempt to pass off RL as some sort of mass-hypnosis that ivory tower "art critics" have successfully performed on all of us! The bottom line is, so many comic artists think all RL did was trace & copy, what you call "accidental," and are still stuck in 1965. GET OVER IT.
Bojan M. Đukić 'He's an accidental success'.
The Best description of Roy Lichtenstein & his 'art'. EVER. Thank you, Sir.
Arlen Schumer Misery loves company.
Hilary Barta I was just interviewed for an article on the Lichtenstein show going up at the Art Institute of Chicago. I assumed that the old bias of high and low art would be moot at this point. But the museum does not site the comic book sources, and their explanation is that his art is all about that "context", and they didn't want to distract the public from that at the show. No problem, right? Except that they DO cite his contemporaries in Abstract Impressionism when they believe the artist might be humorously referring to them. So, De Kooning is "worthy" of mention, Romita not so much. This is a bias, plain and simple, perhaps one that they are not even aware of. So it's not only the comics fans that still don't see the larger picture.
Rick Stromoski I don't think there's anything to get over Arlen...you can't force people into a false appreciation of something they consider drivel. I happen to like Laurie Anderson...my wife hates her...but at least she didn't make a career out of ripping people off.
Arlen Schumer hilary--i'm kinda surprised by what you say, because for the last dozen yrs or so, so many RL shows/books etc. have included his sources, in part, I can only assume, in order to diffuse the still-vehement attacks on the veracity of his work & career. Because once you see what RL worked from, you might understand more what he actually did, and achieved, in terms of art/context/appropriation/found-art/pop art theory and practice.
Arlen Schumer And rick, simply not liking one artist or another for personal taste reasons--but still respecting their art & craft--is very different from thinking their career is "accidental" or a "rip-off," or whatever you're complaining about RL, which, again, are the same insults that've been hurled at him since he began.
Mark Badger Love Licthenstein but some battles just ain't worth fighting
Hilary Barta Yeah, I was rather surprised myself.
Arlen Schumer hilary, i just saw a doc film 6 months ago made by 1 of his former assistants, and sanctioned by the RL estate, that went into some depth about his sources! so yeah, it doesn't make sense what you've told em...
Arlen Schumer oh, Robert, don't you know by now I purposely pose polarizing positions in my posts (alliteration!:) in order to foment a lively debate? :) why do you think I posted this RL story in the first place? geez, everyone seems to be so thin-skinned when their positions are challenged or contradicted. Lighten up, everyone!
Hilary Barta Who knows, Arlen? Like I say, they may be oblivious to what I describe as bias, or maybe they thought it was no longer necessary. And, to be fair, I previewed the as yet incomplete installation of the show. Anyway, I gotta roll.
Arlen Schumer hey Hilary, friend me! always been a fan of your work!
Arlen Schumer thanx for friending me, H--FB banned me for 30 days because I "over-friended" in a day!
James Romberger I wish I could care about the artists who make up the blue chip 1%er- favorite art of the second half of the last century and the beginning of the current one, but unfortunately, I just can't.
Arlen Schumer who does? I can't keep up with all the great artists in comics, much less the fine art world!
Michael Dooley For anyone interested in a view of Lichtenstein from someone who's actually read the Guardian piece, see the comments I just posted on Arlen's wall (above).
Delmo Walters Jr. www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/05/10/forget-li...
Arlen Schumer
March 8, 2012 ·
KIRBY COVER 1st POP ART USAGE: From David Barsalou's requisite DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN site on Flickr: "British artist Richard Hamilton, called by many as the 'Father of Pop Art.' Among Hamilton’s notable accomplishments was designing the cover for the Beatles White Album. Probably his earliest work to command attention was the 1956 collage 'Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?' The collage includes, as one of its elements, a framed 'Young Romance' cover. The cover is by Jack Kirby…."
Arlen Schumer
October 24, 2012 ·
These comparisons are absolutely ridiculous; SO WHAT if Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by these inconsequential pieces of commercial (found) art! RL recontextualized them into ART! When will all of you RL critics get your ostritch-like heads out of 1965 sand and wake up and smell the 21st century? Where you've all LOST your Lichtenstein-is-not-an-artist argument?!?!?
DAMION SILVER and SCOTTY ALBRECHT | Wood and Pulp
May 25, 2013 to June 23, 2013
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 25, 7-9pm
Colab is pleased to present Wood and Pulp, a two person exhibition by Damion Silver and Scotty Albrecht. Wood and Pulp features new bodies of artwork, including collage, assemblages, and works on paper. The artists' works share an intricate use of found objects and carefully wrought wood and paper.
Silver and Albrecht both have backgrounds rooted in design as well as influences and techniques derived from traditions of crafting by hand. While there are strong commonalities in the artists' processes, Wood and Pulp demonstrates distinct approaches in their use of material and the resulting forms.
In the process of creating Wood and Pulp, Silver and Albrecht found unexpected insights about the other's work. Viewers will share this sense of discovery around how the highly considered works communicate and diverge.
A common point of departure for Wood and Pulp is the concept of balance. Meticulously formed materials, whether derived from wood or paper, come together to form a larger composition. Many of the materials, imbued with their own past memory and meaning, take on a personal significance in the resulting work. While there often inherent context in the underlying material or iconic form, each artist distinctly draws upon these, then recomposes and presents their own records that recontextualize and communicate anew.
The "Homoglyph" series involves clipping bodies out of screenshots of gay dating app profile pictures and recontextualizing them to emphasize the semiotics of the selfie. Bodies paired with specific motifs juxtapose classical and contemporary notions of gender expression while challenging the relationship between contemporary masculinity and self-objectification. Here, the profile photo is viewed as a contemporary hieroglyph meant to communicate specific sexual messages informed by hegemonic values and mainstream media. Likewise, the stolen images address the inherent conflicts of the conflation of private and public life.
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REFF on tour
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REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
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Keelung Harbour
Keelung
Taiwan
台灣 基隆
2014.01.07
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Yellow Duck
2013
Florentijn Hofman, Netherlands
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
Wednesday greetings, collectors! The Cold of Late Spring '09 still has Mr. Gutierrez and me in its grips, which is beginning to make both of us a little cranky. We've got stuff to do, and we want to suffer no impediments in getting it done. Raul's been busy rolling out all kinds of improvements for the site, modifying the home page to include more images of recent editions and updating the sidebar to include recent media mentions of our talented artists. We're already bumping up against some limitations there — with Alex MacLean, Jorge Colombo and Christian Chaize all worthy of the spots they've earned, we're wondering what we'll do when the next wave of attention hits. For more details check out my recent blog dispatch.
We're also prepping a big announcement, which will land in the inbox of Hey, Hot Shot! list subscribers tomorrow: this year's first 5 Hot Shots! Which means that a day of deliberation awaits me once I'm done introducing today's editions by a Fall 2006 Hot Shot, photographer Shen Wei.
It's both inconvenient and fitting that Shen's midair, en route to China, as I introduce his 20x200 debut. Both of his photographs, Blessing over the Rice Machine, Guiyang, Guizhou Province and Yi, Beijing, are from Chinese Sentiment. In this new series, he's attempting to reconnect to his memories of the homeland he left nearly a decade ago, with a fresh perspective that's influenced by his experiences and accomplishments abroad.
I've known Shen for a while now, and my evolving relationship with him is an excellent illustration of why Hey, Hot Shot! and the gallery are such fulfilling endeavors. The opportunity to work with artists as their careers are taking shape is an honor and a source of inspiration. (And sometimes it's even exasperating!) I watch careers progress with a combination of mama bear pride and curiosity, and I learn a lot from every single artist that I work with. My interactions with Shen have been particularly enriching. Coming as we do from entirely different cultures, I'm continuously fascinated — and often surprised — by how he approaches the world in his work.
Two summers ago, I co-curated an exhibition with Jörg Colberg called A New American Portrait, which included work by Shen. It remains one of my favorite exhibitions, not only because I so enjoyed exhibiting the work that we chose, but also because it gave me cause to consider deeply a genre that's been of abiding interest to me. Releasing Shen's editions has me thinking about it again, and I'm loving the challenge.
A while back, my friend Carolina caught me off-guard with a deceptively simple question. During a conversation about Stefan Ruiz and his amazing telenovelas project, she asked me to compare Stefan's portraiture to Alec Soth's. I started to talk right away, assuming it'd be a cinch to explain because I know both of them and their respective bodies of work pretty well, but I stumbled, and fast. It was hard and I was frustrated, impressed and challenged all at once. What I came around to was this, which I later wrote to Alec in an email:
... when comparing you to Stefan, I decided that your intent is different, and the differences in your intent affect your relationships with your subjects. When I look at your photos, I feel like they [the subjects] are revealing themselves to you, and that the viewer is an outsider who you're allowing to witness that relationship you've forged. With Stefan, I feel like he is persuading his subjects to show themselves to the viewer, and that he is the intermediary who facilitates it. It's hard for me to articulate why exactly, and I wonder how much of my hunch is based on knowing each one of you. I wish I could articulate certain empirical evidence in each of your photos to support the theory, but it's hard to do.
Which brings me back to Shen... his approach, and his results, are somewhere in between those two things. He once explained to me that he uses the fact that he's foreign to disarm people and/or make them feel more comfortable. His accent, his excellent-but-not-perfect-English, his entirely different cultural background — all these things could make him shy and insecure, but instead he uses them to his advantage, making people more comfortable with their own vulnerabilities.
Photographs resulting from this approach form his Almost Naked series. There's an intimacy to these images, often revealing an unguardedness which suggests to me that the subject is perhaps more at ease revealing themselves to a photographer who they see as being "other" — not part of their world, their community at all. I kind of wonder if that assumption extends to who they think his [Shen's] audience is.
That Shen's portraits are suffused with sexuality adds another important layer to the work, especially when you consider the cultural context Shen has emerged from. As he's mentioned in interviews, "Chinese people are much more conservative and isolated than Americans. Chinese people are living in a much stricter society; there are rules and rules that came out of thousands years of history."
These differences are central to Shen's work, and I think it's his enthusiasm about being freed from such conservatism that puts his subjects at ease. His fascination is accompanied by a certain amount of incredulous thrill over the fact that he can ask someone to pose nude and that they will. It's disarming to encounter someone so curious, so genuinely engaged and interested and not in the least bit jaded.
It's not the sensationalism or the taboo that draws him in, it's his appetite for freedom — his own and that of his subjects — which inspires him. With this new project, he is taking everything that he's learned and become through his time in the States and bringing back to his homeland, attempting to recontextualize it there. Both he and his country have changed considerably in the intervening years; what a treat it is to be able to witness the effects of these changes on both shooter and subject.
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
The "Homoglyph" series involves clipping bodies out of screenshots of gay dating app profile pictures and recontextualizing them to emphasize the semiotics of the selfie. Bodies paired with specific motifs juxtapose classical and contemporary notions of gender expression while challenging the relationship between contemporary masculinity and self-objectification. Here, the profile photo is viewed as a contemporary hieroglyph meant to communicate specific sexual messages informed by hegemonic values and mainstream media. Likewise, the stolen images address the inherent conflicts of the conflation of private and public life.
@jaysonedwardcarter
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
The "Homoglyph" series involves clipping bodies out of screenshots of gay dating app profile pictures and recontextualizing them to emphasize the semiotics of the selfie. Bodies paired with specific motifs juxtapose classical and contemporary notions of gender expression while challenging the relationship between contemporary masculinity and self-objectification. Here, the profile photo is viewed as a contemporary hieroglyph meant to communicate specific sexual messages informed by hegemonic values and mainstream media. Likewise, the stolen images address the inherent conflicts of the conflation of private and public life.
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REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
SOURCE: The Brooklyn Rail
TITLE: Liubo Borissov: Crowdsource
DATE: JUNE 26 2010
AUTHOR: Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Crowdsourcing, “crowd” and “outsourcing,”* is the act of tasking an often random multitude with solving a problem typically handled by one person or group, entrusting the entire hive to efficiently complete what a single member might find daunting. Cultivating a heady mixture of narcissism, technological wizardry, and the irresistible lure of audience participation, Liubo Borrisov’s crowdsource explores, among other things, the observer’s response to the unexpected confrontation of his or her own gaze in a surreal staredown.
The narcissistic impulse is not new to art, as any cave-painting Cro-Magnon with access to a glossy pond or preening aristocrat with access to Jan van Eyck could likely attest. The concept of crowdsourcing, though only in recent years given a dynamic moniker, is not terribly new to art either, as “add your mark” or “cut my dress” have become familiar concepts that subvert the usually static relationship between creator and consumer. These trends have found new vitality today; our digital culture has transformed every cell phone and laptop into a flattering mirror, while social networking enables the wider dissemination of all things navel-gazing. In this light, nothing could be more hypnotic and compelling for the viewer’s vanity than the opportunity to become an element of an artwork with minimal effort beyond arriving in a space at a specified time.
This concept quickly hooks the unassuming passerby by the eyeballs via “Racing Stripes,” Borissov’s “interactive video painting.” Revealing itself patiently from the gallery window, “Racing Stripes” thrusts all that crosses its sightline into a manipulated and delayed reflection of its P.O.V.’s dreamy, color-streaked cityscape. Stills captured every minute by this stealthy spy-painting are then uploaded onto a flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/liuboto/tags/racingstripes) where, the artist informs us, all images are available for use under Creative Commons license. This concession, that these images belong, in a sense, to anyone who might want to access them, is both a nod to the openly collaborative nature of this work’s process of creation, and a surprising act of generosity. Here the viewer is not only lured into participation by the promise of gazing upon him or herself as a Work of Art™, but he or she is then rewarded with an online, downloadable, shareable souvenir of The Time I Was a Work of Art™.
This brief flash of imagined celebrity is part curious spectacle and part great equalizer: passersby are compelled to behave like hyperactive, attention-starved children; passersby are compelled to gaze meaningfully into their blurred reflections as if they were the oh-so-soulful eyes of a “Present” Marina Abramovic; passersby are compelled to move past quickly as though the photos could perhaps be used as evidence in court; passersby cease passing by as frame after frame of changing light and parking patterns consume the image archive.
Yet, in spite of any given action, non-action, or reaction, this piece remains impassive, simply a machine spitting out a calculation, albeit an aesthetically pleasing one. Its choppy, watercolor-like aesthetic, dreamlike staccato motion blur, and positively inclusive web presence belie the far darker implications at the core of “Racing Stripes.” This painting is little more than an unblinking electronic eye, a dolled-up surveillance camera dispassionately documenting every minute in its limited field of view and reporting all it sees.
In “The Narcissus Series,” also on view, the artist inflicts momentary self-reflection on the voyeurs and exhibitionists flooding the world of Chatroulette.com, the recent social networking (and snubbing) phenomenon. He has created a software program that redirects the webcam images of Chatroulette participants so that they receive not a chance chat partner, but a flipped, upside-down image of themselves, as if seducing them into a still reflecting pool to drown. Gazing at the varied states of maturity and undress depicted in Borissov’s survey of narcissists gazing upon their own reflection, the viewer is confronted by the utter lack of self-awareness present in this crushingly self-conscious digital world. While a vast number of these people have surely indulged themselves in one of those cringe-inducing “pouty-faced self-portraits in mirror” now wasting pixels on Facebook, none seem to immediately recognize his or her own face when, by all means of time, space, and Internet logic, it should be the face of another. In the brief moment before his subjects “next” themselves in favor of new random prospects, Borissov captures a kind of yearbook of subtle emotions and blank gazes, all presumably searching for something beyond their own reflections.
With his digital mirrors, Borissov hands the viewer his or her own image to admire and gives nothing in return, just the vacant, detached gaze of a machine masking its intents and silent observations with a familiar face. The hacking and recontextualization of any candid moment in any person’s everyday life is rich with the potential for either inadvertent beauty or casual horror, but here the viewer is handed neither, just the facts arranged in a slightly more pleasing shape, as though assembled by an unseen mechanical hand adhering to some rote algorithm.
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present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
The "Homoglyph" series involves clipping bodies out of screenshots of gay dating app profile pictures and recontextualizing them to emphasize the semiotics of the selfie. Bodies paired with specific motifs juxtapose classical and contemporary notions of gender expression while challenging the relationship between contemporary masculinity and self-objectification. Here, the profile photo is viewed as a contemporary hieroglyph meant to communicate specific sexual messages informed by hegemonic values and mainstream media. Likewise, the stolen images address the inherent conflicts of the conflation of private and public life.
@jaysonedwardcarter
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
REFF, FakePress, AOS and Ossigeno
present
REFF on tour
Ancona, Osimo, Macerata
REFF on tour
REFF on tour
30-31 marzo 2011
Just back from London REFF, the fake institution promoting from 2009 cultural policies, artworks and technologied inspired to the systhematic reinvention of reality, will arrive in Marche (Italy)
Thanks to the collaboration of Ossigeno, REFF A/R Youth Program, the special program in Education & Learning dedicated to yung gneration, will be presented in public shool, Academias and Universities of Ancona, Osimo and Macerata cities.
Everyones – students, professors, citizens – will have the possibility to experiment the extraordinary effects of REFF AR Drugs, the augmented reality drug recently lunched by the fake institution.
REFF – Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!
Program of activities
30th March 2011 , 10,40am – Aula Magna
Liceo Artistico Mannucci “E. Mannucci” – Ancona
Introduction by Prof. Francesco Colonnelli
30th March 2011 – 17.30pm
Libreria Il mercante di Storie – Osimo (AN)
31th March 2011 – 10am – Aula Magna
Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata – Macerata (http://www2.abamc.it/)
Introduction by Prof. Antonio G. Benemia
More info on:
ABOUT REFF AR YOUTH PROGRAM
REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of REFF AR Drug to young generations.The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality.
REFF AR Youth Program was lunched in London as a part of the exhibit “Remix the World! Reinvent reality!” (Fourtherfield Gallery, 25th Feb – 26th Mar 2011). The agenda of the Fake Institution inspired approval and enthusiasm in the academic world. Six different universities in London already guested REFF workshops and presentations.
Learn mere here:
ABOUT REFF AR Drugs
From the information sheet:
“REFF is an Augmented Reality (AR) Drug. Also referred to as Simulata Realitas per Activam-Industriosam-Laboriosam Multiplicationem, REFF AR Drug is a psychotropic antidepressant administered cross-medially.This drug is used to treat social depression, fear of the future, precariety, anthropological distress, lack of opportunities, communicational totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms and intolerant social ecosystems.Compared to other drugs acting on the same areas, REFF AR Drug is designed with accessibility in mind and as an enabler of the spontaneous generation of forms of expression and of collaborative practices.
REFF AR Drug is also used (off-label) to treat numerous other conditions such as the UFPS (Uncertainty for the Future of Publishing Syndrome), and the LDSBMS (Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome).”
Learn more here:
ABOUT REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory
REFF is a fake cultural institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression all over the world.
REFF was born in Italy in 2009. Since then it continuously operated using fake, remix, reinvention, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as tools for the systematic reinvention of reality. Defining what is real is an act of power. Being able to reinvent reality is an act of freedom. REFF promotes the dissemination and reappropriation of all technologies, theories and practices that can be used to freely and autonomously reinvent reality.
To do this, REFF established an international competition on digital arts, a worldwide education program in which ubiquitous technologies are used to create additional layers of reality for critical practices and freedoms, a series of open source software platforms and an Augmented Reality Drug.
REFF collaborates with art organizations, student groups, research institutions and all other subjects wishing to promote the freedoms to reinvent their world. REFF has received several official recognitions worldwide: it was hosted in the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate, and was an official initiative of the European Community’s Year of Creativity in 2009.
Official site:
REFF in the world:
Photos by Marco Fagotti and Giacomo Cesari
The "Homoglyph" series involves clipping bodies out of screenshots of gay dating app profile pictures and recontextualizing them to emphasize the semiotics of the selfie. Bodies paired with specific motifs juxtapose classical and contemporary notions of gender expression while challenging the relationship between contemporary masculinity and self-objectification. Here, the profile photo is viewed as a contemporary hieroglyph meant to communicate specific sexual messages informed by hegemonic values and mainstream media. Likewise, the stolen images address the inherent conflicts of the conflation of private and public life.
@jaysonedwardcarter