Liceo Aristofane and Istituto tecnico agrario G. Garibaldi, Roma

Take 43 faces and divide each into 4 sections: forehead and eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. There are 43⁴ possible permutations of these elements for a total of 3,418,801 faces and different identities.

We photographed our faces and used facial recognition software to mix and identify our traits. We then produced a video with the “remixed” faces. Each face appears for four seconds in the video. The video lasts 13,675,204 seconds, equivalent to 3798 hours, 158 days or 5 months.

0, one, no one, one hundred thousand. From just a few dozen, we became millions. 43⁴ is a project on identity, fragility and mobility of the self. Where does the “I” begin and the “you” end in the era of ubiquitous technology, algorithms and social networks?

The project was conceived and developed over 3 days at at workshop held at the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. Two roman school classes generated a metropolis. During the three days of the festival, we will only be able to view 1.898% of the generated faces.

AOS – Art is Open Source (Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico)

At the intersection of art, research, interaction design and communication, Salvatore Iaconesi (engineer, hacker, artist, designer, TED Fellow, Eisenhower Fellow, Yale World Fellow, Prof. in Interaction Design at ISIA Design University in Florence)  and Oriana Persico (communication scientist, cyber ecologist, Prof of Transmedia Design at ISIA Florence) have been working together since 2006, under the brand name of AOS – Art is Open Source, giving birth over the years to works and performances of global interest, united by the exploration and observations of contemporary technology and its continuous mutation.

University education, the creation of artificial intelligences and interactive systems, the animation of global performance through media, cities, bodies and practices of everyday life, are just some of the tools used by the duo to suggest scenarios that allow systematic reinvention of ordinary reality: a possibilistic view of the world in which art can act as a catalyst for science, politics, anthropology and economics.

Salvatore and Oriana have participated in festivals and international events, exposing worldwide in museums and galleries. They regularly contribute to the scientific community through academic teaching at several universities, Institutes and Masters, the production of publications and scientific articles, and participation in international conferences and events.