[spectre] REFF – Remix the world! Reinvent Reality! Exhibition/Project opening this Friday...
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Tue Feb 22 14:56:28 CET 2011
Apologies for any cross posting...
REFF – Remix the world! Reinvent Reality!
A Fake Cultural Institution, an A/R drug and the reinvention of reality
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality
Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP)
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre, 71,
Ashfield Road, London N4 1NY
Private View from 6.30pm Friday 25th February 2011
Exhibition Open
12-5pm Thu-Sat (or by appointment), 25 February - 26 March 2011
Directly from Italy, Art is Open Source and FakePress present the REFF
project and REFF AR Drug.
REFF, a fake cultural institution founded in 2009, is in London for the
first time to launch, promote and distribute its Augmented Reality drug
REFF AR.
To celebrate the event, an exhibition will open from 25 February at
Furtherfield Gallery, showcasing works by artists all featured in the
new REFF book: Garrett Lynch, Rebar Group and Xname. A real-time
interactive map, created for the exhibition, will describe the life of
REFF all over the world: 60 authors, artists, designers, architects,
hackers, journalists, activists; dozens of actions; a live and real-time
stream of information collectively produced by a worldwide community of
re-inventors. The process is open: please contact us if you feel that
your actions are reinventing reality and, thus, should be added to the
visualization.
Visit the gallery, meet the founders of the institution, explore the new
open publishing tool, encounter artworks and performances, enjoy freedom
of access and expression. In other words...take the REFF AR Drug.
***
About the REFF AR Drug:
Description: REFF AR is used to treat social depression, fear of the
future, precarity, communicative totalitarianism, scarcity of freedoms,
and intolerant social eco-systems. Off-label, it is used to treat UFPS
(Uncertainty for the Lack of Future Publishing Systems) and LDSBMS (
Lack of Decent Sustainable Business Models Syndrome)
Chemical Formula: Wordpress, MACME (new Open Source tool for
cross-medial publishing), Augmented Reality, Location Based
Technologies, Smartphones
Administration of the Drug: cross medial, multi-sensorial, social,
anthropological, methodological
Legal Status: GPL3 licensed software platforms, open access
documentation, global community
Discover the alternative, stratified mashed-up, remixed world of REFF
and the potential of its liberating drug!
Join us for the opening on the 25th February!
Special guests:
Prof. Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, Quayola, Xname, Garret Lynch
***
More info at:
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality
www.romaeuropa.org
www.fakepress.it
www.artisopensource.net
***
Contact
ale at furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org/contact
Special program and action of the Fake Institution
Open call “Remix the World! Reinvent Reality!”
A global narrative describing the life of REFF all over the world: 60
authors, artists, designers, architects, hackers, journalists,
activists; hundreds of informations; dozens of actions; a live and
real-time stream of information collectively produced by our worldwide
community of re-inventors. The map will be constantly available online
and will be featured in an advanced version at the Opening. The process
is open: please contact us if you feel that your actions are reinventing
reality and, thus, should be added to the visualization. Available on:
http://reff.romaeuropa.org
REFF Youth Programme
A special task-force was required to ensure the immediate diffusion of
the REFF AR Drug to the younger generations. Perhaps surprisingly the
Fake Institution agenda has inspired approval and enthusiasm in the
academic world. In the two weeks prior to the exhibition FakePress,
together with Art is Open Source, are running a series of workshops and
presentations across universities and to groups of students in and
around London to remix the world:
So far, we've been to:
Southbank University: Friday 11th Feb
Goldsmiths: Tuesday 15th Feb
Writtle College: Monday 21st Feb
University of Westminster: Tuesday 22nd Feb
*Please contact us if you'd like to participate or organize further
workshops/presentations
MACME, an open source tool for cross-medial publishing
Created by FakePress, MACME is new a cross-media, multi-author content
management system, that enables the creation of multi-device and paper
publications, featuring location- based technologies, QR-codes, and
augmented reality .
The platform will be released for the first time during the days of the
exhibition, under a GPL3 Licence, as a real policy for access promoted
by the REFF.
More news coming soon on:
www.romaeuropa.org
www.fakepress.it
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