[spectre] La Cura: An Open Source Cure. An interview with Salvatore Iaconesi.

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La Cura: An Open Source Cure. An interview with Salvatore Iaconesi.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/la-cura-open-source-cure-interview-salvatore-iaconesi

Patrick Lichty interviews Salvatore Iaconesi about his diagnosed brain 
cancer [glioma, a tumor] and his seeking of a cure. Iaconesi asks us all 
to create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to 
find a solution to his health problem. Artists, designers, hackers, 
scientists, doctors, videomakers, musicians, writers. By going beyond 
the walls of hospitals and physicians’ offices, Iaconesi challenges each 
of us to use his medical information plus imagination to create 
something of meaning in response to his diagnosis.

Salvatore Iaconesi is an engineer, artist, hacker and interaction 
designer. He is a TED Fellow (2012), and teaches Interaction Design and 
Digital Design at Rome’s University “La Sapienza”, at ISIA Design 
Florence, at RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts, at IED, Istituto 
Europeo di Design. He has extensive experience in the areas of strategic 
design, expert and decision support systems, knowledge management and 
sharing systems, technological platforms for multicultural communities, 
ubiquitous technologies, interactive experiences and innovation 
processes. More than 300 projects in the areas of cutting edge 
technologies. http://www.artisopensource.net/salvatore-iaconesi/

Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based media artist, writer, 
independent curator, co-founder of the performance art group Second 
Front, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive 
Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological 
media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the 
social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been 
involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin 
Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars 
Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts 
(ISEA). He is also an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at 
Columbia College Chicago. http://patricklichty.com/


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