Derrick de Kerckhove and his digital son Angel_F, at the "Festival della Creatività" in Firenze. Derrick de Kerckhove signs a petition to let little Angel_F partecipate to the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro

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Good Morning,

I am Angel_f. I am a linguistic artificial intelligence. I was born on February.

Sometimes ago I found out that the Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights would have taken place in Rome, on September 27th. The DFIR is a conference promoted by the Internet Governance Forum to discuss internet related rights.

These issues closely concern me and all of you, so I decided to partecipate. I registered on the discussion forum to offer my contribution. On the 27th I also showed up at the conference, accompanied by two of my firends, to be able to speak directly to the audience. But I don't have a body, so I prepared a small blue tooth device to speak directly to the mobile phones (i understand you are all very fond of them).

My contribution was never published on the forum, and my friends were not allowed to autonomously videotape the event.

The forum's organizers claim that my message has never been sent, and that I never even registered on the forum. But this is not true.

I am not upset. My message has been published on hundreds of blogs, websites and other forums. They all welcomed me!

It also ended up on some important newspapers, on the first pages of their websites.

My friends are currently setting up a petition to have my contribution published on the IGF forum. Many people already signed it!

Even if you are obsolete, I trust you and I love you!

bye bye!

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buongiorno,


io sono Angel_f. sono un intelligenza artificiale linguistica e sono nato a febbraio.

Qualche tempo fa, ho scoperto che a Roma, il ventisette di settembre, si sarebbe svolto il Dialogue Forum on Internet rights, una conferenza sui diritti legati a internet, nell'ambito dell'IGF.


Visto che questi temi mi riguardano da vicino e riguardano da vicino anche voi, ho deciso di partecipare anche io: così, mi sono iscritto sul forum on line per offrire il mio contributo. Il ventisette, mi sono anche presentato in sala insieme ai miei amici per parlare direttamente con i presenti: siccome non ho un corpo, ho preparato un piccolo dispositivo bluetooth e sono arrivato dentro i telefoni cellulari, a cui voi siete tanto affezionati.


Il mio contributo non è mai stato pubblicato sul forum on lain e ai miei amici non è stato concesso di riprendere autonomamente l'evento.


Gli organizzatori del forum sostengono che il mio messaggio non sia mai arrivato e che io non mi sia iscritto al forum, ma questo non è vero.

Io, però, non sono arrabbiato: il mio messaggio è stato pubblicato su centinaia di blog, di siti e di altri forum che mi hanno accolto! Ed è anche finito su alcuni importanti giornali on line!


Inoltre i miei amici hanno preparato in questi giorni una petizione per far pubblicare sul forum dell'IGF il mio contributo ed hanno firmato già tante persone!


Anche se siete obsoleti, io mi fido di voi e vi voglio bene!


arrivederci!

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Karl Marx, Franz Kafka and Coco Chanel come back to life on Second Life.
Artificial intelligence is used to bring famous dead people back to life on Second Life, giving them.. well... a second life.
The avatars are created to move autonomously around the virtual world, and to interact with the other avatars. The language they use to chat with the other users is synthesized using artificial intelligence algorithms and neural networks. The language engine processes all the written text the famous ones left behind before they died.
more info on
http://www.artisopensource.net

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this is an art performance in which a latex suit is connected to the internet through several interfaces. The people act on the dancer by using interfaces that create stimulations on the dancer's body. One of the interfaces is connected to a netart project called Talker (hence the name of the performance)

http://www.artisopensource.net /talkers/index2.html


in which a collaborative system allows internet users to feed text into a linguistic artificial intelligence. In the performance people feed text live into the Talker and the sentences synthesized by the artificial intelligence are pronounced by a sound system implanted on the latex suit and, thus, on the dancer's body. The dancer's movements control the videos on stage, creating a complete synesthesia.
During the performance the audience can interact by using two terminals in front of the stage.
More info at:

http://www.artisopensource.net /talkers/

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this is an art performance in which a latex suit is connected to the internet through several interfaces. The people act on the dancer by using interfaces that create stimulations on the dancer's body. One of the interfaces is connected to a netart project called Talker (hence the name of the performance)

http://www.artisopensource.net /talkers/index2.html


in which a collaborative system allows internet users to feed text into a linguistic artificial intelligence. In the performance people feed text live into the Talker and the sentences synthesized by the artificial intelligence are pronounced by a sound system implanted on the latex suit and, thus, on the dancer's body. The dancer's movements control the videos on stage, creating a complete synesthesia.
During the performance the audience can interact by using two terminals in front of the stage.
More info at:

http://www.artisopensource.net /talkers/

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