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Now with real spam!

Giorgio Olivero — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:22:22 +0000

Spamghetto: now with 2000 real spam messages subjects’ scraped from our Gmail’s accounts!
Since we were polling gmail way too quickly, I even had my account locked for ’suspect’ activity for 3 hours :)
A time.sleep() with some random interval was enough to cheat the watchdog.
By the way… we used the lovely Nodebox for the generative graphics (output to PDF) and libgmail to get data from Gmail.

Check the link below, it’s a bigger version (2400*2400 px) with readable text…

Spamghetto prototype

Giorgio Olivero — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:39:57 +0000

Quick preview of a computational spam-based wallpaper to be presented later on this month at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Full project description and more sketches will be published soon as we finish coding the system.
Wanna get a larger boner? So easy to be bigger! :)

AAST 09 – computational architecture in Torino

Giorgio Olivero — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:01:58 +0000

EDIT – some exhibition pictures from Bruce Sterling’s flickr

EDIT 2 – information about the lasercut modular cardboard installation (that was cut in our studio :-) here:

The friendly people at AAST (Lorena Alessio, Andrea Graziano, Davide Del Giudice) have planned an impressive series of events on computational architecture.

Here’s the info about the kickstart:

opening CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION – April 7 2009

h.17,30 / Settimo Torinese, Teatro Garybaldi – Via Garibaldi 4

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: Filippo Innocenti, Architect, Zaha Hadid Architects London

h.19,00 / Settimo Torinese, La Giardinera – Via Italia 90 bis

EXHIBITION OPENING

1 day CONFERENCE – April 8 2009
the lineout is pretty exciting, check it out:

Annarita Papeschi (Zaha Hadid Architects London) – growing buildings – procedure progettuali algoritmico-generative
Marco Vanucci (Adams Kara Taylor London) – making space_homeostatic serie
Fulvio Wirz (Zaha Hadid Architects London) – sulla diversità dell’architettura parametrica
Ludovico Lombardi (Zaha Hadid Architects London) — fluid urbanism – ordinare la complessità attraverso sistemi parametrici
Ludovica Tramontin (Università di Cagliari, ASPX) — soft technology – tecnologia morbida di generazione computazionale
Federico Rossi (Zaha Hadid Architects, Architectural Association) — performative typologies – nuovi modelli eco-sostenibili
Edmondo Occhipinti (Ecole Speciale d’Architecture Paris, Frank Owen Gehry Tecnologies) — morphogenetic and parametric design: real virtuality
Alessio Erioli (Università di Bologna, e-cloud) — processing nature

Visit AAST 09 site for full programme and practical information.