About Salvatore Iaconesi

Salvatore is an artist, hacker and robotic engineer. He teaches Cross Media Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome La Sapienza. His work aims at establishing extreme methodologies and practices for innovation, operating across the creation of imaginaries and the implementation of real life scenarios that use ubiquitous technologies and advanced interactions to reinvent the ways in which we experience cities, relationships, economies and forms of citizenship and governance. Among the projects: interactive architectures; expert systems; critical technologies promoting freedoms and environmental awareness; augmented reality systems for urban spaces and for remote parts of the planet, such as the Brazilian forests in Mato Grosso; realtime visualizations involving enormous datasets for institutions, companies and civil society; artificial intelligences and digital living forms.