REFF project created a fake institution enacting real policies for arts, creativity and freedoms of expression. Networks, technologies and critical methodologies can synchretically come together to create opportunities for the autonomous, free reinvention of reality, using fake, remix, mashup, recontextualization, reenactment as tools for creating additional layers of reality promoting freedoms and possibilities. These presentations are used in REFF workshops performed by Art is Open Source and FakePress. Please check out the presentation's notes for the texts accompanying the presentations. They have been created in occasion of the REFF exhibition in London created with Furtherfield. more info on: http://www.artisopensource.net http://www.fakepress.it http://www.romaeuropa.org info on the exhibit in Furtherfield London (opening on Feb. 25th 2011): http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality info on the global situation of the REFF project: http://reff.romaeuropa.org

2. FAKE

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjRQrSKBdI

5. A FAKE CULTURAL INSTITUTION ENACTING REAL POLICIES

6. THE STORY

7. THE 80's INNOVATION IN ARTS AND THEN...

9. THE BEGINNING

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ARTISTS RIGHTS CROWDSOURCING POLITICS NO REMIX/MASHUP/RECONTEXTUALIZE

12. REACTION! A FAKE!

13. RomaEuropaFakeFactory

14. CYBERSQUAT FAKE IDENTITY PROCESS NETWORK PRACTICES (SOCIAL) HACKING REVERSE THE LOGIC, ENACT A FAKE, CREATE REALITY

15. 80+ PARTNERS 1000+ ARTISTS THOUSANDS OF LINKS MASS MEDIA

16. THE FAKE BECOMES MORE REAL THAN THE ORIGINAL

17. REFF IS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF THE ITALIAN SENATE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YEAR OF CULTURE

18. AND, EVEN MORE SUCCESS! THE “ORIGINAL” HAS TO CHANGE POLICIES

19. NEXT STEPS THE REINVENTION OF THE REAL CONTINUES

21. A BOOK AND A GPL3 SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR THE REINVENTION OF REALITY

22. A COORDINATED EUROPEAN INITIATIVE: CRITICAL PRACTICES, TACTICAL UBIQUITOUS MEDIA