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About

About me? what can I say... Born in Milan, I got a B.Sc. in Computer Science in Milan (Univesita' di Milano Bicocca) while working (tvblob, mala and videomag), traveling around ,hacking and programming. Free software brought me in Norway, Brasil, Spain.

I have a Master in Visual Computing in Saarbruecken(DE). Currently I'm a PhD student on Shape from Shading/Photometric stereo with the Fraunhofer institute in Kaiserslautern.

Anyway I've got other passion, bicycle (take a look at my sweety), monocycle, juggling, flying objects and magic.

Projects

Freej (2003-2008)

I'm a developer of FreeJ. It is a vision mixer: an instrument for real-time video manipulation used in the fields of dance theater, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. Most of all I contributed with the text layer and ogg/theora video streaming using icecast. (c++ language).

The Ball in The Hole (2006-2008)

The ball in the hole is a social installation/performance where the user becomes the actor of metamorphosis. The discovering of the self and the legendary mirror to other dimensions is experienced through a real-time tactile digital environment. The Alter is someone else, and the deformation shown is a constant force that the user can apply to his virtual figure.

Hands On (2005)

"Hands on" it's a funny installation I did back in 2005 in Stecca degli artigiani , Milan. Together with Matteo Erenbourg and Giacomo Porfiri, we collected hundreds of photo of hands and projected them in an evolving video during the same night. It was very funny. Recently I released all of the 600 photos under a Creative Common licence. Feel free do download them and use them according to the terms of the licence. I did also a video showing the result (the images were projected upside down).

Free software (2003-now)

Sometimes I collaborate to some free software project. It happened with the popular bittorrent client transmission, the icecast audio video streaming server and recently also n2n, an interesting p2p virtual private network bypassing firewall using popular skype technique of hole punching.

In the Past: Talks and Workshops

In the past I did many presentations and workshop on video streaming, freej and free software all around Europe.. Take a look at them.

• (06-2004) audio streaming in Prague and in Freistadt (Austria) during fm@dia
• (11-2004) freej presentation in Bergen (Norway) during pik5el festival
• (10-2004) vim advanced in Milan (Italy) in reload reality hacking
• (06-2005) freej video streaming in Tarifa (Spain) during fadaiat festival
• (05-2007) complete audio video production only with free software in Venice inside cittadellarte
• video streaming in Landgoed Velder (Netherland) during whatthehack camp
• (10-2005) video streaming in Bergen (Norway) during pik5el meeting
• (2006) video production and distribution with free software (mostly cinelerra and freej) in Spoleto (Italy) inside offucina
• (2007) The ball in the hole presentation in San Paolo (Brasil) during File Electronic Arts festival

Links

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Contacts

• Email: kysucix@dyne.org
• Jabber: kysucix@jabber.linux.it
• Facebook: not for me, I do not like free data entry.
• Twitter: I just have a placeholder there, use my identi.ca account to read something.
• Identi.ca: Sometimes I write tips or cryptic sentences there