
Salvatore Iaconesi is a designer, robotics engineer, artist, hacker, and Principal and Co-Founder of Art is Open Source, an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on merging artistic and scientific practices to create better communities in the advent of emerging technologies. He is also President at the Human Ecosystems Relazioni Research Center, and Co-Founder of Nefula, Italy's first Near Future Design studio. A TED Fellow (2012) and an Eisenhower Fellow (2013), his work explores the growing intersection between sciences, technology, and art.
As a way of commenting on and interacting with an ever-changing world, Salvatore has produced video games, artificial intelligence, expert systems for business and scientific research, entertainment systems, mobile ecosystems, and interactive architectures. Though based in Italy, his artwork and performances have been featured worldwide.