Our FFFFFellows over at FAT Lab Tokyo recently did some FM-broadcasting during the Cultural Typhoon Conference. Yusuke Sugano, Seiji Ueoka and Chihiro Suga presented the Free Media Research Lab , talked about FATness, and interviewed Evan-San and Tobi-San. Here are the two broadcasts (mp3): Cultural Typhoon Day 1 Cultural Typhoon Day 2 Some FFFFFlicks: http://freemedia.researchlab.jp/fuckflickr/cultural-typhoon/page/all/ the original post on http://tokyo.fffff.at/events/fat-fmrr/ (Japanese) …and the Email Interview with Evan-San: Could you give us a brief introduction of yourself? Evan: I am an American artist currently living in Hong Kong. Most of my work be it on the web or on the streets tends to involve the overlap of free culture and popular culture. Three years ago I co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab with James Powderly during a fellowship at the Eyebeam OpenLab, and since then James and I have also co-founded the F.A.T. Lab. How did F.A.T. lab start? Evan: F.A.T. lab started almost 2 years ago in conversations between James and myself. We saw ways of extending ideas we were testing with GRL to include a wider range of creators, as well as a broader audience. We were interested in “cooling” open source, and saw opportunities that existed beyond the scope of G.R.L. We had a network of friends and collaborators, including Jamie Wilkinson and Theo Watson, that acted as initial core members, and from there we picked up more members along the way. Much of the foundation of F.A.T. was also based off of Jonah Peretti’s concept surrounding the Eyebeam OpenLab. Jonah is currently an active F.A.T. advisor and still plays a big role in the lab. What is the main objective of F.A.T. lab? Evan: In part F.A.T. lab was founded to extend some of the ideas we had tested in the Graffiti Research Lab. From G.R.L. we had had experimented with inserting open source ideals into popular projects via graffiti, and the F.A.T. lab was a way of extending these ideas beyond graffiti and public space projects. The main objective of F.A.T. is to spread free culture and open source ideals into pop culture, primarily via the production of creative web based initiatives. What kind of people does F.A.T. lab consist of? Evan: F.A.T. consists of people that make stuff and have interests in sharing. Skill sets range from programming, crafting, music, graffiti, DIY, activism, electronics, art and the web. Where do F.A.T. members find their inspiration for the artworks? Evan: The group is rather diverse, and spans across multiple continents so the inspirations are quite different. In general, however, I think most members of the group are interested in humor and fun as a means towards communicating broader (and at times subversive) messages. How do you feel about the current relationship between art and technology (or open source and pop culture)? Evan: I’m interested in the relationship of technology and art primarily because: 1) it is cheap, and 2) and it can reach a lot of people. F.A.T. has a yearly operating budget of $120 USD (which I spend on web hosting). From that we are able to reach an audience of over 20,000 people per month (and growing). Why is “rap music” used as a motif? Evan: Rap music is one of the original remix cultures which involved artists sharing (and stealing) content to build upon what came before them. Rap music historically has also been a means of inserting subversive content into main stream culture. Beyond that rap music also just makes all your youtube videos better.
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FAT Tokyo @ Cultural Typhoon
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August 4 2009, 5:24am | Comments »
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My First Live Stream
http://fffff.at/my-first-live-stream/
fi5e hosted an off the chain chaotic picnic for Teorías del Caos at Mangum Lab in Mexico City, earlier today. This occasion is also his first ultra interactive -2.0 live multimedia stream ever!. To watch this properly on the internets: pay attention to the dance horn, follow his slides and grab the p1cn1c special with his favorite Whiz Khalifa trax. Chaos showed up as usual, so we can’t show you the second part with advances on some upcoming bad ass projects. Stay tuned for live chaos next month with El Proyecto Sonidero and DJ /rupture
July 30 2009, 10:19pm | Comments »
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B4D A55 P1CN1C: July 30th - 8pm
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We have a bad ass guest, to host our monthly picnic at Teorías del Caos. Join us from everywhere via Bambuser , next thursday July 30th, at 8pm (Mexico City Time) More info, right here. * Sí estas en la Cd. De México te esperámos en Mangum Lab
July 27 2009, 12:50pm | Comments »
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Teorías del Caos> Evan Roth> July 30th
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Teorías del Caos features this month a picnic hosted by Bad Ass Motherfucker. Tune in via bambuser next Thursday 30th at 8pm (mexico city time) or join us in Mexico City, for a delicious nocturnal picnic in Mangum Lab.
July 25 2009, 1:21pm | Comments »
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Internet Zero
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So, the Picnic - a true internet zero situation - was super!.. Caos show up and we even had a power failure :), to make our fragile set up, even more chaotic. Magnus conversation was really great..(almost as good as the chocolate cookies) and you lucky can check it out here, this speech/performance a la David Lynch about internet zero, and forests and slow downloads.
Stay tuned with more chaos next month with Mr. Evan Roth! Soon more info.
June 29 2009, 9:34pm | Comments »
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Teorías del Caos: Capital is pure chaos. Internet..too.
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June 25 2009, 12:39pm | Comments »
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Picnic @ Teorías del Caos
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June 25 2009, 12:33pm | Comments »
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OF workshop @ iMal Brussels
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Arturo and I just taught an openframeworks workshop in iMal brussels. If you don’t know, OF is an open source cross platform c++ library that has been used for alot of FAT projects.
openframeworks @ iMal brussels from thesystemis on Vimeo. you’ll notice tim knapen, of WGT giant white glove fame. Also, theo makes a hoodied appearance. There is a (sadly booked up now) workshop coming up in the UK, and if you are in japan, I will be teaching an intro workshop in fukuoka June 19-21, info: en / jp… code + ramen :) also, there is a mailing list on openframeworks.cc and info about events on the forum so you can find out ways to get your nerd on…
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June 6 2009, 7:51am | Comments »
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KANYE WEBST WEEK IS HERE!
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GREETINGS ALL, AND WELCOME TO KANYE WEBST WEEK AT F@T! FROM NOW UNTIL MAY 17 FFFFF.AT WILL BE POSTING KANYE-WEST-WEB-2.0 RELATED ORIGINAL CONTENT ON THE DAILY…. AND TYPING EXCLUSIVELY IN CAPS. SO SIT BACK, ENGAGE CAPS LOCK AND KEEP YOUR BROWSERS TUNED TO THE QUINTUPLE ‘F’. KANYE WEBST WEEK HAS BEGUN! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (image by slambert)
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May 10 2009, 9:36pm | Comments »
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The FAT Lab Writer’s Block April 23-May 30th
http://fffff.at/the-fat-lab-writers-block-april-23-may-30th/
“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand.” ~Lord Byron
Venezia is FFFFFat. and its not just the American tourists.
A well-trained and espresso-powered cadre of FAT just washed up on the docks of Dorsoduro in Venice, Italy with a new formula for success: Graffiti = Prison Prison = Art Shows Allora… it’s a FAT two jail-bird special: Mike Baca on the D’stroy&Rebuild Untouchable Miracle Tour with SKI and DRED. Maybe Mike will rebuild Venice so it stops sinking.PLUS Artist Jihoi Lee and me with a 1.5 x 2 meter panel of excerpts from our comic book about my summer vacation in Beijing, called Baltimore.
more fuckflickies on fuckfickr. Headlines by Urban Code through May 30th, 2009 at the S.a.l.e. Docks - Magazzini del Sale, Dorsoduro 264, Venezia. 크게 보기
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April 28 2009, 4:52pm | Comments »
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p2p funding workshop @ Pixelache
http://log.chocolaterobot.com/?p=115
The Alternative Economy Cultures Seminar at Pixelache was truly amazing! I think my brain is slighter bigger now after haning out with Felix Stadler, Michael Bauwens and Sara Sajjad, Here is a little video of the amazing conversation about banks,money, funding and participation held at Demos, Helsinki and don’t miss the video documentation of the whole seminar!. We broke the latest Tanda Foundation widget and we donate the 27 euros collected towards covering some production costs of the event. There is a little nice video on Bambuser about it.
Special thanks to Andrew Patterson and many thanks to Jon, Minna, Nathalie, Olly and Juha! Good luck UVVA and Free Warsaw
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April 9 2009, 11:12am | Comments »
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Speaking at SCI-arc: Los Angeles
http://www.blog.ni9e.com/archives/2009/03/speaking_at_sci.html
I will be giving a presentation titled Release Early, Often, and with Rap Music this Wednesday (04/01/2009) at SCI-arc, in Los Angeles. In honor of my return to the halls of architectural academia I will be showing some embarrassing architectural endeavors from a former life. I will also be presenting past and future works, including a new collaborative project between the Graffiti Research Lab, FAT, Open Frameworks and Tempt One.
SCI-Arc 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles (directions) W.M. Keck Lecture Hall l April 1, 2009 7pm
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March 28 2009, 9:37pm | Comments »
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Orange and Hollow with Helium please.
http://log.chocolaterobot.com/?p=108
The workshop of Forays’ in Montreal was very interesting… we did build a hollow structure and have the obligated concerned citizen yelling at us! Chill out dear mini-cops they are only balloons! Arquitecture, Space and Politics seminar was amazing, (thanx Nasrin!), Mr. Baghat did perform like king (sorry Prince) on helium, the keynotes were very inspiring and i loved the abandoned tires everywhere in Montréal. More pics at Forays’ site soon! Documentation is almost ready…
March 26 2009, 7:15pm | Comments »
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Love Not Money @ MoneyMoneyMoney!!! Group Show
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March 13 – April 2, 2009 ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street NYC NY 10002
Opening Reception– Friday, March 13th 7-10 pm
Artists: Pollie Barden, Mary Button, Andrea Callard, Geraldine Juarez, Sarah Julig, Christina Kelly, Michelle Loughlin, Melissa MacAlpin, Holly Pitre and Hanna Von Goeler
Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Vandana Jain
Love not Money is a visualization of my personal stock market coded in Processing, created during my remote residency “Wonder Women $$$” at Gaia.
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March 5 2009, 7:51pm | Comments »
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Everything is Hollow With Some Things in Between
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Concordia University invited Forays to the Interdisciplinary Cartographies Seminar. We are doing a “hippy turn” this time, to investigate how we love that we don’t know and how what we love is always what we don’t know; our love is always of hollow things. We will work with everyday objects and experiences to try and illustrate their hollowness; from cardboard and mirrors, balloons and your friends back to chain link and banks. With these we will try to build together a hollow structure.
An Atlas for Radical Cartographies, Gina Badger and Maiko Tanaka will lead some workshops too.. Full Program for the seminar is here. Olala Montreál!.
March 5 2009, 7:40pm | Comments »
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Peregrinación Pirata / Pirate Pilgrim
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Desde la tierra que vió a los servidores de Pirate Bay nacer, saludamos a todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas piratas para invitarlos a compartir la alegría de liberar y compartir información. Piratas Mexicanos se reunirán para peregrinar el Sábado 21 de Febrero a la una de la tarde en la Basílica de Guadalupe, en apoyo a The Pirate Bay durante su espectacular juicio: Spectrial. Pediremos a la Virgencita por un reino de internet libre, en contra del copyright y para honrar el acto de compartir información.
Velas y banderas disponibles para ofrecer a la Vírgen. (somos super religiosos, ya saben) Trae buena onda y datos para compartir! Punto de reunión en la explanada de la basílica “moderna”. woo. Línea 6 del Metro/ Estación La Villa. kopimi extremo. +++++++++++ From the land that saw the Pirate Bay servers born, we salute all our pirates brothers and sisters and invite you to join us to share the joy of freeing information. Mexican Pirates will gather to pilgrim on Saturday February 21st at 1pm (Mexico City time) to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to pray for a free internet, against copyright and to honour file-sharing, in support of the Pirate Bay during the Spectrial. Candles and Pirate Flags will be available to light up and offer to the Virgin. (you know we are so religious in here) Bring some data love to share! Meet in the explanade of the new Basílica. Mantain hardline kopimi
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February 18 2009, 9:07pm | Comments »
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ROFLCON afterparty photos
http://www.nickmcglynn.com/randomnightout/photos/albums/roflconafterparty/index.html#75
we gentlemen DJs of Serious Bu$iness threw down in an Egyptian tomb
January 29 2009, 8:20am | Comments »