So here it is. The new F.A.T. Lab logo. A hot pink bird on yellow flames, birthed not in some squatted Berlin hacklab, but on Fiverr. Yeah, we hired a stranger on the internet for $35 and some emojis to redesign our symbol of digital delinquency. Why? Because conceptually, it makes sense. The Old Logo is […]
Daily: Trump Progress
with the Lovable free tier you only get like 2-3 messages per day. great artistic constraint for a daily sketch thing. here’s mine today:https://preview–term-tracker-shine.lovable.app/ idea by Evan I usually do this while out walking the dog
EULOGY FOR THE TWITTER BOTS
Dear friends, followers, lurkers, and doomscrollers, We gather here in the digital afterlife to mourn a peculiar creature, a jumble of code and API keys that once spat 280 characters of chaos, wisdom, and nonsense into our feeds. The Twitter Bots were not human, but it understood us better than most people ever did. They […]
F.A.T. – The Manual. The free PDF of our 2013 book
In case you are browsing this blog and you have no idea what F.A.T. Lab (R.I.P.) was or did, you can of course visit the archived website on fffff.at . OR you can check out our 200-something-pages book from 2013, which is a bit of a best-of project collection. The PDF is “available online for […]
Subversion in Cyberspace – F.A.T. Lab in Academia
We just stumbled across a Case Study about F.A.T. Lab by Axelle Van Wynsberghe. It was published in 2017, in the field of “Cultural Studies & Social Anthropology”. The case study is titled “The ‘Malign Torsion’ of the Hyperreal: Simulation & Subversion in Cyberspace“.Interviewees were F.A.T. members Evan, Magnus, Randy and Tina. Did F.A.T. Lab’s […]
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
Landscapes in Flux: From Glitch to Oil Latent Fragments of a Synthetic Landscape is part of an ongoing investigation into how artificial intelligence, error, and traditional artistic practice intersect to reshape our understanding of landscape. Rather than presenting nature as a stable subject, the work refracts it through layers of computation and painterly translation. What […]
3652 DAYS LATER
“In May FAT Lab went to San Francisco – the center of tech and innovation – to celebrate the victory of government and commercial hegemony over the Internet and the total loss of personal freedom and privacy. We rolled out the red carpet for all of our friends, lovers, detractors, and benefactors to come celebrate […]