The most important thing you can do for a project is leave. Not quit. Not abandon. Leave strategically, the way a sun leaves a solar system — still technically responsible for all the gravity, not lifting a finger. You had the idea. The idea was enough. Now go lie down. There is a long tradition […]
Burn the Context Window
You paid for the tokens. Or your company did, which means you did, which means they did, which means a pension fund somewhere in Oslo did. The meter is running. The GPU is hot. Somewhere a data center is drinking a river. You might as well make something with it. Not something good. Something. Slop. […]
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 […]
NEW LOGO, SAME BAD IDEAS
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 […]
Slop Has a Better Name
We call it slop. That word shows up everywhere now, usually as a dismissal. Slop is the bad output. The extra fingers. The warped face. The sentence that sounds confident but collapses under scrutiny. Slop is treated as a bug, a temporary embarrassment on the way to cleaner systems and better models. But slop is […]
F . A . T . L A B IS BACK
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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 […]
AI Creative Future Awards honors The Great American Pastime
At F.A.T. Lab, we think of technology as a cultural material. Code carries ideology. Interfaces shape belief. Systems teach us how the world works. That is why we pay close attention when new institutions emerge to frame what creative work with AI is supposed to be. The AI Creative Future Awards were founded to do exactly that. […]
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 […]
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 […]