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 […]
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. […]