We’ve updated The Quotable Kanye with some choice @KanyeWest tweets, adding to selections from his infamous ALLCAPS blog rants. Welcome to Twitter Mr. West!

A Quotable Kanye API is also available: TXT / XML / JSON

Source code is available here

More from the archives… FAT Kanye Week

Some tracks I have been enjoying the last few months.

Grab it here: SummerMix2010

Listen online here

Tracklist after the break.
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Google is collecting a lot of data about how we use the web. The new Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Click here to install:

No-sound version (workplace-friendly)
is also available: click to install

UPDATE: Chrome extension now available (beta): click to install

No sound version: click to install

Even outside Gmail and YouTube you are constantly sending Google your information through their vast network of “tracking bugs”: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls… all of this data can be used to monitor & track your personal web browsing habits.

Google Alarm shows notifications, plays sound effects and keeps running stats about the % of websites you’ve visit with Google bugs present. Stay alert – install Google Alarm today.

Screenshots:

Click here for more images.

Source code: http://github.com/jamiew/google-alarm (MIT licensed)

More information on jamiedubs.com.

Originally developed during FUCK GOOGLE @ Transmediale 2010. Thanks to Evan Roth, Tobias Leingruber and Aram Bartholl for advice & assistance. For more of our creative browser addon work check out ARTZILLA.

Graffiti Analysis 3.0…..Coming this summer to a browser near you.

(P.S. Happy 5th birthday TodayAndTomorrow!)

The photo and video above are from the first round of testing for Graffiti Analysis and the Media Facades Festival, which took place on the NightScreen in Berlin a couple of days ago. Thanks to everyone who submitted tags and GML data.

For those who haven’t, there is still time. I have information on how to capture and submit tags listed here, but I’ve also come up with a new way of capturing graffiti motion data that requires only a webcam, a computer and a light source attached to a writing implement. This version (outlined in the diagram below) uses the same Graffiti Analysis 2.0 Capture Application and a similar technique as was previously outlined, but does so in a way that does not require additional equipment or the building of a capture case. Video footage of this technique being used in the city can be viewed here.

(Click image for larger version)

All of the submissions highlighted in the video can be viewed and downloaded at the following: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

All of the tags submitted to the festival can be viewed at:
http://000000book.com/data?keywords=MFF2010.

Submit your tag now!!!!

SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to? in Vienna last Thursday was great fun! Kaukas Handy (mobile) Shop is a great place, check it out if you happen to visit Vienna. Thanks to everyone for showing up, thx to all artists and thx to Superbertram for support! Stay tuned for more SPEED SHOWs!

Participating artists:

QR-Nymphae // Game Fashion 2.0, QUICK-READ-Code Camouflage Collection // The Naked City voyeur surveillance!
Margarete Jahrmann, Renate Christian (AT)
2009
“Coded Fashion is readable with mobile phones. It shows secret messages on silk and linen. The song Mediology of the band “Who Killed Bambi?” refers to the thinking of Regis Debray. Especially the song’s one word message – Iconology – equals graphical patterns, encoded in Quickread codes. These are the game fashion patterns, the urban camouflage dresses worn by the band. On mobile screens of fans the dress coded woman appears as Venus, replacing each pattern by a segment of Botticelli’s icon of beauty[...]” Sound-Art-Performance with “Who Killed Bambi?” at Volkstheater, Vienna December 2010.

You talking to me?
JODI (NL/BE)
2010
In a very minimalistic approach JODI addresses the phenomenon of the slow extinction of the URL as the main tool to navigate the Internet. The address field in the browser is slowly taken over by the search form to its right (Chrome) and the app culture introduced by Apple totally neglects the address and page structure of the web. In a hysterical manner five different URLs ‘reenact’ the famous dialog of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver screaming heavily schizophrenic to himself in the mirror before running amok at the end of the movie.

16 Attempts to Draw a Straight Line on a Scanner
JK Keller (US)
2010
In his work JK Keller often plays with the relation of computer accuracy and the pixel based digital image. In his work ’16 Attempts to Draw a Straight Line on a Scanner’ Keller is competing with the accuracy of the scanner. While trying to follow the scan head as precisely as possible by hand it seems the pen strokes enter a multi layered space between scanner, screen and analog image. The combination of light, pen, color and the pen itself which melts to a bar in the background combine into a pixel chain of frozen moments. .

Shaved Bieber
Greg Leuch (US)
2010
In the series of artistic browser add-ons Greg Leuch developed a plug-in which enables the user to locally censor the US teen star Justin Bieber from any web page by blacking out his picture and name. Due to the popularity of Justin Bieber this Firefox add-on attracted enormous attention on the web and in the US main stream media but first of all was consequently hated by Justin Bieber fans. A very important part of this piece is the almost endless tumblr-log collection of hate mails and raging comments by teenagers against Greg Leuch.

HOW I USED YOUR CREDIT CARD TO PAY FOR THIS BOOK ONLINE
Michael Marcovici (AT)
2008/9
“In September 2008, I started working on the book “HOW I USED YOUR CREDIT CARD TO PAY FOR THIS BOOK ONLINE”. I wrote it together with a colleague who prefers to stay anonymous; it is basically an essay about what is already being suggested in the title. The book was paid for and sent to one hundred people in three European countries in late January 2009. Each copy I numbered and signed personally, and since I will not produce any more of them, you will need to find one of the people that still have the book if you wish to learn more about its content[...]”

openbook
Will Moffat, Peter Burns, design: James Home (US)
2010
“Openbook lets you search public Facebook updates using Facebook’s own search service. Facebook’s bait-and-switch on privacy and their overly complex settings cause many users to post messages intended for their friends to ‘everybody’. That’s the entire planet, for all time. This privacy-malfunction could have serious consequences if you’re looking for a job, applying for college, or trying to get medical insurance. What do we want Facebook to do? Make it easy to control and understand your privacy settings. Promise that they won’t change them behind your back. Make new accounts private by default. It wouldn’t be hard to provide simple, clear groups of privacy settings.”

BP, listen up!
monochrom (AT)
2010
The artist collective monochrom is well known for its widespread provocative and often political performances, interventions and net activism. With a very high output and in a long history of pieces (serially numbered) they generate a unique mix of large scale real life events combined with a consequent sarcastic blog and single page web based projects. The simple combination of picture and appellation in BP, listen up! refers to image macro based meme culture and takes the performance to a digital posture on the web level.

Blogger Trainer Gym
Evan Roth (US)
2009
Well know for his unique oevre to combine pop culture with digital life style Evan Roth strikes again
with high precision and proposes the blogger gym. Famous blogger are pop stars! They need to be fast. The web requests high output and constant production. To stay in shape and to keep pace with the velocity of the web blogger need to go to the gym. Have you published today? Go Rocky!

Curating Youtube
Robert Sakrowski (DE)
2010
Curating Youtube is an exhibition project by itself initiated and curated by Robert Sakrowski. It was premiered at Basso Berlin in February 2010. The participating artist were requested to select and arrange Youtube videos in grids of various sizes. Each tableau of 2×2, 3×3, 4×4 (etc) videos starts as a collage of video stills. The typical Youtube play button stills are arranged as an image. In the next step the user breaks the frozen moment by mouse interaction into independently looping video clips.

8bitmachinima
Gordan Savicic (AT)
2007
A cliff jump captured from the computer game ‘California Games’ is stretched in time to match the 2:01 min song Frente! by Bizarre Love Trinagle. In super slow motion the C64 game graphics animation from the 80′s unfolds its poesy in every single frame of the jump. The extra slow already minimalistic pixel image is combined with 300% painful audio to a video in typical Youtube quality. With his piece Gordan Savicic kontakariert the endless production of high resolution, exaggerated and action-overloaded machinima movies. “Is he really dead?”

Monkeyfy
Michael Schieben (DE)
2010
“Monkeyfy is a public webservice for face-detection based image manipulation. A small bookmarklet allows you to select an image on every website to have it modified by monkeyfy.com. The image manipulation utility detects faces in the images and replaces the them with monkeys. The manipulated images (and a link to the original source) are saved on the twitpic gallery.”

Superbertram
Georg Schütz (AT)
2007-2010
“I am streaming out of both eyes, since August 2007, night and day 24/7. I posted all pictures to Flickr until they erased my brain, they kicked me! You can control my view! Just click into my eyes and I look where you want. I Smile instead of having concerns about privacy issues, which i have, deep inside my frosty heart.”

Delicate Boundaries
Chris Sugrue (US)
2007
“[...]Small bugs made of light crawl out of a computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them, often surprising their audience as they try to abandon a virtual existence. The magic of the illusion takes shape as the audience lets them explore their bodies, crawling from one person to the next in a strangely intimate way. As digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life, the line between the virtual and real is increasingly blurred. Delicate Boundaries playfully explores our expectations and understanding of interfaces and interactivity.“

FUCK YOU Cookie Performance
Philipp Teister & Kim Asendorf (DE)
2009
“[...]We have transported the browser cookie to the real world, to find out how the recipients of cookies respond. Through a subtle invasion into privacy, the symbolic placement of a cookie in a strange case, the recipients were inadvertently exposed to our mercy. It`s an intrusion into other peoples pockets though we would like to express how virtual and real world are linked.”

Asylabwehramt / Asylum Defence Agency
UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH)
2010
The Asylum Defence Agency (Asylabwehramt, AAbA) is superordinated to the Defence Office (Abwehramt, AbwA) as well as the Federal Asylum Office and subordinated to the Federal Ministry of National Defence and Sports. This semi-anonymous and semi-autonomic Agency is responsible for anonymization of asylum proceedings, stopping human trafficking, immigration diversion, and for defending against surplus refugees and asylum seekers. The Agency also takes action in the fields of imigration pre-selection (economic refugees, naturalization), secret deportation, migration analysis for national protection as well as in prevention of re-traumatization and the expansion of bureaucratic barriers.”

Google Alarm (unreleased)
Jamie Wilkinson (US)
2010
http://fffff.at/google-alarm
“Google Search, Gmail, Docs, YouTube are all daily essentials. Additionally, almost every website you visit uses Google Analytics to track their stats, Google AdSense to make cash, or even javascript libraries served from Google’s servers for speed. Google Alarm is a Firefox browser addon that alerts you when you’re sending identifying information to the GOOG.”

curated by Aram Bartholl

More pictures here!

The SPEED SHOW exhibition format:
Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All art works of the participating artists need to be on-line (not necessarily public) and are shown in a typical browser with standard plug-ins. Performance and life pieces may also use pre-installed communication programs (instant messaging, VOIP, video chat etc). Custom software (except browser add-ons) or off-line files are not permitted. Any creative physical modification to Internet cafe itself is not allowed. The show is public and takes place during normal opening hours of the Internet cafe/shop. All visitors are welcome to join the opening, enjoy the art (and to check their email.)

SPEED SHOW manifest by Aram Bartholl 2010

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F.A.T. friend and GML collaborator Golan Levin has released the latest addition to the world of Graffiti Markup Language……. GML Stenciler: Laser Cut Patterns from Graffiti Markup Language. He writes:

“We announce the release of GMLStenciler, an open-source software project for converting Graffiti Markup Language (GML) drawings into vector-art stencils suitable for laser cutting. This free tool solves the problem of transforming GML’s widthless linear strokes into adjustably-thickened stencil patterns with automatically bridged islands. GMLStenciler is built in openFrameworks, an open-source C++ toolkit 
for creative coding; it can be downloaded here (with complete source code) for Windows and Mac OSX.”

For more information, downloads and source code, view Golan’s project post.

UDATE: documentation of the show here!

SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?

One night group show.  The second show of an ongoing series: SPEED SHOW
Opening!
Thursday, 8th of July 2010, 19:00 – 22:00 h
Kaukas Handy Shop, Äussere Mariahilferstr. 178, Vienna (G-maps)

Participating artists: (more info and links after the show here)

- Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian
- JODI
- JK Keller
- Greg Leuch
- Michael Marcovici
- Will Moffat & Peter Burns
- monochrom
- Evan Roth
- Sakrowski
- Gordan Savicic
- Michael Schieben
- Georg Schütz
- Chris Sugrue
- Philipp Teister & Kim Asendorf
- UBERMORGEN.COM
- Jamie Wilkinson

curated by Aram Bartholl 2010

Curatorial Statement:
SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?

The 2^nd edition of the SPEED SHOW presents again a wide selection of pop.net.art pieces and addresses various developments of performance related but still screen based art works. Most interaction and communication on the web bears it’s very own performance character. One could say Facebook is a huge mass performance piece. net.art in it’s classic form could be considered a performance by interactivity as well. In recent years artists from different fields work increasingly in a mix of performances and digital interventions. In some cases the screen itself, the beholder of the pixel is subject to fluctuations. In other works the performance is acted out by a hysterical mass or just by the code.

Austrian art especially from the 60/70ies is very well known for their provocative performances and inexorable public interventions. With a regional focus on Vienna based artists mixed with international coders and net renegades the SPEED SHOW vol.2:who the fuck do you think you are talking to? presents a wide range of works from political activist, body interaction and net-performance related art.

‘Show Me What You Got!’

Aram Bartholl 2010

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Credits: Thx to Georg Schütz for Vienna support!

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If you are interested to invite one or more members of F.A.T. to your exhibition / festival / event please consider following airport pickup guidelines which are required to put in place for all FAT members and associates.

1.  Welcome! Make sure the driver carries the biggest sign with correct names and F.A.T. colors in the arrival zone at the airport!

2.  Internet! It is absolutely necessary that FAT members have wifi Internet access at any time during their stay. The driver is requested to carry a 3G wifi router (example) with these settings: SSID: “FATnet” password: “fffffatnet”. This device needs to be handed over to the FAT member on arrival at the hotel or event place.

3. High-Visibility! Please make sure that the limousine is highly visible and equipped with the following needs.

4. Champagne! (most important) but also a wide selection of soft drinks and beer is required to be provided by the mini bar.

5. Music & Video: The car stereo is accessible to the FAT member and can be loaded via  iPod/phone/USB-stick , minimum 14″ screen entertainment center including a selection of high quality movies, video clips, city information and art!

5. Games: A wide selection of console games is appreciated by many FAT members.

If you follow these guidelines you’ll be rewarded with a maxiumum satisfied F.A.T. member on arrival at your event, ready for high end art performance! Disclaimer: For a successfully hosting James Powderly please consult the comprehensive www.wikipowdia.org documentation.

(All pictures taken during F.A.T. at Transmediale Berlin, February 2010)

F.A.T. members, collaborators and friends will be all up in wine country this week. Street artist Mark Jenkins is guest curating an interactive design festival, Les Grandes Traversees, taking place this week and next in three cities on the west coast of France. The festival highlights work from designers, street artists and new media artists that directly interacts with the city. Chris Sugrue and I will be premiering the new Graffiti Analysis 3.0 (coming soon to a browser near you) and collaborating with DJ Rupture on GA3.0′s new audio input functionality. I will also be showing a new 3D printed sculpture of a tag by L’Atlas and Chris will be showing Delicate Boundaries. Theo Watson will be showing a new project, as well as working with Chris and me on merging Laser Tag into Graffiti Analysis, creating the ultimate software for graffiti writers (more on that soon). Theo, Chris and I will also demo the EyeWriter. Other friends of F.A.T. in attendance include Mark Jenkins (who will be showing new work), Improv Everywhere, Paul Notzold (who will be premiering a new project) and Benjamin Gaulon (who will be blasting TEMPT1 tags in paint balls). See below for a complete list of artists.

If you are in France this week come join us….we’ll be in Royan (July 2-4), Soulac (July 6-7) and Bordeaux (July 8-10).

For more information on the Les Grandes Traversees: Interactive Design Festival, go to lesgrandestraversees.com.

Here is a sneak peak at the new Graffiti Analysis 3.0 from a test last night in Royan:

Artists:
Mark Jenkins, Sandra Fernandez, Chris Sugrue, Aakash Nihalani, Paul Notzold, Theo Watson, Evan Roth, Charlie Todd (Improv Everywhere), Jared Gradinger, Masagon, Sydney Ogidan, Truthtag, DJ Rupture, Erell, Ruskig, Benjamin Gaulon
and Tim Conlon.

Aakash Nihalani:

Improv Everywhere:

Mark Jenkins:

Chris Sugure:

Benjamin Gaulon:

Theo Watson & Evan Roth:

Paul Notzold:

Tim Conlon: