This is the last post of the F.A.T. garage sales week. We kicked out tons of super hot, unreleased works and projects. (Borna! I missed your jackets, I want one!)

And here comes a final highlight! Last year I curated the program for the category Digital Communities at Ars Electronica 2010. The whole thing was called TELE-INTERNET and a mix of talks, workshops, lab, hacker space and performances. We also had a night program at Roter Krebs (which is definately the best party place in Linz!!). Looking back this night was very special and became one of my personal highlights in F.A.T. history !! (…besides the TM fake G-car :) Finally I managed to get it documented! Enjoy!!

ARAM

[VIDEO links: TELE-INTERNET, evan-roth.com/cream, tortureclassics.com and Theo's awesome mixes ]

This is the last post of the F.A.T. garage sales week. We kicked out tons of super hot, unreleased works and projects. (Borna! I missed your jackets, I want one!) And here comes a final highlight! Last year I curated the program for the category Digital Communities at Ars Electronica 2010. The whole thing was called TELE-INTERNET and a mix of talks, workshops, lab, hacker space and performances. We also had a night program at Roter Krebs (which is definately the best party place in Linz!!). Looking back this night was very special and became one of my personal highlights in F.A.T. history !! (...besides the TM fake G-car :) Finally I managed to get it documented! Enjoy!! ARAM [VIDEO links: TELE-INTERNET, evan-roth.com/cream, tortureclassics.com and Theo's awesome mixes ]

[ Version française ici! , Docu below]

The SPEED SHOW series is coming to Paris! It’ll be awesome! We will rock the place and on top we’ll kill the night with a F.A.T. lab after party at Le dune! Spread the news! Bring all your friends! Book your flight today!

SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris (G-map)
13th January  2011
7:00-11:00 PM

F.A.T. lab after party at
Le dune cafe http://www.ledune.fr
18 avenue claude vellefaux, Paris

Curated and produced by:
Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny

Participating artists:
Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann)

Open Internet

2010 showed the full scale beauty of open Internet culture. Governments and industrial lobbies are trying more than ever to establish new regulations and tools to control the net. The Internet must stay open and neutral! Avoid being shut down by government and make sure your (online-) life or business is not dependant on a single large company or governmental restrictions. It is important to keep rethinking net structures to escape from the mainstream social vortex which is incapable of reflecting on itself. Internet art and net subcultures play an important role in questioning and deconstructing everyday web defaultism and global, digital industries.

We are very pleased to present an exquisite selection of internationally-known artists at SPEED SHOW vol.5 ‘Open Internet’ – Paris. A wide range of brand new art works created especially for ‘Open Internet’ discuss the current impact of Internet pop culture, open source, minimal amateur and radical options of the Open Internet. A combination of excellent Paris-based, internationally-know artists and restless Open Internet advocates form the perfect base for a promising opening night at the awesome Welat cyber cafe Paris.

Aram Bartholl 2011



All prior Speed Shows documented here fffff.at/speed-show

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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Update:

SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’ last thursday in Paris was sick!

Thx to everyone! Thx to all the artists! Thx to Anne Roquigny and Marie Lechner for invitation and collaboration!!! Love Paris! ( I’ll be back in may giving a talk at promising Gaite Lyrique!)

Full program and all links below!

SPEED SHOW vol.5:’Open Internet’ – Paris from aram bartholl on Vimeo.

Participating artists :

OPERATION BLING
Anonymous
2011
Anonymous is a label adopted by anarchistic amalgamations of hacktivists and 4chan users who undertake protests and other actions under the notional title “Anonymous,” It is generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures. OPERATION BLING is a call to protest against censorship by Governments and global players in regard to the recent events realted to Wikileaks etc. “Write down ‘You are anonymous!’ on all you paper money and let the system do the work!’

No Future
Jean-Baptiste Bayle
2010
NO FUTURE ! NO LIFE ! FUCK CYBORGS ! FUCK GOOGLE ! FUCK 3D ! DEATH TO RAY KURZWEIL ! WE ARE THE CHIMPS ! MEDIUM IS NO MESSAGE ! NOFUTURE IS NOW !
“NF was born in 2010, 10 years after the future, 100 years after futurism. In a world where apathy, corruption, and reinforced property rights give shape and substance to the widespread sacking of fundamental human rights, no-futurism seeks to foster a new radicalism, capable of resisting the « technological bluff ». NF uses a collection of television news clips (http://www.nofuture.biz ), a twitter “nonitoring” journal (http://paper.li/n0_futur3), and a critical cartography of « decolonized counter-imagination, » to deconstruct the disinformation techniques and the propaganda spectacle.
Jean Baptiste Bayle is an artist, a inactivist and an bricodeur. He opposes the concept of “downgrade” to the permanent “upgrade” which fuels the digital economy, in an attempt to resist the madness of useless technology, to think imagine an alternative to ownership systems, and, by sharing free knowledge, to build the future collectively.

ArtWar(e)
Christophe Bruno et Samuel Tronçon
2010
Artwar(e) is an « artistic risk management » platform whose aim is to use the latest marketing concepts, such as the “hype cycle,” to reformulate art history, performance and relational attitudes, as well as curating practices.
Christophe Bruno offers a critical approach to network and globalization phenomena in the realms of language and image. He has been awarded for the Google Adwords Happening (at Ars Electronica) and for Human Browser. Starting in March 2011, he will work as chief curator for the Jeu de Paume’s virtual space.

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[ Version française ici! , Docu below] The SPEED SHOW series is coming to Paris! It'll be awesome! We will rock the place and on top we'll kill the night with a F.A.T. lab after party at Le dune! Spread the news! Bring all your friends! Book your flight today! SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’ Welat Internetcafe 12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris (G-map) 13th January  2011 7:00-11:00 PM F.A.T. lab after party at Le dune cafe http://www.ledune.fr 18 avenue claude vellefaux, Paris Curated and produced by: Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny Participating artists: Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann) Open Internet 2010 showed the full scale beauty of open Internet culture. Governments and industrial lobbies are trying more than ever to establish new regulations and tools to control the net. The Internet must stay open and neutral! Avoid being shut down by government and make sure your (online-) life or business is not dependant on a single large company or governmental restrictions. It is important to keep rethinking net structures to escape from the mainstream social vortex which is incapable of reflecting on itself. Internet art and net subcultures play an important role in questioning and deconstructing everyday web defaultism and global, digital industries. We are very pleased to present an exquisite selection of internationally-known artists at SPEED SHOW vol.5 ‘Open Internet’ - Paris. A wide range of brand new art works created especially for 'Open Internet' discuss the current impact of Internet pop culture, open source, minimal amateur and radical options of the Open Internet. A combination of excellent Paris-based, internationally-know artists and restless Open Internet advocates form the perfect base for a promising opening night at the awesome Welat cyber cafe Paris. Aram Bartholl 2011  All prior Speed Shows documented here fffff.at/speed-show 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 ' Update: SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’ last thursday in Paris was sick! Thx to everyone! Thx to all the artists! Thx to Anne Roquigny and Marie Lechner for invitation and collaboration!!! Love Paris! ( I'll be back in may giving a talk at promising Gaite Lyrique!) Full program and all links below! SPEED SHOW vol.5:'Open Internet' - Paris from aram bartholl on Vimeo. Participating artists : OPERATION BLING Anonymous 2011 Anonymous is a label adopted by anarchistic amalgamations of hacktivists and 4chan users who undertake protests and other actions under the notional title "Anonymous," It is generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures. OPERATION BLING is a call to protest against censorship by Governments and global players in regard to the recent events realted to Wikileaks etc. “Write down ‘You are anonymous!’ on all you paper money and let the system do the work!’ No Future Jean-Baptiste Bayle 2010 NO FUTURE ! NO LIFE ! FUCK CYBORGS ! FUCK GOOGLE ! FUCK 3D ! DEATH TO RAY KURZWEIL ! WE ARE THE CHIMPS ! MEDIUM IS NO MESSAGE ! NOFUTURE IS NOW ! “NF was born in 2010, 10 years after the future, 100 years after futurism. In a world where apathy, corruption, and reinforced property rights give shape and substance to the widespread sacking of fundamental human rights, no-futurism seeks to foster a new radicalism, capable of resisting the « technological bluff ». NF uses a collection of television news clips (http://www.nofuture.biz ), a twitter “nonitoring” journal (http://paper.li/n0_futur3), and a critical cartography of « decolonized counter-imagination, » to deconstruct the disinformation techniques and the propaganda spectacle. Jean Baptiste Bayle is an artist, a inactivist and an bricodeur. He opposes the concept of “downgrade” to the permanent “upgrade” which fuels the digital economy, in an attempt to resist the madness of useless technology, to think imagine an alternative to ownership systems, and, by sharing free knowledge, to build the future collectively. ArtWar(e) Christophe Bruno et Samuel Tronçon 2010 Artwar(e) is an « artistic risk management » platform whose aim is to use the latest marketing concepts, such as the “hype cycle,” to reformulate art history, performance and relational attitudes, as well as curating practices. Christophe Bruno offers a critical approach to network and globalization phenomena in the realms of language and image. He has been awarded for the Google Adwords Happening (at Ars Electronica) and for Human Browser. Starting in March 2011, he will work as chief curator for the Jeu de Paume’s virtual space. Future-Past Claude Closky 2010 Well know for his ongoing series of minimal single web page pieces Claude Closky confronts the user with the question of the future and past in an endless diagram chart. How much time is left? What happend in the past? Why is there so little future? Very basic questions of society and mankind are condensed in the most default chart diagram of the stereotype statistic powerpoint language. Is there an underlying rule deciding on your future or past? Le Monde.fr Marika Dermineur 2010 The Monde.fr internet site diverts pages from France’s newspaper of reference, Le Monde. Thanks to a mirror site, the surfer can replace any word of the original site with another word. The piece investigates media vocabulary, and the impact of words, expressions and news trends. The artist Marika Dermineur, co-writer of Google House, is building a house in real time from images and rooms found on the internet. She is a member of the Rybn collective, helps lead Upgrade! Paris, and is an exhibition curator whose recent Politique 0 was shown at the Niemeyer Center, the headquarters of the French communist party. Blue meme Caroline Delieutraz 2010 From the Zotriens of Ulysses 31 to Avatar’s Na’vi, from the giant blue Draags of the Savage Planet to Tron’s “programs,” the hypnotically morphing blue humanoid faces fade and flow. Caroline Delieutraz takes these characters out of their home universe, and places them in a shared fictional world. “These specimens of the bizarre. half human, half other (animal, alien, robot, etc.) represent alterity. Here, they make up a kind of continuously self-perpetuating community of hybrid beings.” Caroline Delieutraz investigates digital identity and cartographic conventions. As a member of the Microtruc collective (http://microtruc.net/), currently invited by the Jeu de Paume's virtual space she invents systems that navigate between the real and the virtual. thesleepinginternet.com Constant Dullaart 2011 In his ongoing series of the attributed Internet (thedisagreeinginternet.com or therevolvinginternet.com etc.) Constant Dullaart raises the question of the personality of the Internet. Through minimal iframe interventions the Internet seems to be in a human condition and gains even emotions sometimes. The ever light almost transparent Google search page (which became by massive unconscious use heavy like rock in our mind) is defaced in playfull code shifting leading to reconsider our expectations of the Internet. GG/Paris JODI 2011 The artist duo JODI is very well know for their constant work in deconstructing software and online systems for the last two decades. The endless database and open API s from services like Google Maps/Earth bare an endless variety of unforeseeable visual expression. JODIs Geogoo series started with random Google Maps icon mash-ups scattered over the globe and now opened in a automated Google streetview journeys. A machine controlled, very mechanic tour of Paris reinterprets the Google satellite images in unexpected micro repetitive way. Nocinema Jérôme Joy et le collectif nocinema.org 2011 (nouvelle version) Nocinema.org uses live webcam feeds to transport viewers to the four corners of the planet. Nocinema.org is an impressive road movie that is generated live, on line, whose soundtrack is mixed in real time, using a continuously updated sound data base. This unpredictable fiction/documentary has neither beginning nor end, neither actors nor storyline, aside from the stories viewers piece together as they watch the live stream of images and sounds. The application was written by the composer Jérôme Joy to explore network music. He is co-research director at Locus Sonus, a sound art research laboratory. Facebook Resistance Tobias Leingruber 2011 “Facebook is becoming the dominant system for our social identities, they set the rules of how-to behave, so we're asking: Are we happy living in their visualisation of our online identity or do we want to change it? A change can be as trivial as adding a background-image. Facebook designing your online identity is like IKEA designing your appartment. The only individuality lies in the family pictures standing in your BILLY shelves.Facebook Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant online identity management system, researching on ways to change it's rules from inside the system, locally via Firefox add-on. “ TL Naked on Pluto Aymeric Mansoux / Dave Griffiths / Marloes de Valk 2010 Naked on pluto is a Multiplayer Text Adventure Game on Facebook. You wake up on Pluto, Las Vegas of the solar system, true paradise for consumers and entertainment corporations.Amuse yourself and your friends for hours on end collecting meaningless tokens, talking to our bland robots, or simply relax and take in the staggering conformity of your new home. You can not escape this world but why would you possibly want to, it has been taylored to fit your every desire. The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used. The project is licensed GNU. The artists, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk et Dave Griffiths are all involved in the promotion of free software. The research can be followed at http://pluto.kuri.mu Tea Time with Albertine Albertine Meunier 2009 Ask them what a hacker is, or a flash mob or spam, a smiley or an octet, and these ladies will get it right every time. What Dédée, Dolorès, Gisèle, Annick and Jacqueline all have in common is that they are all over 80 years old, and had never touched an computer before in their lives, that is, until they discovered the Tea Time with Albertine workshop, led by netartist Albertine Meunier since March 2008. Every two weeks, in Paris, Tea Time with Albertine initiates senior citizens to the Web. For each new concept they discover, they record a film which goes into an internet glossary. Albertine Meunier has been on the net since 1998. Among other things, she has worked on privacy issues, and the use of personal information (My google search history is an inventory of all her searches over the last three years). VICKILEEKX.FFFFF.AT M.I.A. Mixtape mirror de Geraldine Juarez 2011 “Recent events show us that information is notoriously difficult to contain and can easily be mirrored anywhere. Now F.A.T is using the same principles to keep M.I.A’s Vickileekx Mix freely accessible to everyone, plus we don’t even ask for your email! *To download the data retentive version of this mix, please visit M_I_A’s VickiLeekx.com and submit your email to the man.” GJ Mashed Up Mashup Evan Roth 2011 Well known for his pop culture - free software crossover style, Evan Roth remixes two GirlTalk albums, which are music sample mashups in themsevles, to make the ultimate "mashup" album. Sampling and remixing has a long history in music, especially hip hop culture, and in the era of the net has become the supreme discipline. Mashed Up Mashup is a perfect multilayered representation of the current state of copyright and open licence mix mess on the Internet. My facebooklife Systaime 2011 Michaël Borras a.k.a Systaime... a regular by-product of digital culture, the kind that re-shuffles our identity cards and our relationship to the world. An internet trouble maker. he remixes the flows, lacerates the powerful and the imposters, highlighting our media dependence to the media. With My facebooklife the very formated interface of Facebook is daily perverted and the social network is mutating everyday. VideOdrome VideOdrome Mailing List 2010-11 « Shh, not a word, videospam only ». videOdrome is a mailing list whose participants communicate exclusively using videos picked up on the web. Once you’ve signed up to the mysterious list (http://lists.machineaecrire.com/mailman/listinfo/videodrome), Videodrome unleashes an endless flow of seditious images into your inbox to seize your pupils and fill your available brain time with the stunning video vortex spectacle that is YouTube and its shoot’em down grandmas, its Tourette’s karaoke, its porn Olympics, its wood fires and other “Sarkoseries.” Robocopyright ACTA La Quadrature du net (Jérémie Zimmermann) 2010 La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. As such, La Quadrature du Net engages in public-policy debates concerning, for instance, freedom of expression, copyright, regulation of telecommunications and online privacy.

OMG! We just found the original F.A.T. Lab banner from 1995 on a deserted server in the basement, still online! Like a time-capsule it was sitting there for 15 years, untouched! Can you believe this?!? Check the beautiful colors. #00ffff was still in the house! Unbelievable trend on the web! ;-)

OMG! We just found the original F.A.T. Lab banner from 1995 on a deserted server in the basement, still online! Like a time-capsule it was sitting there for 15 years, untouched! Can you believe this?!? Check the beautiful colors. #00ffff was still in the house! Unbelievable trend on the web! ;-)

It’s easy to find Beanbags (call +9126407382), Royal Enfields and Old Monk Rum in Bombay, but where do you find the parts to build an EyeWriter? Scroll down boss, scroll down.

A Part and Tool List for building a MumbaiWriter: a solder-less version of EyeWriter made from parts and tools found locally in Mumbai.

View MumbaiWriter in a larger map

And if you wanna see what the resolution looks like on the other side of the tracks, here is documentary filmmaker Mark Foster’s take on the EyeWriter parts hunt.

Stay tuned for an upcoming post with assembly instructions from the FAT Lab: Jugaad since 2007.

BIG Thanks to Mark Foster, Anurag Garg, Vikrum Sood, Sreekumar Puthanveetil, Amitabh Bhattacharya, P-13, Nomad Films, Andthen, I.I.T. Bombay, Hanif Kureshi, Wilson, Shaunak, Vikas and the rest of the MumbaiWriter family…

It's easy to find Beanbags (call +9126407382), Royal Enfields and Old Monk Rum in Bombay, but where do you find the parts to build an EyeWriter? Scroll down boss, scroll down. A Part and Tool List for building a MumbaiWriter: a solder-less version of EyeWriter made from parts and tools found locally in Mumbai. Store  Parts  Direction  Contact  Cost  Patel Electric & Hardware  Insulated Tape, small screwdrivers, cable ties, iron wire, pliers/cutters  Opp. I.I.T. Market, Powai, Mumbai - 400 076  +91 22 2578 7524  234 Rs.  Paras Photo Studio and Color Lab  Unexposed & processed 400 speed film  Shop No.3, Opp. State Bank of India IIT Main Gate, Powai 400 076  +91 22 2570 5014  175 Rs.  Gala Electronics  2x Near IR LEDs, 1 meter 10 conductor stranded wire, 6x aligator clips, AA Battery holders  Sho No-2, Kotwal Mansion Grant Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400007, India 022 8821236  +91 22 2387 9562  65 Rs  Mccann Infosys  Intex Webcam 2.0 megapixels   Plot Number 347, Shop Number 45, Rajesh Building, Opposite Lamington Road Police Station, Dr. Dadasaheb Bhadkamkar Marg Lamington Road, Mumbai, Mumbai 400007, India  + 91 22 2389 1916  380 Rs.   D-Mart  Cheap Sunglasses  Ground Floor, High Street Corner, Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai, India  n/a  149 Rs.  View MumbaiWriter in a larger map And if you wanna see what the resolution looks like on the other side of the tracks, here is documentary filmmaker Mark Foster's take on the EyeWriter parts hunt. Stay tuned for an upcoming post with assembly instructions from the FAT Lab: Jugaad since 2007. BIG Thanks to Mark Foster, Anurag Garg, Vikrum Sood, Sreekumar Puthanveetil, Amitabh Bhattacharya, P-13, Nomad Films, Andthen, I.I.T. Bombay, Hanif Kureshi, Wilson, Shaunak, Vikas and the rest of the MumbaiWriter family...

Come to Berlin and join the F.A.T. lab at Transmediale 2010 Berlin next week!
Be part of the F.A.T. lab workshops, movie sets and parties! 15 international F.A.T. lab members and associates will meet up in Berlin for an endless week of new projects. (Topic  to be announced soon!)

F.A.T. lab is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010 !!!

Transmediale 2010 “Futurity now!” February 2nd – 7th,  2010
Check also the enormous program of CTM – Club Transmediale 28th – 7th
Berlin, Germany 2010

Come to Berlin and join the F.A.T. lab at Transmediale 2010 Berlin next week! Be part of the F.A.T. lab workshops, movie sets and parties! 15 international F.A.T. lab members and associates will meet up in Berlin for an endless week of new projects. (Topic  to be announced soon!) F.A.T. lab is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010 !!! Transmediale 2010 "Futurity now!" February 2nd - 7th,  2010 Check also the enormous program of CTM - Club Transmediale 28th - 7th Berlin, Germany 2010

The G.R.L. / F.A.T. World Summit was held last week at the Cash Rules Everything Around Me Festival in Yokohama, Japan. In attendance was G.R.L. (Mother Cell), G.R.L. Utah, G.R.L. Brazil, G.R.L. Australia, G.R.L. Tokyo, G.R.L. Yokohama G.R.L. Kyoto & Tokyo F.A.T. (in absentia G.R.L. Mexico, G.R.L. Houston & G.R.L. Vienna).

Tokyo F.A.T.:

There are more photos up here, and there is a live stream of the first ever Tokyo F.A.T. & F.A.T. (Mother Cell) meet up here (however I suggest skipping forward until at least 25:30 when we are done forcing people to eat vegemite).

There are too many people to thank and shout out, but I hope I see you all again at the G.R.L. / F.A.T. World Summit 2010 (if not sooner).

P.S, big ups to G.R.L. Houston’s new release of Texas Big Face (complete w/ HOW TO):

The G.R.L. / F.A.T. World Summit was held last week at the Cash Rules Everything Around Me Festival in Yokohama, Japan. In attendance was G.R.L. (Mother Cell), G.R.L. Utah, G.R.L. Brazil, G.R.L. Australia, G.R.L. Tokyo, G.R.L. Yokohama G.R.L. Kyoto & Tokyo F.A.T. (in absentia G.R.L. Mexico, G.R.L. Houston & G.R.L. Vienna). Tokyo F.A.T.: There are more photos up here, and there is a live stream of the first ever Tokyo F.A.T. & F.A.T. (Mother Cell) meet up here (however I suggest skipping forward until at least 25:30 when we are done forcing people to eat vegemite). There are too many people to thank and shout out, but I hope I see you all again at the G.R.L. / F.A.T. World Summit 2010 (if not sooner). P.S, big ups to G.R.L. Houston's new release of Texas Big Face (complete w/ HOW TO):

F.A.T. is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010.

“The [NEUTRAL] jury of five international artists, researchers and curators has selected nine projects from more than 1,500 submissions. On 06 February 2010 the award winner(s) [THE UNITED NATION OF F.A.T.!] will be announced….”

Yes, Yves you can keep that chain…. —– Nice car José, like that color … Michelle has a cool plane too! —— Wow, some curators can really afford cool watches …. Hey Doreen, Hi Li! Wazup? ….

F.A.T. is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010. "The [NEUTRAL] jury of five international artists, researchers and curators has selected nine projects from more than 1,500 submissions. On 06 February 2010 the award winner(s) [THE UNITED NATION OF F.A.T.!] will be announced...." Yes, Yves you can keep that chain.... ----- Nice car José, like that color ... Michelle has a cool plane too! ------ Wow, some curators can really afford cool watches .... Hey Doreen, Hi Li! Wazup? ....