“FB Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App.” [Full Description here]

Good times in Berlin. We certainly recieved alot of attention for this and gathered lots of cool ideas. We’re still sorting them out. Stay tuned about the results and on the next FB resistance workshop in Barcelona in 2 weeks.

See the full FB Resistance Berlin picture Set on Flickr

Follow twitter.com/fbresistance, Post ideas / discuss on our Facebook group, visit fbresistance.com

"FB Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App." [Full Description here] Good times in Berlin. We certainly recieved alot of attention for this and gathered lots of cool ideas. We're still sorting them out. Stay tuned about the results and on the next FB resistance workshop in Barcelona in 2 weeks. See the full FB Resistance Berlin picture Set on Flickr Follow twitter.com/fbresistance, Post ideas / discuss on our Facebook group, visit fbresistance.com

Call for participation

The workshop was originally planned for 10 peeps, but we just raised it to 30 chairs!! So if you want to participate in the workshop (part of this year’s Transmediale Berlin festival) – Submit this form right now with a quick sentence and info about you!!

Short intro to FB Resistance:

Facebook Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App.

FB sets the rules of how-to behave, so we’re asking: Are we happy to live 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.

More

More infos over at http://artzilla.org…, if you can read spanish – Here’s an interview with TBX about the workshop on revistaenie.clarin.com.

Soon more on twitter.com/fbresistance and http://fbresistance.com

Call for participation The workshop was originally planned for 10 peeps, but we just raised it to 30 chairs!! So if you want to participate in the workshop (part of this year's Transmediale Berlin festival) - Submit this form right now with a quick sentence and info about you!! Short intro to FB Resistance: Facebook Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it's rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App. FB sets the rules of how-to behave, so we're asking: Are we happy to live 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. More More infos over at http://artzilla.org..., if you can read spanish - Here's an interview with TBX about the workshop on revistaenie.clarin.com. Soon more on twitter.com/fbresistance and http://fbresistance.com

Vote for Graffiti Analysis & GML in the Transmediale & Mozilla Open Web Award!!!

Here’s how:

1. Create a Mozilla Drumbeat account: https://www.drumbeat.org/user/register

2. Check your mail to get your password and validate your account.

3. Go to the GA/GML Project page on Drumbeat and click “vote” in the upper right corner: http://www.drumbeat.org/project/graffiti-markup-language

4. Leave a comment related to “what you – in particular – like? How do you think the project supports the open web? Would you want to somehow contribute or get involved? Your vote and input directly influences the final decision.“

As you can see, GA/GML is currently waaaaaaaay behind in the race, so it can use all the help it can get. Once you have voted please accept my thanks and this sticker.

Vote for Graffiti Analysis & GML in the Transmediale & Mozilla Open Web Award!!! Here's how: 1. Create a Mozilla Drumbeat account: https://www.drumbeat.org/user/register 2. Check your mail to get your password and validate your account. 3. Go to the GA/GML Project page on Drumbeat and click "vote" in the upper right corner: http://www.drumbeat.org/project/graffiti-markup-language 4. Leave a comment related to "what you - in particular - like? How do you think the project supports the open web? Would you want to somehow contribute or get involved? Your vote and input directly influences the final decision." As you can see, GA/GML is currently waaaaaaaay behind in the race, so it can use all the help it can get. Once you have voted please accept my thanks and this sticker.

Imma let you finish Barbara Kisseler (Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin), but i’ve had a little sippy sippy, so fffffats gonna get a little lippy lippy… WWKD: What would kanye do?

Somewhere amidst the boos and hisses, i had a moment of clarity. Despite all of our fffffuckery, I think GOOGLE just won Transmediale 10. First runner-up prize went to Google’s own Creative Lab Tech Lead, Aaron Koblin, for his collaboration with Daniel Massey that had something to do with a bicycle but sounded like a choir of intubated drunks.

And the Tranny Oscar went to Michelle Teran for her quite good and goodly Google-sponsored orgy of G-apps, Youtube and Google Earth. I think it was also an add for Mr.Goodbar, but I can’t tell for sure.

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that Google was a sponsor for Transmediale 10. Oh well… atleast they aren’t evil.

FAT is already hard at work on a sure-fire winner for TM11. See you next year Stephen!

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Imma let you finish Barbara Kisseler (Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin), but i've had a little sippy sippy, so fffffats gonna get a little lippy lippy... WWKD: What would kanye do? Somewhere amidst the boos and hisses, i had a moment of clarity. Despite all of our fffffuckery, I think GOOGLE just won Transmediale 10. First runner-up prize went to Google's own Creative Lab Tech Lead, Aaron Koblin, for his collaboration with Daniel Massey that had something to do with a bicycle but sounded like a choir of intubated drunks. And the Tranny Oscar went to Michelle Teran for her quite good and goodly Google-sponsored orgy of G-apps, Youtube and Google Earth. I think it was also an add for Mr.Goodbar, but I can't tell for sure. You probably won't be surprised to hear that Google was a sponsor for Transmediale 10. Oh well... atleast they aren't evil. FAT is already hard at work on a sure-fire winner for TM11. See you next year Stephen! download the mp3 [audio:FuckYahoo2.mp3]

A new week of cutting-edge projects themed around evil mother Google !!! Backup your data now !!!

In preparation for our upcoming epic F.A.T. Lab meet up at Transmediale10 Berlin we are pleased to announce our next topic week FUCK GOOGLE ! Stay tuned for a series of brand new pieces to be released here in the upcoming week!

F.A.T. lab is nomintaed for the Transmediale Award 2010

Transmediale 2010 “Futurity now!”
February 2nd – 7th,  2010
Berlin, Germany

Come and join F.A.T. at Transmediale! Book your tickets now!

(Catalogue text)

Google is the most popular site on the world wide web. Since Larry Page and Sergey Brin opened the Menlo Park doors of their corporate office in 1998, Google has grown to be much more than just the defacto information search utility for the web. Beyond having over 150 domains, dozens of web, browser and desktop apps, a number of the most popular sites on the web (like YouTube), partnerships with multimedia conglomerates and multinational telecoms, one spy satellite and a mysterious network of telecommunication infrastructure, Google has become a new word in the international lexicon. I Googled it. 구글했다. Je l’ai googlelé. Jeg googlede det. ググった。 Eu Googled isso. Ich hab’s gegoogled. मॅँ googled है. Yo googleo.
Google, Ergo Sum.

But, it wasn’t always easy streets for the kindly, corporate giant. Shining a light into the darkness of the early web was not as simple as it looked. It took patience, a “don’t be evil” mantra, football fields of high-end office furniture, and millions and millions of ads. As F.A.T. Lab fellows Randy Sarafan and Geraldine Juárez, wrote in their tell-all, Google, biopic entitled, Lost and Found:

“Webrings just wouldn’t work… Information needed to be freed and shopping needed to be accessible. There could only ever be one pets.com. Exoticpets.com, rarepets.com, rareexoticpets.com, and rareexoticpetfood.com would all be outposts in the wilderness without a road to lead you there. Google’s benevolent hands built that road. And they built millions of other roads. And then they lined these roads with billboards. And with the money they made on these billboards, they built entire cities of industry. And within these cities, they erected more billboards. And pretty soon, Google, the mere builder of roads, owned half of the frontier, which was no longer a frontier, but a megalopolis without borders.”

So, what is so “fuck-worthy” about Mother-google? It is the fact that a corporate entity, even one as beloved and competent as Google, is in control of such a large stake in the digital network and public utility upon which we have all grown so reliant. And, that as a publicly traded company, it doesn’t have to answer to anyone but its largest shareholders, despite the fact that its decisions effect the lives and private information of millions of people. Few even question or raise a voice in opposition to the Google-ification of the Internet.

Don’t get us wrong, we use Google too. We use search, blog search, gmail, YouTube, calendar, docs, analytics, maps, etc. We use them like we do the sidewalk or a public toilets when we have to take a piss: because it feels like there just isn’t any other option. Sure, there are alternatives to Google. But, they mostly suck. And to not use Google means to lose access to an enormous network and some of the most reliable tools on the Internet.

That is why for Transmediale 2010, F.A.T. Lab proposes ‘FuckGoogle’, a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions aimed at creating an awareness of the role Google plays in our daily lives. Throughout the duration of Transmediale, F.A.T. members and friends will publish free software, live streams, communiques and video documentation of actions on the fffff.at blog. So, join us and let’s all FuckGoogle together. By the way, does anyone have Sergey’s email or home address?

A new week of cutting-edge projects themed around evil mother Google !!! Backup your data now !!! In preparation for our upcoming epic F.A.T. Lab meet up at Transmediale10 Berlin we are pleased to announce our next topic week FUCK GOOGLE ! Stay tuned for a series of brand new pieces to be released here in the upcoming week! F.A.T. lab is nomintaed for the Transmediale Award 2010 Transmediale 2010 "Futurity now!" February 2nd - 7th,  2010 Berlin, Germany Come and join F.A.T. at Transmediale! Book your tickets now! (Catalogue text) Google is the most popular site on the world wide web. Since Larry Page and Sergey Brin opened the Menlo Park doors of their corporate office in 1998, Google has grown to be much more than just the defacto information search utility for the web. Beyond having over 150 domains, dozens of web, browser and desktop apps, a number of the most popular sites on the web (like YouTube), partnerships with multimedia conglomerates and multinational telecoms, one spy satellite and a mysterious network of telecommunication infrastructure, Google has become a new word in the international lexicon. I Googled it. 구글했다. Je l'ai googlelé. Jeg googlede det. ググった。 Eu Googled isso. Ich hab's gegoogled. मॅँ googled है. Yo googleo. Google, Ergo Sum. But, it wasn't always easy streets for the kindly, corporate giant. Shining a light into the darkness of the early web was not as simple as it looked. It took patience, a "don't be evil" mantra, football fields of high-end office furniture, and millions and millions of ads. As F.A.T. Lab fellows Randy Sarafan and Geraldine Juárez, wrote in their tell-all, Google, biopic entitled, Lost and Found: "Webrings just wouldn't work... Information needed to be freed and shopping needed to be accessible. There could only ever be one pets.com. Exoticpets.com, rarepets.com, rareexoticpets.com, and rareexoticpetfood.com would all be outposts in the wilderness without a road to lead you there. Google's benevolent hands built that road. And they built millions of other roads. And then they lined these roads with billboards. And with the money they made on these billboards, they built entire cities of industry. And within these cities, they erected more billboards. And pretty soon, Google, the mere builder of roads, owned half of the frontier, which was no longer a frontier, but a megalopolis without borders." So, what is so "fuck-worthy" about Mother-google? It is the fact that a corporate entity, even one as beloved and competent as Google, is in control of such a large stake in the digital network and public utility upon which we have all grown so reliant. And, that as a publicly traded company, it doesn't have to answer to anyone but its largest shareholders, despite the fact that its decisions effect the lives and private information of millions of people. Few even question or raise a voice in opposition to the Google-ification of the Internet. Don't get us wrong, we use Google too. We use search, blog search, gmail, YouTube, calendar, docs, analytics, maps, etc. We use them like we do the sidewalk or a public toilets when we have to take a piss: because it feels like there just isn't any other option. Sure, there are alternatives to Google. But, they mostly suck. And to not use Google means to lose access to an enormous network and some of the most reliable tools on the Internet. research paper helpOften I pen my expert research pares at-large without collaboration. Still sometime I generally have propositions in formatting massive and tough serves. I could have not ordinary issues, which I can zoom and evolve. In these moves I identify research paper help regularly. I must say that dandy ordered prevails are not low and they richly are composed by benchmarks. That is why for Transmediale 2010, F.A.T. Lab proposes 'FuckGoogle', a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions aimed at creating an awareness of the role Google plays in our daily lives. Throughout the duration of Transmediale, F.A.T. members and friends will publish free software, live streams, communiques and video documentation of actions on the fffff.at blog. So, join us and let's all FuckGoogle together. By the way, does anyone have Sergey's email or home address?

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

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? ....