F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl’s Dead Drop hack-art empire is growing. Here’s a giddy volunteer installing an “anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network” at highest point of the Teufelsberg – an abandoned U.S. NSA “listening” tower in Berlin. Read more »
F.A.T. artists continue their support of detained artist Ai Weiwei by offering downloadable DIY “FREE Ai Weiwei glasses,” get it? Take Ai’s middle finger with you IRL, when not using the Fuck Off bookmarklet or the Reverse Firewall on the Chinese internet. Although, really, it’s time for everyone to learn Mandarin and go on Weibo.
F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl has hacked us a new way to object the persecution and imprisonment of dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Go here for simple directions on how to flip off sites of companies supporting Chinese cultural events while keeping their mouths conveniently shut about the artist’s arrest. Do it with Ai’s own finger from his Fuck Off! series.
Inspired by F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl’s NYC project Dead Drops, French musical collective Emmanuelle has installed two Glory Walls in Paris, with more coming. Essentially, these are two public USB sticks with the band’s MP3s, but vulgar! Read more »
Apparently, MoMA only gives out artist passes if you can prove you’ve had a show off-line. To hack these internet art discriminating practices, F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl made this step-by-step guide to creating your own one year MoMA artist pass with a scanner and a bar-code generator so online artists can reward themselves. Read more »
Dead Drops is NYC’s new “anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in a public space.” Artist Aram Bartholl cemented USB flash drives in and on walls, poles, curbs, crevices and cracks of the city. Here’s a fresh “how to” video. Read more »
FUCK 3D glasses aren’t intended to enhance one’s perspective, just to suppress it. Offering a simple solution for those people “sick of the 3rd dimension,” the new printable eyewear, quickly constructed by Free Art and Technology’s Aram Bartholl, does away with depth perception in favor of simpler, flatter visions that will surely comfort the computer addicts in your life. |F.A.T.|
An annoying but often necessary weapon against spammers, captcha codes answer the simple question: “Are you human?” Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl takes this reverse turing test public by installing a series of hand cut captcha tags on the street. |F.A.T.|
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