In a climate of snapchat sexts and unremitting dick-pic scandals, where sexuality is democratized and accessible to the point of being banal, how do we even define pornography? It might be a question of intent. The Venus De Milo isn't pornographic because it wasn't meant to titillate; Girls Gone Wild is pornographic because it means precisely that. Never mind that the Venus bears more flesh than a drunken sorority girl flashing a video camera. The standards we use to delineate differences between high and lowbrow sexuality are archaic, couched in the aesthetic ideals of canonical Western art. There are nudes, and then there are n00dz. But is there a difference?
Using firmware the WifiTagger lets you tag public networks when you do a local wi-fi search, letting you clutter up virtual space with whatever witticism, insult, or political slogan comes to mind. Just like if you were in a toilet cubicle and you just so happened to have a marker pen—but if that’s getting too analogue for you, try this.
A speed project developed prior to the 2012 US Elections. 3D printed dildos of the candidates are printed on demand once you vote. Everyone is going to get fucked, the question is who you want to fuck you.
Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop.
This knitted computer accessory provides privacy, warmth, and comfort to the wearer while also commenting on the simultaneous focused attention and aloofness from reality that commonly accompanies laptop use in public space.
F.A.T. Public Access is an audio-visual program produced by F.A.T. Fellows Jamie Wilkinson and Bennett Williamson. The show included interviews with artists and guest collaborators, YouTube show & tell, visual effects, jam sessions, bootleg movie screenings, and documentation of public events.
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We're creating a format for describing turntablism, as well as tools for recording, analyzing, sharing, and even recreating scratch performances with a giant robot arm.
The F.A.T Nika is the Fake Gucci of the fame economy. A freestyle replica of Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica. It is a 3d modelled object statuette, copied from Wikipedia images of the Greek Nike of Samothrace and Ars Electronica's Golden Nica. The prestigious award can be easily reproduced infinite times -digitally or physically- and use it to recognize any creative expression (including yours!), without using the scarcity logic promoted by the art world.
The real aspect into making it into a currency is not the fact that can be spent but that can be burnt.
These 3D printed stencils are modern equivalents of the chalk-based "hobo signs" developed by 19th century vagabonds and migratory workers to cope with the difficulty of nomadic life. The set of QR stencils port a number of classic hobo annotations to the QR format ("turn right here", "dangerous dog", "food for work") as well as some new ones, with a nod to warchalking, that are specific to contemporary conditions ("insecure wifi", "hidden cameras", "vegans beware").
Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys.
These 3D printed stencils are modern equivalents of the chalk-based "hobo signs" developed by 19th century vagabonds and migratory workers to cope with the difficulty of nomadic life. The set of QR stencils port a number of classic hobo annotations to the QR format ("turn right here", "dangerous dog", "food for work") as well as some new ones, with a nod to warchalking, that are specific to contemporary conditions ("insecure wifi", "hidden cameras", "vegans beware").
A series of browser extensions to hide Bieber from the lower regions of web pages.
A blog curating the best of hate and fan mail received for Shaved BieberA series of browser extensions to hide Bieber from the lower regions of web pages.
There's obviously no love lost when it comes to Mark Zuckerberg. He's a polarizing individual and his approval rating hasn't ever really been that high to begin with. And not because of Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of the Facebook founder in David Fincher's The Social Network. He's just done some things that are questionable throughout his time at the helm of the most popular social network in the world.
The rise of 3D printing has not been a uniformly positive development for the visual arts. Artists, if you find that your use of additive manufacturing has led you to create work that is consistently written about in trend pieces by reporters who describe it as "mind-bending," please feel free to place your fabrication equipment in this handy box, and press "Start."
"People Staring at Computers started as a photographic intervention exploring computer-mediated interaction and turned into a large-scale collaboration with Apple Inc. and the United States secret service, dealing with themes of privacy and surveillance. The work emerged from a brief “sousveillance” project that highlighted the empty expression people wear when using computers. In order to portray this expression more accurately and share it with others, the portraits of unsuspecting customers were captured at two Apple stores in New York. Custom software was installed manually on dozens of computers over several days, taking pictures once a minute and sending them back to a central server for exhibition online. On the final day the photos were exhibited simultaneously on all the computers at the Apple store at the site where they were taken. Two days after the in-store exhibition, secret-service agents executed a search warrant, seizing the hardware used to create the work. Apple sent cease and desist requests to all web services hosting the work. This collaboration heightened the already present controversy, and the work found new life. Hundreds of commenters across the web joined in, not only discussing the work’s legality but debating the definition of art itself, trying to distinguish public from private space and arguing about the role of surveillance in everyday life. The piece evolved from a photographic intervention into a sort of online happening. The work on display during F.A.T. GOLD consists of the laptop that was seized by the secret service, showing a slideshow of the photos that were left on the hard drive, and the original (but redacted) search warrant in a frame above the laptop."
On January 20th, 2013 Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted by Noah Zerkin on the NYC Subway heading downtown on the 3 train. After a short conversation Noah took a photo and shared it on Twitter https://twitter.com/noazark/status/293194207265447937/photo/1 This tweet quickly received over a thousand retweets. The excitement around this moment is only amplified by Sergey's unusual sense of calm in the photo, augmented by the as-yet-unreleased Google Glass he is wearing. Something about this image captures our imagination, seeing one of the most powerful people in the world, wearing the technology of the future, riding the NYC subway like everyone else. In the spirit of F.A.T., this image has been appropriated and turned into a parody of itself, applying the idea of "carnival cutouts" using face tracking technology, creating an awkward puppet of Sergey that simultaneously lampoons and esteems his position as an influence on culture and technology.
The Existential Emergency Phone is programmed to call one of 150 possible numbers, connecting the viewer to an unsuspecting person on the opposite line.
GML, or Graffiti Markup Language, is an open file format designed to store graffiti motion data. It's been used in projects like the EyeWriter, Graffiti Analysis, DustTag, and Laser Tag, all of which have been uploading GML tags to 000000book.com, a site/database where graffiti writers are encouraged to share tags and computer programmers are invited to create new visualizations based on the resulting data. Every GML (40,000 GML Tags) is a cascading display showcasing the tags in chronological order, from the very first ones drawn by Tempt1, to the most recent captured by a variety of GML-powered apps.
Internet artists, street artists and skateboarders use public architecture in ways creators didn’t expect it to be used. In this sense Artzilla browser add-ons, skateboards and spray cans are the same.
Social ID Bureau gives a personal identification cards to a limited number of Social Network citizens.