Aram Bartholl – Blog

[first released on F.A.T. , don’t miss the comments there…]

1. Download your pass here.
2. Print it on heavy paper, both sides.
3. Insert your name with a pen.
4. Visit MOMA a whole year for free!

You are only eligible to obtain an MOMA artist annual pass (25,-$) (regular entrance fee 20,- $ !!!) if you can proof  that you had ‘OFF-LINE’ !!!  art shows. Can you believe that? Online art doesn’t count in?!? We need to change that.

The making of the Free MOMA pass:

Let’s scan this!

It seems I am artist number #7156 which got an artist pass. (This year? Since the system was implemented? Doesn t matter in fact.) The  entrance guard will just scan the code and look at the read out if the pass is valid. Code format is CODE_39. Ok nice!

Let’s scan the whole thing in high res!

We better generate that magic code A000000000007156 again at Online Barcode Generator for better print quality  :-) You might wanna also just become the artist pass owner #7155 in case they kick Aram Bartholl out of the DB for some reason. ;-)

Done! I recommend the Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures show on 5th floor. Awesome! Let’s meet for a make out flashmob in that ‘exhibtion’ cinema ;-)
[You might also just go to Free Friday Nights, held every Friday evening from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m :-)]

PS: See also James’ http://fffff.at/how-to-sneak-into-the-venice-guggenheim/ :-)

I can’t believe this! Germany entered the scene on the digital globe today! Congrats! Google Streetview is finally life! Although it seems Google had some trouble keeping the good quality. Many images are blurred or even black, strange – how come? ;-) ….. Oh! whats that?!? Look what I found!!! F.A.T. patrol is on Steetview OMG! yes true, I heard they tagged the car with a GPS last February … what?!? They even hijacked it?!?! (http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/ – don t miss the video) …

Update:

OMG! It seems that Google for one day even considered to run Streetview in Germany as a paid premium service … it would make sense! They spend so much extra money on ‘post production’ ;-)

The Streetview page was blocked and the text says something like ‘Due to the high effort in picture editing Google Germany has decided to run  Google Streetview as a paid premium service….”  The page was up for only one day and for some strange reason they list themselves now as a phising attack ?!? see yourself http://goo.gl/Nk9Ca . Probably trying to blame someone else ;-)

[Great speed coding job Dragan! Speed project by Dragan Espenschied and Aram Bartholl on a beautiful Friday morning last week! ]

Yes!! The ‘official’ Google Streetview car was seen at the ‘Freedom not fear’ demonstration Berlin last Saturday! Great that Google joined the Demonstration “…against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses – Stop Surveillance Mania!“

bubble-streetview.de powered by F.A.T. Lab ;-)

Sorry SP38! I just had to do this …

First released on F.A.T.

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<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/15357023″>How to build a fake Google Street View car</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/agoasi”>Aram Bartholl</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

Full docu on fffff.at.

Love the ‘The More you know’ clips Evan released on fffff.at during TM last week. I put them together and uploaded them to a safe place ;-). Free beer for the first 3 who manage to embed the vide on on a blog!

(All FAT@TM pics here, our shuttle in front of HKW, Berlin)

All 12 FAT members arrived last weekend in Berlin and were picked up at the airport by the FAT mobile. Stay tuned for tons of new projects to be released upcoming week on the FAT! Drop by next week and check out FAT action at TM10! Be up to date via @fffffat Twitter!

I am so glad that all of you fffffaties made it to Berlin!

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

Transmediale 2010 “Futurity now!”
February 2nd – 7th,  2010
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

Artzilla “Skate the Web” opening and F.A.T. Lab presentation was great fun! Congrats to Tobi-X for the super nice show! Thx to Ela Kagel from Upgrade! Berlin for the invitation and help. Thx to Betahaus for the space and thx to Transmediale for equipment.

all pics on flickr
(see also the pics of Martin!)

“Skate the web” solo show Tobias Leingruber

31.10.09 – 18.11.09
Mon.- Frid. 9:00-18:00 h
Berlin Betahaus Prinzessinnenstr. 19, Berlin