Interessante... Il giorno lunedì 4 novembre 2013, mutek ha scritto:
> > “The F.A.T. Manual” Release and Book Launch at MU, Eindhoven > > The Link Art Center is proud to announce the release of The F.A.T. Manual, > edited by > Domenico Quaranta and Geraldine Juárez. Published by Link Editions on the > occasion > of the exhibition “F.A.T. GOLD Europe” curated by Lindsay Howard at MU, > Eindhoven > (November 15, 2013 – January 26, 2014), the book is co-produced with > F.A.T. Lab and > MU. Available during the show in a special edition of 200 printed copies, > the book > is already available as a free pdf download on Link Editions website, on > Lulu.com > and Issuu.com, and in print-on-demand on Lulu.com. > > In more than five years of activity, the Free Art and Technology Lab > (F.A.T. Lab) > produced an impressive series of projects, all developed with open source > software, > shared online and documented in a way that allows everybody to copy, > improve, abuse > or simply use them. This approach situates F.A.T. Lab in a long tradition > of DIY, > processual, sharable artistic practices based on instructionals, and > reveals a > democratic idea of art where Fluxus scores meet hacker culture (and rap > music). > > Featuring texts by Régine Debatty, Evan Roth, Domenico Quaranta, Geraldine > Juárez > andRandy Sarafan, The F.A.T. Manual is a selection of more that 100 > projects, done > in the belief that printing these bits on paper will allow them to spread > in a > different way, infiltrate other contexts, and germinate. An archive, a > catalogue, a > user manual and a software handbook documenting five years of thug life, > pop culture > and research and development. > > F.A.T. Lab (http://www.fffff.at) is an organization dedicated to enriching > the > public domain through the research and development of creative > technologies and > media. F.A.T. Lab’s greater network of artists, engineers, scientists, > lawyers, and > musicians are committed to supporting open values and the public domain > through the > use of emerging open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship, and the > admonishment of secrecy, copyright monopolies, and patents. F.A.T. Lab was > co-founded in 2007 by Eyebeam senior fellows Evan Roth and James Powderly. > Over the > past five years, the group has grown to include twenty-five artists, > designers and > hacker from 3 continents. > > Link Editions (http://editions.linkartcenter.eu) is a publishing > initiative of the > Link Center for the Arts of the Information Age. Link Editions uses print > on demand > and digital formats to create an accessible, dynamic series of essays and > pamphlets, > but also artist books, catalogues and conference proceedings. A keen > advocate of the > idea that information wants to be free, Link Editions releases its > contents free of > charge in .pdf format, and on paper at a price accessible to all. Link > Editions is a > not-for-profit initiative and all its contents are circulated under an > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) > license. > > MU will host the official, international book launch at the opening of > “F.A.T. GOLD > Europe” on Friday November 15, with a presentation by the editors. > > Additional information: > > Geraldine Juárez, Domenico Quaranta (Eds.), The F.A.T. Manual, Link > Editions, > Brescia 2013. English, soft cover, color, 224 pp. ISBN 9781291577914 > > Designed by: Fabio Paris > Published by: Link Editions, Brescia 2013 > www.linkartcenter.eu > > Co-produced by: > F.A.T. Lab - http://www.fffff.at > MU - http://www.mu.nl/ > > On the occasion of the exhibition: “F.A.T. GOLD Europe”, MU, Eindhoven, > November 15, > 2013 – January 26, 2014 > > With generous support from: > Baltan Laboratories - http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/ > Eindhoven Municipality > Ministry of Education, Culture and Science > Creative Industries Fund NL, Rotterdam - http://stimuleringsfonds.nl/en > > Made in collaboration with: > XPO Gallery, Paris - http://www.xpogallery.com/en > > This work is licensed under the Creative Commons > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. > > _______________________________________________ > Open > https://lists.partito-pirata.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open > _______________________________________________ Open https://lists.partito-pirata.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open
