[NetBehaviour] “The F.A.T. Manual” Release and Book Launch at MU, Eindhoven

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“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.