FAT Labs vs. Google
Posted on | February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last week here in Berlin the Transmediale Festival took place – and it was great. However, the icing on the cake is to be attributed entirely to Berlin’s own FAT Labs art activism group (Free Art & Technology), who not only had an intriguing stall at the festival itself (titled ‘Fuck Google‘), but also put on a beautiful spectacle chasing the Google Street View car, which happened to criss-cross town at the very same time.
In brilliant live Twitter-report style, everyone could learn how the Google car was being chased – and later, FAT Labs somehow managed to get at GPS tracker attached to the Google car, so that one could track the Googlsters’ trip around the city. Many Germans took the opportunity to get their 15 minutes of fame (or whatever you call the middle finger message) – see the video here:
Google Street Car In Berlin from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Follow FAT Labs on Twitter or visit their website for more antics.
Tags: #tm10 > Berlin > FAT Labs > fffffat > Google > Google Street View > GPS > spectacle > Transmediale > Twitter
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March 14th, 2010 @ 6:02 pm
[…] But last month there was a brilliant strike made by Berlin’s FAT Labs art activists. The story of how they managed to place a gps-tracker on the Google Street View soared through the Twitter-sphere and got picked up by a series of large media, including The Guardian – as well as on this blog. […]