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From May 11th to May 17th, 2009, the art collective F.A.T.<\/a> inaugurated Kanye Webst<\/a> Week<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The aim of the project was to produce a variety of applications, which parodied the American rapper\u2019s famed shenanigans in the real<\/a> and virtual<\/a> worlds.<\/p>\n For example, in response to the hysteria surrounding the swine flu pandemic and Kanye West\u2019s outspoken opinions on basically everything, the art collective F.A.T. produced the BEAUTIFLU Kit (above) containing a silver facemask designed to resemble Kanye West\u2019s famous \u201cshutter shades\u201d and plastic sleeves in which one could put their Louis Vuitton wallets to protect their money from being contaminated by swine flu.\u00a0 Other works produced as part of Kanye Webst Week appear below. <\/p>\n F.A.T.<\/a> stands for “Free Art and Technology,” and the artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, musicians and “Bornas” use their platform to spread their excellent, cunning and witty discoveries with the public. F.A.T. is \u201cdedicated to enriching the public domain one mutha-***in’ LOL at a time.” <\/p>\n F.A.T. takes an ironic approach to what Roy Ascott describes in his 1984 essay, “Art and Telematics: Toward a Network Consciousness”:\u00a0 ‘The creative use of networks makes them organisms. The work is never in a state of completion, how could it be so? Telematique<\/em> is a decentralising medium; its metaphor is that of a web or net in which there is no centre, or hierarchy, no top nor bottom. […] To engage in telematic communications is to be at once everywhere and nowhere. In this it is subversive. It subverts the idea of authorship bound up with the solitary individual. It subverts the idea of individual ownership of the works of imagination.’ [1] The F.A.T. artists constantly update their web art, which is often produced daily, sometimes even within an hour’s time, countering the notion that creating art is a lengthy process. Their works are available for download and individuals are invited to experiment with their finds. Through the use of such a ridiculously famous star such as Kanye West, F.A.T. has reached new audiences and created new networks, their web platform received over 70, 000 hits during Kanye Webst Week<\/em>. The image of Kanye West is both a target of ridicule in their art but also a catalyst for web art development. <\/p>\n QUOTABLE KANYE<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a webpage<\/a> that generates a new Kanye West quote with every mouse click. It closely resembles the gibberish that escaped the American rapper\u2019s physical and virtual mouth. By Irene Polnyi and Jamie Wilkinson.<\/p>\n KANYEFY Bookmarklet<\/strong><\/p>\n This bookmarklet application<\/a> is to be installed in one\u2019s browser. Upon clicking the KANYEFY bookmarklet, the viewed webpage will be \u2018Kanyefied\u2019, which means that the typeface is set to CAPS LOCK and additional, unnecessary and grammatically incorrect punctuation marks are inserted into the text. The effect is rather humorous, especially when one \u2018Kanyefies\u2019 newspaper or governmental websites.<\/p>\n Kanye Rant Detector<\/strong><\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u84\/picture-2.png\" "\\"quotable")
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