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Repetitionr.com – Tactical media meet data hallucination

dedalus — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:49:55 +0000

“Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital.
It’s called Democracy.”
* Alan Badiou

“Democracy is becoming more an empty ritual,
devoid of the ability to deliver true alternatives
and true choices.”
Franco Bifo Berardi

“A lie is the beginning of a new story.
That’s why we love Art.”
Oscar Wilde

ONE MAN ONE VOTE?

NO MORE. ONE CLICK IS ENOUGH.

Representational democracy is a thing of the past. Its days are numbered. Indeed, representation can no longer be said to be representative. It’s time for change. Leave behind your out-moded street activism, public demonstrations, megaphones. Protest is no longer to be found on the streets.

Instead get involved in the new global networked euphoria, take your data-body to its limits and discover how activism can be now carried out comfortably from your armchair.

EMBRACE THE NEW ERA OF ARMCHAIR-ACTIVISM.

A MILLION PEOPLE CAN’T BE WRONG.

In the post-idealist era the success of a campaign is increasingly reliant on instantaneous statistical surveys promoted to shift opinion towards defined positions.

Created by the imaginary art group Les Liens Invisibles – already known for others internet spoofs like Subvertr.com, A Fake is A Fake and Seppukoo.com – Repetitionr.com is the ultimate social petition platform that grants the success of every campaign proposed, offering the most advanced internet technologies to make participatory democracy a truely user-centered experience. Just a click and Repetitionr will fill your petitions with millions of self-generated fake signatures indistinguishable from the real ones.

TIRED OF WORDS?

JUST PUT REPETITIONR INTO ACTION.

Repetitionr needs just a few clicks to demonstrate its magic: just create your petition by writing down the title and statement, choose the number of signatures you want and from which countries they come from, then simply sit down and enjoy the the power of data hallucination working on your behalf. Don’t be afraid to exaggerate: Repetitionr will produce up to 1,000,000 signatures!

You are no longer alone in your opinions. Make a Re-Petition and announce to the world that thousands and thousands of people can’t be wrong!

Fragile

dedalus — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:52:35 +0000

Seppukoo.com | Viral suicide goes pandemic

dedalus — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:45:56 +0000

A Virus is haunting the busy communication highways of the social networking sphere: the virus of Seppukoo. The infection has been started off last month with a viral marketing campaign for the launch of the homonym notWorking platform Seppukoo.com. The alert has now reached the pandemic state. Nobody’s safe.

Video

(Readymedia for Seppukoo.com)

(How to commit a Do It Yourself Seppukoo)

The Empire’s wait for sunset

dedalus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:34:39 +0000

I am the Empire in the last of its decline,
That sees the tall, fair-haired Barbarians pass,–the while
Composing indolent acrostics, in a style
Of gold, with languid sunshine dancing in each line.

Silence is golden – A twitter perpetual intervention

dedalus — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:01:58 +0000

Nothing more to say: silence is golden.
Let’s just follow it.

The Game is Over

dedalus — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:42:48 +0000

The coins are finished and the game is over.

A delicious collection of invisible links

dedalus — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:59:55 +0000

According to the first and the second Euclidean postulates, two points are joined by a straight line segment that can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.

Les Liens Invisibles ^.com is the homonym, self referential, ongoing collection of invisible | broken | non-existent | conceptual | zen links by the imaginary art group Les Liens Invisibles.

Visitors are free to browse around the collection following both the notworking and the conceptual connections.

3 readymade paths to God

dedalus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:59:44 +0000

Wandering around the geolocated matrix and looking always for the same directions, sometimes it happens to get lost and to wonder if there’s any way out of here.

Inquiring one of the most popular web mapping service, the imaginary art group Les Liens Invisibles found three spiritual pilgrimage routes ready to be shared, printed, and executed.

The “3 ready-made paths to God” piece is the ironical attempt to trace and reveals the invisible boundaries between body, data and god, and it will be presented at PixxelPoint International new media festival of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in December 2008.

Neverending Happy End – Happy endings never end

dedalus — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:18 +0000

Waiting the end of the end. Enjoy this small video piece.

Google is Not The Map

dedalus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:03:17 +0000

“The world is my idea”: this is a truth which holds good

for everything that lives and knows,

though man alone can bring it

into reflective and abstract consciousness.”

Arthur Schopenhauer from “The world as will and representation”

Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world as a geometric ensemble of measurable points, lines, areas and data-labels on a plane.

While the world slowly fades away in an increasingly multiplication of self-representations, the map making process – missing its real reference – becomes nothing more than an empty-meaning abstract practice: so, what do all those maps stand now for?

In order to disclose this contradiction – or just to give a paradoxical point of view about it – the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles has explored the world along its self-referential techno-linguistic layers, moving through its hidden mechanisms and forcing the grammar of its public-released API code.

Commissioned by LX 2.0 – a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea and curated by Luis Silva – Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM) is a collection of over 35 GeoPoeMaps, a series of works in which ordinary maps become the unusual surfaces used to disarticulate the perception of the world, to trace new routes across the boundaries and to draw new imaginary geometries of the possible.

Video

Credits

A project by Les Liens Invisibles

> http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org

Commissioned by LX 2.0, a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea

> http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/