les liens invisibles

”“The More I Look, the More I See”, Nov 10 – Dec 10, 2010′ Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica (Croatia) Artists: Giuseppe di Bella, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & Jonas Staal, Les Liens Invisibles, David Smithson, Tea Tupaji? It certainly seems that, seen from the dominant contemporary perspective(s), Brecht’s Marxism and his belief in utopia, utopian potential and open political [...]

Exhibition curated by: Marco Mancuso and Claudia D’Alonzo for Digicult & Michal Brzezinski Exhibition period: 16/04/2010 – 16/05/2010 Opening: Friday 16/04/2010 Artists: Milycon / En, Dorota Walentynowicz, Saso Sedlacek, Jan Van Neuenen, Les Liens Invisibles, Marc Lee, Yorit Kluitman, Vit Klusak a Filip Remunda Concept: On November 20, 2009, just few days before the COP [...]

From http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-tools-for-propaganda The increased accessibility and affordability of contemporary media technologies has greatly expanded possibilities for the dissemination of independent and grassroots information. At the same time, these developments have also greatly increased the opportunities for (mis)use of media technologies as powerful and effective tools for political and commercial propaganda. Although many theorists, artists, and [...]

Video selection for the series “Playlist”, Neoncampobase, Bologna (Italy) Opening: January 27, 2010 Curated by: Domenico Quaranta. Founded by the American writer Stewart Brand in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalogue (WEC) was a catalogue of tools that was regarded as a bible by the counterculture generation – that is, by those who shaped the techno-cultural [...]

“We keep on talking about “new media”, while in actually fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start counting from the advent of the Web, forty if we start from Arpanet. Spacewar!, the first videogame ever, is more or less the same age. Virtual worlds are the [...]

Les Liens Invisibles will be present at Piemonte SHARE festival with a preview of their forthcoming project Seppukoo.com

In this bewildering new world of Photoshop, CGI and plastic surgery, how do we know what’s real anymore? F for Fake is interested in the idea of mischief as both an act of play and as a political gesture. Taking Orson Wells’ infamous film as its title and starting point, the exhibition looks at tricks, [...]

This year’s edition of the festival focus on the theme “FOR GOD’S SAKE! How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity”, suggested by the Italian art critic, teacher and curator Domenico Quaranta. In his words, “contemporary artistic projects have often raised such issues as technological fetishism, the [...]

Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding” examines the desires generated and promoted by democracy as a brand–such as choice, participation, freedom of expression, a sense of belonging, and the promise of individual success, all embodied in the notion of “liberty”–and looks at how and where these desires find fulfillment or are displaced. The exhibition [...]

Les Liens Invisibles has recently participated with a fake-based “imaginary intervention” to the italian Exhibition “Luoghi dell’Utopia” curated by BAU art organization: eleven big reproduction of the most representative (italian and international) art magazines gave the illusion of the presence of the artwork in the show with a sarcastic collage of hyper-intellectual articles.

A Fake is a Fake project partecipates to the interesting project “AntiSocial NotWorking” a repository of projects curated by Geoff Cox that give a critical view of online social platforms.

MY OWN PRIVATE REALITY Growing up online in the 90s and 00s 12 May – 1 July 2007 Press Conference: Friday, 11 May 2007, 11 a.m. Opening: Friday, 11 May 2007, 7 p.m. In the last decade, the Internet has become one of the most important tools of the information society and has changed our [...]