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.

“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.

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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/

Exploiting the global visibility of the Olympic Brand, the ambiguous www.peking2008.com domain is used by Les Liens Invisibles as a powerful advertising medium to subvert attention economy mechanisms and to promote the tactical (ab)use of fake-publishing as a new paradoxical way to reclaim the Truth.

• Have a look at the advertising space > http://www.peking2008.com
• Watch the fake-based advertising spot > http://www.peking2008.com/ad/
• Exclusive! Become a counter-olympic sponsor (*) > http://www.peking2008.com/sponsors/
• Have a fake publishing demonstration. Wear the Olympic Mask > http://fake.isafake.org/2008/05/19/peking2008/
• Want more? Discover new fake-themes > http://fake.isafake.org/category/themes/

(*) Please note that all offers from sponsors will cover the cost of renting the domain.

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