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The Invisible Pavilion

dedalus — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:18:21 +0000

The Invisible Pavilion is an uninvited, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will function for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale as a squatted stage on which a performative flow of digital-based works of art will fill the whole area of the Giardini.

The main purpose of the project is to fill the augmented space of the Biennal with a stream of signs and symbols,in an attempt to emphasize the flowing condition of producing art in the “always-on” age.

All the people with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone) in the area of the Giardini in the Biennale, will be able to move around the traditional pavilions and watch through the phone screens to another immaterial/invisible exhibition using the popular app Layar.

During the period of Venice Art Biennale (June – November 2011) a group of selected international artists have been invited to give their personal contribute to the project, performatively contribute posting multimedia pieces that should reinterpret somehow the public space of the Biennale and its symbolic aura in the field of contemporary art. The art pieces will be visible also on the Internet on the Invisible Pavilion website.

As Simona Lodi says in the curatorial text, “The Invisible Pavilion is a hallucinatory experience of rewriting the world, an encouragement to increase the whirl and flow of information on invisible r/Reality. The Invisible Pavilion contains a r/Reality that is open and spontaneous, drawn and analysed from shared data. The double r reflects its double connotation—the lower case r refers to the everyday reality that we all know; the upper case R to a proprietary name, the augmented Reality that is produced.“

Participating artists

Tweet4Action.com

dedalus — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:17:04 +0000

Tweet4Action is the ultimate tool for armchair activism.
Discover how to set up the most radical street demonstrations and take part in them without any of the annoying risks.

Created in the cultural background of the so called Twitter Revolutions Tweet4Action injects the fervor into your tweety riots by mixing together the potent combination of Twitter, augmented reality, and data hallucination.

Insurrections have never been so easy: just decide in a few clicks where do you want to place your riot, pick up a rebellion hashtag and spread it all over the web. Your tweets will become the squatter demonstrators in the augmented reality space of your campaign!

Are you ready to change the world?
Don’t miss the action: augment your reaction!

“Tweet4Action.com” is a 2011 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Google World Revolutions

dedalus — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:00:26 +0000

The Google World Revolutions is a series of Google Earth hacks, studies and manipulations, played on the surface of the Google Earth’s sphere model.
Part of the works have been created and produced for the exhibition “The More I look, the more I see” which has taken place at Galeria Galzenica in Velika Gorica (Hr) in December 2010.

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(Ground Control To Major Tom, Single Channel Video loop)

(The Banana Revolution, Single Channel Video loop)

(Tryptich – Study for The Google World Revolutions - , Three Channels Video loop)

Supporting Anna Adamolo

dedalus — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:06:44 +0000

The imaginary art group Les Liens Invisibles supports the virtual heroine Anna Adamolo against the so called reform Gelmini, a law that seriously cuts down on public funding of education.

Watch the video hijacking @ http://www.vimeo.com/2431622
Go to Anna Adamolo’s Blog @ http://annaadamolo.noblogs.org (Italian only)
Have a look to the hijacked Department for Education and Skills @ http://www.ministeroistruzione.net (Italian only)

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.

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.

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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/

Peking 2008

dedalus — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:12:32 +0000

While the olympic curtain softly falls on the chinese repression in Tibet, the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles celebrates the upcoming Olympic Games with a new fake-based hybridation between art, activism and advertising strategies.

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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A fake is a fake. Anyway

dedalus — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:55:54 +0000

Disillusion 2.0?
You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to disappear and that your voice was going to play an active role in the formation of public discourse.
You were deluded into believing that even the world, this world, would become a better place through detailed diffusion of low-cost technologies, through the birth of telematic networks and the establishment of blogs and social networks.
While the watered-down fantasies that came with the rise of web 2.0 are being dissolved, a bitter consciousness remains: that communication itself, after all, is an illusion. That information, however probable it may seem, is still a fiction and that a fake, in the end, is only a fake. Anyway.

Experience the power of detourning communication!
Rising directly from the ashes of the blogosphere, the imaginary group Les Liens Invisibles is proud to present A Fake is a Fake, the ultimate platform dedicated to fake publishing, that will finally render your communication strong, incisive, and paradoxical.
Thrust your voice beyond the limits of reality and explore the new frontiers of detourning communication: you can finally speak with the voice of Power.

Simple, Fun, Radical. Take a tour of fake publishing new features …
* Easy, intuitive content management
* Simple installation and radical communication
* Open, flexible architecture based on the WordPress Template System
* Rich list of free Fake Themes
* Free “fake is a fake” domain accounts on our servers

… and watch what corporate media say about fake.
“The most important revolution of its kind since the likes of Gutenberg!” Repubblica
“Plus qu’une œuvre d’art à succès, un phénomène de société” Le Figaro

“We can only guess that fake publishing will mark the dawning of a new information era.” The Financial Times