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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

Disperse. Exclamatory Phase

dedalus — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:57:51 +0000

In 1964, italian artists Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello gave birth to one of the most interesting and significant experiments in the fields of art and cinema: “Uncertain Verification”, a paradoxical assemblage of cinematographic extracts taken from over 450.000 feet of Hollywood footage from the 50s, originally destined to be destroyed and purchased for the price of 15.000 lira.

Over forty years later, the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles are reinterpreting and re-actualizing Grifi’s and Baruchello’s deconstructive action in order to complete the originally planned conceptual dissolution, picking up where the two artists left off, at the unfinished phase of dispersion, the Disperse Exclamatory phase.

This operation of reverse engineering at the base of the project by Les Liens Invisibles consists in deconstructing the footage image by image, and publishing a fragmentary version online, making the “source” contents of the cinematographic work accessible to the public. Through this process, its rigid, logical and linear narrative structure can be interpreted in an “Open Source” type of approach.

“Verifica Incerta” thus becomes “Disperse Exclamatory Phase”, an anonymous sequence of 1075 digital fragments, ready to be (im)possibly repossessed and recombined by that part of the network working in favour of a new narrative, dispersive, rhizomatic and potentially collective.

info:
Website: http://disperse.exclamatoryphase.net
Feed RSS: http://disperse.exclamatoryphase.net/rss.xml

Les Liens Invisibles web sites: http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org
Email: disperse@lesliensinvisibles.org

useful links:
About “Uncertain verification”:
http://nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?Itemid=226&id=2054&option=com_content&task=view
About Alberto Grifi (in Italian): http://www.albertogrifi.com

Loop{disperse} performance @ Festival della Creatività in Florence

dedalus — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:00:07 +0000

Luca Volonté sotto sequestro!

dedalus — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:16:34 +0000

Ora pure un gioco su internet, furbescamente diabolico, sulla difesa dei preti pedofili. Una furbata tanto ridicola e specchiata, con la quale nascondere l’anticattolicità e l’offesa più falsa e ripugnante. In cui si mischia la brama pedofila e la cristofobia, sulla quale Ã¨ obbligatoria non solo la censura ma pure la ricerca e fino in fondo di questi sguatteri del Male; ormai son come quei tipi loschi che giocano a nascondino sotto i lampioni illuminati, bisogna solo prenderli.
Luca Volonté, 03/07/07

Non sono più le case a intingersi di sangue, adesso. Azioni politiche e giuridiche hanno sostituito la forza bruta cambiando la forma ma non la sostanza: chi detiene il potere, i mezzi e i soldi riesce a imporre la propria volonta. Volonté. Intimorire l’individuo. Annientarlo.
Les Liens Invisibles, 04/07/07

sito sottoposto a sequestro preventivo
Procura della Repubblica presso il tribunale di Roma, 09/07/07

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Liberté, Egalité, Volonté. The Blasphemous Art Riot

dedalus — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:11:47 +0000

Mercoledì 4 Luglio 2007, Rete delle Reti.

Les Liens Invisibles :: Image-guerrilla group

Azione a sostegno di Molleindustria contro l’increscioso caso di censura subita.

"Gigabit intanto scorrono nella rete, peccaminosi? inerti? colpevoli? innocenti? ne possiamo sentire il flusso sotto di noi mentre ancora avvampano nelle nostre memorie storiche le luci dei libri bruciati in piazza, macabri rituali ciclicamente riesumati dai vari inquisitori o dal dittatore di turno. Serpeggia l’inesorabile incedere dei raid nelle case a scorticare con la fiamma gli scomodi volumi, purificare i pensieri eretici e talvolta gli stessi pensatori.

E poi silenzio. Altrove si ripercuote oggi la scure dei censori, laddove liberi si esprimono gli individui, dove il dibattito si consuma incontrollato e incontrollabile.

Ride, l’ignaro, fiero della facile vittoria.

Ma il rigurgito è spontaneo, viaggia alla velocità delle idee e si propaga, inarrestabile. Specchio spezzato, frammenti di identità che travolgono lo stesso nemico con la stessa forza disgregatrice, colpendo la sua stessa immagine.
Riaggregandosi poi per proclamare all’unisono oggi in questo luogo, in questo non-luogo la nostra richiesta di resa incondizionata: GIU’ LE MANI DAI VIDEOGIOCHI."

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Subvertr @ My Own Private Reality

dedalus — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:00:11 +0000

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 culture. With the ever-increasing democratisation of the media, new social communi*ties based in the global network have emerged, which operate with their own rules. These new *Social softwares* are the communica*tion tools by which interaction and collaboration online takes place, yet their use is regulated more through social conventions than genuine software
characteristics.

Participatory platforms, such as MySpace, YouTube, or Second Life, have become an important part of the online culture. In order to upload content on these websites users today do not need specialist technical knowledge and can more easily play a crucial role in the creation of networks. The so called *web 2.0* offers a space for private opinions to be globally shared. New forms of communication arise from this development - individual, personal styles, which create a new form of authenticity.

The exhibition MY OWN PRIVATE REALITY demonstrates how artists are using the web to discuss and engage with social software and the effects it has in the offline/real world. The net-based works included in the exhibition deal with online developments of the last ten years and discuss the new distinctions between private and public, the identity structuring potential of the Internet and the possibility that today one*s own private thoughts are so easily made public. The featured works are not all web-based, but they all reflect the phenomenon of social communities on the Internet and its widely discussed democratisation, which seems to go hand in hand with these new uses. MY OWN PRIVATE REALITY is an interface for the manifold possibilities of networked thinking and acting.

The works in the exhibition have been selected by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook, whose involvement as co-curator has been supported by her work with the online resource for curators of new media, CRUMB (www.crumbweb.org).

Artists in the exhibition:
Cory Arcangel, Jonah Brucker-Cohen / Mike Bennett, Nick Crowe, Exonemo, Ute Hörner / Mathias Antlfinger, Humanbeans, Miranda July / Harrell Fletcher, Olia Lialina / Dragan Espenschied, Les Liens Invisibles, Jillian Mcdonald, Marisa Olson, Tanja Ostojic, Annina Rüst, Thomson & Craighead, ubermorgen.com / Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico, Angie Waller

The exhibition is sponsored by Land Niedersachsen and EWE Stiftung.

http://myownprivatereality.wordpress.com

Tired of flickring? Go Subvertr! Out Now!

dedalus — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:46:28 +0000

Tired of flickring? Go Subvertr! Out Now!

http://www.subvertr.com

Bored by mainstream media? Tired of boring social tags?
Subvertr is the UMSSP (Ultimate Massive Social Subvertizing Platform) from Les Liens Invisibles - imaginary art-group - leader in Web 2.0 Rich Internet artworks.
Enter the most fantasticulous collaborative Culture Jamming community and discover our latest services.
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Dot Star Generator :: Then we came forth, to see again the stars.

dedalus — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:54 +0000

Dot Star Generator
Beyond the infosphere, the stars again …
Browse the net as a new, mysterious and complex constellation of meaning.
Dot Star Generator is a web-based artwork by d3dalus and the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles
http://dotstar.lesliensinvisibles.org

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