[rohrpost] Interview with Les Liens Invisibles: STORIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES BUT FULL OF LIES

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STORIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES BUT FULL OF LIES
In conversation with Les Liens Invisibles
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=4325

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Les Liens Invisibles is an imaginary, Italy-based artists' duo comprising
Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their work is an eclectic
recombination of pop net culture, reverse-engineering techniques, social
media subvertising and any other kind of media re-appropriation. Since 2007
Les Liens Invisibles have been infiltrating the global communication
networks in order to join and expand the invisible connections between art
and real life. Most of their artworks and interventions - which include a
virtual suicide web service, the subvertising of many popular social
networking platforms and a paradoxical tool to reclaim the truth through the
fake - have achieved global media visibility and have been shown
internationally. In activist manner, Les Liens Invisibles initiated the
social petition platform Repetitionr.com in early 2010, a platform that
"grants the success of every campaign proposed, offering the most advanced
internet technologies to make participatory democracy a truly user-centered
experience. Just a click and Repetitionr.com will fill your petitions with
millions of self-generated fake signatures indistinguishable from the real
ones." A fake or not a fake?

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Les Liens Invisibles have been shown internationally at venues such as
Arnolfini, Bristol (UK), MOTA - Museum of Transitory Art, Lubljana
(Slovenia) or Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica (Croatia). Amongst others,
their work has been comissioned and/or features by Turbulence, LX 2.0,
transmediale and Edith Russ Site for Media Art.

http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org
http://www.realityisoutthere.net
http://www.repetitionr.com
http://www.seppukoo.com
http://www.subvertr.com

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