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How Much of this is Fiction

Exhibition at: FACT, LIVERPOOL, 2 March 2017 - 21 May 2017

'Exploring the radical shift in the boundary between fiction and reality in a world increasingly governed by ‘post-truth’ politics.'

Website above lists artists involved here's some external links to works and artists:

UBERMORGAN

'Voteauction was a Website which offered US citizens to sell their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections 2000, Al Gore vs. G.W. Bush.'

'A true interchange system that finally "brings capitalism and democracy closer together“.[*]'

[V]ote-auction' 27 Min. on CNN "Burden of Proof" 2000, DVD, 00:27:08 UBERMORGEN.COM Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together Voteauction was a Website which offered US citizens to sell their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections 2000, Al Gore vs. G.W. Bush. The Website was conceived by the student James Baumgartner and then sold to the austrian business-artists Hans Bernhard (founder of etoy) and Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM in Austria and (V)ote-auction Inc. in Sofia/Bulgaria [a subsidiary of the UBERMORGEN.COM group] for a undisclosed sum. Voteauction was UBERMORGEN.COMs feature Media Hacking performance in the year 2000. http://www.vote-auction.net
TORTURECLASSICS FROM BRITNEY TO BARNEY ALBUM RELEASE, INFOMERCIAL & PERFORMANCE Sit back and relax, as we make this incredible music come alive! http://TORTURECLASSICS.COM TIME LIFE announces the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION. Torture Music is the kind of music that’s perfect for sitting in the Afghan or Iraqi Desert, sharing a prisoner for a night, or relaxing in a military barack or a CIA black site in some godforsaken country on a lazy afternoon. It's music thats just makes you feel free and drives others crazy. But, the artists included in the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION have taken the Torture Music sound and given it a psychotic and everlasting quality. This Torture Music compilation includes 60 songs, tons of images, uncensored videos, pdfs and extra bonus material. The Ultiimate Collection DOWNLOAD-DVD inlcudes both The White Site Album and The Black Site Album. Anonymous: “The Barney Song has a sound that was designed to make children feel safe and loved. But it was used to torture people and to drive them to their emotional breaking point. Music publisher Jive Records changed Britney Spears song title from “Hit me Baby One More Time” to “... Baby One More Time” to get rid of the ambiguous undercurrent to the catchy pop smash hit”. Sgt. Mark Hadsell: “If you play the same song for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down, and your will is broken. That’s when we come in and talk to them”. Guantanamo Prisoner Ruhal Ahmed: “I can bear being beaten up, it’s not a problem. Once you accept that you’re going to go into the interrogation room and be beaten up, it’s fine. You can prepare yourself mentally. But when you’re being psychologically tortured, you can’t. From the end of 2003 they introduced the music, and it became even worse. Before that, you could try and focus on something else. It makes you feel like you are going mad. You lose the plot. And it’s very scary to think that you might go crazy because of all the music, because of the loud noise, and because after a while you don’t hear the lyrics at all, all you hear is heavy banging.” LINKS: Hans Bernhard: “With TORTURE CLASSICS and the 24h-TORTURE-GALA-PERFORMANCE, we create a spectacular media-event and a s(e)oul-penetrating product. We shine a “single” spot-light on this dark world of sonic military interrogation.” James Powderly: “Now, you too can own the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION, America's Red-Hot and Dark-Blue Torture Hits. The DOWNLOAD-DVD is designed to enhance US security, keep Americans safe and preserve freedom at home and in the rest of this festering, sad and unstable world. I could listen to these magical tunes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...” Stevie Benton of Drowning Pool, which has played to U.S. troops in Iraq, told Spin magazine, “I take it as an honor to think that perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that." More... Superenhanced Generator http://superenhanced.com Superenhanced Project http://ipnic.org/superenhanced

'Hans Bernhard: “With TORTURE CLASSICS and the 24h-TORTURE-GALA-PERFORMANCE, we create a spectacular media-event and a s(e)oul-penetrating product. We shine a “single” spot-light on this dark world of sonic military interrogation.”

'TIME LIFE announces the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION. Torture Music is the kind of music that’s perfect for sitting in the Afghan or Iraqi Desert, sharing a prisoner for a night, or relaxing in a military barack or a CIA black site in some godforsaken country on a lazy afternoon. It's music thats just makes you feel free and drives others crazy. But, the artists included in the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION have taken the Torture Music sound and given it a psychotic and everlasting quality. This Torture Music compilation includes 60 songs, tons of images, uncensored videos, pdfs and extra bonus material. The Ultiimate Collection DOWNLOAD-DVD inlcudes both The White Site Album and The Black Site Album.' http://TORTURECLASSICS.COM

ARABIAN STREET ARTISTS 

Homeland is not a series (2015)

In what has become known as “The Homeland Incident,” The Arabian Street Artists engineered a graffiti hack on the show Homeland by placing subversive messages written in Arabic on set. Homeland is not a Series is a message from the artists themselves. Directed by the Arabian Street Artists: Heba Y. Amin, Caram Kapp, and Don Karl aka Stone Read an interview with the artists here - https://theintercept.com/2015/12/20/interview-with-heba-yehia-amin-caram-kapp-and-don-karl-of-homeland-is-not-a-series/ Watch more films here - fieldofvision.org

Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev - Newstweek

Device to Manipulate News 2011

Newstweek: a device to manipulate news read by other people on wireless hotspots (cafes, libraries, airports). All the witnessed alteration is done by the Newstweek module directly. The laptop is not connected to any external device or network and no additional software or scripts are run.

Superflux (IND/UK)

Drone Avairy (2015)

The Drone Aviary reveals fleeting glimpses of the city from the perspective of drones. It explores a world where the ‘network’ begins to gain physical autonomy. Drones become protagonists, moving through the city, making decisions about the world and influencing our lives in often opaque yet profound ways. This film is part of The Drone Aviary Project, by Superflux, which investigates the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space. It has been awarded the Grants for the Arts from the Arts Council England. To find out more about the project visit: superflux.in/blog/the-drone-aviary

The Drone Aviary reveals fleeting glimpses of the city from the perspective of drones.

It explores a world where the ‘network’ begins to gain physical autonomy. Drones become protagonists, moving through the city, making decisions about the world and influencing our lives in often opaque yet profound ways.

This film is part of The Drone Aviary Project, by Superflux, which investigates the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space.

It has been awarded the Grants for the Arts from the Arts Council England. To find out more about the project visit: http://superflux.in/index.php/work/drones/##