Nach Subvertr, dem Flickr-Fake, hat das italienische “imaginäre” Kunstkollektiv Les Liens Invisibles den nächsten Streich ausgeheckt: “A fake is a fake” – ein Fake-Publishing-Tool, basierend auf Wordpress, um bekannte Online-Medien bzw. offizielle Webseiten zu kopieren. Bisher gibt´s die Template-Vorlagen von: Angie M. aka. “Die Bundeskanzlerin“, Financial Times, Le Figaro, La Repubblica, The White House, The Elysee, l’Osservatore Romano (offizielle Vatikanzeitung – eine Hommage an die historische Fakeseite “Vaticano.org” von 0100101110101101.org) und der WTO (ebenfalls eine Anspielung an den bekannten gatt.org-Fake der Yes Men). Also: Auf die Plätze, copy, paste!

“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 art 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 our fake publishing 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”

Und als Fazit noch ein Kommentar von Neural zu dem neuen Projekt: “The duplication of digital information on one hand has already celebrated the death of the “original”, and on the other hand it pushes on the impossibility of establishing quickly the information sources reliability. Reappropriating mainstream communication spaces and manipulating it extensively means not only to play with its corporate aesthetics, but also to make their established popular identity more fragile. In the daily media hype smorgasbord, the “perception” is what rules on the web economy of attention, so a fake proliferation, that could be triggered by projects like this, can seriously start to question the media veneration by the masses. In 1976 the Italian visionary political zine A/traverso published an inspiring article entitled “false information produce real events”. Should we assume then that a different reality is just ready to strike back?”

P.S.: “There is not just one Truth. There are not many Truths. Tertium datur: Truth is nonsense” (Luther Blissett); “Don’t blame the fake! Become the Fake!” (Les Liens Invisibles)