Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG, are pioneers in the Net Art movement who work all over the world using non conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimum effort. In their project “No Fun,” Franco Mattes is seen through thousands of webcams, in an online chat room, simulating himself committing suicide. The performance received the following reactions: some laugh, some are completely unmoved, some insult the supposed corpse, some take pictures with their mobiles. Out of these several thousand people, only one called the police.
Their project was inspired by their attempt to define “media actionism,” creating unpredictable mass-scale performances staged outside art-spaces, involving an unaware audience, where truth and falsehood mix to the point of being indistinguishable.
This is a very interesting concept to try and figure out. Living in a mediated world, there is no telling what is “truth.” This project gives us an understanding for why many people believe that our minds have become colonized by media, and an understanding for why we so heavily depend on it.
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