The EDF foundation suggested to twenty international artists, to seize a phenomenon which poisons our society and threatens our democracy: fake news.
The eruption of social media, President Trump's tenure and the global Covid crisis have allowed false information to proliferate at breakneck speed.
The exhibition is organized in three stages.
How are these fake news made, how they spread and finally how to fix them.
We find in the first part the fake edition of the New York Times with only good news published and distributed by the Yes Men collective in 2008. We see video works showing how we can embed a model of a destroyed building in a video of bombing or even Deep fake videos making Donald Trump or Mark Zuckerberg say that they are part of a global conspiracy called SPECTER.
Artist Simon Weckert demonstrates how by dragging a small cart with 90 smartphones, he managed to create a fake traffic jam in an empty Berlin street on Google Map (Google Maps Hacks 2020).
A data visualization from the International fact checking network (IFCN) then shows how fake news can spread around the world in a few hours and another how to automatically generate fake posts on social networks on any subject.
Laurent Bigot, journalist and director of the public school of journalism in Tours (EPJT) co-curator of the exhibition alongside Laure Kaltenbach, president of CreativeTech, explains how fact checking tries to fight against fake news.
This artistic ballad exposes the other side of this universe of rumors, beliefs and credulities, which assails us almost daily.
A very informative exhibition to visit with teens hooked up to their smartphones and social networks.
