<nettime-ann> 0100101110101101.ORG: The Book is Out

[Franco Mattes <Propaganda@0100101110101101.org>]

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Hi everybody,

An amazing tiny very funny book on our work is now in bookstores all  
over the world! It's half a way between a biography and a catalogue,  
it features all our works and stunts plus one that's been kept secret  
for 14 years...
Check it out: http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/book.html

Here's the book's flap blurb:

Eva and Franco Mattes: 0100101110101101.org
Authors: Domenico Quaranta, Bruce Sterling, RoseLee Goldberg, Wu Ming,  
Fabio Cavallucci, Maurizio Cattelan, Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito,  
Tilman Baumgartel, Matthew Mirapaul, Marco Deseriis
Publisher: Charta, 2009

Featuring previously unseen works, this book is the first official  
monograph on the artists-provocateurs Eva and Franco Mattes aka  
0100101110101101.ORG. Over the last ten years, the Mattes have  
manipulated video games, Internet technologies, feature films and  
street advertising to reveal truths concealed by contemporary society.  
They have created media facades believable enough to elicit  
embarrassing reactions from governments, the public and the art world,  
and they have orchestrated several unpredictable mass performances,  
staged outside art spaces and involved unwitting audiences in  
scenarios that mingle truth and falsehood to the point of being  
indistinguishable.
This book brings together all these exploits, including the anecdotes,  
indictments and controversies that have always accompanied them. At  
the same time the book reveals the couple's very first (and until now  
undisclosed) work: Stolen Pieces. Over two years, 1995-97, they toured  
the world's most important museums and stole dozens of fragments from  
well-known works by artists such as Duchamp, Kandinsky, Beuys and  
Rauschenberg. This work, which has remained a secret for 14 years, is  
revealed and discussed here for the very first time.
This unique book is a combination of history and fiction, criticism  
and plagiarism, jesting and journalism.


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