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Is Fake News Killing Fictive Art? by A R Hopwood, What ARGs Can Teach Us…

- - - - Art historian, Carrie Lambert-Beatty first coined the word. She stated, "Is it ever ethically justifiable to deceive others in order to make an artistic point? “ (Hopwood, 2019).
      - Misinformation and fake news is spreading like fire and can now be accessed in all parts of the world.
    - - Science and Professionals
        
        Professor Stephan Lewandowsky: Renowned Australian Psychologists, who studied the effects of misinformation and a concept he calls, ‘continued influence effect’ has led him to determine that even after misinformation is debunked people still continue to believe it's valid or true.
        
        Aviv Ovadya: Renowned Computer Scientists and Founder of the Thoughtful Technology Project has led her to identify that people lose trust in everything they come in contact with after they are faced with daily misinformation.
        Carrie Lambert-Beatty: Art historian, first coined the word. She stated, "Is it ever ethically justifiable to deceive others in order to make an artistic point? “ (Hopwood, 2019).
        
        Why conspiracy theorists hold onto their beliefs even when presented with contrary evidence
    - - Jered Eames (Threatin) a California rock musician, who lied about everything except promoting his songs. Justified his lies by saying it was "stage art". He tried to prove his innocence, but everything resulted to be fake.
      - Other fictive artists
        
        Christoph Büchel: On Piccadilly, he was able to set up a community centre on the site of HSBC bank.
        
        Michael Blum: In Ninth Istanbul Biennialwho, he managed to create a functioning museum for a fictional activist.
        
        Aliza Shvarts: Her her final art project at Yale, she performed a numerous abortions.
        
        The Yes Men: Engineered duplicate websites and representatives. to represent major corporations as part of their parafictional strategies. Their ultimate goal was to get their targets to say everything they wanted them to say.
- - - - "[Fascism] sees its salvation in granting expression to the masses-but on no account granting them rights."-Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
        
        The existence of the Internet shows this dilemma. On one hand it allows netizens to express themselves, leading online communities to generate conspiracy theories. On the other, while it could be used as a tool that makes government information easily accessible, the State refuses them the right to this knowledge.
- - - - "Film images would soothe movie audiences, who were too eager to escape the reality outside.... Periodic trips into the dark relaxation chambers of movie theaters became a routine survival technique for the subjects of modern society." -Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
        
        Differently put, once widely available film became a media used by the masses as a distraction.
        
        "Reception in distraction--the sort of reception which is increasingly noticeable in all areas of art and is a symptom of profound changes in apperception--finds in film its true training ground."-Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
        
        The ability to disseminate the same texts, images and sounds to millions of citizens thus assuring that they will have the same ideological beliefs was as essential as the ability to keep track of their birth records, employment records, medical records, and police records.
        -Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
        
        The state uses media as a regulatory function in the sense that it uses mass communication to control the population's belief.
- - - - "[The human being] must operate with his whole living person, while forgoing its aura. For the aura is bound to his presence in the here and now. There is no facsimile of the aura."-Walter Benjamin, Age in the Art of Mechanical Reproduction
- - - - This short story is a plot twist that turns from a utopian city turning out to be a dystopia.